Brave New Lego World: day CLXXXVI: 60013 Coast Guard Helicopter + 60023 City Starter-set GET!

Day 186, 18/08/2013:

My local Big W was having a sale on Lego, so a quick trip there netted me the 2013 60013 Coast Guard Helicopter:

Lego City 60013 Coast Guard Helicopter

This is somewhat similar to the 60010 Fire Helicopter released earlier in the year in that they both have a retractable winch, though obviously, the 60013 set comes with something water-themed (wind sail) as opposed to fire-themed (burning refuelling station).

Lego City 60013 Coast Guard Helicopter- back

This set also marks my first shark, and a white one at that!

The other set I picked up is quite applicable to my Lego City city, though kinda noobie: it’s the 60023 Lego City Starter Set:

Lego City 60023 Lego City Starter Set

As the name implies it’s something to get kids started off with -it includes a break separator tool- so it wasnt really something awesome. I figured I could use with some more emergency vehicles and mini-figs (especially the kid). Furthermore, Lego kinda skimps on the amount of jewels they give you with sets, so more jewels is more good 😀

Lego City 60023 Lego City Starter Set- back

Brave New Lego World: day LVI: 7641 City Corner GET!

Day 56, 10/04/2013:

If there’s been one thing that my Lego City city has been lacking, it’s been shops. And whilst Lego did bring out a set that has shops, it was released in 2009… As such it’s no longer in production and thus not cheap. Checking the prices on eBay saw the set go for at least $200, excluding shipping Checking BrickLink saw better prices, though when shipping was added (for a set of this size, shipping averaged around 40 – 50USD), the saving was less impressive. It turns out that I was better off buying from an Aussie seller as the overseas shipping cost matched the local markup, so one purchase later I had my own 7641 City Corner!

Lego City 7641 City Corner

The box is surprisingly large; not as large as the 3182 Airport or 4204 The Mine, but nevertheless it’s long and rather tall.

The modularity of the different subsets means it shouldn’t be too hard to put them somewhere in the city.

Lego City 7641 City Corner- back

This set is also the oldest (discontinued) set that I have (you can still get the 2005 7235 Police Motorcycle and the 2008 7741 Police Helicopter at stores).