City

Police Training Academy

A rookie boot camp with a zip line, a horse, and a whole lot of play built in.

Brick Rated Score

3.6/5

Set 60372 · 2023

Pieces823

Minifigs6

Year2023

Set number60372

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The verdict

This is the LEGO City set I would have sold my soul for as a kid, and I say that with total affection.

It is a modular two-story station bolted onto an outdoor obstacle course with a climbing wall, monkey bars, a zip line, and a Wipeout-style tumble section, and every single feature does something. The honest catch is that it launched at 99.99 dollars and the walls are noticeably bare for that money, which is exactly where the grown-up critics and the delighted owners part ways. If you want play features over display detail, it earns its keep.

Best for: Kids who want a police playset with moving obstacle-course features rather than a display piece

The full review

What it is

The first thing that got me about the Police Training Academy is how relentlessly it wants to be played with. This is not a quiet little station you park on a shelf. It is a modular two-story building attached to a full outdoor obstacle course, and the course is the star: a climbing wall, monkey bars, a zip line, and a rotating Wipeout-style tumble section that will absolutely fling a rookie officer onto the carpet. There is a steerable ATV, a horse figure for the mounted-training bit, and six minifigures ready to run laps. For a kid, this is a whole afternoon of narrative before you have even opened the second bag.

The catch

Here is where I have to be straight with you, because the reviews split hard on this one and the split is real. At its 99.99 dollar launch price, the build is light. The walls are sparse, the detailing is basic, and if you are the kind of builder who lives for clever technique or a richly furnished interior, this set will leave you a little cold. Several adult reviewers said outright that it does not justify the money against comparable sets, and I understand the frustration. This is 823 pieces spread across a big footprint, so the parts are working hard to cover ground rather than pack in detail. It is a playset first and a display piece a distant second, and pretending otherwise would do you a disservice.

Who it's for

So the recommendation sorts itself cleanly. If you are buying for a young City fan who wants moving features, characters, and a stage for endless cops-and-robbers adventures, the owner ratings tell the true story: buyers average it at 4.79 out of 5 and almost all of them would recommend it. Kids adore this thing, and I get why. If you are a display-focused adult collector chasing detail and value per piece, I would point you elsewhere, or wait for a proper discount. It sat at that awkward price where the play value is genuine but the shelf appeal is thin. Know which camp you are in before you commit, and you will not be surprised.

The parts story

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

Building it is quick and friendly, roughly a two-hour job, and it never asks much of you technically. You assemble the station in modular chunks and then work through the obstacle-course elements, and the course pieces are the fun part to put together because you can feel each mechanism come alive as you go: the zip line strings up, the tumble section spins, the climbing wall clicks into place. It is a great build to hand to a younger builder who wants to feel capable, since there are no fiddly sub-assemblies waiting to trip them up.

Do not come to this one hunting for exotic new molds, because that is not what it is. The value lives in the functional bits and the sheer usefulness of the parts pool: printed police torsos and tracksuits, helmet and hair pieces, the horse figure, the ATV, and a generous scattering of the plates and bars that make the obstacle course move. For parts-focused builders it reads as a solid stock of everyday City elements at a fair per-part rate once it is on sale, rather than a set you buy for one rare piece. It is bread-and-butter LEGO, and there is nothing wrong with that when the play holds up.

Fun facts

01The set includes a horse figure and a steerable ATV alongside its six minifigures, covering mounted training and vehicle drills in one box.
02It launched in January 2023 at a 99.99 dollar RRP and retired around December 2024, after which resale listings climbed well above the original price.
03Owner and critic opinion split sharply: buyer ratings average about 4.79 out of 5 with 98 percent recommending it, while several adult reviewers rated it far lower for value.
04The obstacle course borrows its spinning tumble gag from Wipeout-style TV courses, designed to knock rookie officers off as they cross.