Lego City Fire Station MOD - Double width set 60320

[@MinifigJez]

It's 10 minutes after uploading and I've just been told that what I thought was a map of Lego City, is actually meant to be a computer game in their break room! So moving it to the top floor might have been a mistake!!!! But ignoring the interior, I still think the exterior look of the MOD looks GREAT!

[@BIGTAYLORNI]

This is what Lego should have built in the first place. A lot more of a realistic look to your moc.

[@MinifigJez]

Thanks - The tower just looked too thin for the size of the garage next to it. I much prefer it now that it's double width.

[@eliasperez8221]

I got this for Christmas and it's a 10/10 set

[@MinifigJez]

Yes, it’s a really great set.

[@mattbartels]

This new fire station is cool but I think it needs another eight studs at the back to match up with the garage, another twenty studs across to match the rest of the station and staircases so the firemen can access all levels.

[@MinifigJez]

WOW! No you're talking about some epic MODs going on!!!! And I've now got the even NEWER fire station which I need to modify: brickset.com/sets/60414-1/Fire-Station-with-Fire-Truck

[@arthurstrebel4424]

I was planning on copying the garage section to fit another fire-truck in there. Great mod though!

[@MinifigJez]

Yes, I really like that the garage side's roller door is SO tall on this set.

[@legobrickabrac]

Probably the best fire truck by lego that's easy to remove the shooter from.

[@MinifigJez]

Yes, definitely a very easy job, and it looks really nice without it on top.

[@legobrickabrac]

@@MinifigJez I'm doing a Lego fire trucks vs a fake lego fire truck project.

[@MinifigJez]

@@legobrickabrac cool, I look forward to seeing it.

[@bricksalad_]

This is great! If lego used your changes it would justify the price a bit more, although I do think the fire truck was more complete with the shooter.

[@MinifigJez]

Thanks - I'm glad you liked the building's MOD - I only removed the Shooter as I thought it made it look a bit too much like a cartoon, I'll definitely modify some sort of extinguisher to go on top, but just a bit smaller !!!

[@magnuskallas]

I remember building the 6389 Fire Control Centre back in the day (my friend's father worked as an international trucker (post) USSR)... and the sliding doors was a must for fire set. To this day I find it interesting LEGO was expecting futuristic Airport style fire engines to take over but to this day (as now seen in modern LEGO fire sets) the trucks are mainly classic cab-overs :) EDIT: I had to look it up why it is so and there are some articles about it. "1. Airport fire trucks are typically much better suited for off-road driving than municipal trucks. 2. Airport fire trucks must be able to carry a greater variety of agents than municipal trucks because of the nature of the fires they encounter. 3. The acceleration requirements are more aggressive for the airport fire trucks."

[@MinifigJez]

6389 was a very cool set. It's very interesting about the differences between the type of fire truck. And I hadn't;t really thought about Lego's styling of them. Although, one of my favourite fire sets from the 90's was 6440: Jetport Fire Squad with real sirens!!! (I made a video about it 3 years ago! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYqckoVrmNOUsLc) Thanks for taking the time to comment.

[@BroughtCat]

Omg dude this is incredible, it's an actual fire station, bravo 👏 🙌

[@MinifigJez]

Thanks. I think it looks much better this way - it was far too skinny before!

[@LondonBusesandUnderground423]

The truck likes very nice

[@MinifigJez]

Thanks, I’m glad you like it.

[@SketchyMaker]

Great mod Jez, looks much better!

[@MinifigJez]

Thanks. It just looked a bit too thin for my taste. (I'm also liking this little fad I'm having, of modding City sets - It's good fun!)

[@8CylinderRat]

The old fire station details✅ cars✅ New fire station details❎ Car❎✅

[@MinifigJez]

Which old fire station set do you mean?

[@8CylinderRat]

@@MinifigJez the 1 from 2011-2013 i think i dont qiet remember

[@MinifigJez]

@@8CylinderRat Yes, that was a cool set too.

[@LegoMaster-tn5rl]

Very good fire station extension, just think you could add a little bit more to the ground floor

[@MinifigJez]

Thanks for the suggestion, when it goes into my eventual Lego city I’m sure I’ll add some more to it.

[@mattbartels]

@@MinifigJezhave you thought about using smaller medium stone grey plates on the fire station and putting in staircases so the mini figs can access all levels?

[@MinifigJez]

@@mattbartels I'm afraid not, I tend to focus more on the outside of my MODs than the insides, as people don;t see them.

[@mattbartels]

@@MinifigJez just an idea. I’m not familiar with Mods sets but they probably have staircases inside.

[@MinifigJez]

@@mattbartels MOD just stands for "modification" so it's when I buy a set and change it slightly. But I prefer to modify teh outside so it looks good in a Lego city, rather than doing too much work on the inside too. Thanks for commenting.

[@emilyfoote851]

So much cooler and so much bettrr

[@MinifigJez]

Many thanks for the comment Emily. I'm glad you liked the modification.

[@piotrwillow6440]

Very nice mod, as always you deliver. You should do some summary how much brick was needed prior. I achieved something very simillar but with combining 2 of these sets ;)

[@MinifigJez]

Buying 2 sets can often give VERY GOOD results, but I didn't;t want this one to be too big. (I've got two family house sets to make a MOD with) Planning, and buying all the parts for MODs takes quite a bit of time, and normally I don't also have the time to make a complete list of the parts I use. There's no easy way to get a list of all the parts unless I type it all in!!!!! - maybe on the smaller MODs I do I could start listing parts. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@ForburyLion]

The truck could do with a ladder, otherwise it looks good.

[@MinifigJez]

@@ForburyLion yes, you’re right. The big shooter was an eyesore, and the plain version was a quick and easy mod. A ladder would be a bigger mod, but I’ll see if there’s a smaller ladder piece that I could add, as I think the standard one would be too long. Thanks for commenting

[@MorbidTabletop]

Is there a list for the extra pieces used? I cant find any.

[@MinifigJez]

Hi Anton, no sorry I didn't make a list of them, I just planned it in Stud.io and got the pieces together from my now storage and ordered a few other pieces. The best that I can suggest is watch the video and just make a list of the new pieces. - Sorry

[@MrPanman1983]

hi there. can i find a parts list to your modification somewhere? just the additional parts that i would need. i‘m planning to mod my sons firestation and also add two more garage lots for his fire trucks (i have the parts list for this already together).

[@MinifigJez]

Hi Andreas. Really sorry, I don't have parts list at all, I just worked out what I needed from what was already in the set, and then got most of the parts from my own collection. If you have the original set, I would just look at the inventory on BrickLink and work out which ones you need to buy more of. The original list is here: www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=60320-1

[@mattbartels]

I’ve got it covered. Here’s the list. 6x8 plate (x3 medium stone grey and x1 dark green 4x8 plate (x1 dark green) 1x1 brick (x2 bright red and x2 white) 1x8 brick (x7 bright red and x1 white) 1x6x5 wall element (x3 transparent light blue) 1x1x5 brick (x1 white) 1x2x5 brick (x2 white) 1x2 brick (x3 white) 1x2 plate with 1 knob (x1 dark stone grey) 1x1 flat tile (x1 dark stone grey) 1x1x6 column (x8 bright red) 1x2 roof tile inverted (x1 bright red and x6 dark stone grey) 1x6 flat tile (x2 white) 1x4x6 glass door (x1 transparent light blue) 1x2 plate (x2 white and x4 brick yellow) 2x6 plate (x2 brick yellow) 2x2 plate with reduced knobs (x2 bright blue) 2x2 flat tile (x2 bright blue) 2x2x2/3 plate with bow (x2 white) 1x2 plate with stick 3.18 (x1 medium stone grey) 1x2 plate with holder (x1 black) 1x2 flat tile (x1 transparent yellow) 1x4 brick (x1 bright red) 2x4 flat tile (x2 bright red) 1x4 flat tile (x2 bright yellow and x1 bright red) 1x3 flat tile (x2 bright red) 1x4 plate (x2 black) 16x16 road plate and tiles to fill it.

[@garypainterjr2150]

I changed the hub caps on my fire truck with white hub caps?

[@MinifigJez]

That's the cool thing about Lego, that you can modify things. I prefer the black wheels (but I like black in general!)

[@chickennuggets5225]

Sorry ik this isn’t really a question related to ur build but can the garage fit speed champs?

