I bought this around november as i needed a bulk of lego for a college project.

Got on offer from toys R Us (UK) for £29.99 which came with a bonus lego basic bricks (item 5576) so was a good buy.

Pros:
*With the Extra bricks it had alot of brick (tho basic types)
*Good minifig acessories (drill spanner etc)
*Minifig (ok)
*Wheels and clear glass windscreens
*An array of colours including orange and slime green
*A door and 2 windows
*fences, plants, coloured studs

Cons:
*green base plates too small they could have given bigger ones to make a house or something

Was a good re-introduction set to lego for me as i hadnt had lego scince i was young.

Not worth full price without free extra bricks tho

I bought this set (in a red box) bundled with another one consisting only of basic bricks. The price for the bundle was app. 50 Euro which is quite high. The set has lots of tiles but only one minifig. Furthermore most of the bricks are big ones (2x) which are of little use. The biggest problem IMHO is the lack of a building manual. You are left with no instructions at all and have to rely only on your fantasy.

This set is nice as an add-on to your LEGO collection, but of little use if you have no other sets to combine with.

PRO: lots of bricks, big nice box which can hold many many tiles

CON: too expensive, only one minifig, many big bricks, no biulding instructions.