i got it home,and unpacked it, skimming over the tomy quickly and going straight to the lego, which turned out to be an almost complete 7722 4.5v set.
using a set of online instructions, i checked the builds over, corrected any mistakes, removed fake bricks and filled spaces where pieces were missing. there are some pieces i will need to bricklink, but they seem cheap enough, from what i can tell.