[@MinifigJez]

Hey there Chicken Nuggets. I've just tried to put the Speed Champions Lotus Evija (set 76907) in the garage, and the wheel arches make it too wide. The old 6-stud wide Speed Champions sets will fit in there easily (so all the sets from 2015 to 2019) but the sets from 2020 onwards won't. The garage is 8 studs wide, and I think all the 8-wide SC sets since 2020 also have wheel arches that make them wider than that. I hope that helps.

[@chickennuggets5225]

@@MinifigJez ah damn it Thanks I was thinking of picking up this set tomorrow its on clearance and i was gonna turn it into a car workshop/garage for my city Might try modding it

[@MinifigJez]

@@chickennuggets5225 the roller doors are really cool, but they've only ever made them 8-studs wide, and because they run up and down inside a groove in the side bricks, I can't think of a way that you could join two sets together to make the roller door wider. It could work as a display piece, with an 8-stud wide SC car half way in/out of the roller door, so that the front wheel arches are outside the building and the back wheel arches are inside the building? Have fun modding!

[@chickennuggets5225]

@@MinifigJez well Im a initial d fan as literally every car guy ever and ive got a couple of the cars built but there following the speed champions type of build but i will see if i can make it a little smaller Ive never had the parts to make the slide up garage door i have the actual door part bc i have rhe ironman ball of amour from this year but yea so im new to the garage part But im sure I could figure something out I got time to mess around if it fails i can just city dump it and do what u said and have it out front I was thinking maybe the police station would be good bc of the big outside spot for the car but (im Australia so ur looking at 120 for that set ) im not really willing to spend that much on somthing that might nor even work where as the fire station is 50 atm so i will just buy it anyway

[@MinifigJez]

@@chickennuggets5225 I reckon you're right, the Fire station would be a better set to start with to mod than the Police station... ESPECIALLY at that price!!!! - good luck with it.

[@Rrrfggggftyg]

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[@MinifigJez]

Not sure if that means you like the MOD or you were scared by it !!!!!!

[@RealBanana]

Personally I think the LEGO city sets have gone downhill over the past few years. If you look at the size of the old sets compared to the new ones is shameful

[@MinifigJez]

The 2023 sets are looking pretty good value for money, especially all the £9/$10 sets.

[@Winchester1979]

When it comes to fire- and police sets, I disagree completely. What happened is that Lego swapped from doing the fire station or police station as the biggest and most expensive set of the wave, and instead started making an actual building on fire or a bank robbery to respond to as the "big set", so that each fire vehicle came with the right size fire for it to put out, instead of all fire vehicles coming with only a tiny fire because the fire station ate all the budget. Similarly, the camping sets have grown steadily more advanced and nicer with each year, and I've been loving the 4x4s and pickup trucks for years, with this year's K9 unit being a fantastic set. On the other hand, their big rig trucks have gotten ridiculously toyish compared to some of the builds from the late 00s. They made some really really nice ones in 2009 that I just finished building digitally, and there's been occasional fantastic trucks since, but for example the gaming road show truck? Yeah, that's just sad.

[@RealBanana]

@@Winchester1979 ok yeah, I like the variety of vehicles they have now, but the size of the police and fire stations are just sad now, along with the semi trucks as you said. Then again, I’m probably biased because I grew up looking at the 2010’s sets in the back of instruction booklets and commercials

[@Winchester1979]

@@RealBanana I used to look at the new ones and think they were small... and then I discovered that for basically the same cost as one of the old big sets, you could buy two of these smaller ones and combine them, and you'd have one that was even bigger than the old sets... if you decided you really needed to. The 2022 station is slightly more satisfying to do that with because it has an actual fire engine, as opposed to the brush truck that was in the 2019 one. It used to be much harder to do that, not to mention dreadfully expensive.

[@Raycon_Brick]

Не перестаю удивляться твоему умению преукрасить неудачные наборы. 8:57, кровати стоит развегуть ногами друг к другу, чтобы одна фигурка не нюхала грязные ноги другой😂

[@MinifigJez]

Thanks for the compliment and you have made a VERY good point! I will turn a bed round so their feet point to each other. (I'm sure Firemen's feet are VERY smelly!!!!)

[@mattbartels]

@@MinifigJezor how about just a bed on each level if you’re worried about the odour?

[@MinifigJez]

@@mattbartels Or I'll get a 1x1 round brick with a tap piece on top, make a custom sticker saying "Air freshener" and keep it by the beds !!!!