(MOCs) School and School Bus

[ShadowWolfHount]

These MOCs are fan concepts of my idea of what sets of a School subtheme for LEGO City would look like.

With LEGO Friends having a school set, I’m amazed that City doesn’t have one yet and it been around longer.

Though it kinda understandable, sense let’s be honest…  no one like school.

 

But if there was a subtheme for school, it would be a pretty small wave of having 2 or 3 sets, those being the School Bus, the school and maybe a people pack (4 or more figures).

Basically it’ll be like the hospital subtheme; seriously have you seen how small the amount of hospital sets there are in city?

 

In fact there isn’t any need to make new prints for this one, as they can just use already existing printings. Except if they want to have students uniforms, but with that they could try to see if they could get away with reusing the hogwarts uniforms, which would be great if it would be Hufflepuff, Slytherin or Ravenclaw; sense we know we’re gonna get lots of Gryffindor in the Harry Potter sets.

Also, I think it would be good the student each come with a red or blue recolor of the skydiver backpack, as that piece would be fitting for this.

 

From the concept I made of what I school subtheme could be, there would likely to be 9 different minifigure, 2 being reuse, those being students.

There would be 4 student, 1 random adult, bus driver, teacher, lunch lady and the principle.

I could see the lunch lady returning the series 6 Surgeon’s surgical cap, though it could just use the swept back short ponytail and pretend the fig is wearing a hairnet or something.

Also I honestly think it would be great if the principle would use Sensei Wu’s face, so there can just be more different faces.

 

 

Now for the MOCs.

I was planning to make a Recess pack to be the $10 way to get 3 students and 1 teacher, but decided to throw that out because there can just be a people pack for those figures and more.

 

School Bus

Target Price: $40 - $50

Minifig: bus driver, 3 student, 1 adult

Pieces: 256

Basing the design off the 2018 Bus Station, I want to try to at least make this look like it would cost $10 less compare to that set, as it hold only 3 students and the bus driver.

With the door, I try to see if I could use the rolling door to make a two door open, however they were way too tall, so the normal door will have to do, which I also use the opposite side of the door for the back.

The sidebuild could be anything, for my choice of the side build is a park gate, a fitting thing for a school subtheme.

 

 

 

 

School

Target Price: $60 - $90

Mnifig: 3 student, 1 teacher, 1 principle, cafetaria

Pieces: 312

To keep it on the safe side with the idea of a school subtheme, I try to make the school at least less than $100, at least around 70 to 90 dollars. The side build from the school would be a simple car and the school sign thing. Also have a bike and skateboard.

With a choice of color, a tan fleshy color come to mind, the walls were going to be tan, however the medium dark flesh really give more color to it, while the dark tan are use for these pillars to give some texture.

There are 4 rooms, the entrance, classroom, principal office and the cafeteria.

I went with not having a door between the cafeteria and entrance  to keep the price low and was hoping there be room for a table, which is just cut straight out of the Great Hall set.

The classroom is where the light brick would be put in and would be use in the same way as the x-ray from the 2018 Hospital but show different class related stuff like math, history and science.

 

 

Edited January 3, 2019 by ShadowWolfHount

[jimmynick]

Hi @ShadowWolfHount! I saw this on Flickr earlier today and I thought it looked interesting, though to be honest I thought the School Bus set was related to Cuckoo's Nest instead of an actual school. If you envision a school set at $60-$90, you have plenty of room to spare. Make the ceilings higher! Include another room, perhaps a music room or a gymnasium. I can tell that your school building is fairly small compared to the gate you put in the school bus set concept. It's an excellent start but there's room to improve.

Thanks for sharing! P.S.: what software did you use to render your images?

[ShadowWolfHount]

Thanks, I may make a taller version of the school at some point, a music room sounds good maybe have an art room along side with it. A gymnasium sound like it would be best as it's own set.
But with the school I wanted to keep it small and easy to get as possible, as to look like this is meant to test the water of how a school subtheme would do, and how it goes could have the next wave of school subtheme after 3 or so years would either have more school related sets or be the same as these but with a bigger school.

As for the rendering, I used Stud.io 2.0 that allow you to render.

 

Edited January 3, 2019 by ShadowWolfHount

[Darnok]

Two really nice builds, which I would both buy if TLG ever released them.

 

Adding the gate/pathway section to the bus is excellent play design, as it adds different ways to play from the get-go.

In a similar way the small car and "nameplate" add a lot to the school (with only a few parts, well done). The school build itself offers some essential scenes for play, and I could  see myself buying two sets and easily expanding the original build.

 

Overall: great stuff, and I agree with the sentiment that there should be something like this in the City line. I have no idea why it is not, since a school is something so very basic in everybodys life.

[The Island Chronicles]

I'd definately buy this. Knowing City though, they'd likely put these two sets together and sell it under the Downtown subtheme. 

[Luca Lothian]

I've had an idea for a LEGO set that I think would be very unique, and it is one of those old concepts I've never lost unlike the more recent Medieval Market Village and now it's easier to visit https://essay-reviewer.com/proessaywriting-com-review/ site for quality writing task. The idea revolves around the concept of "schools" - I was thinking about what you might see on TV shows like Glee , Big Time Rush.

[The Island Chronicles]

I look forward to seeing how much this can stack up to the City set of the same name that's supposed to come in 2022