I first seriously considered Xingbao’s home furnishings sets when I was trying to decide how I might outfit the inside of my Green Grocer modular building (see my full review and buy your own Lepin 15008 Green Grocer set or the Lepin Green Grocer 15008B with included LED light kit, USB hub, and road plates). As one of the earliest LEGO modulars, the Green Grocer–and its Lepin replica as well–is notoriously void of furnishings, unlike the newer modular buildings which have fully furnished interiors. Xingbao’s kits seemed just the thing. As I’ve acquired some more modular buildings with sparse furnishings (the Market Street and the Pet Shop, in particular), I suspect these room furnishing kits will prove very beneficial to fully finishing my modular buildings for their little bright, smiling yellow inhabitants.

I’ve decided to review all six of them, in turn, and later on, I’ll write up how I incorporated them into my city’s buildings.

Let’s start with the gym! It consists of 340 pieces, which when assembled will create a treadmill, weight bench, punching bag, air conditioning unit, and a basketball hoop. To start, let’s unload our box and examine its contents: a small instruction booklet in full colour, and six bags of parts broken into two numbered building stages, including the unique Xingbao mini-figure design. Each room includes its own mini-figure, appropriately attired to the scene they inhabit. Our gym, therefore, includes a bodybuilder, who is so cool that he wears his sunglasses all the time.

These window pieces are packaged separately in this small bag to keep them clear and pristine. Nice job, Xingbao!

Our bodybuilder dude also has a boom box to play the hits while he buffs up. He can hold the boom box in his hand, which is connected to his torso through Xingbao’s unique arm articulation system, featuring two joints. This allows them to be put into different positions which their LEGO counterparts would find impossible to emulate. The legs are also a bit rounder. Some may think these look too different to the old-style mini-figure, but I think they are a nice improvement, even though snapping them together was quite a pain.

The yellow flooring is an attractive colour and features several studs amidst the floor tiles, for placement of a stool, a table, and a weight bench. Here’s our cool dude, getting his jams ready for the hard work of moving all his equipment into the gym. One of those pieces of equipment, the treadmill, has some great printed elements.

The treadmill consists of some very nice printed pieces

Each piece of equipment is relatively simple to build, but I found myself continuously thinking “how cool” as I built them. The stool looks nice, with its no-stud seat, but you’ll find it impossible to pose Cool Dude on the stool, as round chair tops and mostly square bums do not work well together.

The gym has several sets of weights, built of small technic-style rods and half-bushings. The large weights are built from an axle and two wheels but looks perfect as weights. The basketball hoop is built from a magnifying glass element stuck into the wall, but you’ll need to provide your own ball, as no basketball is included.

The build was relatively quick, with no problems encountered. This was my very first Xingbao set, ever. I had heard they were high quality, and those opinions were proven true. Brick quality’s every bit as high as LEGO. All of Xingbao’s sets are original designs, and for my first set from them, I was impressed with the cleverness of the design in this gym set. The instruction pamphlet was concise, with no difficulty differentiating brick colours.

The rooms have studs on the tops so they can be stacked and made into a multi-storey house. Or, you could display and play with each one individually. Or, as my plan is, to build all of them, display them for a bit, and then decide how I can rework them into my modular buildings.

I can happily recommend the Home Furnishings sets from Xingbao. And, right now our friends at Building Toy Store are offering a $5 off coupon for readers of Alt-Blocks. Click the link and then when checking out, enter coupon code WY5UGBJZ.

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