This is the first time we reviewed the set from UrGe, to pronounce as “you gal” instead of urge in English. After demise of LEPIN, there are lots of unknown brands sprout out and continuing the knockoff business. UrGE brand sourced the parts from Xingbao, the sister company of LEPIN and the part quality is universally known as inferior compared to LEPIN. For UrGE 30101 Fish House Pier, it stole the design based on LEGO IDEAS The DOCK entry by Gabkremo or Gabor Kremer. We reckon UrGE must have done some reverse engineering to build this set as the instruction is not available. Some had commented due to low numbers of votes on LEGO IDEAS, there is no way the Dock will ever get released. Still, there are interests among the fans of Old Fishing Store who wanted an extension to the set. The photos of this reviews is courtesy of XYJ.

OPEN BOX of UrGe 30101 FISH HOUSE PIER

The box of the set with recommended age of 6-12 and piece count of 1402.

The back of the box showed the dock can be connected to the old fishing store.

No inner boxes, all the bags cramped inside one box, which is economical for packaging.

The instruction manual.

There are four numbering bags corresponded to the building steps. However the manual color tones are bit confusing. Do pay attention.

These are common big plates that UrGE packed into one bag.

A piece of fishing rod and kitchen utensil.

Medium and small plates in two common bags.

2×2 transparent blue bricks.

BUILDING PROCESS

The base of the dock, however it’s thicker than the LEGO version which use the thin base plate.

Wrap corner.

We add extra piece here to strengthen the structure.

The transparent parts show the depth of the sea. However, the blue is too blue for us. The Danish version of trans blue parts are lighter and would look better. You could compare against the original design.

Step 2 which use lots of brown parts.

The pillar to support the dock.

Bag number 3.

The mosaic building is straining our eyesight.

Be gentle when you press the mosaic floor on top of the pillar.

Bags 4 had the largest number of parts.

Four seagulls and a cat.

Printed wooden planks in four variation plus other printed parts. The original had the jolly roger flag instead of anchor.

Walkway to the dock completed.

We really like the rugged feel of the walkway.

A seafood restaurant.

The manual wanted us to build the railing and put them all together. A easier way is to build the railing one by one. This is due to poor manual printing which caused confusion on which brown color part to use. The correct sequence is: from the bottom, dark brown, brown and light brown.

Grilling stove for seafood and steak.

Order from the customer.

Hand held lamp from the good old days.

The arch is different to the original design in which the top was flat and bigger leave were used.

Close Look at Completed Set

Comparison against the LEGO IDEAS entry. Let’s play find the differences game.

The tires had shrunk for UrGE. Original had a bigger one.

As mentioned earlier the arch had the flat top for original.

The telescope which you put a coin and had limited time to view the scenery.

The seat for old angler with a bottle of whisky.

The town council had run out of budget to repair the bench.

Looking at waves hitting the shore.

The set won’t be complete without the minifigures.

Silver roller blade, ballon, guitar and pastry. The original had the white roller blade. We only had one roller blade, so the waitress had to skate on one foot.

The red cap is a boy and shall have short legs.

No side printing.

The old angler wore a vest with Arkham Asylum wording. Not sure the original had this or it’s UrGE that tried to be funny.

Now connect UrGE Fishing Dock with LEPIN Old Fishing Store.

Because the base plates had different thickness, both set couldn’t be joined in parallel. The solution is to change the base plate of the UrGE set to thin one.

SUMMARY of UrGE 30101 Fishing House Pier

It took us 4 hours to build this set. The set used printed parts, which is a big plus. There are changes compared to the original, which don’t bother us. The manual had poor color printing especially the brown, so do pay extra attention during assembling. As for the part quality, the clutch is soft and that present a problem when putting the dock on top of the column. As for the minifigures, if you hate them, just replace them with better one from other makers such as Sembo. The original entry had less than 2000 supporters on LEGO IDEAS page, if you like this set as extension to the Old Fishing House, you may order UrGE 30101 The Dock from Aliexpress.



P/S Many thanks to reader johnz for pointing out we have connect the Dock wrongly to the Old Fishing Store. Here are the photos on how it shall look like: