I found myself so enraged by the open area of this set that I promptly demanded paying full price for another then at great expense hired the engineers from the Three Gorges Dam to assist me in adding two support sections to complete the entire Dome area and double my tree and plant designs. I am partially satisfied, somewhat suspicious and now mildly Canadian. Film at 11 on my youtube channel(shameless self promotion included here).
First... Magnificent video, thanks. Second... Your channel has the best comments from viewers. Third... The set. Yes. Destroy it to pieces. Then make your own (as others have said)
Not necessarily, but people who pluralise the word Lego should be. Saying "Legos" is like saying "sheeps"... and it's good click-bait for The Grammar Inquisition, whom nobody expects.... :D I think you've hit the nail on the head with the difference between Friends designs and everything else. Friends sets are designed for doll-house play moreso than full architectural builds, so accessibility for hands is paramount. My granddaughter would probably have issues with that set only if there were fiddly bits which kept falling off, so the dome section and the plant construction would be a concern. On the other hand, building the plants could be distracting enough to override any fiddliness - like anything, the experience is going to vary from person to person. As for AFOLs looking to integrate elements rather than the full build, maybe a better idea would be to download the instruction book and just build a Bricklink parts list, where the parts aren't unique to this set?
Sometimes I feel that lego friends blow the city line out of the water. It almost feels like in the newer city sets they are trying to emulate the lego friends style of building with the new city sets. that being said it's not flawless. the garden set is strange because it seems the best fit for a very specific application. it would be good for making an inverted corner or just to add some character to an area that backs onto a wall or something. somewhere that the flaws in the design won't be noticed.
@@ClassicStudStudios It's true. Don't know who has been designing Friends, but I applaud them. The first friends set I ever got was the Adventure Camper which came out around the same time as City's Car and Camper which I also got in I think 2012 (I believe 2007-2013 was the City Line's golden age in my lifetime) and even then I think that the Friends sets were overtaking city in build quality, and wasn't that much more expensive.
@@pineappleday5578 couldn’t agree more!, I think the reason friends look the great way they do is colour coordination and age range City has only gone to 8+, and friends has gone all the way up to 14+, keep in mind it’s the big friends sets that get praise not the small ones, but the theme has really good medium sets!
@@ClassicStudStudios I think you are on the right track with that one. I also feel that the modern city sets seem to be geared towards children with how sometimes over the top they are. The older city sets seemed to be more grounded in realism but still cool. To see this look at all of the iterations of police stations throughout the last decade and a half.
@@pineappleday5578 definitely aimed at younger people, I also just am not a fan of this weird Neo-futuristic-Boxy design they’ve been going with personally, the 2023 down town set could’ve been REALLY good, but unlike a lot of friends sets the colours just don’t with with each other, you have a hot pink room above a dark orange old-style barber, And a yellow line as the bad for the blue comic shop that just clashes. I really do like the glass bridge of the set and it’s not like that’s a unrealistic thing!, the hotel is really small and under welling but it fits the modernness of the bridge, but doesn’t mesh with all the other colours of the set in my opinion. I certainly agree that old city sets looked better, or at least weren’t as overly colourful ( I’m not saying friends isn’t colourful it absolutely is ) but with friends it’s got a better mashing of colours where no colour looks out of place, look at the new sunset manner for friends, it’s got a lot of pink!, but they mix that pink with the colours of a sunset and so not only dose the set not come off as girly, but it looks fantastic! ( the set also has great design philosophy so that helps ) I only new friends set that is not good with its colours ( imo ) is the thrift store, I don’t think Hehe pink and blue work well together, but that’s one bad apple as where a lot of modern city sets ( down town and the apartment complex ) just have colours that don’t mesh imo
I found myself so enraged by the open area of this set that I promptly demanded paying full price for another then at great expense hired the engineers from the Three Gorges Dam to assist me in adding two support sections to complete the entire Dome area and double my tree and plant designs. I am partially satisfied, somewhat suspicious and now mildly Canadian. Film at 11 on my youtube channel(shameless self promotion included here).
Mikael, the open back is a classic PLAY FEATURE , the bareback-edition 😮
03:00 I did the same thing. It’s weird they don’t have 1x4 tile there.
