This year's Easter set
Posted by Huw,
Neoape has published a picture of this year's Easter set which is shown at the back of the instructions of 40120 Valentine's Day Dinner.
Last year's seasonal sets were cute animals, this year the theme appears to be 8x8 vignettes featuring two minifigs. I wonder if Mel Caddick designed them again?
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I'm really excited about these seasonal vignettes! I think they'll appeal more to older lego fans rather than kids though...
40121
Wow, great set!
Note: These two little sets are including a lot of cool bricks! (For example: Sand green, dark tan and dark red masonry bricks, cookies, and sand blue modified bricks) :D
This probably will be the first year when I buy all seasonal sets. I can't wait for Halloween!
Finally LEGO re-releases that chicken piece.
Whenever I try and view an image on Flickr via Brickset, the links always take me to the Flickr home page. Dunno if this is an issue at my end or not.
I am also dying to see the Halloween version. It would be nice to see some front of the house (with mini stairs), 'grandma' minifigure with sweets and two kids in cosplays. I'm buying 5 of those. ^__^
^CCC
Eggs?
@Calv: Good joke.
The animals would have sold better than these in my opinion.
These look more attractive to me than "cute animals".
@ bezetkace
Irony?
I loved the animals we got last year, but these are so amazing!
The seasonal Easter connection is indeed eggs. The chicken lays them, they get hard boiled on the cooker and then painted up. A very seasonal thing to do in the UK, not too sure on the US.
I think it looks like a great set and will definately be getting it and the others.
How much do these seasonal sets normally cost?
Painted cascarones are a very big easter thing here in the southwest US. Not sure about elsewhere.
We paint easter eggs in the Midwest, but mainly it's for little kids.
^Maybe it's just me, but in my chunk of the Midwest we don't paint eggs so much as dip them in cheap dye...
Meh. I preferred the animals, even though this is admittedly more detailed.
^ paint/dip in die while not the same we do color eggs. I should of said dip
@parsom
No, why? Dead serious.
The animals were great to build with the kid and let them play with, but I much prefer these new vignettes! Looking forward to them all!
@CoffeeLover- I picked up the Valentines set at the LEGO store on the 1st. It was $9.99.
Took me a while to figure out they're hard-boiling eggs and then painting them. Shame the cookies aren't hot cross buns! Quite a cute looking set, given the size I assume this will be for purchase rather than the monthly offer?
What is a hot cross bun?
@Sastrei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_cross_bun
These look like neat sets. I doubt I will be able to get them. I live nowhere near a LEGO store and won't have money to purchase anything from LEGO.com for a while thanks to high shipping costs and taxes.
Please don't include the jsessionid URL parameter in the links to the Lego shop, it makes the sorting break when you chance the drop down
This set looks awesome!
It will be a great addition to 40140 and 40120 sets, which I "ordered" yesterday and today!
In 2014 I "ordered" two Christmas sets: 40106 and 40107 and both are great! Together with my son we still enjoy the precision and the "beauty" of these sets.
I must admit that I was quite unfavorable with the seasonal products, but now I really like them.
^^ where are you seeing that?
What I love most about these sets; they are practically "Modular House Interior Sets".
^Good point...I was just thinking it would be neat if these hooked up to make a building.
Cool, I like where they're headed with the seasonal builds this year. I'm hoping to get them all.
I bought mine yesterday. After seeing how quick the others sold out I didn't want to risk anything. 9,99€ and 3,50€ shipping is better than kicking my ass when it is sold out. (Sucks that is wasn't there to buy the day before when I was finally able to order the birds and some other sets. Would have saved me 3,50€.)
We decorate bushes and water fountains with eggs during the easter time here. So it really is a fitting set. Love the chicken!
@chris_bham: the Easter set is not available yet, we just have pictures of it from the instructions to the Valentine's Day set, which is available now. Seeing as we are far ahead of the Valentine's holiday, I wouldn't expect them to sell out quickly, but once the holiday hits they are usually all but gone.
Definitely getting it, nice parts. I'm happy LEGO decided to continue with similar sets to the seasonal theme of 2013 like 40052, 40054, 40056, 40057, etc.
Very nice set! Looking forward to the rest in 2015 :) Nice polybags too. Another expensive year to come..