IKUPER Ideas Lighthouse Building Kit, Display Model Set
IKUPER Ideas Lighthouse Building Kit, Display Model Set for Adults to Build, Office Home Décor, Collectible Gifts, Creative Activity for Men, Women, Boys and Girls Ages 8+ (1016PCS)
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Mini Castle Building Set
| Dimensions: | 21 x 14.5 x 31 cm; 1.03 Kilograms |
| Model: | I92197 |
| Material: | Plastic |
| Colour: | multicolour |
| Pack Quantity: | 1016 |
| Batteries Required: | Yes |
| Batteries Included: | Yes |
| Age: | 8 years and up |
| Assembly: | Yes |
| Dimensions: | 21 x 14.5 x 31 cm; 1.03 Kilograms |
| Material: | Plastic |
| Quantity: | 1016 |
Enjoyable Build
We enjoyed building the lighthouse. Some of the ways in which pieces are put together are a little “non-Lego” but it was an enjoyable build and the finished lighthouse looks great.
Review: 07/12/2023
This is an excellent model to build, however there are things you need to be aware of.
Firstly the manual is ok, it does give good visual instructions, however I found on a piece that is flat with 3 studs it has 2 vertical studs there that go outside the brick, is also one that is flat the same length that has studs vertically below rather than the one above. There is one spot in the manual, where you need the one with the raised and the next has the studs below, however the diagram shows a large image of ‘above’ but doesn’t have another image for the change over.
I had 2 long flat pieces which was an 8 stud flat and a 6 stud flat, but they were left over and after checking the area that I thought they were used I could not see where I missed them from.
A friend has had problems with the missing spindle for the base cogs, however customer service is excellent, tracking is provided immediately via Yun, but be prepared to wait 2-3 weeks for delivery.
I had none of the above issues, apart from the 2 left over pieces and the usual tiny pieces that are duplicates and not used.
I got to bag 3 to do the LED bulb, but when I removed the paper strip, the bulb failed to light (due to one battery acid corrosion, however as stated their customer service is excellent, and they replied immediately and shipped a new brick/bulb which will would be 2-3 weeks delivery. The listing says under product details on Amazon that 2 x LR44 included, however they are NOT LR44, but LR41, which are smaller and hold more power. I had already ordered LR44, but have now had to order new LR41’s even though the LR44’s are due to arrive today. The LR44 are larger than LR41s so make sure if your batteries are dead or fail order LR41. I have requested Amazon to change the details, I managed to clean the existing batteries and they work now and they can be changed if they eventually go flat (there is a small screw underneath), the seller (or Amazon) have updated the listing to use LR41, sadly disaster struck as the metal contact where the worst green corrosion was , caused the metal contact (its just a springy metal plate) snapped at the piece with the opposite contact, so they won’t reach each other, so I have to wait for the new replacement bulb.
When fitting the bulb, make sure the the brick with no spindle hole faces down the lighthouse to the base, and the black brick supplied with the + fits the spindle. This leaves the bulb + access facing the roof, which is where the roof of the lighthouse connects with its + spindle.
To operate the the lighthouse, you have to (1) turn the disc on the base of the model in the direction of arrow and (2) press the roof down to light the LED, there is NO PERMANENT OFF/ON for the LED. Remember this is NOT the full size model like its ‘counterpart’ so its not motorised, and you have to turn the bulb on its spindle manually.
– Full update to follow with pictures once the LED is working –
Very nice se
Very nice quality of bricks, went together easily and created a very sturdy structure. The manual spinning mechanism isn’t great, it’s slow and a little janky. The light up part is very cute and overall ita very nice. I’m not sure if 40 was a good price for it though.
Not bad set. Works well
Great set. Works well. I’ve put mine out in the garden as there’s no decals with this set
Easy enough to make. Not massive but decent size
Looks really good when a motor is attached as the light spins round like a real lighthouse.
Only use motor during the evening before bed and bring motor in to stop damage. Motor is from a Lego set that you can buy on here.
All in all. Not a bad se
Resolved: Missing pieces and light block not working
Update: Eventually found out how to contact seller through Amazon & they have sent me the missing pieces & a working light block. Can’t fault the seller’s customer service.
Started building this and there were missing pieces in the first bag.
The light block also doesn’t work.
Would have been a great build if everything present and working
There are around 40 tiny pieces left over, BUT there are also at least 6 larger pieces missing from the set / bags.
