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Yeah, picnic and horse trailer sets seems to be exclusive like you said, same as last year's shopping street or car transporter, as they are not in official Lego catalog. Here in Poland, no signs of their availability at all.

No.

It's not the same color. If you won't have pieces in your hands, you won't be convinced. Everything depends on devices cameras, white balance, flash etc. I tried as hard as I could, and this is how it looks in real life with our truck.

What I want to say: if we will have anything post service related in near future, it doesn't mean, it will have 2020's Mail Plane logo, as Lego used to change lots of things in subthemes (like police logo, or even that yellow elements throught police, fire vehicles while they are neon at present time).

Yes, it can be. It can also be a post stamp. I got it wrong and I admit it, was just fooled by two letters in that red box below. However if I wasn't wrong, it really could be a new mail service logo. Yes, there was a plane but so what? 2020's catalog had 3 different police logo sets on 3 next pages. Lol.

The Bank set is dope! I can honestly say, I love everything in it. It feels complete, very detailed. New neon yellow color looks weird when the pieces are taken out from the bag but with the vehicles it looks very fresh and cool. Crooks van is the best imo but that helicopter... Wow! What a machine it is! Finally no wheels; the skids are fantastic. Overall shape is very modern and features... This is it! Best police heli imho. Ofc, as I said before, I skipped stickers on the sides. We had lots of fun building the Bank but you will see guys by yourselves. Love that set! One more thing, on the instruction page it seems Lego used different net (it looks like it was made with some grey rubber), cause irl we have standard generic black net :(

Now when our wishes are fulfilled (new ambulance, bus (<- it is school version but it is the bus at the end)) there is only one vehicle I would like to have in the City. Modern post/delivery mail van with the parcel locker or even the post builing itself with new roads. That would be cool. Edit: we are finishing the Bank and there is a new logo of the mail service at the front, right to the doors (there is a red box with some mail). So maybe it can be a preview of the post sets? Who knows. Anyway, here is the sticker:

I made some tweaks to test how they will turn out. And frankly the bus looks much much better now. I removed a bunch of not important pieces and added black wheel arches. It only caused two 1x1 holes behind rear wheels. Moving one seat a bit to the front caused we can add one more seat. So we can have a driver, two kids and one wheelchair - however they are very squeezed. Also made a picture with different wheels. Adding doors or side stop sign will require more yellow bricks and redesign it. As for the 1st floor of the school... Having no roof is not a huge issue. I would say that this empty space between window and the blackboard could easily be filled with continued white or white/black bricks, something like below.

Thanks man. These all were prior to my son. For the rest (ice-cream van, police car and fire sardine factory) I will wait for price dropping. The school is really cool and I would say, it seems to be better in real life than on pictures or yt videos. Same with the bus. So no disappointment :)

Happy New Year guys!

Agree but I think, playable access would be one reasonable argument for it. At least, they could make it removable.

By a mistake I did same thing on the previous page as far as I remember. It's weird but it's possible rotfl Edit: meanwhile, 2022's second set arrived. Yupiii!

What is cool about 2022 City instructions, they added small minifigure icon at the bottom and a progress line through all pages. So with every step, we clearly see where we are in the whole building process. Very cool idea Lego!

Austrian Brick Fan's video shows that orange lights should be above with the white at bottom, so it seems to be right. Maybe that boy at the picture 'made it' wrong lol

Yesss, first set is in da house :)

Amazing set. I only don't like the blue color difference on the helicopter's side sticker. Grhhh... Maybe I won't apply them on my set as they are not so much important imo.

Or it was too dangerous for the children fingers if you know what I mean.