LEGO 1998 / Town Sets

In 1998 LEGO released 64 Town sets across 13 subthemes. The largest Town set from 1998 was 6479 Emergency Response Center with a piece count of 423 and a retail price of $59.99. The current estimated value of all these Town sets from this year is about $4,631.14 which represents a 632.4% growth.

LEGO Town was one of the LEGO Group's core themes which was based on town life and included sets such as emergency services like police and fire and civilian sets such as cars. LEGO Town incorporates many subthemes, which focus on a specific area of Town such as airport, artic, city, divers, flight, rescue, space and various others.

1998 LEGO Sets

In 1998, LEGO released several new sets and themes, including the LEGO Star Wars theme, which was based on the Star Wars movies and featured models of characters, vehicles, and locations from the films. This theme was extremely popular and helped to boost LEGO's sales and popularity. 1998 was also the year that LEGO introduced the LEGO Mindstorms theme, which was a line of sets that allowed users to build and program robots using LEGO bricks and a computer.