Sembo 107006 Wandering Earth Cargo Truck Set Review

Hey, how's it going?  Thanks for dropping by to Its Not Lego!   Earlier in the year I watched the Netflix epic Chinese Sci-fi movie called the Wandering Earth.  

In the movie, they depicted some awesome looking transport and cargo trucks.

It wasn't long afterwards that you could find different version of the trucks as Lego style building sets on Aliexpress.  All of them are made by the Sembo brand of bricks.  I thought they really looked cool but I wasn't on planning on buying them because my brick building tends to lean towards City and Modular block sets.

But then, during this year's Aliexpress 8-28 sale, I couldn't pass up buying a set.  This Aliexpress store had all of the Wandering Earth truck sets on sale, so I decided to buy the 1446 pieces Sembo 107006 Cargo truck.  I got the set about 3 weeks later and just finished building it.   Here's my pictures from the build.

Inside my package, there was a large cellophane bag, that contained 5 smaller bags, an instruction book and a sticker sheet.  Each of the subsequent bags contained more numbered parts bags that were all matched the steps in the instruction manual.   I took pictures of the cargo truck after completing each of the steps.

The instruction manual.

 Lots of stickers.

Step #1

 All the parts for step one will let you build the minifigs and the cargo truck chassis.

There are four Lego style minifigures that come with the cargo truck.  You get one guy in a blue jumpsuit and three more figures in red space suits.  You can choose to pose your figures with either their hairpiece or helmet.

The minifigs all have backprinting.  The girl minifig has two different faces.

The truck chassis and front bumper.  Weird how Sembo starts building part of the wheel arch in step one and then continues in step two.  They could have just excluded it in step one and started to build it in step two.

A closer look at the front of the truck.  My ladder kept popping off during the build.

Chassis rear.

 I flipped the chassis over so you could see the underside.

Step #2

Step two will complete the wheel arches and start building the cargo truck cabin.

Some interior features include a bed, a cabinet with drawers and an air tank.  The lower part of the doors are hinged and extend down and outwards.

Details on the rear of the truck.

Side profile.

 Looking from back to front.

Step #3

 Step three adds more details to the cabin interior including the cockpit and extra seating.

Front windscreen and some walls go up.

Yup, this set even includes a toilet.

The instrument panel and long sloping console.

Not sure if this is supposed to be the power plant for the cargo truck.  The storage unit doors don't open because they sit too low.

Right side profile shot.

 Left side profile shot.

Step #4

 The cargo truck really starts to take shape on step four.  It includes the construction of the power plant and remaining exterior walls.

I got tired of the ladder popping off so I elevated the truck to make it easier to add parts.

Storage tank and rear struts added.

The completed interior.

There are door openings on both sides of the cargo truck.

Front view.  Looks kind of like a spaceship!

The downward facing vents look really cool.

 Another look at the front of the truck.

Step #5

The truck's giant wheels are installed and the roof panels are added in this final step.

Giant tires.

There are wheel covers that go over the red rims, but I decided to leave them off because I think the red rims look really good just the way they are.

Ok, let's get this truck on solid ground.

Here's the completed right side of the cargo truck with entry ramp deployed.

This is my favourite view of the cargo truck.

Left side view.

Rear view.

Profile view.

Left side door panel removed to allow easier egress.

Right side door panel removed.

Final Thoughts

I really enjoyed building this cargo truck.  I think it has a very unique look and looks amazing, especially the angled powerplant.  The truck is extremely sturdy and the brick clutch is excellent.  The six beefy wheels makes the truck roll very smoothly.

Things I didn't like was the interior and that included the toilet, and bed.  I mean the toilet doesn't even have it's own compartment or room, it just sits there out in the open.  Talk about total lack of privacy.  I also think the bed and cabinet are completely unnecessary.

Finally, I thought there could have been more thought placed into the design of the exterior doors to allow proper access to the truck.  I would prefer that the doors are hinged on both top and bottom to allow easier access.

Gudi 9603 Not Lego Ice Cream Truck Set Review

I just got this ice cream truck off Aliexpress.  It's made by Gudi and the set number is 9603. My Aliexpress order came super fast despite having no tracking number.  I was starting to get worried that the seller was trying to scam me, but now it's all good.  

 The manual is in the form of a booklet, with all the instructions laid out fairly well.

At the end of the Gudi manual, there is a parts list, just like Lego.  I can't recall Lepin ever doing this in their manuals.

Gudi gives you a sticker sheet to apply all the details on the ice cream truck.  Unfortunately, the colours are a bit muted.  My sheet came munched due to the soft packaging.  While I won't be using the stickers on the truck, I might use them on a future Ice Cream parlour modular moc.

