Mork 031051 ToonCity Florist Set Review (design by LetzPlay)

What's up brick fans!  I'm back to show you the latest not Lego set in my collection.

Today, I'll be reviewing the ToonCity Florist shop.  The Florist shop is part of a series of building sets designed by the group LetzPlay, composed of 5 brick enthusiasts in Malaysia (according to their Facebook page).  They have collaborated with the Mork brand to produce their sets.

As of this post, there are a total of three sets in the Mork ToonCity series;  the Florist (031051), the Fruit Shop (031052) and the Town House (031053).  

A big thank you to Afobrick.com for supplying me with this set to review.  You can find the Tooncity Florist shop along with many other not Lego building block sets on their website.  They offer great prices and superfast shipping.

The ToonCity Florist Shop is a colourful and whimsical building set.  It features many bright colours and a lot of  play features which the kids will love.  This set is quite large at 2102 pieces, enough to keep them busy for days.  The set is recommended for builders age 6 and up.

For those who want to see the set contents and the build pictures, I've posted them here for you to see (coming soon!).   The Tooncity Florist measures 30 × 19.5 × 25 cm and is Lego compatible, meaning that you can interchange the building blocks in this set with your Lego bricks.  

The Florist shop has lots of curves, curved entrance, curved windows and even curved roof.  The predominant colours are the turquoise roof and orange accents on the roof, doors and windows.

From the pictures you can see that there are unique details on every side of the florist shop.  Every wall has a window you can peek into.  

Did you know that the roof comes off?  You can actually remove both parts of the roof and look inside.  Let's check it out!

Here's the interior of the Florist shop.  There's a curved brown door which you enter into what looks like a storage area.  There's a sink for washing up and a table and ladder.  That's odd, how does one get inside the shop?

Here's the surprise, there's a secret door that turns.  Only those who know it's little secret can enter the florist shop.

Inside the secret room, is a menagerie of plants! There's lots of flowers and specimen jars for the budding botanist.   And a giant tree is growing right inside the shop.  It's home to several tropical birds.  Can you find one of them in the picture?

On the opposite wall is another workbench and more flower specimens.  When not tending to the plants one can sit in the big comfy chair and watch their favourite shows on the TV.

Here's a neat trick, the TV actually lights up if you press a button on the outside.

Unfortunately the TV does not stay lit up unless you keep the button pressed.  Luckily, we got some help from a small friend.   

Can't forget to mention the two giant flowers on the roof.  Wow they must be mutants to grow so big.

Another great play feature is that you can rotate the flowers round and round by turning the knob in the roof.  Surprise your friends!

Here's another tropical bird that comes with the set.  Normally he's perched inside but we took him outside to get some sun.  That's the nice thing about this set is that you can move things around and put them where you want.

Need to water those plants in high places?  No problem with the handy ladder that comes with the set.

If you are still wondering about the size of this set, here's the ToonCity Florist next to the FunWhole Wood Cabin, I built not too long ago.  It's just a tad shorter because it only has a single floor and a roof, whereas the FunWhole cabin has a raised foundation and a second floor loft area.

Final thoughts

The ToonCity Florist shop was a nice build and would be great for kids because of its play value.  There are three printed pieces in the whole set and thankfully no stickers.

It should be noted that this set comes with way more flowers than I've shown in my pictures.  There are literally hundreds more flowers that I didn't add to really customise it.   The Mork brand brick quality is top notch and I had no clutch issues in putting the set together.  Mork also provided lots of extra pieces in my set.

I will note that the large curved roof piece might need the assistance of an adult to put together.

The one drawback I had with this set, and a big one at that, is that it did not include any minifigures with it.  You do get two tropical birds, if that's any consolation. I added my own minifigure to the pictures to give you a sense of scale and showcase the set's features.   I would imagine that you could add your own, but for the price of the set, I think they should have added one or two little people.   For that reason, I will deduct half a star and only give it 4.5 stars out of 5.

If you like what you see, you can get it at Afobrick.com.  And don't forget to use discount code ITSNOTLEGO at checkout for another 5% off the price!

Thanks so much for spending your time on the read, hope to see you back real soon!

Not Lego GM Ultralite MOC-42421 (designed by Rolling Bricks)

Hey All!  I found this interesting little model on Aliexpress a few weeks ago. Thanks to Reddit user th3st0rmtr00p3r for helping me identify this vehicle as the GM Ultralite featured in the movie Demolition Man.  This not Lego vehicle was designed by Rollingbricks, whose instructions can be found on Rebrickable as MOC-42421.

I'd say that this car is about the same size as Speed Champion models based on the tire size.

The car is six studs wide but the windshield is only 4 studs wide.  The front appearance looks like one of those self driving electric vehicles.

