City

Hospital

A so-so building, but the best minifigure cast City has handed you in ages.

Brick Rated Score

3.4/5

Set 60330 · 2022

Pieces816

Minifigs13

Year2022

Set number60330

Check price on Amazon

Affiliate link. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

The verdict

I want to be honest with you right up front: the Hospital building itself is not the reason to own this.

What got me was the people. Thirteen minifigures, all but the baby exclusive to this set, and every one of them has a personality. If you run a City on your shelf and you have been short of townsfolk, this is a bargain box of characters wrapped around an okay playset. If you came for a clever build, though, temper the excitement.

Best for: City layout builders who want a whole cast of fresh townsfolk in one box

The full review

What it is

The first time I sorted the minifigures out of this box, I laughed out loud. There is a clown with a banana-yellow afro and painted-on face (Citrus the Clown, if you want his real name), a stunt biker named Wallop who comes with a second dazed face missing half his teeth, doctors, nurses, a new mum, a baby, patients in gowns. Thirteen little people in total, and apart from the baby every single one is unique to this set. For anyone building out a City, that is the real prize here. You are essentially buying a full hospital staff and a waiting room's worth of visitors, and the building just happens to come along for the ride.

The catch

So let me be straight with you about that building. For 816 pieces, it does not give you nearly as much to construct as the count suggests. Reviewers across the board pointed out that the Hospital takes a lot of shortcuts, and once you have it together you may feel the same, an adult puts this up in about an hour and a quarter. The rescue helicopter is the weak link everyone singles out, flimsy even for City, the kind of afterthought aircraft LEGO seems to drop into every large City set whether it needs one or not. And it stings a little that the 2018 Hospital before it gave you more actual building for less money. This one leans hard on its figures and its playability rather than its architecture.

Who it's for

So who should get it. If you keep a City layout and you have been starved for townsfolk, this is honestly a lovely way to fill it, the play features (that sliding MRI is a genuine delight for younger builders) and the sheer cast make it sing on a shelf full of other sets. Kids seven and up who want to run a busy hospital scene will get real mileage out of it. If you are chasing a satisfying, meaty build for its own sake, or you already have plenty of City minifigures, this one will leave you a bit cold. Since it retired at the end of 2023 the price has climbed, so if the cast is what you want, hunt for a discounted or secondhand copy rather than paying the inflated new-and-sealed premium.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building the Hospital is a quick, breezy affair rather than a deep one. There are stickers to line up and a few fiddly moments, but an adult moves through it in a bit over an hour, and the structure is more facade-and-rooms than proper architecture. What keeps it interesting is the layout of little play zones: front desk and playroom, a maternity ward, a WC, and the MRI room where the examination bed genuinely slides in and out of the scanner. It builds like a stage set, quick to assemble and clearly designed to be played in rather than pored over.

The parts that matter here are the printed ones and the neon yellow. This set is loaded with new face prints, the clown's painted grin, Wallop's two-sided stunt-biker head, fresh doctor and patient expressions, and most of them appear nowhere else. LEGO also used it to push a batch of bright neon yellow elements that colour-hunters noticed straight away. On raw part-count value the 816 pieces are nothing special (a lot of them are basic and the build is thin), but the minifigure value alone runs well over forty dollars, so the box earns its keep through its people and its prints far more than through any single clever brick.

Fun facts

01Of the thirteen minifigures, twelve are exclusive to this set, only the baby is shared with other sets.
02Four of the characters, including stunt biker Wallop, Dr. Spetzel and Dr. Flieber, come straight from the LEGO City Adventures animated series.
03The set launched in January 2022 at 119.99 dollars and retired in December 2023, and new sealed copies have since climbed past 200 dollars.