I bought this because I collect lighthouses. I thought it would be an interesting item which I could spend time building. But unfortunately it is very annoying to find out that whilst there are loads of tiny pieces, which are not needed and are I assume ‘spare parts’. There are larger pieces that are missing from the bags. From set 1 (the sea and base) there are 3 pieces missing, at least 1 of which is structural, from set 2 (the island) there is 5 pieces missing, and from set 3 (the house and lighthouse) there are at least 5 larger pieces missing, most of which are at the rear of the lighthouse and rear walls of the house.
For the price I paid I would expect that all the pieces would be in the bags These points being made, I did enjoy building it and as you can see, it does light up. Though I wish there was an easier way to turn the light on and off than physically taking it to pieces to pull the light block up so it’s not activated.
Edit: The above issues have been resolved at no expense to me by the seller. Their customer service is excellent.
Adorable!
The kit includes everything needed to build a beautiful lighthouse, including detailed instructions and all the necessary parts. The pieces are well-crafted and fit together perfectly, making the building process smooth and rewarding.
Once assembled, the lighthouse makes a stunning display model that is sure to impress. It is perfect for home or office dcor, and also makes a great gift for collectors and creative individuals.
I highly recommended this product for anyone who enjoys building models or engaging in creative projects. It is well-designed, high-quality, and offers hours of engaging fun.
I’ve wanted the Lego Lighthouse since I saw it advertised but I couldn’t justify the 260 price. If I’m honest I was a bit dubious about this set as it looked good but was over 200 less!!!
The previous reviews all seemed positive but they were Vine reviews so I’m always a bit skeptical! Still I thought I would give it a go and hoped it would be okay.
The set is EXCELLENT!
The instruction booklet is very clear, just like the leading brand, and the pieces fit together well. You even get a tool for separating the bricks if you go wrong. This is often not the case with imitation sets so I was very pleased. If I’m honest I did have two pieces that weren’t formed 100% but it didn’t affect the set and I could hide them too.
The lighthouse is smaller than the Lego one and is more of a display piece rather than a set that can be played with but that suited me. In fact I prefer this set, particularly because of the price, but the open book design is great too!
I would definitely recommend this for AFOLs!
Great cheap alternative to popular brand
A really nice model set, in which all the bricks fit nicel together and feel just like the branded version. Sometimes with these imitations the bricks can be harder to connect or colours are off, but not the case here. Box is small considering the numebr of pieces and might be a challenge to squeeze it all back in, but otherwise very happy.
More for me than the kids
The end result of this kit is really pleasing. The lighthouse has a working light and turns round (by hand, no motor).
Obviously a copy of a well known brand of building bricks but a fraction of the price and not lacking in quality so a win all round. Bricks fit together well, The only slight downside is that some of the colours of bricks are very similar.
Made with my 4 year old who obviously needed guidance with this, but would be suitable for an older child to do on their own too.
Decent build
This is a great building set which is really fun to build. It is a much cheaper version of another popular brand but is still great quality. The finished product looks great and is fun to play with or use as a model. The instructions are clear and it is a decent length build.
Great value for money!
Long build time, but looks grea
If you like building Lego kits or puzzles you should enjoy building this IKUPER lighthouse. I’m sure this could be built in 5 to 8 hrs, but I have just been doing 3 to 4 pages of the instructions each time I come home from work.
So far, I haven’t had many problems following the instructions, I think the colours could be a little clearer. All the parts are good quality. I haven’t completely finished as yet, so far there hasn’t been any missing parts unlike my last Lego kit. In places it’s quite fiddly but that’s what makes it enjoyable. When it’s finished it will go in my display cabinet, I will post the final picture on a review update.
Overall, this is a great lighthouse block building kit and at a much lower price than the big brand.
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great building se
Got this for my middle grand daughter (8 years old) as she loves to build and make things.
This set did not disappoint, she was occupied from opening the gift to finishing building it, following the clear instructions very well with only a little input from her mother.
My only negative regarding this set is that the light itself didnt work initially but with a little help from me we got it to work properly.
I do think these sets are always expensive but in comparison this is a good value set.
definitely recommended +++AAA
Good for some quality time to spend with your kid
We haven’t finished it yet and I assembling with my 7 years old son. He finds it difficult to do it alone and I don’t mind to help becaI love lego styled games.
The lighthouse is like 1/5 of the branded version and I think it is a really well made copycat.
So far we are doing great, the description is quite good and the parts are made from quality plastic.
There was only one piece that was sort of bent however it was in the middle of the construction so there was no problem with that either in the end.
Super happy with it!
'Leggo' your preconceptions and make the light choice
Really good value kit—exceptional at the price if you don’t mind an off-brand product. The design is similar (but not identical) to a kit from the most popular building block brand. Some nice details—a ‘story book’ base, a treasure chest and barrel. No mini figures but you get a cute seagull.
