Vacation and leisure
Vacation and leisure is a recurring subject featured in Town and City as well as other related themes and subthemes, but was never a proper theme itself. This subject sometimes intersects with food and drink, houses or sports-related sets.
History[edit | edit source]
Apart from classic action-packed town-subjects such as Police or Firefighters, LEGO also portrayed the more relaxed and lighter sides of townlife. The first Town set remotely related to recreation was 6390 Main Street from 1980, which included (the construction site of) a hotel. In the following years LEGO started to extend the Town theme with sets of houses which mostly happened to be holiday homes as indicated by their names. The first of these sets was 6365 Summer Cottage, released in 1981. Another holiday home followed in 1983, accompanied by the release of a camper in 1984. More houses and recreational vehicles were released over the course of the following years.
In 1992, LEGO introduced a new playtheme that was specifically targetted towards girls, Paradisa. Paradisa sets were mainly focussed on leisure and vacation, often depicting scenes at the beach and including various vacation sites, such as 6416 Poolside Paradise, 6418 Country Club or 6414 Dolphin Point. While Paradisa continued to run until 1997. LEGO Town ceased to include any proper leisure-themed sets after the release of 6552 Rocky River Retreat in 1993 and started to focus more on Police, Firefighters or construction sites.
New sets related to vacation and leisure did not appear until the advent of the new City line in 2004.
Related sets[edit | edit source]
Holiday homes[edit | edit source]
- 6365 Summer Cottage (1981)
- 6374 Holiday Home (1983)
- 6370 Weekend Home (1985)
- 6360 Weekend Cottage (1987)
- 6388 Holiday Home with Campervan (1987), same as 1472 Vacation House (1987)
- 6349 Holiday Villa (1988)
- 6592 Vacation Hideaway (1990)
- 6552 Rocky River Retreat (1993)
Vacation sites[edit | edit source]
- 6390 Main Street (1980), contains a hotel
- 6543 Sail N' Fly Marina (1994), contains a yacht club
- See Paradisa for more sets
- 2870 Paradisa Barbeque
- 6401 Seaside Cabana
- 6402 Sidewalk Café
- 6403 Paradise Playground
- 6405 Sunset Stables
- 6409 Island Arcade
- 6410 Cabana Beach
- 6411 Sand Dollar Café
- 6414 Dolphin Point
- 6416 Poolside Paradise
- 6417 Show Jumping Event
- 6418 Country Club
- 6419 Rolling Acres Ranch
- 6489 Seaside Holiday Cottage
- 6547 Fun Fair
Recreational vehicles[edit | edit source]
- 6694 Car with Camper (1984)
- 6590 Vacation Camper (1988)
- 6351 Surf N' Sail Camper (1992)
- 7639 Camper (2009, City)
