hello everyone in this video i'm going
to be showing you the lego city ocean
exploration
submarine it's the main mostly
standalone
subset for 2020. now i say mostly
standalone because
this is the main thing here and also
they don't have any larger sub that
they've made
for this theme at least thus far that
they've revealed for this year
but you do get a fairly substantial side
terrain build the four figures a couple
of crabs here
and another sub this is a purely
remotely operated
or drone style of submarine here you can
spin up the
two propellers or impellers back here
and then it has a container on top so
this can be used for ferrying
you know special materials and small
animals that you may have found to bring
them
back to the surface or to bring them
back to the main sub that's just a
single sticker on the front and i'll
show you how this interacts with the
main sub in the set
this terrain part here i could easily
see being
some people's favorite section of the
entire set
because it comes with the new angler
fish especially and i mean
okay so we'll get to that in just a
second but i mean just the the terrain
itself how that's built up
is not bad for something that's so
simple i mean this is a five plus set
so you can't expect too much out of it
but it has a decent amount of
detail to it i really like the inclusion
of the sand
green in there adds a little bit of
believability
then over here got this little mineral
outcropping
or you can just turn that you can
discover it compared to on the other
side where there's one that's just
ready to be just plucked right off the
surface
but the idea is that you know your diver
will just be down here just exploring
the place and everything's all nice and
serene what's that a little bit of green
there
ah this just comes out so they've got
this on this
uh technic lift arm in pure clear there
you see a little bit of blue
unfortunately down there so it kind of
breaks the the stealthiness of it but
this has a little bit of up and down
movement to it and this guy comes out so
the new angler
fish yeah it's usually exciting when
lego comes out with a new
animal of any sort i was very excited to
see this
and you know what lego has made many
many things in
the past i don't know five years or so
that look like they
would glow in the dark but they don't
well this actually
does all the white which is not quite
lego's
regular white it's just a little bit
off-white it's a little a little
cooler than usual that actually glows
the
green color is lego's regular lime
green and that's opaque and just normal
abs plastic but this is dual molded
together
you've got some anti-stud spots on the
on the bottom three within the space of
a 1 by 2 brick base so that's nice so
you can attach it in different ways
the lure here that ball at the top
is not what it looks like it looks like
a
mix holes ball end you know mixel's ball
joint
sort of end is not compatible with that
what are those 3.8 millimeters or
something like that
in diameter unfortunately it's not
compatible with that system
so attaching things to that i gotta go a
little bit more custom than that
but i like this i like it a lot it's
bigger than i expected it to be
and i look forward to them making this
with some different colors
if not changing out the glow in the dark
part at least changing
the the green out you know like i could
easily see them doing that in red or
maybe like a magenta color or something
possibly even something
more spooky than that to make it look
really ghostly
but this is what they have for now and
it's a very nice start
for that piece really hope they'll use
it more in the future
because they have to invest in that and
then again just the two crabs are
just here hey focus focus those are just
your
regular kind so nothing special there
all right let's check out this sub
first i want to give you just a general
overview of what it looks like from the
outside
you've got the four thruster pods that
can be rotated a full 360 degrees that's
nice got the
kind of satin black propellers or
impellers within there
got the big red ballast pods at the base
i like how this top was put together
a very small number of pieces used there
but
i don't know it just feels right to me
this is weird in that
it is open from the back completely open
from the back would have been nice to
get some sort of suggestion of an air
lock
inside of there uh hurry was it dry lock
wet lock which i think airlock works
but the idea in universe canonically is
that
people would access this just from the
hatch on the top
but us huge figures with our
huge hands can remove this entire roof
assembly
which again i really liked it's so
simple
but so effective does use some stickers
you can leave those off i consider those
completely optional but i think they
look fine
it's just i don't know it just looks
nice
looks like it has more detail than the
number of pieces
would suggest just on its own so you've
got the bubble canopy here on the front
there's space for an operator at the
front who would just be
operating these two levers off to the
side you can angle those but you know
if it's just a single person and then
there's room for a secondary person
inside who can be looking at that scope
in there
uh focus yeah a little bit of focus
there not a new
print but it is a print so that's good
and then yeah there's all this space
back here that almost makes it
like a underwater pickup truck which is
a little bit awkward
but that actually works
with this little guy so this little guy
can go out and collect
samples in the little container on top
and then it can dock right here so this
would go straight in
now it's docked and you can use these
props back here to help with the overall
propulsion of the whole thing
if you want to or you can forget that
entirely i can
do like that have these strictly
vertical
i don't know i like it still a little
gap back there you got to use your
imagination imagine it's sealed up
but overall i think it works out pretty
well and
with that in place you do still have
room for at least one figure to be
working inside in addition to the
operator so you have a total of two
figures inside
plus this when it's docked and i think
if you left
that tile out at the base there it's a
red two by three tile
you would get even more use out of this
because you'd be able to
stick minifigure feet down onto that
rather than having them sit or
slide around i just think that would be
a good
minor modification lastly
this is kind of a big deal the arms you
know
sometimes arms just aren't that useful
on lego builds especially simpler ones
but here these actually work
they rotate up and down they've got some
range of motion here you can change
their orientation a bit as well if you
want and then they've got the
the pinching grasping jaws
can't ask for much more than that i mean
