Not Lego Xingbao Home Furnishings - The Gym XB1401-D Set Review

Hey, welcome back!  Time for another not Lego set review.  This one is the Xingbao brand Home Furnishings series XB-1401D, the Gym.  I acquired this set a while back, but I was thinking about making a gym out of one of my modulars, and one set wouldn't be enough, so I bought another one.

A reminder that Xingbao makes their own Lego like sets but these are not cloned or bootlegs of Lego sets, so if you are a Lego fan and want to buy this set, you won't feel guilty about it.  My reviews of the some of the other Xingbao Home Furnishings series can be found here.

There are six bags of parts but not I'm not sure what the actual part count is.  There's lots of accessories as we will see later.

 Instructions to build the gym come via a two-sided instruction sheet.

So, since I bought my first Gym set and this new one, it looks like Xingbao has changed the mini-figure style.  The first one was like the Lego style and the new one has different arms and legs.  The legs on the new set already came pre-attached to the torso for the new figure, so I just had to assemble the ball joints for the arms and insert them into the torso.  Be careful though, these parts are really small.  The hands they use remind me of the ones used by Sluban brand minifigures.

So here's the gym room almost assembled.   It has a yellow tiled floor and two walls, one in dark orange and another in tan colour.  It makes a nice contrast.  There's also two windows with glass, that came packed separately in their own bag to prevent scratches.

What I really like about this set is the amount of accessories you get like this first example of  realistic looking gym mats.

Here's a cool little stool.  In case you were wondering, the first generation of the Xingbao Gym mini figure is shown here.

 A punching bag!   No gloves are included in the set though, boo.

Gotta have some tunes while one is working out, so here's a cool ghetto blaster (do they still call them that?).

 Got a hoop but no ball either, damn.

 The two bros are really flexing it with these dumbbells.  With the two figures side by side, you can see some differences in their track pants.  The older one has a black piping down his left leg, but both have the Spirit logo on their legs.

 I'm not sure if this is supposed to be a storage locker or what, but it's tall!

Nice little treadmill.  After I took the picture, I realized I used the wrong parts on the treadmill.  There are two printed pieces that make up the information console on the treadmill.  I swapped in the right pieces in subsequent pictures.

 This workout bench looks like it will do the job.  The headrest will move up and down.

A small table and mug is another cool accessory.

 Finally, The larger weights are finished in a metallic silver.  The weight stand comes in a metallic pewter finish.  Nice!

 Here's the extra parts that were leftover after building the gym.  The sticks were supposed to go on the window wall, but I added some of the surplus technic washers to make extra dumb bells.

Here are some bonus pictures of the latest minifigure showing off his flexibility.

You can pretty much extend his arms all the way out perpendicular to his body.

 Or you can bend his arms upwards.

Even walk like an egyptian, lol.

Both figures come with back printing.

This is how the complete Xingbao Gym set looks like, minus the extra minifigure of course.

 And this is how it looks like when you put two of the gym sets together.

 In the near future, I hope to build a new modular building that can incorporate all of the gym accessories into a single place, but make it look a little more cohesive and spaced out.  I've already got some extra gym worthy minifigures on order.

I really had fun with this build and can definitely recommend the set.  Hope you enjoyed the pictures and as always, feel free to leave your comments and questions in the box below.   See you next time!

Brand:  Xingbao
Series:  Home Furnishings
Set number: XB1401D
Number of pieces:  Unknown
Number of minifigures: One
Rating: 5 out of 5 for all the accessories and play value.

Xingbao Home Furnishings - The Bathroom XB01401-C Set Review

Hey there!  Welcome back to Its-Not-Lego.blogspot.com.   Today I'll be reviewing the third set from the Xingbao Home furnishings brick series, which is XB01401-C, the Bathroom diorama.

There are six sets in the Home Furnishings series, and I've already looked at XB01401-A The Study, and XB01401-B the Bedroom.  You can find those reviews by clicking on the Xingbao label on the sidebar.

Here's everything you get, about 6 or 7 bags of parts and an instruction page.  The first thing you notice is that there are a lot of pale green parts.  This colour isn't that common in the Lego world.

 Let's start building!  The baseplates consist of two dark gray 12x6 stud plates.   The flooring will be this light green tile.  The translucent bricks will be the water for the bathtub.

 Looks like one of the walls will be white and the other will be green.

 Completed the bathtub. There's a railing on the end for the handheld shower head.

 Inside the future shower stall is another shower head.

There's a bunch of bottles on either side of the bathtub faucet.  I think the sink design could be better.

In this picture, we're starting to build up the shower walls.  You can see the towel bar installed on the tub wall and a hair brush accessory too.  I tried to put the minifigure inside the shower and it was a tight squeeze, because of the middle protrusions.

The shower stall gets a door and there's a window grill inside the shower.  I would guess the green slats are for ventilation.

In this picture, we have added a fan and a new toilet.

The final pieces are put in place.  They include a mirror over the sink and some wall mounted light fixtures.  As you can see in the picture, that mirror is way too high to be of any use to the girl mini figure that comes with this set.

This is the bathtub and shower wall as seen from behind. The green bricks are sand green I think.

And this is the wall behind the sink and toilet, rear view.

 The bathroom set comes with a few extra accessories, including a small pink pail, a smaller green basket, some large lavender bowls and a blue push broom.  That's the first time I've seen it in this colour.

As with the other Home Furnishing sets, you get a small bag of spare parts.

In closing,  the Bathroom set has quite a bit of detail, in fact I think it has too much going on in such a small space.  This is a full four piece bath with shower, tub, sink and toilet.  If I had to change anything, I'd redesign the sink and lower the mirror. And get rid of the wall lighting and the vents behind the tub.  Let me know what other changes could be made in the comments section.

Thanks for looking and see you next time!

XingBao Home Furnishings - The Bedroom XB 01401-B Set Review

Hi and welcome back to Its-Not-Lego.blogspot.com.  Today, I'll be showing you the second set of the Xingbao Home Furnishings building block set.  This one is XB01401B, the Bedroom diorama.

There's quite a number of parts distributed amongst seven bags.

 In the instructions to build the Bedroom are on a large two sided and folded sheet of paper.

 This set makes use of a lot of Sand Green coloured bricks.  Here you can see the bedroom floor has been tiled and walls are going up.  In the centre is the makings of the large king sized bed with overhanging linens.  In the corner sits on of the two night tables.

This set comes with a large window and drapes on either side.  The large bed is finished off with some colourful pillows and decorative headboard.

 The bedroom diorama is mostly completed.  There's a big picture frame and clock above the bed.  My one pet peeve with this set is the uneven drapes.  One side of the drapes looks higher than the other.  This is how they look following the provided instructions.  This should be totally fixable provided I can find a few spare orange bricks.

Here's what the back side of the diorama looks like.   If you have the Lepin Green Grocer building set, this bedroom would integrate nicely into the second or third floor.

 The completed set.

 The accessories that come with this set include the mini figure in his pyjamas, his pet cat and a darth vader like figure that goes on his night table.

In summary, this set was a fun build and I'm definitely thinking about putting this bedroom into my Green Grocer.  Brick clutch and quality was very good and no missing or deformed parts.  There's a bonus pack of spare parts, but no brick separator.

 

Ok, it's time to turn out the lights now and give our friends some privacy, heh heh.

Thanks for looking!  Don't forget to check out my review of the Xingbao Study room set XB01401A!
See you next time!