LEGO City 60265 Ocean Exploration Base

LEGO City 60265, Ocean Exploration Base, depicts an ocean exploration base with divers and specialist staff. Released in 2020, it belongs to the City theme and contains 497 pieces focused on a marine research setting.

Ocean Exploration Base is part of LEGO City, but its setting moves away from everyday streets and buildings into an underwater research environment. The model presents a marine exploration base, giving the City theme a technical and scientific subject with roles for diving, study and support.

Set 60265 includes 497 pieces and 5 minifigures. The listed characters are a male diver in a dark blue and orange wetsuit with dark blue diving helmet and visor, a male diver in a red and dark blue wetsuit with straps and gauges, red helmet, airtanks and stubble, a female diver with matching red and dark blue equipment, a female marine scientist with open white lab coat, sand blue legs, medium nougat hair and glasses, and a marine explorer in a sand blue jumpsuit with red cap and headset. The French retail title also refers to a submarine and marine animals.

The set suits builders who want a self-contained City scene with defined crew roles. It can be used for play, displayed as a compact research base, or placed alongside other City sets concerned with water, exploration and technical missions.

Inventory of set 60265

The inventory of set 60265 lists 497 pieces, spare parts excluded: 184 different lots (one shape in one color) for 152 part shapes. The box also contains 24 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 60265

Main color: black, making up 25% of the parts, followed by yellow (17%) and red (11%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 60265

126 of the 152 part shapes in this set have their own page on Setopedia, with their colors, element numbers and the other sets that use them. See all LEGO parts

Exclusive parts in set 60265

One part shape in set 60265 appears in no other set in the catalog, most often a printed element, a sticker or a mold specific to the model. If it gets lost, you will need to look for it individually, for example on BrickLink, rather than in another set. Counting colors, 6 lots in the set are not found in any other set.

No similarly sized set supplies more than a quarter of its parts: set 60265 relies on a little-shared assortment.

Size of set 60265 within its line

With 497 pieces, set 60265 ranks #144 out of 723 City sets in our database, which have an average of 306 parts. Among the 490 sets released in 2020, it ranks #112.