City

Town Center

The little City set that quietly made LEGO history.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 60292 · 2021

Pieces791

Minifigs8

Year2021

Set number60292

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The verdict

Town Center is the set that introduced two things I still think about: the modular road plate system, and the first partially sighted minifigure LEGO ever made, complete with a brand new guide dog and lime harness.

The builds themselves are on the thin side and the price never quite felt right for the box, but the road plates tie your whole City together in a way older baseplates never did. If you already own a shelf of City sets and want them to feel like one connected place, this is a genuinely smart buy. If you want a substantial single build to sink an afternoon into, this is not that.

Best for: City collectors who want their separate sets to finally connect into one street

The full review

What it is

The thing that got me about Town Center was not the buildings at all, it was the little man in the dark glasses standing next to his dog. This was the first LEGO set ever to include a partially sighted minifigure, and LEGO built a whole new guide dog mold and a lime green harness to go with him. For a City set that could easily have been another forgettable street corner, that one decision gives it real weight. Around him you get a pizzeria, a dojo, a car wash, an electric charging point, a small park and a recycling area, all sitting on the star of the show: the new modular road plates that arrived in 2021.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the value, because most reviewers landed in the same place. At roughly 100 dollars for 791 pieces of fairly small assemblies, you do not get a long build or a lot of heft, and the cost per minute at the table is on the steep side. The individual buildings are pleasant but slight, the kind of thing you finish and immediately want to combine with something bigger. On its own, sitting alone on a shelf, Town Center can feel a little sparse. It really wants company, and it is honest to say the box is priced like a centerpiece while building more like a connector.

Who it's for

So here is who I would send toward it. If you already have a growing City, this set is close to essential, because the road plates finally make all those disconnected little builds read as one continuous place, and the minifigure selection is genuinely strong for the money. If you are buying a single set to be the main event, a bigger modular or a larger City build will make you happier. And if you care about the sets that quietly moved LEGO forward, the partially sighted figure and guide dog alone make this one worth owning. It retired at the end of 2022 and now trends around 130 to 150 dollars secondhand, so it is no longer the casual pickup it once was.

The parts story

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

Building Town Center is a series of quick, breezy little models rather than one absorbing session, and that is both its charm and its catch. You knock out the car wash, then the dojo, then the pizzeria, each one taking a handful of minutes, and the electric car is a neat touch with an actual charging connector molded onto the front. The real structural story is the road plates: three 16x16 plates, an unprinted 8x16 half plate, an 8x16 crosswalk plate, six end ramps and ten printed 2x4 center line tiles. Snapping those together and watching a proper street take shape is the most satisfying part of the whole box.

For parts hunters there is more here than the humble price suggests. The set carries two brand new molds built around the service dog: the dog itself in reddish brown, and the guide dog harness in lime. On top of that you get useful recolors, a sand green 1x4x6 door frame, two dark blue kendo masks for the dojo, and a short bob hair piece in orange. Those road plates alone are the draw for anyone building a city, since half-sized plates give you far more layout flexibility than the old fixed baseplates ever did. It is a modest parts pack on paper that turns out to punch above its weight.

Fun facts

01Town Center was one of the sets that launched LEGO's modular road plate system in 2021, replacing the old printed road baseplates with connectable plates and end ramps.
02It included the first partially sighted minifigure in LEGO history, wearing dark glasses and accompanied by an all new guide dog mold and lime harness element.
03The set retired at the end of 2022 and now sells for roughly 130 to 150 dollars on the secondary market, well above its original 99.99 dollar price.