Lumibricks F9043: Police Patrol Car Review

Today we review Lumibricks Police Patrol Car. Note that Funwhole is now called Lumibricks. First, check out the whole Lumibricks store on Amazon. It's hard to pass up on these, if you can find a genre you like.

As a self-admitted LEGO Fanboy, I didn't know what to expect with Lumibricks. As you can infer from the name Lumibricks, they are illuminated. I have some experience with lights for LEGO sets - I think sometimes they are nice. But they are always after the fact. I build the set, then am like, "Hmm, maybe lights would be nice." With Lumibricks you have the lights from the start. This does make Lumibricks skew towards older age groups. Some of the lighting stuff is tricky - lots of little wires and wire routing.

But today, our first review of Lumibricks set should assuage all fears. Lumibricks are definitely contenders. They have great sets in multiple themes. The bricks don't feel much, if any different at all than LEGO sets. They're less expensive and they light up. You can't really go wrong with Lumibricks.

I purchased several sets in the Cyberpunk Neoncity Lumibricks line up. Currently the Game Stack build is in progress. A review will come soon for that one. But I wanted to get a review out for something smaller, so here we are.

To start off, the Lumbricks boxes are top notch - dare I say better than LEGO. They are tuck in flap boxes that really helps when you end up putting the box in the closet and don't want everything spilling out. Also, the instructions are much more 'solid'. They are legit booklets with glue spines. You do see this on bigger LEGO sets, but not these small ones. Although, I generally use the LEGO app for my LEGO builds - which Lumibricks lacks.

The builds proceed similarly to LEGO. They come with bags, and you follow the instructions. Not much to it.

At the end of the day, you're left with a light up police car, with barricades, and a minifigure. I would estimate similar functionality from LEGO would be around $55.00. I do think there is even more value as you move up in piece count with Lumibricks. For example, the Lumibricks Cyberpunk Floating-Train-Station and Couture Galleria Building Set comes in at approximately 5400 pieces. A LEGO set of this size would be at least $500.00.

Go and get some Lumibrick sets - especially if you're buying for older children and adults.