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Sounds to me like these parts came from different sets. If you got them in a bulk lot, it's unlikely they all came from the same set. However, I would venture that the lever on top of the black minifig head corresponds to one of the Sith Infiltrator sets (maybe 7151), and the black engine comes from something completely different.

I respectfully disagree. I like 60204 better. I think it's the best hospital ever made. But I wouldn't assume that everyone else holds the same opinion I do. To keep it on topic, they are making another hospital this year - it's in the Friends line.

The pattern of the print is the same, but the color is white instead of sand blue.

I think the Gear items like that are generally made by other manufacturers under contract, not directly by Lego. The plastic is probably different than the plastic used in the toys and is probably food safe.

I'm disappointed that there's no minifig-scale airplane in the 1H Creator line this year, but that little Cessna makes up for it. I've wanted a little Lego Cessna like that for years; I still have my childhood MOC of one. Ideally, I'd prefer a three seater Cessna with wheels, but this is good enough for now.

Those parts were introduced last year for the Speed Champions 1968 Mustang.

After letting the initial shock of the 2020 police wave wear off, I'm more or less OK with it. The Ninjago flying spinners have done well enough to be released three times, and I'm sure it's occurred to most everybody who's ever handled one of those to wonder if Lego could make a helicopter the same way. It was going to happen sooner or later. The spinners and other gimmicks in Ninjago have never ruined the rest of the line, and it's an overreaction to suppose that they'll ruin City. The police station is a disappointment compared to previous police stations, but the rest of the builds are perfectly passable. They're all very mediocre builds, but they're not Jack Stone/Town Jr bad. The magnets have a lot of potential use in other themes, and the helicopters get a pass from me just this once. If they're successful and durable and fun, justifying their extremely high price relative to similar dollar-store toys, then I hope they return every few years, like the Ninjago flyers - just not in 2021. After all, most of Sky Police was pretty good - just overpriced because of the parachutes, and stuck with a minimal police station because most of the "police station" set was an airplane instead. Edit - I am a little worried by the extensive use of large plastic container parts in Friends, Ninjago, and Disney, but even that isn't drastically different than what's done before. The arcade boxes for Ninjago and the little boxes for Friends are very similar to previous sets, and the storybook boxes for Disney must mean that the Pop-Up Book sold so well they decided to bring the storybook idea down to the bottom price points.

Those X-wing engine leading edges look perfect for a TIE cockpit ball. How long before @Jerac or @Inthert show us how to use them?

@benderisgreat: Just do an image search for "rise of skywalker poe dameron x-wing" and you'll clearly see that it's a T-70 - or at least that every single other X-wing toy made in those colors for this movie is a T-70.

All parts in 4+ sets are printed.

I'm quite impressed by the Ferrari, and a bit less so by the Audi. The Ferrari is a must-buy, the Audi a maybe.

So many monster trucks of all kinds in Creator and City! Has someone at Lego decided that everything, everything, must have chunky oversized wheels? The burger truck is pretty fun, though.

I think I might buy the fire helicopter, the police car twin pack, the police builder box, the mail airplane, and the safari jeep. That last set is pretty much exactly what I'd like to see in green with a T-rex! After seeing the police and fire sets, though, I'm worried about the racing and construction sets. I hope they're not as focused on gimmicks instead of building.

Those helicopters look like a lot of fun to play with, but they're not Lego. They're Lego-compatible flying toys manufactured and sold by Lego. I'll probably end up buying one anyway, because they do look fun. Looks like I also ought to finally bite the bullet and get myself a 60141 police station from 2017 before they're all gone.

In Argentina, Lego is extremely expensive and fantastically rare. Basically only the very richest kids can afford it. A large portion of the upper class in Argentina is of British descent or raised in British-inspired schools, so I don't imagine a huge backlash against this set in Argentina despite the incident that got Top Gear kicked out. The Argentinian Lego market is too small for that. Source: I did a study abroad, of sorts, in Argentina a few years ago.

It occurs to me that the reason there can be a (rumored) racing subtheme of City next year is because Speed Champions has moved to an 8-wide standard. At the 6-wide standard, the 2013 City Formula One car 60025 was only a little smaller than the Speed Champions Formula One cars, but now that Speed Champions has definitively moved to an extra-large scale there's room for City race cars again.

Probably the closest match would be 850617, but it's from the "Elite Police" SWAT-style subtheme and it's 6 years old. Better just to buy minifigs on Bricklink.

Not to keep going with "police outside the city limits," but if the rumors of a safari theme are true there's plenty of room for law enforcement there. Gotta keep those animals safe from poachers! I'd much rather see civilian safari sets than rangers vs poachers, but I'm sure police sets based on a rangers vs poachers theme would be just as relevant to many people in, say, Africa, India, or China as the swamp police, forest police, and mountain police themes were/are to people in the United States and Europe whose metropolitan areas of residence are near mountains, forests, or coastal wetlands. Inasmuch as a separate police theme is already confirmed for 2020, though, it's extremely unlikely that the summer wave codenamed "In/Out" would have its own law enforcement component, whether it's set on the farm or on safari or in the suburbs.