Yes bring it back totally to pieses! You already have a farm! We need factory’s in Solltown and a powerplant! Not a flowerplant!
1:11 - this vision of horror will haunt me forever
Everyone went crazy about the botanic gardens but then in turn scratched their heads trying to close the back
First... Magnificent video, thanks.
Second... Your channel has the best comments from viewers.
Third... The set. Yes. Destroy it to pieces. Then make your own (as others have said)
sax-a-ma-phone . . . that’s a deep simpsons refernce. i always laugh when you abuse the lego boxes! 👍🏻
I d like to see this buildings or your custom version in your custom new town,sure of a great addition!😊
I bought two. I'll have to mirror build one, and I am planning on adding a moc to the open side.
Not necessarily, but people who pluralise the word Lego should be.
Saying "Legos" is like saying "sheeps"... and it's good click-bait for The Grammar Inquisition, whom nobody expects.... :D
I think you've hit the nail on the head with the difference between Friends designs and everything else.
Friends sets are designed for doll-house play moreso than full architectural builds, so accessibility for hands is paramount.
My granddaughter would probably have issues with that set only if there were fiddly bits which kept falling off, so the dome section and the plant construction would be a concern.
On the other hand, building the plants could be distracting enough to override any fiddliness - like anything, the experience is going to vary from person to person.
As for AFOLs looking to integrate elements rather than the full build, maybe a better idea would be to download the instruction book and just build a Bricklink parts list, where the parts aren't unique to this set?
Sometimes I feel that lego friends blow the city line out of the water. It almost feels like in the newer city sets they are trying to emulate the lego friends style of building with the new city sets. that being said it's not flawless. the garden set is strange because it seems the best fit for a very specific application. it would be good for making an inverted corner or just to add some character to an area that backs onto a wall or something. somewhere that the flaws in the design won't be noticed.
I don’t think it’s sometimes lol, lego friends has been blowing city out since 2022
@@ClassicStudStudios It's true. Don't know who has been designing Friends, but I applaud them. The first friends set I ever got was the Adventure Camper which came out around the same time as City's Car and Camper which I also got in I think 2012 (I believe 2007-2013 was the City Line's golden age in my lifetime) and even then I think that the Friends sets were overtaking city in build quality, and wasn't that much more expensive.
@@pineappleday5578 couldn’t agree more!, I think the reason friends look the great way they do is colour coordination and age range
City has only gone to 8+, and friends has gone all the way up to 14+, keep in mind it’s the big friends sets that get praise not the small ones, but the theme has really good medium sets!
@@ClassicStudStudios I think you are on the right track with that one. I also feel that the modern city sets seem to be geared towards children with how sometimes over the top they are. The older city sets seemed to be more grounded in realism but still cool. To see this look at all of the iterations of police stations throughout the last decade and a half.
@@pineappleday5578 definitely aimed at younger people, I also just am not a fan of this weird Neo-futuristic-Boxy design they’ve been going with personally, the 2023 down town set could’ve been REALLY good, but unlike a lot of friends sets the colours just don’t with with each other, you have a hot pink room above a dark orange old-style barber, And a yellow line as the bad for the blue comic shop that just clashes.
I really do like the glass bridge of the set and it’s not like that’s a unrealistic thing!, the hotel is really small and under welling but it fits the modernness of the bridge, but doesn’t mesh with all the other colours of the set in my opinion.
I certainly agree that old city sets looked better, or at least weren’t as overly colourful ( I’m not saying friends isn’t colourful it absolutely is ) but with friends it’s got a better mashing of colours where no colour looks out of place, look at the new sunset manner for friends, it’s got a lot of pink!, but they mix that pink with the colours of a sunset and so not only dose the set not come off as girly, but it looks fantastic! ( the set also has great design philosophy so that helps )
I only new friends set that is not good with its colours ( imo ) is the thrift store, I don’t think Hehe pink and blue work well together, but that’s one bad apple as where a lot of modern city sets ( down town and the apartment complex ) just have colours that don’t mesh imo
Set of the year for sure!
Or ultimately you could buy four and create one large structure.
Thanks
Grattis!