First image of summer Friends sets!

They look great paired together

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I will be getting quite a few of those Sloths when this comes out and if regular elephants aren't available I will also buy those elephants now, I wonder when we will be getting new pictures for other themes (CITY, Star Wars, Jurassic World and more).

Finally, some great friends sets. And more great animals to come! Apart from the dolphin rescue sets last year, friends Lego has been a bit poor in recent years. Lego seem to have realised that fun animals will entice AFOLS.

I'd love to see those tube components used in a hamster or guinea pig moc

@Binnekamp said:
"With different eye printing they could even use these molds for regular elephants."

Friends sets have way different designs than standard. It's blocky and simple vs rounded and plump
If we ever got the elephant it will be more like the weak Mamooth from City

@Zordboy said:
"As much as I want the elephant, I can't help but wonder ... sloths are from South America, right? Elephants are from Asia or Africa, so where the heck is Heartlake City located?"

Good point pal... hopefully we,ll see a Zebra, Rhino, giraffe, a gorilla, flamingos, camel and a killer whale in lego form soon!! Life will be complete...

The jungle is great, but the "Summer Fun Water Park" is the same as the "Heartlake City Resort" from 2018 (41347). To the point it feels like they just took the instructions and just changed a few things. Same build. Weird.

@elangab said:
"The jungle is great, but the "Summer Fun Water Park" is the same as the "Heartlake City Resort" from 2018 (41347). To the point it feels like they just took the instructions and just changed a few things. Same build. Weird."

It's similar in shape but otherwise it's very different. I have absolutely no interest in 41347 but this new one has plenty of interesting parts for me.

The rescue line from a few years back was one of Friends best lines. We bought all from that release. I am so excited to see another in that same style!

The sloth is so cute!

Never was one for Friends sets, but these two both look fantastic. Would love to use those tubes in a GBC.

@Zordboy:
Elephants also live in California, now. They're obviously not native, but there's an elephant preserve that was set up there to host former zoo elephants.

@legoavenger14:
There's also a better flamingo in CMF S19 Gardener, and they did a camel several years ago for the Prince of Persia theme.

I wonder what the Tube piece means for that in-review Futurama set...

Is this Lego System or Lego DUPLO??

Elephants? Oh dear, I'm gonna have to buy that.

Both look quite good. Might be some of the first Friends sets I’ll get (aside from Central Perk ;))

Waiting for the next Lego Friends set: Social Distancing

@JMaster:
I vote they just release a set that includes a section of hamster tube, and as many characters as you can cram into it.

@PDelahanty:
Or zombies. You know, the first LEGO zombie came out in 2010, which is probably around the time they were developing the Friends theme...

Not going to lie: these look damn good!

Finally a system equivalent for the good ol' DUPLO tube slides!

I love so much the Friends Theme, at the same time I hate so much the minifigs, (And yes, I'm a girl)
I just wish they could come with the normal minifigs...

@Zordboy: The previous Jungle Rescue subtheme in 2014 had the same issue… among other things, it had lions and chipanzees (native to Africa), Bengal tigers (native to South Asia), pandas (native to East Asia), a macaw (native to South and Central America), and an orangutan (native to the Malay Archipelago).

Compared to the old rescue base design, this one seems more modest than the previous one as far as living arrangements go (there could be some bunks hidden behind the trees, but they'd have to be much more compact than 41038-1's cabin and outhouse). Even so, I feel much more drawn to this one — the colors seem more balanced, and I love the tree fort style design, which serves as a good reminder to me that I should experiment more with those tree panel elements now that stud.io has added them!

I'm also impressed with the clever design of the rope bridge, which is built around one of the inclined roller coaster track pieces! Maybe not as authentic as the flexible bridge designs we've seen in sets like 70608-1 or 10236-1, but it still shows how far we've come since the prefab rope bridge elements I grew up with in 90s Pirates and Town sets, which from my experience never seemed to keep their shape very well.

@elangab: I definitely wouldn't consider those sets equivalent to one another, other than having slides and a hinged base. I mean, on the most basic level, Heartlake City Resort was MUCH bigger than this new set, and included stuff like hotel rooms and a tram, which (along with the open water rather than a walled-in pool) don't really fit with this same style of water park. This one strikes me as more of a "middle ground" between a big beach resort like 41347-1 and a municipal pool like in 41374-1

Heartlake City Resort also had a modular design that let you separate the three tower sections or adjust the angle of the hinges joining them. Whereas in this set, the presence of hinges in both the front and back of the base and wedge plates pressed flush with one another along the water's surface tells us it's fixed at this particular angle — sort of like a simplified version of the custom ground construction in 70840-1 Welcome to Apocalypseburg.

Overall, when I saw this picture the other day, I was amazed by this set! It really captures that "I want to shrink down and go there" energy that Friends set designers have described from successful play testing sessions, and that I previously experienced for myself via many of the sets in the LEGO Elves theme.

I love all the clever and authentic features like the tiered sand castle and ocean floor motifs, the huge cascading walls of water, the various water cannons/fountains/sprayers/tippers scattered throughout the park, and the three different "levels" of waterslide (a straightforward "beginner" slide in the middle, a spiral "intermediate" slide on the right, and a steep, fully enclosed "expert" slide on the left). And that's just what we can see in one relatively small picture from a particular angle — who knows what other details might still be hidden from us?

It feels like the the sort of place where I can imagine enjoying hours of fun swimming and climbing with real-life friends, not just LEGO ones!

@iriz: System, definitely. The Duplo elephants and tube slides are like twice the size of these ones. Can't wait to experiment with different ways of using these tube pieces — I'll bet that they'll be in VERY high demand among Great Ball Contraption builders!

@Zordboy said:
"As much as I want the elephant, I can't help but wonder ... sloths are from South America, right? Elephants are from Asia or Africa, so where the heck is Heartlake City located?"

It maybe a Zoo or Preserve and not the actual Biomes the creatures originated from.

Another sign that Friends is more open-minded than City.