10199-1: Winter Toy Shop

Celebrate the holidays with this festive scene!

The holidays are coming, and that means a busy time in the toy maker's workshop! This scene from a winter wonderland includes a charming shop filled with tools, toys, and even a light-up tower window. Outside, minifigures sing carols by the bench and lamppost, ski on the snow drifts, build a snowman and play with snowballs, and decorate the giant Christmas tree with a star, lights and gift-wrapped presents around the base. The Winter Toy shop features hard-to-find elements including a transparent yellow star, transparent globe elements to create a vintage lamp, dark tan tiles, light FX brick, new black 1x2x3 windows and a new caroler minifigure face. Includes 7 minifigures, cat, snowman, jack-in-the-box, stuffed animal, toy train, robot and toy car! Includes 7 minifigures, cat, snowman, jack-in-the-box, stuffed animal, toy train, robot and toy car! Features a toy shop filled with tools and toys and a light up tower window! Decorate the giant Christmas tree with a star, lights and gift-wrapped presents around the base! Includes hard-to-find elements like a transparent yellow star, globe elements to create a vintage lamp, dark tan tiles, light FX brick and new black 1x2x3 windows! Build a snowman and play with snowballs! Sing carols by the bench and lamp post! Winter Toy Shop measures 7.5" (19 cm) long, 6.7" (17 cm) high and 3.1" (8 cm) wide! Christmas tree measures 6.3" (16 cm) tall and 4.3" (11 cm) wide! Built in LEGO Town Plan style, it is a set to extend and build upon throughout the year!

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Best Set, built this year

Posted by Widdi in Germany on 05 October 2009

I've just bought this Set at Legoland Guenzburg on Oct. 3rd, after I fell in Love with this stunning design and it's SNOT Roof technique, etc. seeing the first Pics some weeks ago.

Now to the Contents: Over 800 pieces and 7 Minifigs for just 60 Euros here in germany.

1. Bench and Lamppost:

The bench is a little too huge for Minifig Scale, but completely brick-built and looks like a real bench, but taken away the snow. And the lamp post just looks like a real vintage lantern, despite the clear globes, but the black lamppost look's really nice. There are 3 Minifigsa on it. a kid, who doesn't like the carolling, as he wants to throw snowballs at them. And the two carollers. The male has an Airline pilot torso and the woman, has a long black skirt and her cape, made up of two separate capes.

2. Christmas Tree with Gifts

The tree is a extremly realistic design. It just looks like a huge christmas tree, and this as a brick- and plate built construction. The Star is a belville snowflake, but works great. The gifts are a tan teddy bear, which contains 18 parts by itself, the jack in the box, is open, due to the restrictions of Lego Parts. And the last is a genuine blue gift, maybe containing a huge LEGO set. A ladder is included and extremely realistic with it's brown colour and stand, looking like an actual wooden ladder. And the woman with the classic space-Torso is trimming it with a chain of lights. And the carollers have a new singing face.

3. The Building

The building is a great and with 24x10 studs compact design, which really looks like an old rural shop. It has a nice SNOT-Roof Technique, with some technic bricks. And a lattice roof part, with some Technic Liftarms at the shop's roof. The interior doesn't have, much furniture, but a wooden floor and an open fire, giving it a real 19th century impression. Then there's a cash desk and two displays with a micro steam locomotive and a robot. There's a clock, below the roof, too. Using a ladder, you'll get to the small work shop, including a swivel chair and a desk with some tools. Seems that he's making or repairing a small toy race car, as there's another mini set. The chimney has some tile techniques, making it look historically. The light brick could've been left or maybe made to light up permanently, instead of instant pushing, to light up the work shop. The snowy landscaping is nearly perfect, with snowy roofs, looking like accumulated snow, instead of straight slopes. There's one minifig in this subpart the shop owner, finishing the snow man on the box scene

4. Snowman, and skiing kids

This are the nifty little details, making it a perfect winter scene. The snowman looks extremly realistic, with it's round parts, the arms, altough made of antenna bricks and the cylinder head. Only a carrot is missing, since the one in the set is too big. The skiing kids have plain torsos, but not only skis, even poles and can be modified to adult skiers by just changing the legs.


Verdict:
A perfect 5/5, due to the great value for the money at over 10pts/ Euro and the fantastic, but still compact design of this set. If you're looking at it, it looks like a real christmas/winter scene in an old rural village, somewhere in the mountains. Including the kitsch singers and the huge carol books.
Honestly I couldn't wait for christmas to build it, after looking at the box.

mFg Widdi

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Excellent Parts list, and great build techniques!

Posted by dvsDave in United States on 05 October 2009

The best LEGO set I've built this year! (haven't had a crack at the Cafe Corner sets yet, so bear with me)

Like the main description says, this is chock-FULL of interesting colors and rare parts. They start you off building the lampstand and the park bench. I LOVE the clear globes, the final effect is rather stunning.

The tree is nicely done, lots of detail, but a distinct low-key approach to ornaments. (Although you'll have a lot of leftover transparent studs, easy to add plenty of extra ornamentation to the tree)

The Jack-in-the-box was a nice treat. A simple build that was nonetheless a quick and fun build that is just so comical as to put a smile on your face. The little toy teddy bear, on the other hand, was a royal pain in the butt. The instructions were not well laid-out for that one and it seemed silly to stack the torso and head before adding the tiles.

Onto the toy shop! I just have to say, I loved the color scheme and the overall look and feel. The build is well don't and the small details are great! Someone spent a lot of time on the chimney, getting the spacing and feel of an old stone chimney just right.

The toy train in the window is simple but fun. After I was done, I wanted to build a toy train set that went around the tree. (I may do that this week!) The details on the interior are nicely done. The roof is magnificent. An absolutely wonderful design and easy to implement in other projects. I would recommend picking up this set, if just to learn this technique! (assuming you don't know it already, I did, but I think this set implements it well) The Power Brick really does add the perfect touch to this winter set. Just the right shade of amber/orange. I only wish they'd included a mechanism to keep the light on instead of it being just a momentary button.

I sincerely hope that LEGO will keep making this theme every Holiday, making this a collectible winter village where LEGO would release a new building, or two :) every year to add to your collection.

One more note. My wife saw this set and instead of hemming and hawing over letting me get it, she was excited and eager. She helped me build the whole thing. Took us about an hour and a half. She loved it. If you have a significant other who isn't into LEGO, this is the perfect gateway into the wonderful world of LEGO.

dvsDave

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