From my perspective, a "mismatch" is honestly sometimes more realistic. Compact cars like in 3177 and 7939 realistically should not be the same width as a police interceptor like in 60128. Nor should an air show stunt plane like 60019, a private plane like 60102, and a jumbo jet like in 7893 all be the same size. Google "airport fire engine" and you'll see a variety of trucks much like 6440 that can be massive compared to an ordinary municipal fire engine. Complaining about things not being the same doesn't hold water if in reality they're supposed to be different.

Of course, but today the scale of the city sets seems to be determined by random. Regarding set 60085 - have you ever seen a normal SUV that is wider than a train?

There are always some extreme exceptions in real life, but I don't think that 60085 and the current city trains refer to these pictures.

The scale of modern Lego City 2005 release allows you to collect homemade in a more expanded form. It is also a kind of style.

The scale of modern Lego City 2005 release allows you to collect homemade in a more expanded form. It is also a kind of style.

Imho, many of the city sets are not consistent within the city theme as a whole.

But everyone can do as he/she prefers to. Most of the modern sets (released in year 2000 or newer) simply don't appeal to me, so I cleaned my collection from this modern stuff and sold nearly all those sets. Right now, my collection containts about 3% sets that were released after 2000. And there is still so much to explore/collect before that limit...

I agree with you. Everyone chooses himself.

dr_spock

not by chance brought huge photo and properly scaled with minifigures aircraft. It is impossible to oppose one another when there is a third option, more correct. Compare past and present aircraft is pointless, as there is an excellent model and there and there. As bad.

We have over 300 different sets of city since 2005 (only 4 sets is not enough to complete the collection of Lego City), but this does not mean that the sets of earlier decades release we are not interested. Good models are everywhere.

Edited April 11, 20168 yr by Nemo57

Well, I am not (!) talking about properly scales in relation to minifigs. I am talking about a consistent line-up within a certain theme, mostly city. As an example, today we have cars in 4w, 6w and 8w.

You are right when you say that in reality, not all cars are the same size. Therefore, in some cases the differences between 4w and 6w for cars do make sense.

But even a Ford F150 (a very big SUV) is not twice as wide as a Smart Fortwo (a very small car). So, this range from 4w to 8w is not consistent, combining these sets will not lead to an aesthetical setting: either one is too big or the other one is too small.

But as long as today's kids/fans/afols don't bother, TLC will continue to sell zillions of these sets, so their strategy is the right one.

I have always wanted the older airport size sets, but never did. Still would buy a few of these if I can. I won't buy the newer airport sets as I just do not have the room, maybe if I get a house with a garage then I'd consider it.

I know that lego is aimed at the kids so that explains the size of the new sets. So I can't complain about that, kids I take it are not interested at all with the airports as Lego have released some poor ideas of terminals. Maybe if lego made a smaller version of the new planes then that could work... if you want you're city to have an airport and space is limited buy the old sets, if you have two spare rooms city in one and the airport in the other.

I'm in progress on an old school 2 terminal airport and that alone is taking up one entire room with a monorail.

I can't begin to imagine an new-scaled airport!!

Of course, but today the scale of the city sets seems to be determined by random. Regarding set 60085 - have you ever seen a normal SUV that is wider than a train?

Trains are a difficult case because they really can't be convincingly expanded to more than eight studs wide without introducing a new style of track. And also of course because train layouts tend to be quite large and expensive to begin with, and making them larger and more expensive might limit their already small audience. So while the scale of other LEGO City sets gets more realistic, trains sort of get left behind. However, just because changing the scale of trains is difficult doesn't mean that all other City sets ought to stick to increasingly limiting and outdated design standards.