When the garden is put together with the fully constructed house, well it makes the best house set I’ve built out of LEGO. I'm not sure I'll have the cash to actually get this, but I'm certainly tempted and if I ever see it on discount it'll be near impossible to resist. Through building, I’ve found similarities here with both Paradisa and Classic Town – but is this really worth the hype?

There’s easy access to all parts of the interior and although most of the furniture is facing the back, the arrangement doesn’t look contrived. The shower is ingenious, and I just love the use of the trans light blue garage roller door pieces to form the shower screen. It should also be remembered that this set is SYSTEM, and thus completely compatible with minifigs, who can be swapped in to replace the Friends figures if they don’t appeal. They are quite nice, though, and nicely printed; the shininess reminded me a lot of the shiny holographic stickers in Belleville, however I also remember the shiny stickers in the Lighthouse set, so they aren’t just for girly sets.

Bag one builds the sitting room and, as we will find with almost every parts bag, there are structural tan pieces for the walls along with a lot of white and lime green pieces. This house is completely designed for interaction and customization, and certainly not with the silly levers and numerous catapults from some of the other lines. The extra pieces included in most days are a hit as it allows my six year old to share extras from her friends set with my four year old and his city set (extra pieces there too, so sharing is going both ways). LEGO Friends pieces are fully compatible with all LEGO System bricks and sets include pieces in pink and purple color schemes and depict scenes from suburban life set in the fictional town of Heartlake City.

From a different angle there are still new things to spot, such as the detailing on the back of the comfy chair afforded by the 1x2 dark bluish grey grille brick. Too many flowers that 'clash' with each other as they are every different type of flower build type possible. I never into Friends theme yet, but seeing so many great reviews recently has kind of tilt my interest a little bit more. If you look closely, you can see the copyright is for 2009 and is embossed into the backs of the figures.Use it as a guide to the contents of the set, or to find out part numbers when requesting replacements. In addition, there’s the huge amount of kitchen utensils and cookware, and the new flower and insect moulds.

There’s a demonstration that, similar to a number of Town sets (memorably the 4644 Marina set for me) the build is modular, and the contents are organised into numbered bags which reflect the module being built. I'm actually surprised by how few of those 1x6x5 panels are used, I was expecting a set this size to have quite a lot more.So I, personally, like the move; even if it's not in the right colors for what I need, the new designs provide me with great inspiration. As Christmas trees are a popular place for toys to be found, Ask Toy Tech offers a brief history and pictures of the Christmas ornament tradition. As the build is modular in nature, I’ll show the contents of each bag as we build each section of the house and garden.

This set is definitely a must-have for me, even though I don't like the fact that the mini-dolls are not compatible with my minifigs aside from the hair. Figures 7/10 I don’t really like the figures that much; give me a good old fashioned minifig any day, but really, they could have been so much worse. I'm quite surprised that the stickers are all on one sheet-- in the past, I've been more used to metallic stickers being on a separate sheet from other stickers that don't need any chrome surfaces. BrickEconomy, the BrickEconomy logo and all content not covered by The LEGO Group's copyright is, unless otherwise stated, ©2024 BrickEconomy. The Fabuland flower has become a large sunflower in a pot, and the 2x2 plate and tile tiling pattern continues, this time in shades of grey.I can actually understand why; I loved the Lighthouse, and the Log Cabin, and again it reinforces with me that TLG aren’t just focusing on selling only Friends sets to girls. Of course, I fully understand if you perhaps wanted to reserve them in case one day you need a mirrored surface on a piece other than those for which the stickers were intended in this set.