City Police Hydroplane

The bandit escaped from prison, stocked up on clothes and supplies and is going to sail away on a raft. A police seaplane goes in pursuit to catch the crook and return him to prison.

The idea for this set came to my mind when two parts appeared among my Lego spare parts: the wing and the blue part of the roof in addition to the windshield, which I already had. Based on these details, I wanted to create a police plane model based on the LEGO City 60250 MailPlane set. However, in the process of reflection, the original idea was transformed into the presented concept.

The model was created in BrickLink Studio 2.0. It consists of 172 parts (160 if you count torsos together with arms and hands, and hips and legs are a single part) and includes two buildings – the police hydroplane itself and the raft on which the criminal is trying to escape. It also contains two minifigures – a female police pilot (with a two-faced head and a changeable hairstyle) and a male criminal – as well as accessories for them: a life vest for the policewoman, a backpack for the criminal, a bag of supplies on his raft, as well as a life ring, radio, binocular and handcuffs attached to the plane.

This version of the model is updated relative to the version from November 2023 (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/be0548aa-21db-403d-bc7a-05832a3a0260), not available in currently due to the deletion of my old account. Changes include replacing the decals on the panels on the sides of the cabin to prints, changing the color of the plates on the bottom edge of the plane from Blue to the current Neon Yellow, and changing the color of the wings and plates for mounting light signals from Light Bluish Gray to Very Light Bluish Gray, and also a change in the construction of the tail section, wing fastenings and partitions between the pilot's seat and the prisoner transport compartment. In the future, I also plan to replace the pentagonal tile with a police shield sticker in the nose of the plane with a similar, but printed one (BrickLink article 22385pb250) with a change in its color from Dark Blue to White, and also change the policewoman torso to a more modern one (BrickLink article 973pb2606).

This set is intended primarily for play, but it may also be of interest to collectors of LEGO City police sets, as well as builders of Lego models and dioramas, as an addition to the city theme. When creating this set, I wanted my five-year-old son to like it, and his reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. I hope you enjoy this idea as much as he does!