Chase: *gets removed* Duke: *causes the fall of LEGO City Police* (Edit: This is basically nostalgia for true Chase McCain Fans)

They could bring back Space Police

This is what happens when you defund the Lego police...

i absolutely adore 2005 - 2012 lego city sets, especially the police theme with 7744 being my absolute favorite. i might be blinded by nostalgia but imo those were simply the best years for the lego city series. most of the vehicle and building designs just fit so well with each other. i'll never forget the 4 studs wide cars and 6 studs wide trucks, these are just iconic for me and i genuinely think they had the best proportions compared to the size of a minifig.

100% agree! When I was growing up I wanted LEGO to come out with Desert Police (I actually made my own "sets" just in case they did). I personally think LEGO City started going downhill when they removed the classic "HEY" from the back of the boxes, which was 2019-2020. Another great breakdown!

Right now they have the unofficial subtheme of Police Training/Police academy stuff out. I feel like last year’s police wave was a combo of weird undercover crooks and the use of the new vibrant/highlighter yellow parts.

You forgot the Elite Police sets from 2013 to tie in with the video game: Lego City Undercover.

Whether it's in real life or in Lego, it's like no one is satisfied with the police these days.

I'm glad they had created the forest police. The heavy duty (chinook) helicopter is one of my all time favorite lego sets.

I think having a highway patrol sub theme will be interesting. Like have the cars with pullbacks motors so you can have them chase crooks.

Great video essay as always! I gotta agree, 2012 of Lego city's peak. Not only the police but also the great vehicles line. Also, I feel like the decline of the police subtheme also had to do with 2020 with lego pulling those sets off shelves. But I'm glad it's making a comeback. The sets are super lackluster and expensive though

My 6 yo son is only interested in thief-chasing type of police. When I showed him the dog training center or any other set not revolving around thiefs, he wasn't interested.

Regardless what you think of the Lego city police line as a whole, I think we can all agree that the Elite Police line from 2014 was pretty Damm awesome!

I'm not big into collecting the Lego city sets, but I agree that it would be nice to get some more variety in the sub-theme

The modular police station is the only one adults really need

Forest police was so good

Personally, I believe the best era was prior to 2012. Throughout the mid to late 2010s, there was a lack of non-police/action sets. This is because there was a overemphasis on police with a wave every year. Before, there was a wave in 2005, 2008, and 2011 which is every three years. This is the ideal pace as there is always police sets but it opens up more waves for other subthemes while not oversaturating the police subtheme. The new system is the worst though as it is the worst of both worlds. However, more importantly, the sets are just not good as they are badly designed and overpriced. They only appeal to the 5-9 demographic while early police waves were less silly and appealed to more. The 2011 police station and 2008 mobile command centres are some of the best ever sets. The 2005 police boat was a absolute steal at $25 and the whole city theme was reasonably priced. Its not really a matter of police subthemes being gone, its a matter of lego just making bad sets nowadays. I do not understand why people like lego creator. The sets now are overly detailed, more expensive, and have too many tiles and plates to actually build anything else without looking terrible or small. Previously, you could get a good house that had a baseplate and was fully enclosed for only 2/3rds the price even adjusting for inflation. Lego overall is on the decline since they pander with tacky licenced themes while neglecting their core audience of not just AFOLs but anybody above the age of 10 that isn't some hippy millennial who is "quirky" for buying lego arts sets.

What about 2013 museum police sets ?

A really cool police subtheme could be fashion police😂

IMO the 2017 police set wave was the best wave and the 2013 Elite police wave was the best police subtheme

I tried making a Lego Ideas set "Donut Patrol". A comment was made that this was making fun and disrespecting the job police officers do. I also had a swamp idea in my project that I feel was lifted and produced. Maybe Lego has a problem with police because of the seriousness that the job entails.

I quite liked the sets prior to 2012 as I felt they were more grounded in reality. The subthemes just didn’t have an appeal as anything more than a one-off gimmick, and didn’t really fit what I perceived to be a “city” theme.

