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LEGO City Rescue Helicopter from LEGO
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Minimum Age: 5 years
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Our Editorial Review
Product Description Fly to the rescue! By sea or land, the rescue helicopter is always prepared to save the day! Equipped with a stretcher and fully functional winch, the rescue officers are ready to handle any situation. Copter rotors really spin, and cockpit and doors really open! Includes civilian and 2 rescue minifigures. Includes working winch for airlifting patient!
Editorial Review Save the day on land or sea by flying boldly to the rescue! When someone needs help in Lego City, the emergency rescue team is ready to race to the scene. This 245-piece set contains everything that the included mini airborne rescue workers need to jump into action. Rush through the air on spinning rotor blades or hover overhead to coordinate ground crews. For dangerous spots, lower an emergency worker and stretcher to those in need, then use the working winch to lift them all to safety. When it's time to come in for a landing, the helicopter gently rests on three rolling wheels. Functional doors on the cockpit and sides allow easy access to supplies and personnel, while the rear door lowers to accommodate the stretcher. Included emergency tools attach to the helicopter or store neatly inside. An instruction booklet includes detailed color diagrams for assembling the helicopter, which measures roughly 12 inches from tip to tail. Once assembled, the helicopter provides plenty of opportunity for imaginative play, but rough handling will likely ground the chopper for repairs. This playset may be combined with other Lego City sets (sold separately) to create a custom Lego metropolis. --Heather Lyndon
Editorial Review Save the day on land or sea by flying boldly to the rescue! When someone needs help in Lego City, the emergency rescue team is ready to race to the scene. This 245-piece set contains everything that the included mini airborne rescue workers need to jump into action. Rush through the air on spinning rotor blades or hover overhead to coordinate ground crews. For dangerous spots, lower an emergency worker and stretcher to those in need, then use the working winch to lift them all to safety. When it's time to come in for a landing, the helicopter gently rests on three rolling wheels. Functional doors on the cockpit and sides allow easy access to supplies and personnel, while the rear door lowers to accommodate the stretcher. Included emergency tools attach to the helicopter or store neatly inside. An instruction booklet includes detailed color diagrams for assembling the helicopter, which measures roughly 12 inches from tip to tail. Once assembled, the helicopter provides plenty of opportunity for imaginative play, but rough handling will likely ground the chopper for repairs. This playset may be combined with other Lego City sets (sold separately) to create a custom Lego metropolis. --Heather Lyndon
Customer Reviews
I Guess I Miss The Point Posted 28 February 2007
PROS: Very cool toy/model for a 12+ with extra time on their hands.
CONS: Too many microscopic pieces to count.
Very little room for open play.
Requires extreme caution playing with it because the propeller and other pieces fall apart at the slightest breath.
Not appropriate for under 7, at least.
First just let me say that my son loves the Lego Duplo blocks and spends hours creating all kinds of different designs with them. He has been begging for the "big boy" Legos, and I have been turning him down, pointing out the recommended ages on the box, (knowing that I would be picking up infinite numbers of tiny pieces throughout the house for the next 18+ years). The ages they put on the box seem to be purely arbitrary, based on this particular toy. A well-meaning relative decided to bless him with this present on his 5th birthday. (I will be seeking revenge as soon as they have children.) I spent the next several hours constructing this nightmare, which in and of itself defeats the purpose of a building toy, in my opinion. I have no idea where they have the idea that this is appropriate for a 5-year-old, given that it was a challenge for me to put this together. Given the amount of microscopic pieces in this toy, one has to wonder who designs these things and if they have children of their own. So much of it seems purely sadistic.
When the helicopter was finally assembled (and I warned him that that was the one and only time I was putting it together), my son spent some time playing with it, only to be constantly frustrated by the fact that pieces were constantly popping off, particularly the propeller, and this was with very gentle play.
Bottom line, if you have a child under 10, they would probably have many more hours of play if you just bought a lot of inexpensively priced Lego blocks (of various types) that they could make into all kinds of different designs. These expensively priced City lines and the like are really neat once built, but then it's just like a very fragile model. Once you've spent the time constructing it, you really don't want to take it apart, so I'm not really sure why you would buy this over a traditional model. I guess I miss the point.
Another outstanding project from Lego Posted 17 January 2007
I have two girls - 4 & 7, and they absolutely loved building this Lego kit. They played for hours with the working (manually - not motorized) crane / winch and the construction worker became "Big Bad Bruce" !!!
Not one to play with Posted 16 January 2007
I helped my five-year old assemble this, and, like most LEGO directions, it went together well...unfortunately, it doesn't stay together...when he tries to play with it, the tail section falls off or it breaks in the middle...not as easy to put back together once it's come apart...it's proven a real disappointment...
Great piece Posted 11 January 2007
My son is 11 and loved this. He was very proud when he built it by himself. It is very detailed and has movable parts so that you can also play with it (gently of course). This is the type of piece that is great all by itself without getting all the other pieces in the series. It is also a classic piece in that it doesn't have a cartoon or charter theme.
Too delicate to be played with Posted 09 January 2007
My 5 year old son is just beginning to get into the Lego models. He plays fairly gently with the models, but still, little pieces do break off and need to repaired from time to time. No biggie, repairing is part of the fun. But this helicopter is way more fragile than his other models, and it's getting pretty frustrating for him.
On the other hand, he would rate this model very very high in the "coolness" factor. He loves the working rescue winch, doors, stretcher, and 3 guys. Lots of play value if it would just stay together better!
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