30017 Police boat

 

  • 30017 Police boat

    Posted by Huw, 30 Oct 2012 07:05. Filed under Shopping (UK).

    30017 Police boatHere is today's free set with The Sun in the UK. It's been available as part of many promotions over the world so from that point of view it is the least desirable of the selection, and arguably, being Police, the most boring.

    Having said that, there are a lot of large pieces in it compared with the Super Heroes sets we've had so far and the minifig is actually quite cool. Dark blue legs are always useful, his hat is great and he's sporting one of the new life jackets that appeared last year, which is a great improvement on the earlier version. The Forest Police torso is also very nice.

    My verdict today, then, is if you're passing WHS you might as well grab a few, but it's probably not worth making a special trip for.


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Posted by Andhe in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 07:31

Nice. But that neck is such a design fail.

Posted by caperberry in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 08:07

Always happy for more wedge plate in my life.

Posted by Markey in Belgium, 30 Oct 2012 08:23

^^ Agreed with the neck comment. It's a big design fail IMO.

Posted by Huw in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 08:23

^ & ^^^ I guess it has to be like that so helmets etc. can still fit on.

Posted by meccanotwitch in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 09:04

It seems this wave of free sets hasn't attracted the same interest as normal. I have picked up all four sets without the usual que's waiting for Smiths to open

Posted by sf1378 in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 09:23

Ditto on the neck / life vest design flaw - am sure Lego will widen the vest for the head to fit back on flush. For what its worth, a set of this size would probably retail in shops for £5 and over as is the case these days sadly. Its good for the 40p paid I'd say.

I don't like that shade of blue used for the legs or indeed torsos - it looks bland and too dark imo. I also don't like the mouth design for the head...a nice simple smiley would look much nicer.

Posted by snappy_jmit in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 10:14

Get ready for a storm of "RARE LEGO NECK FAIL LIFE VEST"

Posted by timothystalwart in Ireland, 30 Oct 2012 11:17

The Sun in Ireland are doing the same promotion :D
They've done a funny video about One Direction to promote it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP7aPfxEHrg
In it the policeman is Niall and the zombie is Harry :D

Posted by deepdalelegend in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 11:28

On the neck thing I noticed a similar thing with the 'battle damaged' Darth Vader I recently got, where a diving mask is used around his neck!

Posted by Joefish in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 11:50

When I realised what part that was I dug out a red Aquanaut visor and was very tempted to list a 'R@RE ALL-RED Battle-Damaged Darth Vader minifig' on eBay, just for a laugh, but given the storm that accompanied the sale of some red test-moulds of the Vader helmet online I backed off from that particular prank.

Posted by Isabella and Lego Liker in United States, 30 Oct 2012 12:03

In the states, this was $3.47 at Wal-Mart, so it's likely would be 2.50UK in the UK.

Posted by jon_k in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 13:14

police and boring .. I think not

Posted by Firox 5000 in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 13:24

For someone who doesn't own any forest police, it isn't a bad little set for a forest ranger figure.

Posted by CapnRex101 in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 14:47

I was actually very happy with this model today, expecting it to be the most boring. I agree on the subject of the figure with everyone though, it is very nice, but the neck is a problem which ought to have been sorted out during the design phase.

Posted by goldfish in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 15:11

@Huw,
I was going to mention this a few weeks back when I got the fishing boat from Tesco. The new life jackets are awful! They just dont allow the head to sit flush on the shoulders and have a really irritating millimeter gap. Definitely need a re-design.

Posted by Ocky in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 15:38

Pleased with the set - I'm glad it was forest police instead of yet another regular police polybag. Very disappointed in the new life jackets though.

Posted by andyrccar in United Kingdom, 30 Oct 2012 17:49

I don't really care about the vest, I just want the boat.

Posted by Zordboy in Australia, 30 Oct 2012 18:30

Yeah, the vest is fail. But I do like it, as a cute little boat. We haven't had many of those recently.

Posted by krklint in United States, 30 Oct 2012 19:42

I missed this one in the states back in March (so it is listed). Remove the vest, and I quite like the figure myself. I haven't bought much city this year, and so I haven't scooped up any of the forest rangers.

Posted by danim in United Kingdom, 31 Oct 2012 16:23

for some wierd reason I went into my local TRU and recieved set 30014

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