So what are the oven and sink hooked up to? I'm not saying there aren't water and electric or gas lines that could just be accessed, but you know, the implication here is that everything is outside and portable. So what's going on here? Are there access points to utilities across Heartlake?

Baking outdoors is usually reserved for Pizza's. Too hard to maintain a consistent temperature for other ovens.

If she calls that a bakery then I'd hate to see what her car and house looks like!

Imagine the flies. And she is not even wearing a hat

@SearchlightRG said:
" @Miyakan said:
"Baking outdoors is usually reserved for Pizza's. Too hard to maintain a consistent temperature for other ovens."

I mean…Great British Bake-Off?"

Never watched it. Is it outside?

That cake is bigger than the oven she supposedly cooked it in, she’s clearly brought that in from elsewhere to make herself look better! I don’t know how your baking holds up, Stephanie, but your advertising skills are clearly on point

I guess they really wanted to make a bakery, but didnt want to put up with building a "Bakery".

It's kind of frustrating that they still use that old style tap with a hole here, even though by 2012 it wasn't around anymore... RIP the tap with a hole! You will be fondly remembered.

At first I thought the carton of milk was a customer, as Lego are always stretching the mini-fig definition. I also have the problem with my cakes too large for my oven, or is it meant to be a dishwasher?

@PurpleDave said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"So what are the oven and sink hooked up to? I'm not saying there aren't water and electric or gas lines that could just be accessed, but you know, the implication here is that everything is outside and portable. So what's going on here? Are there access points to utilities across Heartlake?"

Worse, she's got a carton of milk, and no refrigerator in sight."

Could be UHT milk......as long as it isn't opened yet, it should be fine.

I wonder how long it'll take before they produce an oven door element for the mailbox lmao. I never like using it for ovens because it has a hole in the front!!!

The perfect oven door would be the mailbox lid with a filled hole, little lip / handle, and potentially support for a window pane (so you could have an opaque door with glass inset)... a boy can dream I suppose...

@WizardOfOss said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"So what are the oven and sink hooked up to? I'm not saying there aren't water and electric or gas lines that could just be accessed, but you know, the implication here is that everything is outside and portable. So what's going on here? Are there access points to utilities across Heartlake?"

Worse, she's got a carton of milk, and no refrigerator in sight."

Could be UHT milk......as long as it isn't opened yet, it should be fine."

Topped with a regular cheese wedge instead of the double-sloped version? That carton is wide open.

Stephanie gave up her dream of becoming a baker, or at least it took a back-seat when she became the mayor of the crime-ridden Heartlake City, cleaning the streets of roving palette-swapped thugs, one piledriver at a time.

At least, that's how I was taught things go in fictional American cities. If Final Fight and Streets of Rage taught me wrong, I don't want to be right.

@PurpleDave said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"So what are the oven and sink hooked up to? I'm not saying there aren't water and electric or gas lines that could just be accessed, but you know, the implication here is that everything is outside and portable. So what's going on here? Are there access points to utilities across Heartlake?"

Worse, she's got a carton of milk, and no refrigerator in sight."
So what? Maybe it's what is called H-Milch over here. Don't need refrigeration for that one and it still lasts for months without spoiling.

@Crux said:
"Stephanie gave up her dream of becoming a baker, or at least it took a back-seat when she became the mayor of the crime-ridden Heartlake City, cleaning the streets of roving palette-swapped thugs, one piledriver at a time.

At least, that's how I was taught things go in fictional American cities. If Final Fight and Streets of Rage taught me wrong, I don't want to be right."
Crime-ridden Heartlake City? No problem. Just say that Stephanie is a Democrat, and someone will send in the National Guard to help her deal with that issue. ;-)

@Maxbricks14 said:
"If she calls that a bakery then I'd hate to see what her car and house looks like!"

They're probably the same thing as she's living in her car because nobody want to buy her undercooked, unwashed temperature abused baked goods!

Ah, a certified classic from the very first wave of Friends sets. I miss when there were boxed sets at this price point. Regularly available too. Sets at this size of Friends were basically a friends minidoll with some accessories, but at the time the minidoll was brand new so it was succesful for that. I didn't really get into it though, and my first minidoll ended up in my collection 8 years later with Sweet Mayhem from a sale.

@PurpleDave said:
"Topped with a regular cheese wedge instead of the double-sloped version? That carton is wide open."

That part didn't exist yet for quite a few years after this set came out. I'd chalk it up to 'best approximation they were able to do at the time'.
In general it's much nicer and relaxing to look at lego as stylistic representations of things instead of as accurate minitures that should be looked at as scale replicas of reality.

@ambr said:
"At first I thought the carton of milk was a customer, as Lego are always stretching the mini-fig definition. I also have the problem with my cakes too large for my oven, or is it meant to be a dishwasher?"

Lego has a very specific definition of what a minifigure is that they never deviate from for legal reasons (any two of head, torso, legs). It's Bricklink that keeps stretching the definition. And since Brickset gets its minifig data from Bricklink, not Lego, Brickset stretches it right along with Bricklink.

@Brickalili said:
"That cake is bigger than the oven she supposedly cooked it in, she’s clearly brought that in from elsewhere to make herself look better! I don’t know how your baking holds up, Stephanie, but your advertising skills are clearly on point"

The oven is actually a TARDIS.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Brickalili said:
"That cake is bigger than the oven she supposedly cooked it in, she’s clearly brought that in from elsewhere to make herself look better! I don’t know how your baking holds up, Stephanie, but your advertising skills are clearly on point"

The oven is actually a TARDIS."

Then no wonder everything’s so portable; she’s making them tomorrow and bringing them in retroactively!

@Brickalili said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @Brickalili said:
"That cake is bigger than the oven she supposedly cooked it in, she’s clearly brought that in from elsewhere to make herself look better! I don’t know how your baking holds up, Stephanie, but your advertising skills are clearly on point"

The oven is actually a TARDIS."

Then no wonder everything’s so portable; she’s making them tomorrow and bringing them in retroactively!"

This also assures that the goods are fresh.

@AustinPowers said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"So what are the oven and sink hooked up to? I'm not saying there aren't water and electric or gas lines that could just be accessed, but you know, the implication here is that everything is outside and portable. So what's going on here? Are there access points to utilities across Heartlake?"

Worse, she's got a carton of milk, and no refrigerator in sight."
So what? Maybe it's what is called H-Milch over here. Don't need refrigeration for that one and it still lasts for months without spoiling. "

That sounds like something you’d put in a flower garden, not something you’d put in your mouth.