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Fire Station
Fire Station
Posted:March 1, 2017
oconnor0
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Advanced LEGO builder
Overall:
2
/
5
Disappointing...
" So I like this fire station. The working fire pole is great. The garage doors are awesome. It comes with a good assortment of vehicles.
But.
My son had a hard time building it because it kept falling apart. And it kept falling apart during play. The base plates are 4 squares (which is a great idea), but this means that the garage for the engine is built from two separate base plates that have to be attached. The pieces used to attach them are minimal and don't do a good job of keeping the garage together. It also unnecessarily increased the difficulty of the build on carpet. This is exacerbated by the fact that the garage structures have little structure to them. They are basically a series of poles built out of 2x2 blocks. The poles don't stand up to much force at all before falling over or disconnecting from the roof. There are a lot of places where it seems simple enough to add interlocking pieces, but those aren't done. This would increase the strength of the set so that it is usable in play. The revolving door (which I love) is not well built. There aren't enough connections around it to hold everything in place. The same goes for the angled connectors between the three wings (again, brilliant idea, but poorly executed). I kept having to reattach them for my son until I rebuilt the whole set to be sturdier. If this was a "display" piece, I might not care, but this isn't a display set and moving and playing with the buildings in this set became unfun.
I hope this set gets redesigned with a little more strength in the build.
"
From: Colorado Springs, CO, USA
From:
United States
State:
Colorado
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Advanced LEGO builder
Purchased For:
Son
Build Time:
04
hrs
Play Experience (Optional):
1
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
3
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Average
Very Easy
Very Challenging
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