LEGO City Fire Plane 60217 Building Kit (363 Pieces)

Great concept of a Lego city fire plane putting out fire. My son was excited to see this set arrive. It was easy to assemble for him, who is 10. The instructions were easy and pieces minimal. You get three mini figures, the plane, a couple of trees with fire, and a four wheeler with a hose. Also some water droplets legos that you can simulate dropping water onto a forest fire. This is a neat topic and learning toy for a young child. I would recommend. My 10 year old loved it.

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.

With all legos, its fun to put together and play with. Pieces are high quality. Instructions are clear. My 6 year old put it together with minimal help.

My 8 year old son got this and put it together in an hour or so. Its a great looking firefighting plane that dumps lego water on a flaming forest. Easy from an assembly standpoint and fun to play with as well.

This is a moderately easy set to put together. Some of the pieces are relatively large, such as the cockpit and tail of the plane. My 9-year-old grandson and his mother put it together in about 30 minutes. The design is flawless, just as youd expect from the Lego brand. There are a lot of details, but my grandson especially liked the water bombs that are held in the cargo area. This set is a good value for the money and great fun for the kiddos. My daughter suggests this set is for 9 years and older. Otherwise, there will be more hands-on with a parent for the assembly.

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

LEGO’s are great for kids to put together

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 son has always loved Legos ever since he was old enough to not put them in his mouth! He really enjoys building the sets and displaying them on his shelves. He is fourteen now and still likes to play with them. Legos are really timeless. People of all ages enjoy them and they are well made toys. We are very happy with this set.

My nephew had this to say: > My favorite part of it is that you can lift the flap on the plane and load the plastic water and drop it by pushing the lever. I like the car because it shoots a cannon and I like the tree because you can put a skunk in it. In short, this is a very entertaining set for those with imagination. For grown-ups, the abundance of tiny, easily lost parts may be less appealing!