This set is a great set to have and also a great set to add to any LEGO city. It has lot's of stuff, like a truck, a helicopter, a car, two garages and a main building. The build of all the models in this set is very easy, and we also don't get any stickers to worry about. The windscreen of the helicopter opens very easily and the blades sviwel a full 360°. The car has a container on the back on each side which opens. The truck has a container on each side which opens as well and on the back is a hose and a ladder which you can slide out. The ladder also sviwels full 360°. The garage with the number 1 has some accessories and an antenna, and it also has a bridge which you can attach to the garage and to the main building. The garage on number 2 has a platform for the helicopter and some accessories as well. This building also included a bridge which you can attach to this garage and to the main building.

The main building has a mailbox, a tree and a flower on the front and on the top you can see an antenna and two flags. The inside has an office on the first level and on the second level we get another office. Both offices have computers and the office on the first level also has a cupboard which you can open very easily. As I told you in the beginning: It's a great set to have for sure.

All in all, this set is a great set and I would HIGHLY recommend you to get this. You can find this set on eBay and BrickLink for sure. Here is the link where you can check out the full gallery I made for this set on my website: www.klokriecher.de


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I got this for somme christmas ages ago & loved @ the time. It is really cool & in 3 sections with a helicopter pad. I prefer the old cars with doors & lights. They are a lot bigger & more detailed. But if the cars were changed then this set would be amazing. A lot better in my oppinion. But yet i still gave this set a 5. I like all the accesories, like the axe, oxygen tanks, chain saw & the oxygen mask. i like the mini helicopter but i think it should have been red not yellow.

All in all a great set good fun to play with. 1 of the best sets from the late 90's apart from the Res-Q sets. A good fire station.

this set is not half bad the fire truck is small but but you can make it bigger the car is small the station is small but this is pretty good the minifigs are cool and i like the chopper it might be small but is a one man copper

This is a very important set in the history of Lego. From then on, sets were terribly simplified, and that was the first of these. The company reacted badly to the downturn in demand, and this determined the design of the toys for years.

The assessment of the set would have improved a lot if it has been categorized as appropriate. It ran under a Town theme (and later "City Center" theme) but it didn’t turn out to be a junior set. Previously, other more detailed Town sets were already available for 5-year-olds.

Had the theme been called "Junior City Center", everyone would have been more understanding (except for the price of the set)

There wouldn’t have been anything wrong with (which makes me specifically annoyed) that there aren’t normal-sized garages for vehicles if the sets name is "Mountain firefighters" or "Volunteer firefighters." Because sometimes even in real life, firefighting vehicles are stored outdoors, such as in bushfires in California, Greece, or Australia.

So just by clarifying the theme and the name of the set, the Lego marketing department could have avoided a lot of misunderstandings.

There would have been fewer frustrated children. Like me at 8 years old.

As the 1994 fire department set ran out, only this set could be purchased, there was no higher age range fire station set.

What’s most annoying is the large built in vehicle chassis. It could have been solved with a 4x12 plate and a 2x10 brick. It would not have been more expensive, but how much more elegant, and even the wheelbase of the wheels could be changed. This is unfortunately typical of the entire late 1990s era. And the printed headlights, of course. :)

But that's only 50% of the problem. The other is the price. Lego sold this set for almost as much money as another set of many parts and more detail. We only get a few large parts for this set, with very few rebuilding options and no alternative construction.

This will unfortunately happen even in 2020. The 2020 police headquarters will cost the same at Lego as the 2017 version, in every market/region. While the 2020 police set consists of far fewer components and is also smaller. In January 2020, all 2 sets were available (Lego store and lego.com) at the same time, at the same price. Funny. No, it’s not funny, it’s really sad, especially since Lego isn’t in as much financial trouble now as it was in 1997.

I hope Lego does not make this mistake again. But in 2020, Lego took the name of the Junior theme again and put the junior sets under the city theme, called 4+. I hope they know how they do it.

Mediocre at best. This was my first Fire station set. I was 20 when I bought it. Very disappointed with the pre-made walls. You can practically count the # of pieces that are in this set from looking at the front of the box. I understand it's a "junior" set, but at the time I really wanted a fire station for my collection, and this was all that was offered.