Geez, we're digging deep into Town Junior at the moment, aren't we? I still think the vague design of the building is understandable, but the whole thing is still hideous.

And one thing I never understood about Town Jr. The buildings and cars are made of gigantic single-use pieces that you clump together in thirty seconds, which was the point of the whole line ... but they still kept the fiddly little one-by-one plates and tools and flowers and things.

Ugh...I'll keep it simple this time. Set 6571. Flame Fighters. Look it up, and that should tell you enough about how abysmal this Blaze Brigade is.

Every fire station Lego made before and after this one was better. Like way better in every way.

Wasn't this featured on "Random set" just a few months ago? It got some pretty scorching comments then too.

Lol! "Blaze Brigade"

Wow. They couldn't get anything right back then could they? Not content with turning out this travesty of a set they then go and festoon it with a ridiculous name! I suppose the kids probably thought it was cool... maybe...

And the piece count! 255 pieces is only a bit more than the average city vehicle sets of today. Glad things have improved!

Awesome set! That fire truck has no driver!

Don't think it was ever called blaze brigade in the UK. We didn't get the goofy names for a while, everything was just called something sober like "Fire station" or "Cargo Port" or "Speedboat".

Well, it has baseplates. And all the decorations are prints.

^ That's true. I opened a Speed Champions set, today, and the sticker sheet (with 700 stickers) was crumpled to a fine mess, half the stickers had already peeled off. I love stickers.

That's one of the worst helicopters

About the only good thing to say about the Town Jr. sets, IMO, is that some of the printed pieces look pretty good and would be a nice complement to a MOC of a similar-themed building. That said, the printed pieces do not justify my trying to collect sets like these...

Back then the set designers must have had to build the most amount of buildings and vehicles with the fewest amount of pieces possible... Challenge accepted and met with this one!

For those commenting about the Town Jr. sets ... methinks this reflected the philosophy of the company at the time ... create quick-build, easy-to-build sets to appeal to younger children so they can play. The age targeted seems to tell me that they thought kids wouldn't tell the difference or care.

One can even imagine Lego commercials of the era: The increasingly complex sets that kids build into completely unrecognizable monstrosities that lead to nothing but utter and total frustration, but then presented with a simple, easy to build set the kid is happy and gets to have all the fun in the world with these sets.

To a 5- or 6-year-old, these sets might have worked. Thing is, most of the previous Town/City sets were being purchased by 8-, 9- and maybe 10-year-old kids -- if not by adult builders who used these in displays -- who were able to (some with some work and thinking) build accurate representations of these sets.

Good thing we have the current line of Junior sets (which have plenty of city-themed sets) to complement the more complex City sets (for older kids and adults).

Poo brigade

I made the mistake of buying this one, I only wanted the ladders, and the best bit of it was the helicopter landing pad.

Sold it a few years ago for £1 on eBay, says it all really.

Back in the day I had a choice: to buy this using my savings, or save some more for 6598: Metro PD Station. Glad that I chose the second option. But anyway, I think this set is OK.