LEGO City Fire Plane 60217 Building Kit (363 Pieces)

great set and amazon had the best price anywhere. grandson LOVES it

Durable and well manufactured. Definitely not a cheap piece of equipment. Works as intended.

The LEGO City Fire Plane is a great addition for the city set. It is easy to build the plane with the enclosed step-by-step instructions. I like that the instruction involve clear pictures that indicate which pieces are needed. I like that my kids can build the LEGO by themselves. The sets are well made and of the usual and expected quality from LEGO. The Fire Plane has so many fun details including little fires in the trees. It comes with a pilot and a ground team that can drive the included jeep. Its a great tribute to those brave fire fighters who battle forest fires and protect people and structures. This set would make a great gift to anyone who collects City LEGO, or is a fire fighter or wants to be a fire fighter.

This set is a bit pricey, but overall has great play features. For example, the fire on the tree can be removed easily to put it out. Water can be dropped from the plane. It has 3 minis and 2 vehicles and a lot of specialized pieces (probably why the price is a bit higher).

The plane itself is worth the cost of the whole box. It was a gift for my son, and he loves it. While he can put together more complicated sets, this was a good challenge for him. He did it in about an hour or so. The water droplets shooter is especially clever and cool. This is still played with often; even today, I hate to pick this up from the floor and its been a month or two since it arrived!

LEGO is well known as unparalleled quality, and this set lives up to all expectations. It’s so detailed and it sets imaginations free with playability. Typically, my son LOVES BUILDING these sets, but some times the play fizzles out after that. Not the case with this set, it has a wonderfully fun “water” feature that dumps LEGO “water droplets” on pretend fires from the belly of the plan. With this kid, it’s brought a new level of imagination and fun to his existing LEGO city, now buildings get set ablaze, and the fire and police are quick to respond. It’s added hours of replay ability to his other sets. Quality: A+ Design: A + Price: B Overall: A

The Good: -Incredible detail and design -Semi challenging build that will keep your kid occupied for awhile -Comes with little car along with airplane -Drops “water bombs” The Bad: -None The Bottom Line: This is our 6 year olds favorite airplane out of all the LEGO planes he’s built. He especially likes dropping “water bombs” out of the cargo hold to put out fires. The design is awesome like most LEGOs and he just loves flying this thing around the house. It’s also great that it comes with a little truck so that he can drive it around the couch also. The build is a little challenging for a 6 year old since there’s a lot of pieces but he broke it up and completed it over a few days. Overall, I would recommend this LEGO set.

Most kids are going to be super happy with this set, the essentials of which comprise a water bomber, a jeep with a water gun, and little wobbly clumps of fire that you bomb and shoot. That really is about all most people are going to care about. You probably cant go wrong with the set. Design-wise, the set is very simplified, with generous use of large one piece bricks (e.g., a giant cockpit piece, a giant tail piece, and so forth). If you care about Lego as a building experience, this is not the set for you. Youll be done with it in 15 to 20 minutes. I would have much preferred if Lego had designed the aircraft along the lines of some of their Indiana Jones aircraft (e.g., sets 7198 and 7628). In some ways the aircraft are a bit clunkier when rendered in bricks, and they fall apart a bit more easily, but youre not left with a City aircraft that looks just like a bunch of other City airplanes and helicopters. They are more distinctive and more fun to build. As to accuracy, the water bomber approximates the old Canadair CL-415. I appreciate the use of squared-off wing tips, just like the CL-415, but the Lego version could have done with wing fences and more elegant floats. The cockpit is all wrong, and the tail could have been made more accurate with the use of bricks rather than a three piece assembly. The giant sloped pieces on the wings are okay; at least you approximate an airfoil. I would have liked some attempt at retractable landing gear. The CL-415s gear is not terribly complicated and it would have added one more key play feature. I do like the use of blue flames as bomb-bay doors. Very ingenious. I also like the use of the bright light yellow bricks, an uncommon color that Lego could deploy more widely to good effect. This is not the first fire bomber set Lego has produced. They had a similar set, 4209, available from 2011 to 2013. It, too, had a one piece nose and simplified tail design. This new version does better with the wobbly flames (better for shooting/bombing) and includes the new water gun on the jeep. I think the new version is, overall, an improvement.

Age range: This is recommended for ages 6 and up. I got it for my son who is right now just about a month shy of 6. He is not very mechanical but really likes Legos, and in general I will get him small sets of up to 400 pieces for days when school is closed (his dad works from home), so hes done Legos before. For this, he blew through making the small fire truck, then kept trying the plane a bit at a time over several weeks. After about 3 weeks, I finished it for him. Im not sure whether this was the complexity of the build that was a problem for him, or whether he has limited privacy and space because he has younger siblings. I know a big stall was that as soon as he finished the fire truck, his younger brother who is 3 really wanted to play with it, and that was a bit of a distraction. For this set, I think maybe go a bit older for the child to put it together independently, but if you are helping them then 6 and up is a great age. Age range for playing with the set: The completed set is actually a toy that you can play with. The fire truck has a water launcher, and you load small blue discs into it, then launch them. They go up to 4 feet, but also are small enough not to really hurt anyone or break things. The 5 year old (almost 6) and 3 year old both were into loading and shooting little discs. Obviously, the little discs get lost. They are the little single dot round discs, and any lego sets with a gun or launcher will have the same shaped piece (and it will also have gotten lost). Then, the plane has a compartment that you fill with the big blue semicircle pieces that you can see on the box cover in the product pic. Then you flip a lever to dump these out. So, the plane fills up with water and drops it on a fire. This plane is more versatile, because you can put other things into it as long as they are a bit smaller than a marble. Both young boys liked playing with the plane, dropping water, and making up stories. When they play with it, either the planes wings or the tail tend to fall off. For the tail, they are able to reattach it easily and keep playing. For the wings, they sometimes try to put those on backwards and have trouble. The firetruck doesnt tend to fall apart and is pretty sturdy for play. The trees fall apart, but are easy for the boys to put back together. Overall, it can be used as a toy and holds together well enough for kids to play with, but just has to be kept on a shelf or something rather than tossed in a toy box. One of the Lego figures with this comes with an axe and the kids were really excited about the axe when they played and made up stories. Im not sure about the versatility of this set combined with other sets. The plane has a few larger pieces to hold it together (the fewer larger pieces also helps younger kids to be able to build something so substantial). Most of the individual Lego pieces here are basic blocks or larger pieces specific to the plane, and there arent any individual pieces that seem really cool to reuse in other sets. On the other hand, even in the basic blocks many are a decent size and not teeny tiny. Overall, Id say this set is better for building to a toy, then playing with the toy, as opposed to building, then rebuilding into new things. Thats a combo of the toy being good and of the big structural pieces being very specific to the plane.

My 9yo is a LEGO pro, basically. He took a little over an hour to complete this set and was fascinated (as ever) with the movable features. He really liked the water-dropper on the underbelly of the plane. The trees have a Minecraft-esk feel to them and add a nice touch. It has now joined his LEGO land.