Very interesting concept to have this wrap around back panel that hides the rear wheels.

If I could, I'd replace the red light with a trans-red piece for the taillights.

One of the cool features of this model is the swing up gull wing doors on both sides.

Interesting blue light on the roof, is it some kind of Lidar?

I kind of wish the door design used clear windows instead of these black and trans-black bricks.

According to the designer, this vehicle can fit two minifigures inside it.

The instructions from Aliexpress for this model were on 2 sheets of paper which looked like it had been photocopied.  The model number on the instructions is M1721.

I tried searching for Speed Champions but could only find one store on Aliexpress that has this model, so it will probably disappear soon.

Anyways, that's my blog post for this week!  Enjoy and see you soon!

Pantasy 81101 Spirit(Ling) Cage Incarnation Build Pics

Hi and welcome back to It's Not Lego, my blog where I review the latest not Lego branded brick sets.  In this blog post, I'll be giving you a detailed look at the steps I followed to build the Pantasy 81101 Spirit (Ling) Cage: Incarnation set.  

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To see the completed set pictures, please part one of this post here.

The build consists of seven steps, although it's really only six steps because the last step just assembles the minifigures that are included.

Step 1.

Step 1 is comprised of 5 bags of parts.  As per the instruction manual, Step 1 builds the platform on which the rest of the structure sits and all the "plumbing" underneath it.

Opening all the bags, the majority of the parts are dark gray coloured.  We also find the Pantasy brick separator in step 1.  Want to guess how many pieces there are?

The platform is assembled by connecting several technic pieces together.

Here's the platform flipped over so that we can attach the cloud layer to the underside.  Nice conduit detailing around the perimeter of the base.

Printed tiles around the bottom.

These are the leftover pieces from step 1.  There's enough parts to assemble another cylindrical tank.

Step 2.

Step 2 uses seven bags of parts to construct two container homes.

Parts separated by colour, sort of.

Interior of the first container dwelling. Looks to be a workbench with tools, worklight and shelving.

On the other side is a bunk bed with a secret cabinet to hide beverages.  I remember this was shown in the anime, although I forget which episode.

Some sort of machinery with opening lid gets attached to the side of the beige coloured container dwelling.

With the remaining wall panel and door added, it can be seated to the base.

In the brown container, there is another bunk bed with a desk and a small cooktop with large metal pipes behind it.  More printed pieces, a computer monitor and a family photo on the bed.

Placing the next container onto the platform.  I like the red pipe extension with wheel crank.

Here are the leftover/extra parts from step 2.  The baseplates will serve as the roof pieces in the next step.  A random hotdog appears in this step, lol.

Step 3.

Five bags of brick pieces for step 3 builds the olive green container.

Parts unpacked.

Some cool conduits run into some of kind of power unit.

A heavy metal door and controls for the power unit are located on the outside. As this container is exclusively used to manage power, there's no bunk beds inside this one.

The baseplate pieces from step 2 are combined together to form the single roof that covers the three container units.

There's only a narrow alleyway to access the other two container units.

Viewing the containers from a different angle.

Here are the extra brick pieces after completing step 3.   Also show are extra embellishments for this level.  There's another control station, a ladder to the second floor, a telescope and perimeter barricades.  The first level is now complete, time to move on to the second level.

Step 4.

Step 4 adds two additional container units to the structure using 6 bags of parts.  Step 4 will also finish detailing the second level with accessories.

We see some cool printed pieces after dumping out the parts.

A unit for storage of tools and other items.  Here's where the missing 1x1 round tile was supposed to go.

The sand green container with bedding and supplies.

After placing the two new containers, the next step was adding in all the boxes, piping, wiring and signage that make up the second floor details.

More leftover pieces after step 4.

Step 5.

Six part bags for step 5.  The final container unit to build, this one in sand blue.

Mostly gray and sand blue pieces. 

The last container dwelling houses another 2 occupants based on the bunk bed.

Some exterior details.

A crane for lifting heavy objects to the different levels.

Leftover parts from Step 5.

Step 6.

Step 6 sees only 1 bag of parts.

These parts make up the overhead girders.

This part of the instructions was really useful as it helped me to precisely adjust the technic connector to the correct position.

Assembling the girders.

Parts leftover from step 6.

Step 7.

The last step saves the minifigures for last.

This set comes with six minifigures, but they can't be considered as Lego compatible because the torsos and arms are a different design.  One might be able to swap out the heads and hair with Lego compatible versions.

I found a screenshot of the minifigures.  Lowborn or dust people don't have names, only numbers, hence the only two highborn characters are Mark and Ran Bing.

Mark.

4277.

4068.

4079

0609

Ran Bing

I think I counted about 90 extra pieces leftover.

That's it!  Hope you enjoyed all the pics!   Bye!