City: Build Your Own Adventure: Catch The Crooks — C · The Brick Drop Score
C
The Drop Score
City: Build Your Own Adventure: Catch The Crooks
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A 71-piece book-and-build combo that lands squarely in the middle — not bad, not exciting, just a C-grade City filler that's hard to get worked up about either way.
Is the price fair?C+Fair for an impulse buy, but don't expect much set for the money.
Will you love it?CServiceable, forgettable — you won't regret it, but you won't remember it either.
Holds its value?C-Low secondary market interest; this one fades quietly into the back of the bin.
True ValueC+
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Price
$5
Parts value
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Ratio
What you get
Plain bricks
$3
Figures (×1)
$2
The Full Take
Catch The Crooks is one of those sets that exists in the background of the LEGO® catalog — a polybag-sized build bundled with an activity book, meant to sit at the checkout lane and appeal to parents who want something cheap and City-branded. The single minifig and 71 pieces don't pretend to be a centrepiece, and the crook-chasing theme is fine for what it is. Build takes maybe fifteen minutes, the play pattern is thin, and there's nothing here that'll stick in anyone's memory. It grades a C across the board because it's neither a rip-off nor a steal — just a small impulse set doing exactly what it was designed to do, without any surprise or spark.
