Lepin 02047 Not Lego City Service Station Set Review

Hey there, I'm just doing a quick post of my Lepin 02047 Service Station building set.  This set is  a knock-off of the Lego City Service Station set 60132.

This Lepin set has 540 pieces and comes with 4 original looking mini figures, a lady driver of the maroon coloured sedan, two service station employees and the driver of the street cleaner.  I was very pleased with the minifig quality.

I ordered my brick set thru private seller Jeremy whom I found on Reddit.  This is my 5th purchase with Jeremy.  My set arrived about 3 weeks after my order request.

The Lepin service station instructions can be found in this thick booklet.  It has  instructions to build the service center as depicted on the manual cover and also alternate instructions to build a small car wash and service bay.  Although I didn't use the stickers, I found them to be of excellent quality.

The bags are numbered according to the instruction manual steps, one thru five.  Step one builds the sedan and the tow truck.  Step two builds the street cleaning vehicle. Steps three, four and five build the service station, the interior, the pumps and the overhead awning.

Here's a look at the maroon coloured sedan.  In the alternate instructions, the vehicle becomes a convertible instead of the sedan.  I should point out that I swapped out the wheels that came with the set with the wheels from a Bela brand armoured truck

The two truck has a lifted suspension and a working tow hook.

The sedan conveniently has bars in the front and rear that allow the tow truck to hook it up.

The street cleaning vehicle has rotating brushes in the front and has a shovel and broom as accessories.  The rear of the vehicle lifts open where you will find a brown storage bin.

Moving on to the service station, it has two sections, one is the office area where you pay for gas and buy some minor supplies, and the other part is a rest area where you have two seats, a table and a pizza.  I put together the outside sign, but it doesn't look like much without the corresponding stickers.

As mentioned earlier, this is the store with some products on a shelf and a cash register.

And this is the seating area.  There's no back wall which makes it easy to play with.

The service station as seen from the inside.

A charging station and roof lighting is added to the exterior, along with a ramp.

The gas pump is fairly detailed with hose, nozzle and payment terminal.  Without the stickers, it doesn't look as realistic as the pictures.

And finally the service station with awning attached.  Following are a few more views of the Lepin service station, completed but no stickers.

Final thoughts

Although there's over 500 pieces, the Lepin service station is not that big a set.  The sedan is big enough to seat two minifigures, but I find the two truck a bit on the small side.  Here it is next to the Lego Tow Truck 60056.

Here's the street cleaner compared to the Enlighten version that I reviewed awhile back.

The service center has a nice design but with a few more bricks could easily be converted into a larger modular building.  I would strongly recommend using the provided stickers to add more realism to the set.

My Lepin set also came with a brick separator, a small bike and a bag of spare parts.  The retail value of the Lego service station 60132 is approx $90 USD.  The Lepin 02047 version ican be found for about $20 USD on Aliexpress, with free shipping. 

Everything was excellent about this set including the price, so for that reason, I give it a top score of 5 out of 5.   This set would definitely be a nice addition to your brick city.   As always, thanks for visiting Its Not Lego and See you next time!

Lepin 02034 Not Lego Cargo Port Terminal Set Review - Part Two

Welcome back to my Its-Not-Lego blog!   In this second part of the Lepin 02034 Cargo Port Terminal set review, we will look at the cargo truck, the cargo pier and the cargo port crane.  If you missed the first part of this post, you can find it here.

Cargo Truck

The truck itself isn't ground breaking, it's pretty much a standard vehicle you can find in most of the Lego and clone sets.

These are some pics I took during it's quick construction.  I think there's too many colours going on. They should have made the truck just blue, just red or just yellow, but not all three.

 The cargo truck cab has a steering wheel but no seats or doors.  It does get small side mirrors though.

Here's the assembled truck and driver.

 The instruction manual tells you to make the cargo truck yellow container look like this with the indents facing outward.

 But, I prefer the container on the truck to look more like this.  Now let's move on to the next component, the cargo pier.

