Gudi 9215 Not Lego Fire Truck Set Review

 Hey, welcome back, it's been awhile since I last posted.  I've got a whole bunch of building block sets to review.  Today we will look at the Gudi 9215 Fire Rescuer block set.  I ordered this set from Aliexpress back in February and finally got it last week (middle of May).

This Lego compatible set has 431 pieces. Here's all the pieces after I removed them from their bags.  There is a small sticker sheet for the fire engine.  There's also a useful transparent blue brick separator tool.

Four minifigures come with this building set.  Three of them are firemen and a male minifig who has a defective arm.

Unfortunately he got two left arms and is missing a hand.  I can replace his hand, but don't know if i can replace his arm or not.

All the firemen are laughing and making fun of him, so cruel.

Gudi skimped on the back printing of the minifigs.  They could of least printed the hoodie on the back of the yellow figure.

Yellow man's house is on fire, Help!  This building has lots of windows and doors and accessories, like a ladder, a lamp post and telephone.

Go ahead, just jump and we'll catch you.  Not sure if one can trust these firemen.  They don't even have a net.  I guess it's a good thing that there's no back wall on his house.

Um, yellow guy doesn't want to jump out of his flaming house.  Bring in the ladder truck please.

Despite so many different storage areas and cubbyholes on the fire truck, somebody forgot to bring the life saving equipment.  Got lots of fire extinguishers, though.

Check the back of the truck, maybe we got some equipment there.

Nope, sorry.

Try the other side of the truck.  Darn, so much room but all empty.

Ok, guess we will have to deploy the ladder.  Luckily the Gudi design is pretty good.  The turntable swivels around smoothly and doesn't fall off like the ones on Kazi brand blocks.

The main drawback with the ladder is there's no extension piece.

As you can see, the ladder can pivot quite high and is very sturdy.

 Ok, let's see if we can douse the flames with our water gun.  Um, Mister yellow man, you can just try to climb down the ladder in front of your house if you don't want to get wet.

Before I forget, the roof of the fire truck comes off easily to access the cab compartment.  Funny design though, the fireman doesn't get a chair, he has to stand to drive the truck.  The hose reel tucks back into the firetruck when not in use.

 Here's that sticker sheet that comes with the Fire Rescue set.

Final thoughts:  This Lego compatible set is a Gudi exclusive design, I think.  There's lots of play value in this set with the small two storey building and the fire truck that has so many different features.  I like the swivelling ladder and the fire hose and reel.  The truck comes with lots of storage, but not enough equipment.  You do get some fire extinguishers, a shovel and a walkie talkie though.
The fire truck has the Lego like rims and tires which is also nice.

The only minus is the defective minifigure I got.  If there's one improvement, I would make, it would be to add a ladder extension.  I paid about $10 USD for this set but the normal price on Aliexpress is about $20-30 USD if you search for Gudi 9215.  I think the store that I bought from made a pricing mistake.

 Well, that wraps up my review of the Gudi Fire Rescuer building block set.  Hope you liked it.

Brand:  Gudi
Model:  9215 Fire Rescuer with Building and Fire Truck
Number of minifigs: 4
Number of pieces:  431
Price paid:  about $10 USD from Aliexpress

Lele 79216 Not Lego Star Wars T-16 Skyhopper Set Review

It's time for another bootleg brick set review here at Its-Not-Lego.  This one is the Lele brand 79216 Star Wars T-16 Skyhopper which is a knock-off of the Lego set 75081.  

The set consists of 246 brick pieces and two minifigures, a Skyhopper pilot (not sure if it's supposed to be Luke Skywalker) and a Tusken Raider.  You also get a rat accessory which is supposed to be a womprat.

The set came with six bags of parts, one instruction booklet and a sticker sheet.

Here's a look at the two minifigs.  The Skyhopper pilot has a two sided head, the other face doesn't have a visor on it.  I don't know why, but the Tusken raider looks more goofy then threatening.

Here's the base of the Skyhopper.

Building the giant wing.

Test fitting the wing onto the base of the skyhopper.

I was disappointed that there's not much of an engine on the back.  I wonder if I should make up some kind of engine in the near future?