Time to start building.  All of the 228 pieces came packaged in six cellophane bags.  I've dumped them all out here.

I tried to sort all the pieces by colour, but kind of stopped before finishing all the white pieces.  Anyways you can see that the primary colours are the white, turquoise blue and pink pieces.

In terms of accessories, there is a small beige and pink table with a translucent pink patio umbrella.  The set also comes with 2 Lego Friends style minifigures.
There's a male minifig with an ice cream logo on his shirt, so he would be the ice cream vendor.  And there's a female minifig whom I guess will be the customer.
An extra hand was included.  As always, the Friends style minifigs will be given to my neighbours kids.

And here's the completed ice cream truck.  It's a neat little design with the cab area accessed by two opening doors. I like the green colours of the serving window.

With the low awning and the ice cream treats in front of the window, it makes it hard to see anyone inside the truck, I think.  The giant ice cream cone on the roof, is similar to one seen on the Lego ice cream truck.  This Gudi truck is a unique design and not copied from any Lego set.

Here's the Gudi ice cream truck pictured together with the Enlighten ice cream truck for comparison.  They are both relatively the same size length and height wise, except the Gudi truck has larger wheels.  Both trucks display well in on the streets of Its Not Lego town.   The Gudi truck serving window faces the road which is very dangerous.  After I took this picture, I remembered that I modified my Enlighten truck to put the serving window on the curb side of the truck for the safety of the minifigs. Clearly, I will have to do the same with the Gudi truck.

And done!  Here's the Gudi ice cream truck with the serving window moved curbside.

If these vehicles were parked against the curb, this is how they would look like.

Here's the front view of both trucks.  Note that the Enlighten version came with printed pieces, not stickered.  The Gudi truck has a taller windscreen than the Enlighten truck. I prefer the Enlighten trucks PA system.

The Gudi ice cream truck comes with a rear window, whereas the Enlighten truck has an opening door on the back.

While I do like the Gudi version of ice cream truck, not sure if I will continue having 2 ice cream trucks in the town.  The Gudi design lends itself better to a conversion to a food truck by simply replacing the pink bricks.

I already have a fries food truck, so maybe a salad food truck?  Let me know what you think.

Anyways, thanks for looking and see you next time.

Winner 5086 Not Lego Cable Car Set Review

Hello again and welcome back to It-Not-Lego!  The Winner brand of bricks recently put out some new train sets and I decided to buy one to check the quality.

I grabbed a screen shot from Aliexpress where you can get these trains.  There are seven trains in this collection, the smallest set being about 200 pieces and the largest set coming in at over 900 pieces.

The train set that I bought is called the Winner Cable Car which is set 5086, and has 361 pieces.  I have a different idea of what a cable car should look like, so I prefer to call this a streetcar or tram.  Let's open it up and take a look.

My package included a sticker sheet and instruction manual.

There are six bags of parts.

After I finished building the streetcar, I had 14 extra pieces leftover.

In addition to the streetcar, this set includes a crossing gate and four Lego style minifigures, although their faces look a tad different.  There's a young boy wearing overalls and a baseball cap, a musician, an older guy who might be the streetcar driver, and a lady tourist with satchel bag and camera.

I almost forgot to mention that you get 4 pieces of track too, 2 straight and 2 curve tracks in dark gray.

I found that the streetcar is quite a bit larger than my other Lego style vehicles.  I probably can't change the 8 stud width but I might be able to lower the height. We'll have to see what I can do.  For now,  I made a quickie platform to make it easier and safer for the minifigures to alight the streetcar.

I think Winner did a pretty good job on the colour combination.  The streetcar's red and white scheme is complimented nicely by the yellow accents.  There's oversized lights at the front and back.

So the features of this streetcar include seating for 4 passengers plus standing room for the driver at the front of the car.  There are doors on both sides that open.  You can also flip up the roof but to properly seat the minifigures, I find that removing the side panel is easier.

My pet peeve with this streetcar is that the side panels and windows collapse easily if not handled gently.  I found that the best way to pick this up is not by the middle but by the ends.

I didn't apply the stickers, but actually it looks pretty good without them.

Brand: Winner
Model Number: 5086 Cable Car
Number of pieces: 361
Number of minifigures: 4

I give it a 3 out of 5 for this set. 1 point deduction for being oversized and another point deduction for the fragile side panels.   What do you think of the set and my rating?  Let me know in the comments below.   Thanks for looking and see you next time.