Excellent- took ages though!
This is very cool.
The lighthouse is great looking and lights up.
It has many many pieces- so is best for an adult or older child.
If they like to build then they will like this!
Looks good and is a reasonable price
Not-Lego lighthouse.
An affordable take on Lego kit 21335, about half the size and without the motorized revolving light – the light on this one is electric, but it is revolved manually. The manufacturers here have also changed the design by introducing a faint fantasy element to the whole shebang, a treasure chest incorporated and the lighhouse emerging from a storybook. It also has half of the pieces of the original.
Weighed against that, of course, is the fact that it’s less than a fifth of the cost of the original, whilst remaining a challenging and interesting build and an attractive display piece: Some of the parts are a little fiddly, and there is a block I’ve never seen before that functions differently depending on which way it’s used, but the instructions are clear.
Takes about 5-8 hours to build, and a good choice if you are on a budget.
Great lighthouse model
This is a detailed and well made building block kit for a lighthouse. I was impressed by the level of detail and number of parts included in the box. There are 1016 pieces in total! It’s aimed at children aged 8+ and I would say this is a fair assessment – our 9 year old loved completing this (with a little help from us). It’s larger than I expected. I know everyone always thinks of a certain yellow brand when it comes to block kits, but I am starting to think that perhaps the slight cheaper brands are starting the level the playing field. Would recommend.
Classy 'compatible' lighthouse
Unfortunately I don’t own Lego set 21335, the Motorised Lighthouse, but it’s blatantly obvious that this is an imitation version. It’s not an exact copy, at all- it’s far simpler, with around half the number of pieces, with plenty of differences around the base. But the lighthouse itself, and the light on the top, are clearly “influenced by” the Lego set in a way that Lego’s legal department has certainly taken an interest in, I’m sure.
As imitation Lego products go though, this is actually one of the better ones. From the box itself, which is quite classy, and the unboxing, the bag labelling, the instructions and so on, it’s reasonably impressive. The print quality of the instruction manual feels cheaper than the main brand, but the quality of the diagrams is generally good.
Assembly is nicely straightforward, and child-friendly, if a little bit fiddly at some points, as many of the pieces are small. With the exception of a handful of steps involving double layering, which official branded instructions from Lego might have split into a couple of separate instructions, the process is generally logical. There’s none of the “is that a grey piece or a black piece?” confusion that other compatible sets sometimes have. The presentation of the set itself is more professional than the current product photos on Amazon (with their spelling mistakes and poor Photoshopping) may suggest.
The end result is rather nice, visually. The way the island base stands a little bit proud makes it feel like a proper ‘art’ piece, better than even Lego themselves sometimes manage. There’s a lot of different colour involved, and the ground, the house, the lighthouse and of course the lamp itself combine to make something that’s really quite interesting to look at and inspect. It looks great on a mantelpiece. It may not have the vast scale of some Lego builds, but you can be proud of it nevertheless, for the details rather than the scale.
The glowing light is a rather nice touch, and if the brand sold those as individual brick parts, I think they’d be rather popular. It’s bright enough that you could put it behind coloured semi-opaque pieces to give other colours of light, and the design possibilities are quite broad. I’m not willing to disassemble this lighthouse to take it out though, as it looks too nice where it is!
Yes, it’s not as good as a Lego set, and yes ethically it’s a bit dubious how close to one of the official sets this is. But at the current asking price of under fifty quid for a fun building experience of more than a thousand pieces (albeit a lot of them very small), I think this is a generally impressive set. It avoids some of the problems of other cheap compatible brands and ends up being a rather nice building experience.
Nice project for older kids
This set is more suited to older kids as it’s abit more complicated to build but that just adds to the challenge.
Pieces are each to put together with easy to follow instructions. When finished it’s a nice lighthouse with working parts. Very happy
Amazing ki
The hubbo and I have really enjoyed the challenge of building this kit. The bags inside are very well organised, although there is a lot of plastic. The instruction booklet is carefully paced ad well made so it is super easy to follow – although there are some very fiddly and technical bits that will give even swell seasoned builder a run for their money. Some pieces look similar, but thankfully there are some to scale pictures in the booklet, so it’s easy to line them up and see which one is the right piece. I also like how they’ve provided tools to help you remove bits if you go wrong. Recommend!
A great display ki
IKUPER Ideas Lighthouse Building Kit with Glowing Rotating Light, Great fun building, Quite easy to do and good instructions and makes a great ornament when finished.
