Kazi Fire Station 8052 Building Block set Review (not Lego)

 I wasn't sure what to expect with this Kazi 8052 Fire Station.  I had previously built two fire vehicles made by Kazi and was overwhelmed by the smell of gasoline from both sets.  Luckily, this 300 piece set did not smell.  Also, I was impressed that the bricks fit together very well.

This set comes with two fire fighter mini figures and an emergency vehicle.  This fire station is part of Kazi's Fire Fight series.

This is how the assembled set looks according to the instructions.

I wish there was an instruction booklet instead of the one page sheet that was provided.  This is the front of the instructions.

Here's the second page of the instructions.

These are all the pieces that you get.  Ignore the light gray piece, somehow the lego plate got into the picture somehow.

Building the supports.

Cool little computer and mug.

Completing the first floor.

The garage bay with working roll-up doors.

Building the second floor of the station.

Two storeys done.  The door slides.

The third floor.  Another computer station.

Completed fire station - rear view.  See the water cooler on the second floor?

Completed fire station - front view.

Notice anything different? I rebuilt it so that it's the mirror image with the garage on the right side.

Mirror image build - rear view.

Nope you're not seeing a reflection.  I bought two of the Kazi fire station.  At some point in the future, I'm going to merge the two buildings into one.

Brand: Kazi

Set: 8052 Fire Station

Number of pieces: 300

Would I recommend this set? Yes.

Qiaoletong TS10100-05 Not Lego Security Guard Set Review

Sometimes you need to control access to your brick buildings, so here is a small set that contains a security guard and lift gate.  It's made by this unknown brand called Qiaoletong and has 27 pieces in total.

As you can see I already made some changes to the set.  I thought the security guard face was too tough so I switched to a friendlier face.  

The security guard has a walkie-talkie and a baton to wave traffic through.

The lift gate is black and yellow. I changed the base block also.

The lift gate stays up when you open it.

Here's the other side of the lift gate.

You get a little instruction leaflet.  This is the front.

And this is the back of the instructions.   You also get some stickers but I didn't put them on.

Brand: Qiaoletong

Set:  TS10100-05 Security Guard

Number of pieces: 27

Minifigs: 1

Would I recommend this set?  Yes but it's only worth about a dollar.  Don't pay anymore for it.

Wange 51013 Police Helicopter building block Set Review

Today's block set review is for the Wange 51013 Police Helicopter.  It comes with two and a half mini figures and a total of 206 pieces.  It's a 3 in 1 set which means you can build it 3 different ways.

This is the smallest helicopter brick set that I own.  It's only got room for one mini figure inside it, but they don't have any hatch or opening top to put the figure inside.  I'll talk more about the mini figures later.

The helicopter is white and blue predominately, with a turquoise windscreen.  The chopper blades swivel and flip up.

Here's the bottom view.

And here's the top view.

It comes with two ladders on the side and a searchlight on the bottom.  It also has a side mounted camera on the left side of the unit.  There are three printed pieces, the nose says Police, the tail says 03 and the cockpit instrumentation.

The set also comes with a mini car and an Indiana Jones like figure, don't ask me why.

You get a police officer and half a pilot. Yes, only the top half, although they could have given you the whole figure.  Pretty pointless.

Here's the two main figures.  The torsos are nicely detailed on both of them.

The figures are not lego compatible.  Their heads are square and the legs are molded differently.  

Plain backside of the police figure.

Side view of the Wange mini figure.

Here's the police figure in relation to the helicopter.

This is the version of the model that I built.

You can also build it as a police plane.

The third model is some kind of police snowmobile I would guess.

They give you a lot of spare parts to build the three different models.

Here's how the front of the instruction manual looks like.

I don't think this set is a knockoff of a Lego set because I couldn't find any Lego police helicopters that look like this model.  Build quality is decent enough.

Brand: Wange

Set: 51013 Police Helicopter

Number of pieces: 206

Mini figures: 2 and a half.

Would I recommend this set?  Yes, except for the mini figures.