The new fire engines have arrived in the UK and I picked up a 4821 today from my local toyshop where they'd kindly put one on one side for me when the stock came in. I'm pretty busy at the moment preparing a talk for next month, so I'm assembling the new buy a bit each day and taking photos for this review at the same time. I'll be posting the review day by day, too, so if any comments are saved until it's complete that will be good. I plan to do two other topics, one comparing the 4821 with the 3880 it replaces and the other looking at some simple customs that can be carried out on the 4821 largely by adding different bits and pieces.
So to start, the box pictures. The box itself is large enough to take the fire engine when its all assembled which helps with storage later, and there is room in it for other fire accessories. The box is the design where there is a lid hinged at the back of the box.
The front of the box is just a general picture of the fire engine, while the back shows the usual picture of the items in the set.
The pictures on the end of the box are just repeats of the front, but there are three detail pictures on the sides.