Review: 40449 Easter Bunny's Carrot House
Posted by Huw,
40449 Easter Bunny's Carrot House will be the gift with purchase at LEGO.com with orders exceeding $60 (and probably £60/€60) from the 15th March until Easter Monday, 5th April.
So, assuming stocks last you'll receive one when you buy 21326 Winnie the Pooh when it's released on the 18th.
The curious looking carrot-shaped house is habited by a cute grey bunny with long ears and a cupcake for a tail. Some might have preferred it if the rabbit minifigure had been resurrected and included instead, but I quite like this brick-built one.
The medium lavender eggs are something of a rarity, having appeared in only one set until now. I'm not sure if they are supposed to be flowers or Easter eggs growing outside the bunny's house but, whatever, they add interest and colour.
The back is open to enable the interior to be accessed. Inside there's a chest of drawers with a mirror above, an attractive mat on the floor and some pictures hanging on the wall. All decorations in the set are stickers.
There's not enough room to swing a cat inside (or should that be rabbit) but it looks very homely and cosy!
There are around 86 orange parts in it, including three sizes of curved slope, so even if you have no interest in the model it's a great set for parts if you're in need of them in that colour.
It's a different, whimsical and charming set that will delight all that see it: another gift with purchase that will encourage spending at LEGO.com on full price items, and that, after all, is their main purpose.
"I knew I shouldn't have left the front door open!"
Thanks to LEGO for providing the set for review. All opinions expressed are my own.
Thanks to my wife and Alice for constructing the set. Any building mistakes are theirs :)
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Flexing those goats Huw
That bunny is adorable!!!
I wish the goats were included with the set but it's a good promotional set for what it is.
The goats will make short work out of that house ;)
A huge improvement over some older viginettes, as the carrot house is genuine LEGO, not a repurposed cardboard box the set ships in.
The CMF Easter Bunny is a great add-on to this set. He's been in my seasonal LEGO box along with the Holiday Elf, as well as some small polybag/GWP sets for ages.
Yes this is a want, its funny how some GWP I see and immediately want, but others not fussed on.
Just need to decide what to get to spend the £60 not that I need any more!
Those goats are gonna eat that poor bunny out of house and home!
Huw, are these the only goats remaining after the bonsai contest? :)
Strange how Ideas sets can get 5 new exklusive head moulds but a part that everyone wants back cannot be re-made by LEGO. No wonder people are stocking up on those reindeers (aka goats 2.0).
It would be much more fun, if the door would have the shape of the cat (or rabbit or fluffy).
Then it would be clear, who own this house (or carrot or telefonbox).
But this set looks like one from Friends, occupied by a cat (or Emma in rabbit costume).
Men who stare at plastic goats
Reminds me of employee exclusive Skeleton Horses back in Day or R2-KT
Looks like SpongeBob's pineapple house
@cody6268:
Meh. I’ve got Easter Bat.
@DavidBrick:
So the egg hatches open, and inside is a slightly smaller egg? I’m getting flashbacks of Sheldon from U.S. Acres...
@Leg0liver:
I’m a bit unclear on what you’re saying, but in the first image you can see a bunny face on the front of the door.
I wish It was one you could buy for like £20 instead becsuse I'd happily buy two for my children, I also like the Easter chicken polybag lego have produced this year..
This'll make a decent temporary living space for Rabbit if I get this with the Pooh set
Stickers, blech. But if nothing else, we get purple eggs. So, now to figure out a low-to-midprice set to combine with the Mickey and Minnie Brick Sketches to get to $60.
High on a hill was a lonely goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
I actually have too many orange parts, but I NEED those medium lavender eggs and that light yellow door!
Hopping to get this and the Easter Bunny for my nieces.
Are we expecting double VIP points too for second half of March?
Makes me think of Spongebob.
Would love if they did a CMF Spongebob line.
this house looks like a portable toilet
If they run out of Winnie the Pooh I shall have to find something else to get just so I can get this carrot house!
Just one of those goats is roughly equal in value to the threshold for this GWP
Thanks for pointing out the orange slopes, I was ready to write this one off
Easter is on Sunday April 4th
Ah pesky goats get everywhere. Also Huw is a GOAT himself
Too cute. A+ set. Will try to get at least two or three.
As a build, I like this so much more than the Amelia Earhart one. It can go nicely with the Pooh set, so double win.
It's okay.
The inside underwhelms me a bit, but I like the structure quite a bit
That is way too cute - I love whimsical creative weirdness like this. Your addition of the goats takes it to another level!
That's a rather unexpected party of goats!
Well I'll say that some AFOL will likely make him a propper right house.
I would try for this, but I just placed an order to get the Amelia Earhart set, and I only have so much space now. Oh well, at least I won't be missing out on an exclusive minifig.
I love the use of Cool Yellow for the door and window shutters! It's such a sunny, wonderful, candy-like color that works perfectly on a build like this. The way it's used in concert with "classic" Bright Yellow for the door frame and handle is superb.
@The_Toniboeh:
Temporary because he'll literally eat himself out of house and home?
@LegoSonicBoy:
Heh. Several years ago, members of my LUG made five sculptures for the now defunct Kellogg's Cereal City Museum ("lifesize" Tony the Tiger, Snap/Crackle/Pop, and a 5' tall Froot Loops box). I was one of the three people who built Tony, and the guy who coordinated the build basically just bought bulk quantities of orange parts through two purchases (one before we got started, and one when we ran out of key elements partway through the build). He had gallons of orange parts left over afterwards. To this day, if you pry up the 9v track on our LUG's ballasted baseplates, you'll find that a lot of them have orange 2x4 plates buried underneath because he mostly builds microscale landmarks, and had basically zero use for orange parts.
@legoDad42:
They had a Spongebob license years before the first CMF release, but at some point that relationship ended in bizarre way. I was told by a LEGO Store employee that all the LEGO Stores were required to box up any leftover product and return it to the warehouses for destruction. Normally when a license expires, they're allowed to sell off any product remaining in the pipeline, such as when the TMNT license ended and you could still buy keychains of the four turtles for at least the next two years. Not so with Spongebob. One day you could walk in and find it on the shelves, and the next day they were no longer allowed to sell it.
I'm hoping (not hopping) that there will be a double VIP points promo coming next week...
That bunny looks like he's rudely sticking out his tongue!
More goats to the people!!!!!!
This gives me a pretty good idea of how a Fabuland relaunch could look like.
@desser1:
The prevailing theory is that the Fabuland relaunch has already happened, and it was named "Legend of Chima".
Super cute set! Just placed an order to get it and they added the Amelia Earhart set as well. Nice that these gifts were overlapping. =)
Wow "swing a cat" old
When did the goats become a thing?
@Be_hapi:
It's from the second half of the Bonsai review:
https://brickset.com/article/57030/modifying-the-bonsai-tree
@The_Toniboeh said:
"This'll make a decent temporary living space for Rabbit if I get this with the Pooh set"
After building it I can confirm it is a fine temporary solution