My girlfriend Melanie gave me this awsome chopper for Christmas, and I Love it.... It´s nice that Lego is finally going back to what Lego used to be when i was a Kid. This Set is a must for any Town collection. Great Set!!!!!!

Yea! Swell set! It rools! I love it!

Features:

-Bouy launcher (works)

-Place to put a strecher

-Crane with winch! Yea! You can never have to many winchs!

-Searchlight

-Plenty of room in the cabin for Pilot and Co-Pilot

-HUGE rotor baldes! I mean HUGE!

-Rescue badys for mini-figs!

BAD STUFF:

-Streacher space is a little small, but worksnonetheless.

-One of the pilots face is VERY UNORIGINAL. EVERY SET HAS THIS GUY IN IT. (you know. The guy with the silver sunglasses. By now he has like, 23 jobs) ( I wonder how much money he makes...)

-Un see-through visors, but oh well. ( Ill live.)

Bye, Bye. Until NExt review.

What an awesome set to really bring out that LEGO is still LEGO. This one thankfully is what it took to break me from my Star Wars Classic daze :)

I really like the the bright yellow color scheme on this which feels balanced to me. The "new" darker gray colored pieces add contrast to the lighter gray pieces- it all looks great! The aircraft looks fantastic from any angle- LEGO particularly did a great job with the front- it looks so real. The first time I saw the box for this set, it had instantly grabbed my attention.

LEGO added some wonderful details that really put this set on top. The location buoy has it's own compartment in the back and there's a spotlight under the cockpit (reminiscent of the 6342 Beach Rescue Chopper) for instance. There's also landing gear attached to the pontoons and on the bottom of the fuselage, so that the chopper can easily taxi when it has landed on solid ground. The landing gear by the way is perfectly balanced, so that the model does not tip backwards, etc., and rolls smoothly. Also worthy to note, the winch mechanism folds back towards the fuselage for extra streamlining during high-speed manuevers. Storage chests behind each side of the cockpit hold extra equipment needed for optional configuration of the winch and stretcher (stored in the center of the fuselage) for other types of recovery roles.

Another BIG scorer on this set is the dual passenger cockpit. The cool orange mini-figs sit side-by -side (without their arms touching each other)- this is a huge rarity in any LEGO set, not just helicopters. Heck, not even the 4504 Millennium Falcon, which is like 5x bigger, does that! Even cooler still, the engines above the cockpit are actually hinged, so that they raise up when you need to access the cockpit (no need to take any parts off, aside from the windscreen).
The cockpit is also furnished with a cool looking instrument panel (first appearance?) that folds back so that mini-figs can jump into their seats at a moments notice.

To finish things off here, the main rotors spin effortlessly (it's a helicopter after all, so they better!). They are mounted solidly to the fuselage, so you can spin, spin, spin all you want without worries of the roof coming off during a mid-air rescue attempt. This set could easily be modded for air/land-superiority roles as well.

The devil is in the details, and this set is a scorcher. At just $20 US, LEGO has raised the bar on price vs. features to lofty new heights with this exciting rescue chopper.

NICE RESCUE CHOPPER!!!!!! After what I hope was the end of the juniorization age, We can see some improvement in helicopters. Atleast the two rescue ones out so far. I'd expect 20-25 USD. I especially like how this one seats two people side by side. One thing missing, a stretcher.

This is a really good helicopter. Whoever Chris is, why in the heck would you rate a set a 1/10 because it has too many stickers. Were you in a bad mood or something. Think pal, geez! &%#&*.
I tok this chopper out into the rain alot of times and it was great. Even in a big storm I did and it was so cool. It once broke a little bit but who cares, probably from ware and tare. Well, the Coast watch is cool and this is a really cool helicopter. Atleast it looks real Chris! I hope you all read my review, if you did then thank-you.