A savannah pilice theme would work, trying to fight poachers or polluters

I would have liked to have some elite police set of 2013, for me together with the forest police are the best subthemes

Have you forgotten the modular Police station (10278) from 2021 and Police training academy (60370) from this year. They also have mobile Police dog training (60369) set. I agree that there is a lot of repetition in City Line. But we have now got some different set the last year 😊

I kinda agree with this. I’m still waiting for a new prison since I missed out on the first one.

I will respectfully disagree. I actually like the way City is pushing out the police sets. I think Lego is doing this because they are trying to show kids that there is more to City life than just rescuing. Of course there are still those types of sets because, according to sources, one of the top lines of work in a city happens to be a first responder. If it were up to me, there would be a year where City focuses on other city lines of work such as the sanitation business, the construction industry, (which could actually work as kids are obsessed with working parts), the transit system and the automotive industry (which obviously sales as we've had a lot of those recently).

Proud to be able to get prison island for Christmas that year, not proud that it’s all in pieces in my LEGO collection😅

Nowadays bandits don't even get guns anymore, they get a crowbar if they're lucky, but probably they'll just get a piece of money and a weird mask 😂

This video also describes a similar story to the lego city fire. Lego city should bring back the sets from 2011-2013, possibly even 2008-2010. I really wanted the 2011 police station but missed out on it. So upsetting to see that from 2011-2020 what was once a work of art is now junk. The best idea would be these sets they sell now are for young kids like they used to be lego juniors. They then re release the 2011-2013 sets as more advanced sets upto 12 and others who enjoy those sets. The same would also apply to the lego city fire sets. I understand that lego likes to make new sets all the time but the modern lego city police sets are "at an identical state to the original sets at start" I'd say even worse at least sets were decent at start. I'd recon it'd be better if they modernised their old sets rather than releasing new designs all the time.

With having the 2008 and 2011 police station sets displayed in my city, then the 2012 forrest police station in my city with the 2021 modular police station as my main police station in my city, I would not be disappointed if lego branched out and gave us a GCPD set that was actually under either the lego batman theme or city theme but the police station itself was more batman related and maybe gave us villans we still have yet to receive as physical minifigs. I am looking at the mad hatter who we have only gotten in the lego batman video games so far.

I honestly did think that the whole “Swamp Police”, “Forrest Police” and “Mountain Police” themes seemed kinda weird. I know that there are Police Officers in more remote locations, but I feel like they could’ve tried something a bit original like “Lego City Park Rangers” or something like that.

If you ask me, there's an oversaturation for LEGO Police in general. And LEGO is actually self-aware about it - there's a police officer in LEGO 2K Drive that comments on how the town of Big Butte has "5 officers for every citizen" - that's enough to give every citizen their own security escort. Problem is, they don't do anything about it. I know kids like to play cops and robbers, but I'm pretty sure they like to do other things too... Honestly, I kinda feel like LEGO has become too big as a company. They've become risk averse and unwilling to experiment because there's, well, no risk in not taking risks. I know that sounds like a redundant statement, but what I mean by that is that they're going to make money whether they try to innovate or not, so there's no reason for them to put in the effort. And when they do, it's usually "throw tech against the wall to see what sticks" rather than actually changing up formulas.

My favourite sub theme is either the 2013 one, tbh I can’t remember the name but it’s the one with the museum, or it would probably be the prison island.

I think they should slow down the release of these sets and innovate more, to make these newer sets feel like they are different. An example is perhaps bringing back space police or some sort of arctic police force in the far future.

Lego should do SWAT Police.

I would like to see the Construction theme back,whatever happened to that?

When they got rid of the police suits and firat forest subtheme that was when it went downhill for me

Imagine a Lego space police subtheme of Lego city rather the actual evolution of classic space I’d love to see a set of criminals trying to steal a rocket ship or something if makes no sense but neither did sky police and that didn’t stop Lego

I have a soft spot for police theme of 2010 era it was some of my first lego

Lego Forest Police, Swamp Police, mountain Police, and anywhere that’s not in the city is basically the Sheriffs Office, I feel if they made it that way it would’ve fit more.