Its a big piece when completed, and it is complicated enough to be enjoyable to complete. Took my daughter whole day to do. Good, innovative use of blocks, made for some minor fiddly work but the final effect is fantastic!
Overall good quality, good selection of sizes, shapes and colours. Very sturdy and good for small hands, can be an ideal present. Would recommend!
Slightly overpriced, Really cool though.
This 1016 piece building set is really cool, I think it’s suitable for any age above 8+
I think it’s slightly overpriced though and would be better suited around 29.99.
I’m currently building this with my son and it’s a whole bunch of fun.
If you can see past the slightly high price, you’ve got yourself a really cool building set.
There is no getting round the fact this is clearly a scaled version of a four letter word kit 21335 that costs nearer to 300 so for budding builders who’s parents can’t afford the play well version this is great.
Over 1000 pieces and taking around 4 – 8 hours to build depending on if you don’t just dump the bags out and scramble round looking for the pieces.
Some of the instructions can be a bit confusing as the colouring of the bricks is similar and not immediately obvious in the manual. There are also some bricks that have an upward pointing pair of circles and some with downward that can cause issues if you don’t notice that bit in the instructions (although easily rectifiable if you miss it)
The kit looks great, the light works and rotate (manually, clunkily and slowly but it rotates)
Overall a great kit that an older child (or adult who like to Play Well) will love to build and a family can build together. Could spread this build out over a week if you did an hour a night.
Bricks click together well and all colouring is correct throughout.
A very inexpensive version of a very expensive similar product.
Great fu
This is a build set of over a thousand pieces.
The instructions are good and the game gives hours of fun to the family as we build the lighthouse.
I especially liked the working light in it.
Excellent value for money
Very similar to the other famous brand but much much cheaper. Good quality blocks split into sections. Good instructions and diagrams in the manual. Some of the pieces are very small and are not all identical so be careful to follow the booklet.
If you like puzzles but don’t like the price tag then this is for you
5 stars
Lighthouse Building Ki
Wow! So impressed with lighthouse my 11 years old son loves it and the best thing is that it actually light up. Brilliant present ideas for over 8 years olds a lot of fun and learning highly recommend.
Lego but not Lego
This is obviously designed to be Lego but a lot cheaper. A bit fiddly but with nice instructions and quality pieces. Just remember that some of the pieces look very similar.
Overall and great model.
Great quality bricks & instructions 🧱
This set is well presented and would make a great gift.
Inside the bricks are bagged into 3 main bags and in those are smaller bags making it easy to find the bricks you need, this speeds up the build process and keeps little ones (or big ones!) interested.
The colour booklet is clear with step by step visual instructions making it easy to follow and methodical.
I love the design of this build and the rotating light which makes it a bit more interesting.
Despite this being “off brand” I think the quality is excellent and I am more than happy to recommend to others.
Good quality building set for a very decent price
So this is a nice little model to build. And have a lot of similarities with a lighthouse from another company. which is well known for its construction toys. However, this model’s price is 4 times lower. Of course, it’s not as much detailed and is smaller by 20cm. But still looks almost the same.
Assembling this is quite easy same as all block builders it has numbered bags and basically, you just need to follow instructions. Which are really good and well-explained. However still I would say for a smaller kid alone it could be a bit hard, so would need a bit of help from grown-ups.
Nice little addition is the top-off lighthouse can spin, of course, you need to do it manually but its still cool especially when you light up the top bit.
The overall good quality building set for a very good price really. Will provide some fun if you will build it together with the kid.
Are We Allowed To Say It??
Come on You know what I want to say. Am I allowed to say it? You know exactly what I am talking about when I talk about the similarities between this particular set another very well known building block set available on the market.
In fact, this is incredibly similar to one that that particular well-known building block set manufacturer makes under its own name, only a heck of a lot cheaper.
On opening this box, you can see that even the book instructions are also extraordinarily similar to that particular brand that I am talking about without mentioning.
So The blocks look the same, the book looks the same, the actual product looks very similar. The only thing you are not getting here is the name of that product on the box, maybe a slightly nicer design? And the premium price ticket associated with that particular brand. If you are after a set that’s fun to construct, uncannily similar in many regards to that brand which we do not speak its name and can keep you or your intended recipient busy for a few hours, this is extremely easy to recommend.
amazing just fiddley
loved doing this but my word some of the pieces are similar with some working great and others make it impossible to do anything. there is two semi beige pieces that are 2×1 pieces with dots on the side, I didn’t know they where different types time around point 60…
ReallyNice model
I’ve had a few models from this brand now and all have been done really well with almost overly comprehensive instructions and parts bags. This does make it very easy to follow so no complaints here!