Here's my brief opinion regarding World City - brief, because I should be doing my homework right now. I was introduced to Lego during the Town Jr era, and compared to that World City, and the similarly-styled Spider-Man sets, were a real breath of fresh air. The cars and helicopters had flaws, but for the time they had interesting new parts and building techniques and they clearly attempted to look like real cars and helicopters, as opposed to being the simplest possible abstractions of the real-world vehicles. The main problem was that the dark, moody lighting on the World City police and rescue box art didn't give the theme much room to grow in content and style. Also, the name doesn't translate well. As a transitional theme produced during the period when Lego was getting back on its feet and the designers were learning to use the new parts families, it was pretty good. As a kid, I actually thought the police car was really good. I still do, despite the lack of a roof. Since I already wrote about it at length in a Brickset review, I'll copy-paste it here: " The World City Squad Car is a good example of set design during Lego's brush with bankruptcy in the early 2000s. Thanks to a plethora of new parts, sets from the time looked radically fresh and new compared to those of the previous decade, but the set designers were still learning to use new parts like wedge plates and curved slopes, so the results sometimes looked clunky and unrefined. World City itself is perhaps the clearest expression of the era, as it is the bridge between Town and City: short-lived and clearly with a foot in both eras, such that Brickset could easily classify it as a subtheme of either larger theme but instead classifies it separately. The Town cars of the late 1990s, known pejoratively as the "Town Junior" era, were extremely simple. The sides were built up with bricks and doors; the hoods were simple slope bricks; the headlights were either 1x1 plates underneath the slope bricks or just printed slopes; small cars never had a roof or rear windshield; as often as not the tires were large balloons that didn't fit the chassis; and the cars were almost always built on an extremely limited vehicle base that allowed for no flexibility in the placement of the driver's seat or the wheels. Even as a kid, I thought them boring and ugly, because they didn't look like real cars. Then along came World City, and suddenly we had a little police car that looked almost like a Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor. The new curved plates used for the hood and trunk closely resembled the smooth curves of the second-generation police interceptor that appeared in superhero movies like Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2, and on the streets in my home town. Turned on their sides, the Jack Stone siren pieces became gloriously big headlights and taillights that matched the curves of the hood, again like a Crown Victoria Police Interceptor. The clever use of four white headlight brackets allowed a radiator grille in front! And bumpers! None of these features appeared in any of the Town Junior cars I was familiar with. The new trans-black windscreen matched the color of the glass I saw on cop cars around town. The wheels almost fit in the wheel arches, though they were a bit too broad. Finally, the police officer looked like a friendly guy this time, not like a grim bully hiding under sunglasses who would as soon send you to jail as cite you for speeding and would definitely not help get your cat out of a tree [like the black-clad, sunglass-wearing Town Jr cops]. It's worthwhile to note, too, that the vehicle base used for this Squad Car had been introduced a few years before for Town Formula One cars, but had never previously been used in a regular car for wide release. Since 2003, it's been used as the base for an astonishingly wide variety of cars in different lines and scales. This kit does have some flaws. The wedge plates used on either side of the driver's seat don't make much sense, the siren mount comes off too easily, the stickers are fragile and easily damaged, the wheels have extremely low clearance, and one wishes for a rear windscreen and a roof. The police car, taxi, and civilian car in the 2003 Spider-Man line didn't have these problems: they had rear windshields, roofs, and slightly more complex builds. But they weren't in $4 lunch-money sets, and this was. Later four-wide cars in the City line have much more substantial builds and more realistic detailing, but they also rely on specialized wheel arches and SNOT parts to support the front and rear fascias. For my money, the 2003 World City Squad Car and Spider-Man cars are the best brick-built 4-wide cars ever released, thanks to their realism and innovative use of new parts without relying on specialized molds to substantially define the shape of the car. "

No, they're not. At least the Disney Train isn't. "Stickers Across Multiple Parts" means that a single uncut sticker is applied across part boundaries in an assembly. Modern kits like the Disney Train may have sticker designs that cross part boundaries, but the stickers themselves are cut so that each sticker is applied to exactly one part.

Back in the 1980s my state gave its highway patrol Ford Mustangs. Today most of the police cars are Dodge Chargers - not quite two-door Speed Champions-style cars, but leaning that way.

I grew up watching Thunderbirds, and your Thunderbirds models are right below in your signature, so it seemed pretty obvious.

Thank you for the detailed review, and especially for the comparison pictures with the other A-wings and the Metal Earth model. I plan on picking up this set in a month or two, but it's just not exciting enough for me to have bought it on day one. For one thing, it looks too much like an RZ-1; the set designer's changes to let it pass as an RZ-2 are far too subtle. For another thing, I want a blue and white model with Tallie Lintra, not a white and green one with Snap Wexley. Finally, my collectors' instinct holds me back...if I buy this one A-wing I'll end up buying a few older models to complete the collection, and that larger sum of money isn't something I should spend right now.

Looks like you're building a launch bay for your Thunderbird 1. Can't wait to see the finished product!

Gee, I actually like all those heads a lot. It might be just because I grew up with them, but for me they elegantly invoke role and character without becoming so detailed that the little faces are permanently fixed in one fleeting emotion.