Luke Styer

I love the arch in front. On the inside the open "column" up the middle complete with chandelier is the highlight.

That's awesome news, Wondermonkey! Though I guess the length issue remains.

I wonder if one extra brick of height will do it. If so, I'm gonna have to raise it by a brick. The more times I look at 60002 the more I want it, and it has to fit into the Fire Brigade.

That's too bad. I just got my Fire Brigade, but I haven't built it yet, and while I think the engine it comes with is cool looking, the more modern look of 60002 will fit in better with my other City vehicles.

Does anyone know whether the fire truck from 60002 will fit into the garage in 10197? Both appear to be six studs wide, but the height of 60002 gives me pause.

I LOVE this one. I think it fits in among the "official" cars while still looking distinctive. That's not always an easy line to walk. I've already told you I love this one, but I figured it was worth reiterating. This looks at least as good as the officially released fire engines I've seen. I especially like the look of the rounded front end. I love the steering wheel here. There's certainly nothing wrong with the completed car, but honestly, I think if you started again at this point and built as an open-topped design you'd have something really awesome. Closing on an unrelated question. Do you have any idea where that police torso came from. I think I prefer it to a lot of the other Police torsos I've seen.

It looks great. I think it looks better as a civilian car than as a police car, which I can't really say for my converted police cars. I'll go looking for it!

Thanks. I figured with two fascades and signs and such, a corner was a good choice. Man, I do too!

I doubt I'll mess with a tile floor. I don't have a lot of tiles and I really don't like not having studs on the floor for minifigs to stick to.

Maybe. I don't have a hospital yet, so that might be a good idea. No, I think I get what you mean. Banks kind of have their own "look." Thanks, everyone!

With my recent receipt of a few 1x1 tiles to fill in the sidewalk, I've finally completed my Modularization of two copies of 3661: Bank & Money Transfer into a single building. You'll find the DJ outside most of my buildings. It's a corner building, so here's the view from the Avenue: You can get a little better look at the (admittedly rather plain) roof in this shot: Here are the two floors and the roof pulled apart: This is the ground floor: J. Jonah Jameson, man of the people, does his own banking: Gold bars in the vault: The Branch Manager's office: Another view of the Branch Manager's office: I'm pretty happy with how that last shot turned out considering I shot it through the window pane.

I just noticed the white car in the background. Is that a MOC or is it from some set I don't recognize?

Until I saw your MOD here I wasn't really bothered by all the truck tires on my cars. Now it's like it's staring at me. Am I also seeing that you traded out the gray parts for white, or is that a trick of the lighting? Excellent modification -- subtle change(s) but really improves the look! That has been my refrain since I started getting LEGO again a year or so ago. Why are the cars so disproportionately red?!

Great buliding! The architectural greebles on the outside are good, but the interior furnishings and decoration are awesome.

The real takeaway from this article is the fact that the word "Legos" didn't appear even once.

I love the modification and the Great Courses disks in the background!

Beautiful build. It would fit right in with the "Forest Police" subtheme.

Very nice building! I look forward to seeing the summer version.

It seems like blue lights on pretty much everything. I am planning, at some point, to replace all my lights on non-Police vehicles with the "US" colors. Good, review, by the way. I definitely want this set.

Now that you draw my attention to 2010 I looked at Brickset again and I think it was 7937. http://www.brickset.com/detail/default.aspx?set=7937-1 I just didn't expect it to have been a 2010 set because it was new to the shelves.

I saw a set at my local TRU yesterday that looked an awful lot like that middle sketch. I didn't pay attention to name or set number, not even enough to catch whether it was an old 4 digit or a new 5 digit number, though.

It doesn't look sleek enough to me to remind me of a Lamborghini. Like I said, I think it's the ratio of length to width that is throwing me off. If it is a Lamborghini, though, and the criminal is stealing it, the rightful owner will be upset when the tires get blown out by that spike strip.

I wish that design would go wide.

60007: High Speed Chase is my first of the 2013 Police sets and the subtheme is off to a solid start, but Police fans should be aware that 2013's sets definitely represent something of a "reboot" for the subtheme. The set includes three vehicles, three minifigures and several neat accessories. Box/Instructions This is a midsized set in a midsized box. The box art is definitely attractive, perhaps actually improving a bit on the look of the red sports car that is included. Each of the vehicles and its driver are packaged in separately numbered bags and each is the subject of its own instruction booklet. Parts One of the changes in the Police subtheme for 2013 is a shift from bright blue as the "police color" to earth blue. As such, you pick up a few basic bricks in that color and the police marking stickers have that color as their background. The set also get a dozen tank tread pieces that serve as a spike puncture roadblock. The SUV windshield is an uncommon element. Another piece that caught my attention was the 1x3 red tile, two of which are included. I don't recall ever seeing a 1x3 tile before. Minifigures The "star attraction" in this set is Chase McCain, the unhelmeted police officer pictured above and the main playable character in the upcoming LEGO City Undercover for the Wii U. McCain is otherwise so far available only as a premium to push preorders of his video game, so this is a welcome opportunity for non-gamer fans to get McCain in physical form. McCain is joined by a motorcycle cop and a masked thief who is apparently making off with $300 and a gold bar. Both police officers feature printed leg pieces, and all three minifigures boast back printing. Again, the reboot of the Police subtheme is apparent in the police officers' uniforms, which do not match the police minifigures going back at least to 2008's 7744: Police Headquarters. If you're aiming for a roughly uniform police force, you may not want to mix the two uniforms. On the other hand, the last police uniform was certainly dressier in appearance, so that explanation may get you past the mismatch. Set 3661: Bank & Money Transfer included a minifigure in a light blue police uniform shirt, which would mix better with Chase McCain and his colleagues in the revamped subtheme. The Build This set offers a fairly positive build experience. Even the motorcycle, usually an unchanging build makes interesting use of a couple angle plates to give the back end of the cycle a little more heft than it might otherwise have had. The SUV is where the real fun in this build is to be found. The designer eschewed the large vehicle modified plate in favor of a number of standard plates to build the base of the vehicle: I appreciate the use of more standard parts and may try to duplicate this method in future "large vehicle MOCs. The Completed Model The motorcycle is a solid variation on an old classic. The set uses a fence piece with decals and a couple round trans-blue 1x1 plates to create a road block, an interesting use of a well-known piece. The SUV looks wonderful. If I have one nit to pick with that vehicle it is that the tires are too large for the fenders over the wheel wells used. My only major complaint with this set is with the red sports car. First off, I'm a bit sick of red cars in LEGO sets. I'd love to see more variety in car colors in LEGO City. Second, though, I just don't think the car looks all that good. It's 6 studs wide, and the general design, which would perhaps have looked good at 4 or even 5 studs wide looks somewhat squat at 6. The passenger compartment seems too long and the front end too short. Finally, a sticker goes on the hood and adds very little to the look of the car. While the too-small fender only slightly mars the appearance of the SUV, the completed sports car model has little to recommend it. Summary 60007: High Speed Chase is a worthy kick-off to the 2013 Police subtheme revamp. Three vehicles, three minifigures and some accessories seem a generous allotment at the $30 price point, and 283 pieces comes awfully close to the the 10 cents per piece that I like to see. Sixteen extra pieces close the gap almost entirely. If you treat the ugly sports car not as a failure of the official design but as an invitation to rebuild into a nicer looking car, there may be no reason at all for a City fan to pass this set by.

Here's another question. Brickset doesn't have the a parts list yet in its entry for this set. Is the Joker's orange torso unique to this set? Either with or without back printing?