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Depends. Buildingwise it's still not a good station, but the price point is way better. 600+ pieces for 60€ instead of 750 pieces for 100€. Although now I see 60246 on sale for 60€ (and even lower). The garbage truck looks really nice and the K-9 truck looks better than the one from 60246. Personally I found the police brick box 60270 to be quite nice if you could find it discounted heavily (down to 20-25€), a perfect gift for a smaller child but 40€ was way too expensive. I guess when 60316 gets down to 40€ or lower it will be a really attractive purchase.

I bought 60312 because I got it with 25% discount already. I too like 60239 better and I still stand by that. The best part about 60312 is the 1x4 brick with the "police" print, looks great on 60239 as well. As for 60312 itself I think it's a bulkier, less elegant version of the police sports car in 60242. With holes around the wheelhouses and the roof, and a pretty minimalistic front and rear, for example no turn lights, and only tiny headlights. Maybe a couple of changes might bring a better result, but I haven't looked into that yet.

Jingoism coupled with a decade-old second hand anecdote as proof. What a combination.

At least LEGO has enough sets left to give 3in1 value packs (66682) to retailers, this year's pack contains 60239, 60241 and 60242 for 30€. But there is a difference between selling out and being temporarily unavailable and retiring/going out of production. LEGO does not "find" additional sets.

The successor is due in January, so yes, the patrol car is retiring soon. As for the Beach Rescue ATV, it's not the only one to retire, 60279, 60285, 60288, 60289 and 60290 all came out at the same time as 60286 and are now retiring. Maybe they didn't sell that well, or they want to swap these smaller "impulse purchase" sets out for new ones more often than in the past etc.

Last year the pics surfaced in the beginning of October, so I would say to expect something to appear in a week or two.

Moon base would be very cool. A nice way to use the crater baseplates again. Oh I loved my 6971.

The thing is, with their new roads they might go back to more 4-stud-wide city cars (and to keep their pricepoint). If you go by piececount, the school set will only have 45 pieces more than the Modern Family Home 60291, so it will hardly be some nice school building, more something built from many panels as walls and windows and a pretty small interior. The bus won't be something nice, the bus from 60154 surely had 200 pieces, this one will come in at 100-130 at maximum? I would be very surprised if it was bigger and more detailed than that. Maybe more of a yellow van than a real bus.

Problem is that to make a decent building prices would be prohibitive for families, even more so than they are already. All these MyCity sets are pretty expensive, most people won't buy 3, 4, 5 of these sets to combine them to a town, especially if only some City buildings are immediately compatible. And for people wishing special road plates in farm or zoo sets, that's basically the worst thing that could happen to such sets, because these roadplates make the sets even more expensive. Throw in more animals/minifigs and bigger buildings and cut the plates or lower the price point.

My guess is that it will look a lot like 60291, only two stories for the building, not very deep, roadplate at the front for the busstop and a very stylized and simplified school bus, so 6 year-olds can play with it.

The new police car must either be small or 4+, only 51 pieces compared to the 92 pieces of 60239. And 60239 is a great set, so now I have doubts that its successor will be as good. The new Mobile Command sounds interesting, same price as the old one, one less minifig but 60 more pieces.

Vehicles are not necessarily more European, 60139 was still a North American style truck. 60239 was based on a Dodge Charger, 60242 looks like an US-style muscle car like a Mustang. The more I think about it, the less I feel they will change the colour scheme, unless they move into some special police territory like the doomed Elite/Night Police last year, because City is mostly based on the TV-series and I don't think they will deviate too much from the show. And they will definitely try to avoid obvious similarities to an existing US police force to avoid a backlash like they got for their Elite/Night Police.

End Of Life = end of production

My guess would be a standard police wave since a lot of police sets are supposed to reach EOL at the end of this year (60139, 239, 241, 242, 244, 245 and 246). Maybe we will see a colour scheme change.

I highly doubt it (for me it doesn't say police) and it's a "My City" Subtheme set. Without "My City" in the name although all the other ones have it in their name. We also can't see what prefix some of the sets names have (the 3 police sets, the lifeguard set and this ominous nr. 28 set). Everyone has mulitmillion pixel cameras in their pockets and this is shot with a potato.