City

Main Square

Fourteen minifigs and a gorgeous tram, wrapped around a very steep price.

Brick Rated Score

3.2/5

Set 60271 · 2020

Pieces1,517

Minifigs14

Year2020

Set number60271

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The verdict

Main Square is a whole little downtown in one box, and its 14 minifigures make it feel properly alive the moment you set it out.

The catch is the price. At 200 dollars for pieces this simple, you're paying a premium for a set that builds like several small City kits stapled together. If you love the City Adventures cast and want a big shared build for the family table, it delivers. If you came for clever technique, it won't scratch that itch.

Best for: City Adventures fans who want a big populated playset for group building

The full review

What it is

Main Square is LEGO's attempt to bottle a whole town centre, and it leans hard into that LEGO® set idea of a place that feels lived in. You get a city hall, a diner, a concert stage, a tram and station, plus Mayor Fleck's stretch limo, Snake Rattler's motorbike and Harl Hubbs' handyman wagon. Tipping 14 minifigures out onto the table is the best moment here. The square instantly looks busy and populated in a way most City sets can only dream of, and the cast is pulled straight from the City Adventures show, so kids who watch it will know every face.

The catch

Here's where I have to be straight with you. At 1,517 pieces and an original 200 dollar price, this works out to roughly 13 cents per part, which is high for a City set that pays no licensing fee. And the reason it stings is the parts themselves. The buildings are simple, open-backed, and built with techniques aimed squarely at younger hands. There's no fancy engineering, no section that makes you pause and admire how it holds together. Reviewers were blunt about it. Brickset called the individual designs poor, and it sits as one of the lowest rated sets on LEGO.com. You're essentially buying several small kids' sets that happen to share a box, and the display value of the finished thing is modest.

Who it's for

So who actually gets their money's worth. If you have a City Adventures fan in the house, or you want a big project the whole family can split up and build together across those eight booklets, this is a genuinely fun afternoon and the minifig haul alone carries a lot of play value. If you're an adult builder chasing satisfying technique or a set that looks sharp on a shelf, skip it and put the money toward a modular or a Creator Expert build instead. It's a warm, chaotic, kid-first set, and judged on those terms it's better than its rating suggests. Judged as a 200 dollar centrepiece, it asks too much.

The parts story

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

Building this is really building a small town in stages, and the eight instruction booklets make that explicit. Each covers its own chunk, so you can hand one to each person and go. The structures (city hall, diner, concert stage) go together fast and simple, with open backs and straightforward stacking, so nobody gets stuck. The standout by a mile is the tram. It runs around 267 pieces on its own, uses actual train cockpit pieces on both ends, gives each car a conductor's chair, passenger seats and swing-open doors, and the roofs lift off so you can seat minifigures. It's easily the most rewarding stretch of the whole box.

On pieces, this set's real currency is minifigures, not rare molds. Fourteen of them, all crisply printed, including the named City Adventures crew and eight everyday citizens, which is a big population for the money and a nice source of generic townsfolk. Beyond the figs and the tram's cockpit ends, there isn't much here that parts collectors will chase. It's common City elements in useful City colours, great for bulking out a town layout, less exciting if you're hunting new recolors or printed rarities. The 13 cents per part math never quite goes away, so value it for the figures and the tram rather than the brick mix.

Fun facts

01The set is based directly on the animated series LEGO City Adventures, and its minifigures are the show's actual cast, including Mayor Solomon Fleck, Duke Detain and handyman Harl Hubbs.
02It ships with eight separate instruction booklets by design, so a family or group can each build a section at the same time.
03The tram alone accounts for roughly 267 of the set's pieces and uses genuine LEGO train cockpit ends on both cars.
04Despite its size, it landed as one of the lowest rated City sets on LEGO.com, largely because of its high price against fairly simple builds.