LEGO® Friends is not my forte. I have not built many items from the theme, and most Friends sets I’ve purchased have been for parts. However, when the opportunity arose to review a larger set from Heartlake City, I figured: why not? The Main Street Building (41704) looks very much like a city-growing set AFOLs might be interested in. Additionally,
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Hot on the heals of yesterday’s first two 2022 Advent Calendars reveal, we now have details on two more. Head on over to the official site and you will find listings for the City and Friends calendars. And just like prior years, you will get a lovely selection of mini builds and minifigures/mini-dolls. Unlike the licensed ones, these two themes
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NOTE: This Friends summer 2022 sets article was updated after publication with new release dates and additional sets. The new LEGO® Friends sets coming in Summer 2022 have been revealed and the lineup is fantastic! There is something for everyone. We can expect to see these sets hitting the shelves in August and range from $14.99 to $129.99 in Canada.
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We really are better together, and what a great way to wrap up the diverse minifigures series. Originally this article was going to be about the two male minidolls in the Friends Main Street Building (41704) set. When the set arrived, I started to look more closely at it. What an amazingly diverse set! So I decided that the final
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In an interesting and welcome turn of events, the denizens of Heartlake City are finally leaving their cupcake stalls and pet grooming businesses behind. These mini-dolls are actually leaving Earth behind and setting their sights on the stars, giving us Friends in SPAAAAACE! Incidentally, that was a reference to Pigs in Space, a sketch from the Muppet Show. I have
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This week we take a look at the representation of older adults as part of the diverse minifigures series. If we define older adults purely by hair colour, then LEGO® has included older adults since the early eighties. That is when we first saw female minifigures with white hair. The first older female minfigures used the same hair piece as
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I stopped into Toys R Us (TRU) the other morning to see if their shelves had been restocked. Christmas shoppers and natural disaster-related supply chain shortages (at least here in BC) had left them perpetually empty. Part of the reason for the trip is that I needed to pick up some polybags for the Brick Alliance Polybag Project, a year-long
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I am super excited about the upcoming releases in the Friends line-up! I really like where the Friends theme has been going the past few years with the addition of many new colours to the once pink-dominant colour palette. The first set, Vacation Beach House, is a great example of the new varied colour palette and retails for $99.99 in
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We have already seen the upcoming Chinese New Year, Super Mario, Monkie Kid, Architecture, City, and Ninjago sets coming out on January 1. Today, we take a deeper look at the 2022 Friends sets. I am not an avid collector of the theme. However, there is one set here that has piqued even my interest. Take a moment to check
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This week’s review is a little out of sorts for me. A while back, I acquired Andrea’s Accessories Store (41344) on liquidation. I do not normally collect Friends sets. This marks the third set from the theme that I have purchased, and the second that I have reviewed. The first Friends set I bought was before True North Bricks, so
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