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Police Speedboat and Crooks' Hideout is great value for a City set

$34.99 MSRP 311 pieces 3 minifigures 3.8 / 5 from builders #17 of 213 City sets with 200–499 pieces 20 × 19 × 12 cm built
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86 of 100

Great value

#17 of 213 City sets with 200–499 pieces

Police Speedboat and Crooks' Hideout scores 86, great value among 213 City sets with 200–499 pieces. Its strongest point is contents per dollar, better than 89% of them, and its weakest is minifigures per $100 (77%).

#17

Chart 1 · Among similar sets

Where it sits among 213 City sets with 200–499 pieces

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86

Chart 2 · The score

How the 86 is built

Each bar is how the set ranks among similar sets; the ink line is typical (50).

Contents per dollarPlastic and pieces per dollar, with each minifigure counted as $2 of contents, compared with sets of a similar size
83 pcs/$10 · 162 plastic better than 89% +67 of 75
Minifigures per $1003 minifigures for the price
8.0 per $100 better than 77% +19 of 25

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Quality · a separate score

How builders rate it

Not part of the value score. It ranks the builder rating against sets of 200–999 pieces from every theme.

  1. 13.8out of 5 from 46 Brickset members
  2. 23.87after adding 30 ratings at the average for sets of 200–999 pieces (3.97), so a few early ratings can’t dominate
  3. 335out of 100: rated higher than 35% of sets of 200–999 pieces

$13 less

Chart 3 · The price

Is the price fair for what’s in the box?

Sets with its pieces, plastic and minifigures usually cost about $48. Each brick is $5.

$34.99
you pay

$48
sets like it usually cost

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