I have a few sets from 2014 including high speed police chase, prisoner transport and mobile command unit also bike as well i have 1 forest police car set..tbh i really miss those old sets because cars looked normal and sets were nice now all went downhill..i ordered lego police set 7747(used set but with Little to no damage and tbh it's all used lego sets on that site that exists in my country) i want all those old sets back..

I know I’m the past few years they remade the moble command from many years ago. I know a few years ago I got the Lego mountain police station which was good. However I think recently they haven’t done very much however the training centre seemed cool and a couple of the sky police sets look good (mainly the one with the parachutes)

i always tried to figure out what police sets to choose. maybe some from 2005/2008 or 2014 for main sets. also the mountain police sets feel like a rebirth of the forest police. and sky police looks like a aviator 2014 police theme

What the police theme does better now than previous is have regular cars being used by criminals. Like garbage trucks, ice cream vans, construction/renovations vehicles. Still annoyed the minifigures need mask and prison uniforms under the regular clothes. Fine for some, unnecessary for all of them.

When these were first released in the 80's and the 90's police were generally better viewed. I don't think they're going to be as popular since internet videos of police brutality have become so common. They should go back to space police or forest rangers that people would have a better view of. In Europe though they probably don't have nearly as many problems with police violence as the US

I 100% agree with you! The Prison Island was my favorite subtheme along with the forest police. I also enjoyed the 2013 elite police, since that was the first time we saw special Police forces (obviously promoting Lego City undercover, one of the best lego video games imo) and a nice non-police side build (the museum) Another thing I also dislike about the current police sets is the use of bright light yellow...it just doesn't fit imo

I think a lot of modern lego police look to juniors or cartoony with the figures

Gee I wonder what might have happened since 2019 that would make Lego not want to celebrate the police anymore

Large LEGO City Police Float Plane remake when?

the phrase AFOL cringes me as much as being called a Brony, making it sound like adults are unusual and enexpected to like LEGO and needs standing out. But also, a lot of these Police sets are for kids as you say, but they have also produced a recent City police station with combo doughnut shop. But what about other City things like a Fire station? I think this is just a bit whiny and they have to produce play sets for kids, and they've done a recent and sizeable Police build already for City. The City builder customer base must be less than 5% of all total LEGO sales, so them switching product focus for those mega rich, no-life LEGO nerds with more money and basement space than sense, I don't think is their priority

I’ve always wanted a safari police/game warden subtheme, where they try to save wildlife from poachers

The 2013, 2012, and 2015 were some good sub themes. They had some sets and pieces and side pieces that work well in a lego city layout.

If they brought back 90's Space Police I'd poop myself.

I've seen that same Lego police truck over and over ever since I had conciousness

I liked the police sets from the classic Town theme. I enjoyed the green tint some of the visors and windows some of the sets had.

As cool as this idea is the only subthemes I can think of that Lego could do anymore are a prison subtheme with higher quality printed prison guards and have things like prison towers but I don’t think would do that so they could also do swats with black colors and heavy armed swat vans and probably a helicopter that could be similar to the mountain police helicopter but in black for a more elite design because I can’t really think of many other environments where police would make sense to have full on police stations

Honestly surprised they've never done a full european wave before with the different uniforms and checkered cars All american despite the country of origin

Imagine a lego city swat. Just hyper realistic swat teams and vehicles lol.

I absolutely hate the 2020 police station, it has Duplo set vibes

Tbh, they should make some wild west stuff. Like some robers trying to get into a train with gold. Horses. Cacti. The old style bank. A saloon. I know, i'm a genious.

