WishaLife 554pcs City Police, SWAT Set, City Police Station Building Sets, City Sets, Police Set for Boys Gift (Contain 8 Minifigures)

Pro: good quality, low price, and better manual instruction than lego'sCon: misleading picture - the big truck and the station pull all the pieces from the smaller sets. Also figurines are not included.At this price for 1100 pieces and with quality on par with lego brand, I find it a damn good bargain. I finished 8 out of the 9 manuals and the pieces in the bin picture shows how many pieces are left. At that point, I didn't find any missing pieces for the ones I completed, but there were obviously no more packs to open for the last manual. I contacted the seller and they explained that the 1100-piece makes either the 8 smaller sets or the 2 big ones (the last manual), apologized for the confusion and sent me another set altogether.Overall I definitely will recommend this to anyone not brand loyal to lego. They look good and feel the same as my lego ones. BUT FOR 1/6 OF THE PRICE!

Overall, this was a good buy for us, as the kids it's for are 4 and 5. They can't really assemble by themselves yet and since this is an early set in their likely long brick building stage, they will end up being filler pieces over time.However, with adult help (including an engineer), the projects in this bucket are still nearly impossible to assemble.We're going to start with organization. There's a loose nonsensical organization system.For each project, there's a number. That number corresponds to multiple bags of parts and multiple sets of instructions. The bags and instructions are labeled like 6-2, 6-5, 7-2, 3-2, 3-4. Note how I didn't say 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. Yea, there might be 3 different 6-2's that go to project 6 and 2 different 6-2 directions out of 5 different bags that start with 6 and 3 sets of instructions for project 6. You'd think this mean certain parts correspond to different instructions or something. Nope. They basically just sectioned various parts needed for project 6 into 5 separate bags without any real scheme behind it. We've solved this by combining all of project's 6's parts into one bucket of parts and dig through to find what is needed. It's not how it should be, but whatever. Also, there are missing parts, extra parts. I know that sounds like we screwed up the instructions, but even disassembling and reassembling with parts for each step separated into baggies, there are still both extras and missing.Next let's talk about the instructions themselves.Don't know how to read? No problem! There aren't any words anyway. Instead there are pictures. The instructions in this set are almost like building Ikea furniture. If your furniture came with over 1100 pieces in a poorly organized and incomplete sets. It's almost a game really, will this project have all its pieces? Nobody knows!Even more fun, most of the pieces are black, white, grey, and blue. But in the diagrams, the pieces change colors from one diagram to the next, whiting out the "done" areas. Which sort of makes sense, except the delineation between connected bricks disappears and you're left with essentially a white shape with an outline and an overlay of the additional bricks to add. You get super skilled at rotating the works in progress until you find the match for the ever changing perspective that this diagram happens to use. Got mad skills and super shape shadow matching skills? You'll be a boss at this.The stickers. For the love of all that is holy, just know don't put any stickers on any project until they are all done. There are stickers that are literally the same thing except a millimeter of size difference and that difference matters. You'd know of course exactly where they went if they came with any sort of labeling, but they don't. So wait until the end (of ALL the projects) and measure.The little guns aren't labeled, but with the gun knowledge of your average huntinggrandpa you can sort out what goes where.There are instructions for minifigures that are not included. Haven't really sorted that one out yet.The bricks are high quality and stay together well and work well with other brands of bricks as well (tested this specifically).1) If you're looking to add 1100 bricks including specialty pieces, this is the bucket of bricks for you.2) If you're looking to give the gift of insanity, this is the bucket for you.3) If you're looking for a relaxing project of police themed brick building to do with your brick loving children, this is NOT the set for you.Unfortunately, I was looking for the 3rd, but ended up with the first 2.

I had fun putting this together with the kids but I didn't realize that it only makes 6 vehicles..plane helicopter boat 3x cars.. or you can use the pieces to make the big mobile command center.. bummer.. so we made the 6 vehicles..using the builds plans we built the command center using the leftover decals pieces and our own legos. Still a great deal though. Also a bonus it comes with some accessories for minifigures.. guns radios cuffs masks.. but no minifigures included..

 The bucket is full of lego! My boys were so excited! Thank you amazon for the speedy delivery! The manual showed kids how to build them and it is a great choices of police cars and helicopters! Boys love those models!

I wanted to save some money and got the police station and police cars for Christmas. It is so much cheaper than LEGO, but I realized you get what you pay for. The pieces don't fit together as smoothly. It's tougher to fit together and pull apart and the cars fall apart pretty easily when my son plays with them and we keep having to reassemble, but have to be careful it doesn't all fall apart when we try to push the pieces in. The instructions show 8 people to assemble, but the package did not come with people and the description did not advertise minifigures being included. Then it would be nice to not have them in the instructions. It feels like you were cheated 8 minifigures. My son still plays with it, but it's fragile. The station itself is better off since it is stationary. But it was a pretty stark contrast to the LEGO set he also got that fit together smooth as butter and was a solid piece of work.

My son loves cars, especially police cars and fight trucks. He can play cars for hours non-stop. And for his age he is kind of genius to play puzzles. I had been looking on Amazon for some toys that he is interested but also offers certain challenges. Then I found this one. Those pieces don’t look easy. I think as a toddler he definitely needs help from parents. But he looked so excited!! I am planing to spend a day on this weekend to build a nice car set with my little one who obviously can’t wait!!

Looks and feels the same as Legos. There seems to be missing pieces for the truck since I was not able to continue building the truck. Customer service was quick to rectify the issue.

All in all, this set is pretty sweet. I bought it for my 6+year old and we put it together. The Legos come in numbered bags, but the numbers aren't referenced in the instructions, so you have to open them all. I strongly recommend sorting by color to make locating pieces easier.Assembling was pretty straightforward with only a few times the instructions weren't clear. Perhaps my biggest complaint is that the actual design of the assembly is very weak. Where the vehicles could be made stronger by interlocking blocks, the instructions don't and as a result certain sections of the large truck are very weak and fall apart quite easily.But for the price compared to legit Legos, you really can't beat it.