it'll grab large things it'll grab small
things
it works so that's actually pretty
effective it doesn't
reach all the way across but i mean how
much how much dexterity do you really
need there this is more than you need i
would say doesn't look bad
i like that yellow color they did these
in orange before wasn't it
or originally for the space theme good
reuse of them
i like to see these used more it's just
effective
and the whole thing looks
fine again for a five plus
set plenty of detail enough
playability nothing's really wrong with
it
nothing really stands out as awkward or
annoying
yeah there's yeah there's a lot that's
done well here and i think a lot of room
for
enjoyment for play and for display even
here are a couple of the diver figures
who are fully set up with
lots of accessories and everything got a
metal detector here and also an extra
flashlight in addition to the lights
that are built into the suit
on the sides now there is a small
problem with this the studs
the little clear ones don't actually fit
into
those technic pieces all that well they
file they fall out
rather easily which is awkward normally
that's a very tight fit
in this case it's not oh well this guy's
got the
big camera with the big lens on the
front and he has the remote
to control the remotely operated vehicle
you know the little one
a little a little baby sub so i'm just
going to go ahead and pull
this off so you can see the rest of the
torso print that's a
pretty simple torso print that they used
here got some metallic printing on there
when the light hits it right
it shines a bit but it's simple but it's
not bad i appreciate the leg print
now that really helps there's no print
for the hips which is actually
fine with this design i think and again
on the back
the design on the torso doesn't look all
that great to me it's just a little bit
simple feels
kind of old but it's it's good enough
and both of these alternate faces are
fairly
expressive so i think they're good
figures here are the other two
and the one on the right is actually a
named character from
the lego city adventures animated series
it's jessica
sharp by name notice here
again the the guy on the left his torso
print i don't know there's something
about it that just doesn't look
as detailed as what i'm expecting
normally
from lego and it's more obvious around
the back
there's some fine line work for the hood
around the front i mean there's a lot
going on there but it just feels to me
like
these were clearly designed by different
people
it almost feels like this was designed
more to the same style
as the the diver figure torsos
uh compared to this where you see just
more fine detail
just feels like yeah just all those
different slightly different standards
so jessica gets the leg print
there i do believe that both of these
torsos are
new for 2020. let me take this off there
is no alternate face to see here
but she does have some additional
printing for
i believe it's a headband that she wears
is that what that is
i think it is i i don't think i've seen
her yet
in the lego cd adventures uh
series episodes that i've personally
seen
so far so i might be a little bit behind
on that at least in my region but
that's it for the figures very very few
spare parts for this set including some
bags that did not have any spare parts
whatsoever
and the sticker sheet like i said i
really feel like those stickers are
entirely optional this time around
the set is retailing for forty dollars
for zero
in the united states which gives it a
fairly
poor price to part ratio
and with the way that lego sales have
been going you know
the rate of sales of lego stuff with
so many people at home this year bored
and looking for things to do and thus
building more lego sets than ever
retailers don't seem to be particularly
anxious
to put things on sale at least
especially not with
newer sets so i don't see much respite
coming from that anytime soon that said
even though the price looks a bit high
when you look at the numbers just for
the amount of stuff that you get here
it's not that far
out of a reasonable range i would say i
wish it was like
35 so i mean 40 is not that far
yeah it's really not that far out of the
range it's not that
unreasonable this is easily 25 dollars
easily at least 25 worth of stuff right
here
the terrain build you know and then
throw in a figure or two
with the angler fish easily a 10
uh set i think for the the amount of
stuff there so
yeah we're very very close the the
the value is is just about
there take off five bucks and i'll i'll
truly be happy with it
i don't feel like anything about this
was deceptive i don't feel like anything
was done
worse than it could have been
i do wish there was a an extra little
bit of separation inside of the sub just
to make things feel a little bit more
realistic but it's really
not necessary
yeah i'm pretty happy with this i i
honestly
kind of went through a roller coaster of
emotions with this
i like stuff like this in general have
practically always for all intents and
purposes
and so when this was first
revealed to the world through photos i
was super excited about it
look really looking forward to that
especially with the new fish and the new
fish
is good and like i said it's bigger than
i expected it to be
but then when i saw there was actually a
five plus set and i started realizing
some of the parts used there i started
worrying that maybe this wasn't going to
be as useful
as as it should be to be fun
truly but now that i actually built it i
actually have it here in front of me
my opinions changed back to the good
side
and you know taking this nice
few parts clever part usage as simple as
it is
top off getting access to the interior
seeing that there is plenty of room to
do stuff there
and again i do recommend leaving off
that 2x3
red tile for maximum usefulness
just to be able to stick the anti-studs
of figurehead uh
feet down there um yeah this is good the
way that this
is able to deploy very good
the terrain nicer than i actually
thought it was going to be
not a huge fan of this stick here
doesn't really fool anybody but if you
like that feature
no more angler fish for me that was one
of my favorite things in the set too
if you like that feature don't do what i
just did do the opposite
just get rid of the the technic
arm and keep the angler i'll get that
back eventually don't worry but
again overall i'm pretty happy with this
thing you can check out the build if you
want to see how it went together it went
together fairly quickly not a whole lot
of pieces
involved here but a good choice of parts
good building techniques for a set
that's designed for the youngest
audience that lego recommends
actually use uh system parts with you
know as opposed to
duplo so overall good stuff hope you
enjoyed this and i'll talk to you again
soon