The 2017 police sets were clean honestly, clean sporty police cars and bikes, id say the lego city police went down when they released the sky police in 2019, the sky police was acceptable but i pretty much only got 1 set from it, after the sky police everything went down and the sets started being either too childish or extremely small within size, so its quite a shame

Sky Police is such a joke that they laugh at how silly it is on the Lego City Adventures show

One of the very first Lego sets I got that I actually saw and wanted from the getgo *was* a Lego Police set. Police Station 7237

2004-2011 best lego city police stations

They should have Lego City Border Police (ie CBP) or Lego City Transportation Police (ie TSA) lol

The Lego city police is stronger and better geared than some of the worlds armies

2011-2013 was Peak Lego City Police. We had the perfect 2011 Police Station and Surrounding Wave, the Forrest Police in 2012, and the SWAT Vibes Chase McCain Tie in Cops in late 2012 early 2013. It's been downhill since with only Swamp Police as a glamor of It's former glory.

2:26 I loved this helicopter so much, that I owned two of them.

The problem that the LEGO City theme has is exactly the police subtheme, now LEGO release police sets yearly, that wasn't the case back on their early years (2005-2010), back then City had a two to three year "calendar" used for avoiding repetitions of subthemes, for example, 2008: police and coastguard; 2009: farm and construction... LEGO City had a wide variety of subthemes that they no longer release sets of, like construction or coastguards, and this is due to the huge success that the police subtheme has gained through the last 10 years. To me, the saturation of the police sets started in 2012, where the early symptoms began showing, and by 2015 it was too late, LEGO started releasing police sets on a yearly basis.

They need a western police/sheriff subtheme

you should make a tier list for lego police subthemes 👍

I think it would be cool if Lego did something like a sheriff’s department or a state police subtheme, although I know sheriff stuff might be to close to what forest police was

Best sub theme Lego should make but will never do: Lego city swat

1:49 wdym sky police brought some good things, like the police pilot torso, the breathing apparatus thing, minifigures with printed headpieces, and a cool visor

I want return of Lego city 2011,2012,2014 police sets..

The best things Lego can do about lego city is to add more houses in the 2025 lego city series

I kinda came in expecting something acab related but I wasn’t disappointed

Maybe it's because i grew up with 2010's lego city, but I honestly think the design of (most) lego city sets after the 2016 series is absolute dogshit

I got back into lego after the Forrest, mountain , swamp stint have been grabbing here and there as I plan to use them as more a less state troopers and Forrest rangers or dnr police in my city train garden dosnt hurt any that they loom a bit like the markyand state police

last wave i bought was from 2019, lego city aint cooking anymore, and i think lego knows well that asides that it started to look like the friends theme, city series literally collapsed.

Note: I'm talking about MAIN City Police only, so no Forest, Elite, Swamp ETC. 2014 Police were really good, 2011 and 2008 comes a close second and third respectively, 2017 4th, 2005/6? was honestly limited and quite bad, but not as bad as 2020 Police, which is only a hairs inch better than 2022. 2021 & 2023 fall into this weird category, while they arent subtheme, they are still city police.

nice work!!

There's only so much you can do with police theme without actually making it realistic and, by extension, rather violent and not child friendly

They could try a stealth police maybe?

All Cops Are Bricks

What's with the subtitles for the blind?

Apart from these subthemes, my favourite, and IMO most important change to the genre is the inclusion of criminals apart from the generic thief, and actual criminal builds. More than just a small motorcycle and the same escaped convict minifig. I think they stsrted this around the mid 2010s

LEGO city of 2017 is the best year

WE NEED MORE POLICE DOG CARS!

Maybe an Arctic Police or Desert Police or Volcano or Jungle Police subtheme

2024 has arrived and we got prison island back!

Here's a bold idea.... Make lego military subtheme lol

I've got an idea for a subtheme space police IV

Has anyone else noticed that AFOL is close to A Fool? As in you're a fool for spending half a paycheck on our products? They really should change it to Adult Lego Fan or ALF.

Oh do I remember the forest wave I think the car in that was like my second set

I miss the police sets from 2008 to 2015. Those werre the days. I loved also just how generally realistic the police vehicles were. Now the sets are like fancy super car cop cars and stuff im not interested in. Those were the days

Also, the cars, stations and stuff these days look so unrealistic. All of lego city does. 2014 was the prime time of Lego City Police imo, but also the forest police

2010s was the pinnacle of the police theme. since 2020 its been terrible until this year

They made prison island in this year