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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