BLOCKSTALGIA
TOWN SERVICES
RE-WIND
When fighting fires, catching criminals and soaring into space all became too much, the citizens of LEGO Town could always fall back on life’s more mundane pursuits
Words: Chris Wharfe
6667 Pothole Patcher.
Pics: Daniel Konstanski, the LEGO Group, Brickset
6649 Street Sweeper is a classic.
BACK WHEN ‘LEGO City’ was just a twinkle in a brand manager’s eye, the LEGO Group was busy building out a semi-realistic representation of life as we knew it. While Castle cast a keen eye over history and Space dreamed what the future might hold, Town was content to paint the LEGO canvas with broad brush strokes of the present day; police hunting down crooks, firefighters battling flames, construction crews digging dirt, and – in its Services subtheme – ordinary citizens sweeping streets, filling in potholes and collecting rubbish.