2008 LEGO City Police was PEAK

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  @tacticaljunk1608 · 1 year ago

  Small Lego town slowly becomes a police state in real time.

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  @thewizare4082 · 1 year ago

  Power Miners IS PEAK

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  @Thatoneshinyhunter · 1 year ago (edited)

  LEGO Agents, PLEASE; This theme does not get enough love. The playability was always superb for the price and I personally think it really showed off LEGO's "battle in a box" idea in the best way. Plus, the Mobile Command Center set is genuinely peak LEGO and I'm surprised folks haven't cashed in on it too much with YT shorts, videos, etc.

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  @xhearthfirex6571 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Fun Fact: the City Police car, van and helicopter appear in the LEGO Batman game as vehicles for Gothams City Police Department forces. So they also tie in the LEGO Batman theme.

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  @flynnmckee8442 · 1 year ago (edited)

  2008-2009 Lego Coast Guard is absolutely peak. The main helicopter is so good. It game with a battery powered winch. Just so good. The cutter was pretty great too. Honestly some of the more realistic vehicles from Lego back then. The emergency collection is pretty great and also small but it's the same era/ vibe as the police.

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  @NotraceOfRay · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFIT1flTluA&amp;t=270">4:30</a> Fun fact, this was the time when german police in rl changed from green to blue too

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  @KaiserofRaisins · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m surprised I haven&apos;t seen anyone else mention LEGO Mars Mission yet, that line in 2007 and 2008 was 6 year old me&apos;s hyperfixation and introduction to proper LEGO sets haha

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  @minivan_hobo · 1 year ago

  That 2008 Police Station was the first “big” set I ever got as a kid and remains one of the only sets from my childhood that survives to this day

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  @AncientGreenDragon · 1 year ago

  2008-2010 LEGO Star Wars is peak. I know you’ve already spent a lot of money on Star Wars for the channel but that has to be one of the most nostalgic points in LEGO Star Wars history

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  @Clone-jz4zf · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFIT1flTluA&amp;t=457">7:37</a> I see that cheeky inclusion of Space Police, another PEAK LEGO theme

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  @gatex33d74 · 1 year ago

  The thing that made this era of lego so beloved is the nearly perfect balance between Play, Size, and Detail<br>-It had a very big focus on playability, but not only through gimmicks, but with imagination based content, mixing perfectly the freedom of early Lego and the multiple play features of later eras<br>-The Size was mostly defined by the multiple big, multi use, pieces to create the foundations where decoration could be put, similar to older sets, but with a bigger variety of pieces. Due to the lack of smaller pieces, each one meant a bigger increase in size than current sets, with multiple big tall walls being made of few pieces, and nicely put holes that let you both access and see the set&apos;s interior, but also create negative space to make the set bigger. Older sets had less variety and more specific pieces that couldn&apos;t be reused in multiple settings, which limited replayability, while newer sets focus on detail so much that the same amount of pieces lead to a smaller build, with similar builds to this era being relegated to +4 sets at most<br>-And finally, the detailing was clearly better than previous eras, with more specified utility items for the Minifigures, and many multi use pieces, but not too much to over-inflate piece count or using too many small pieces/specialized pieces<br><br>This was an era of stability, with the best of both previous and later eras, but in a more moderate, and sometimes affordable way that made it very accessible to kids all around the world<br><br>This is why so many people are nostalgia to this era, as it was the peak of accessibility, while older sets were rarer and newer sets are too expensive, this era, while not perfect, was the compromise needed to make Lego take the next step into bringing people around the entire world into the lego scene<br>A tradeoff of great replayability/detail for better &quot;stats&quot; across the board, a great average that makes it stand out with no celestial highs, but also not even close to the abysmal lows of other eras

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  @aquestfortruth1653 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFIT1flTluA&amp;t=105">1:45</a> $3.49 😢 I miss that price point soooooo bad

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