Official images of some of the new 2018 LEGO City sets came out today and eagle-eyed fans may have noticed some implied continuity with one of the sets. If you look closely at the family, they may look somewhat familiar. That is because the mother and father appear to be the same minifigures as the ones in the 2016 Fun in the Park – City People Pack (60134), minus the color swap on the mother’s pants. The baby, however, looks to be grown up now and is enjoying the outdoors with his parents!
The continuity theory is interesting for LEGO to throw in because since we grow up with these sets, it’s nice that the sets also grow up with us as well. I do look forward to seeing more continuity in future LEGO City sets. Maybe next year we can see the child as an adult and the parents be older adults.
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So the kid grows up from a baby to a young child in less than two years? Unbelievable, he must be another one of their children.
Well, it doesn’t have to be completely accurate. If the kid lives to be 87, we’d have to wait 87 years to see him die. Even Lego doesn’t invest that far in the future. xD
Really? LEGO fans have too much free time on their hands. lol
It’s not having too much time as they’re just being observant of it.
My first thought was LEGO is being lazy and cheap and doesn’t want to give us new prints. 🙂
Lego could also just switch out the bodies but keep the heads. So then they could give us new prints.
It appears you have started quite the discussion Allen.
I like the continuity idea!
I’ll finally get my LEGO City Cemetery!
LOLd at that.
So what you’re saying is the next time we might get the “baby” with a new atrophied body that’s only one stud wide and comes with new arms that allow it to two-hand a phone tile, while mom and dad both get ZZ Top beards and new walker elements? Cool.
I’m curious about one thing in this set, though. What’s up with the board with a knife in it? Is that like an early warning system in case some dude with a hockey mask and machete is sneaking around at night?
If you look at the other images in the prior post, it’s a toy boat.
That’s terribly boring compared to the Jason-trap. And grey of any shade is a really bizarre color for a sail. White is traditional, of course, but bright colors are the typical alternative.
I’m really excited because that is what city was all about for me. I used to collect the sets to build up my city, but there were only police sets, and fire fighter sets. I am so glad they are moving in a more community based direction!
Just musing: where would you draw the line between “same character” and “different character?” Lots of faces have been used multiple times, but we don’t think of each use of one face as the same character. On the other hand, does it have to be same face, hair, and torso to be considered the same person? It would be fun to see some of these folks with new clothes.
Back in the day, all minifigs had the same face, so any given year you could probably pick out a bunch of instances where two or minifigs could be the same person. More recently, with the boom in hairstyles and face deco, such instances got less common. So, to see two parents that are 100% identical except for her pants, it’s hard to imagine that they aren’t supposed to be the same people.
Most likely, they’re meant to represent real people. Set designers are always sneaking secret references into their models. Most license plate stickers include initials of the designer or someone they know. The S1 Crash Test Dummy’s license plate tile is one of two instances I’ve seen that involve the last name “Patton” (I can’t remember the other one). The S1 Nurse has someone’s last name on the chart tile. The S5 Lumberjack (and S14 Werewolf) has someone’s name on his shirt pocket. I’ve known two LEGO employees who got unofficially turned into minifigs that were included in sets, and it’s _possible_ that this father could actually be one of them as he did have a kid a couple years back.
Over thinking it. Due to not being as profitable this year and cutting workers, this was just another way for them to save money, using parts already made.
The next non ip set of cmfs will be exactly the same as series 1, except different colors. Joking of course, but do look for more of the reusing of existing as a cost cutting method.
Opps
Wrong. They just have 3 kids. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q-0yTGVRPvk
Are there any named city characters other than the police guy from the game? Maybe if they have a “hero” character for police, fire and coast guard then there could be more continuity between city sets.
Anybody remember pepper the pizza delivery boy from Lego Island? Bring him back
I would love another Lego Island game honestly. They should have made more sets using named characters from those.