Adding the flaps over the cockpit.

Front gun attached.

Wings added with spring loaded shooters.

The skyhopper pilot inside the cockpit.

When you lift up the flap you can access the cockpit and the storage box in the rear of the vehicle.

Front view of the T-16 Skyhopper.

Rear view of the Skyhopper.

Last thoughts:  The Lele bootleg of the T-16 Skyhopper is an exact copy of the Lego version.  Brick clutch was excellent but the glass panels were scratched.  The minifigs had good printing but I don't know if I like the Tusken raider figure that much.   Of the 246 pieces, I didn't encounter any missing or deformed bricks, but I didn't get any extra pieces either.  The spring loaded shooters were good and didn't fire off by themselves.

As far as the design of the ship, I wish it had a bigger engine and it's hard to hold onto making it less swooshable.  Now that the Lego T-16 Skyhopper set is retired,  it sells for about $45-50 USD on Amazon.  The Lele bootleg sells for about $17 USD on Aliexpress, but I got mine on sale for about $10 USD.   Thanks for looking!

Brand:  Lele

Model: 79216 Star Wars T-16 Skyhopper

Number of pieces: 246

Minifigs: 2

Lepin 15001 Not Lego Brick Bank Set Review - Part Two

Welcome back to Its-Not-Lego.blogspot.com!   In this post I will finish reviewing the Lepin Brick Bank modular building set.  In case you missed the first part of this review, you can find it here.

In my previous post, I finished building the first floor of the bank and laundromat.  I modified my set by exchanging most of the sand blue bricks with white bricks.  Now we will start working on the second floor of this establishment.   

The second floor basically has three sections;  the staircase leading up to the banking assistant's desk, the bank manager's office and the atrium of the banking center.

The exterior walls of the second floor were white, so I didn't have to do any more brick substitutions.

Pictured above is the second level ventilation shaft which sits between the assistant's area and the bank manager office.

The windows go in for the manager's office.

The manager's office with all the furnishings put in place.  The manager's office has floor to ceiling windows that look out onto the bank mezzanine.  

Here's an overhead shot of the manager's office.  He has a large desk, a table lamp and office chair.  He's also got a small cabinet with an owl statue on it and a guest chair.

I was thinking about changing the green wall to white but then figured the office needed some contrast so i left it as is.

Hmm,  what kind of bank fees can I charge today?

The office assistant's area is pictured above.  She has a desk with a lamp and computer on it.  I'm not sure what the machine is supposed to be in the corner.

The second floor of the Brick Bank's exterior is almost complete.

Here's some views of the second floor as I rotate it 90 degrees each time.

You can see that there's another staircase, this one goes to the roof.

This view shows the open area above with lots of windows.

Last look at the interior of the second floor.

The corner clock is installed. I really like the design.   The police woman doesn't come with the set.  She's just doing her rounds.

The support beams for the roof are in place.  I encountered a missing white brick piece that I had to substitute with my own piece.

This is the giant chandelier that hangs over the bank branch.

I was trying to figure out how to take better pics of the chandelier, so I quickly rigged up these temporary supports to hold up the roof.  I should point out that the Lepin crystals kept falling off the chandelier, so I poked each of the chandelier arms into a glue stick and then re-attached each crystal to secure them.

Look up, look way up.

Continuation of the  brick bank roof.  

Roof opening for the skylight.

Here is the completed roof of the Brick Bank.

I also was short one pulley piece and I don't have any extras of this unique part.  I had just enough to complete the roof detailing but not enough for the winch.  At some point in the future, I will probably modify the roof to remove the winch altogether.

The completed Lepin Brick Bank.  Too bad there's no signage to identify the bank over the front entrance.

Here's the other side with the Laundromat entrance.  The third missing piece I discovered was the 2x3 arch brick that is supposed to be displayed as a laundry machine above the front door.  I made due with just a regular 1x3 brick instead.  

Instead of using the pair of blue pants above the awning, I substituted a red top instead.

The Lepin Brick bank is now the seventh bootleg modular building to be added to It's Not Lego town.  I enjoyed creating the bank.  Luckily the three missing brick pieces didn't hinder the experience too much.   Thanks for looking!