 The Cargo Pier

The cargo pier is an easy build.  The frame  above is basically covered with a large flat grey piece that makes up the pier.

Here's the entrance gates and ramp to the pier.

Yup, you can close the gates at the end of the working day.  There's a small traffic light that tells you whether you can proceed.

There's a small guard station that you snap into the pier.

Accessories for the guard station include a tool rack with broom and shovel, a garbage can and some tank.  There's a control screen inside the station presumably to monitor the activities at the port.

Here's the remainder of assembled pier that is comprised of the two large road pieces.  The Lepin pieces are a bit soft and there's yucky plastic extrusion dimples on each piece.

Check it out!  This cargo pier is really long.  It pretty much spans the length of my little building setup.

You get this fisherman minifig with the cargo set.  It took me awhile to thread his fishing pole and wind the string around his reel.

I made a little chair for him to sit at the end of the pier, out of the way while we build and install the next component, which is the gantry and crane.

The Gantry and Crane

Another straight forward build, the gantry and turntable.  I was thinking how cool it would be if it had wheels on the bottom that could roll along a track on the pier.

For now, it continues to be a stationary gantry.  Easily mounted onto the pier.

At this point, I was focused on building the control cabin and the crane attachment so I didn't stop to take pictures during it's construction.   Needless to say, I was running into some problems with the finicky parts that wouldn't stay together.   Specifically, the two 1x4 bricks pictured above.  Once you attach the crane pieces, those two pieces would pop off due to the weight of the crane and lack of clutch power.

Ok, so I switched out the 1x4s and tried this solution instead.  At this point, the crane did not topple over.  Yay!

The crane operator was pretty happy about that until ....

....  I tried lifting one of the containers with the crane and this is what happened.  The crane still popped off the control cabin.   Urrrgh.

Back to the drawing board, I decided to use some Sluban bricks (you can tell, because their shade of red is darker).  Their clutch is better for some reason.

Here's a rear view shot of the crane where I used the Sluban bricks.  In case you are wondering about the two knobs, the lower one controls the cable length, which you can reel out or reel in.  The upper knob controls how high or low you want to adjust the crane arm.

Here's the crane arm in it's highest position.

And here it is in the lowest position.

Alright, this is much better.  The crane successfully lifts up the container without falling off.

Final Thoughts

The Lepin Cargo Port set definitely has a lot of play value.  I can see hours of fun driving the cargo truck onto the pier and off-loading the huge cargo ship with the giant crane.  I wish I had a big table so that I could integrate the cargo port with all the modular buildings into one large layout.

To review, the Lepin brick quality was acceptable except for the scuffed ship hull.  All the clear pieces such as windshields and windows were individually wrapped to prevent scratches.  I had some problems with the brick clutch on the crane portion of the set which I subsequently resolved.   Minifig quality was excellent and I didn't see any flaws or errors in the bootleg versions.

I didn't encounter any missing or broken parts in this set (other than the hull that probably got cracked during shipping).  Lepin included an extra bag of small spare parts, which I think they've started to do on all of the newer sets.

From a design perspective,  there should have been more than the three cargo containers in the set.  I took the cargo containers from my Ausini freight train set and added them to this set.  I also found the bridge structure (I think it's called a castle?) to be a bit small, and if you take a closer look at the top picture, you will notice that I completely rebuilt the bridge and castle of the cargo ship.  I'll make a bonus post in the near future to take a closer look at the changes I made to the cargo ship.

So just for fun, I decided to scour ebay to see what a new original Lego 7994 Cargo Harbour set costs today.  I found about 8 sets ranging in price from mid $400s up to almost $900 USD.

If I had to rate the Lepin Cargo Port set, I would give it 4.5 out of 5, knocking off half a point for the poor brick clutch in the crane.   Well, that's my review, hope you enjoyed the pics.  As always, thanks for visiting Its Not Lego and See you next time!