The fire station sucks imo. It really only has three play-features, and they're all pretty basic. The water cannon on the fire truck is just a flick-fire missile, the opening doors are really boring because they just flip open unlike the cool garage-style door that we used to get with fire station sets, and the pole is pretty lame LEGO could've at least made it somehow a slower fall because it just feels like a free-fall down and there isn't really anything to play with there and so the pole is just pretty lame. The design is really weird looking overall and I don't think the person who designed this has ever seen a fire-station or a fire truck for that matter.