Building Set Reviews

Using Rokenbok's multiplayer Command Deck wireless remote system (sold separately), this industrial elevator can lift bulldozers, forklifts, or even monorail cars right on the track. Part of Rokenbok's interactive, remote-control toy system, this 61-piece set lets you construct a 14-inch-high elevator that snaps into any Rokenbok environment. Just clip the radio control key into the platform, and you can raise and lower vehicles with your control pad. You can drive any Radio Control vehicle onto the 5-inch-wide-by-13.5-inch-long deck, or snap in a foot-long piece of track to accommodate monorail vehicles. And, in case you need a hand, a 2.5-inch-tall posable plastic elevator operator stands at the ready. --Paul Hughes

If the Rokenbok system in your house has a fleet of vehicles, then how about an auto servicing center to keep them running? With this large 185-piece kit, kids create a repair and servicing area that's staffed by two 2.5-inch-high posable workers (a supervisor in a white uniform and a tie and a blue-uniformed mechanic sporting several days' worth of stubble). The centerpiece is a fully operational red and yellow vehicle lift, around which three different facilities can be built. The assembly is carefully detailed in the illlustrated instructions (no reading required). Mr. Grease and his boss are also equipped with a workbench, several green oil drums, a yellow handcart for moving the drums, a stack of used tires, a fire extinguisher, a work chair, and other accessories. There's even a spiral staircase. The workbench has a compressor underneath and a vice and numerous tools molded to the top. Vehicles are not included. --Richard Farr

Give your Rokenbok buildings a finishing touch with this roof and sidewalk set. The sunny yellow peaked roof comes with five snap-together windows in bright red. The sidewalk, with its detachable green safety railing, is a perfect place for your Rokenbok figures to hang out. This set is just one of many components of the award-winning Rokenbok radio-control building system, a fabulous toy that lets your child build, control, and continually reinvent a model town, with people, buildings, and motorized vehicles of all sorts. --Elisabeth Fredrickson