City

Police Speedboat and Crooks' Hideout

A little dock-side chase set that punches above its size.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 60417 · 2024

Pieces311

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Year2024

Set number60417

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The verdict

I love a City set that gives me two builds for the price of one, and this is exactly that: a sleek police speedboat and a scrappy little crooks' hideout perched on its own patch of dock, facing off across the water.

The story is right there on the table the moment you finish it, boat idling, hideout lit up, crooks caught mid-escape. It is not a huge build and it will not fill a shelf, but for the price it is one of the more playable small City sets in recent memory. Kids who like a quick chase-and-capture story will get the most mileage out of it.

Best for: Kids and City fans who want a quick, playable chase scene rather than a big display piece

The full review

What it is

I will be honest, I did not expect much personality out of a sub-350 piece boat set, and this one won me over anyway. You get a police speedboat, low and fast looking, built for cutting through water, and a separate little hideout structure the crooks have clearly been using to lie low. Put them on a table a few feet apart and the whole thing plays out like a scene, not just two static models sitting next to each other. That is the trick City does so well at this size and this set nails it.

The catch

Where I want to be straight with you is the scale. This is a small set, and the hideout in particular is more of a suggestion of a building than a fully detailed interior. If you are picturing a sprawling harbor scene, you will need to pair this with other City water sets to get there. The boat holds up better than the hideout does, mostly because a hull shape reads as complete a lot faster than a building does. Parts-wise it is solid rather than thrilling, plenty of basic City-palette bricks doing the structural work, with the fun stuff concentrated in a few printed and shaped pieces.

Who it's for

If you have a kid who wants a fast, satisfying build they can finish in one sitting and then immediately start playing cops and robbers with, this is a good, inexpensive pick. If you are a completionist building out a full City harbor or you want a set that holds its own as a display piece, I would treat this as a supporting set rather than a centerpiece and pair it with something bigger.

The parts story

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

The build itself moves fast, which fits the set's size. You knock out the hideout first, a compact structure that goes together in a handful of steps, then move to the boat, which is where the more interesting building happens. The hull uses angled plates and slopes to get that low, fast profile rather than a single big specialty hull piece, so there is a bit more actual construction happening than you would get from a one-piece boat base, which I appreciated.

Nothing in the set screams rare grail piece, this is a workhorse small set rather than a parts pack, but the recognizable City color blocks (police blues and whites against the crooks' scruffier browns and dark tones) do a lot of visual storytelling with very ordinary bricks. For the price point, getting two separate, playable builds instead of one bigger single model is the real value here rather than any individual standout piece.

Fun facts

01The set pairs a vehicle build with a small structure build, a format LEGO City uses often at this price tier to give two distinct play patterns in one box.
02It continues City's long-running police versus crooks storyline, a staple of the theme that stretches back decades across dozens of sets.
03Water-adjacent City sets like this one are typically designed so the boat can actually float and be pushed through water during play, not just display on a stand.