Friends Beach Adventure Park revealed
Posted by Huw,
A Singaporean certified store has published a picture of a hitherto unknown Friends set, 41737 Beach Adventure Park.
The extremely colourful and attractive 1,348-piece set comes with minidolls of Zac, Nova, Charli and Dia, and will be available in June.
Via Hoth Bricks.
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Friends just gets better and better as time goes.
Pity the same can't be said for some of the other lines LEGO does lol.
Sets like these make me long fot baseplates even more
Friends seems the most "Lego" of the Lego lines these days next to the Creator theme.
Colour!
Vibrancy!
Building!
Woah, 11477 PLATE W. BOW 1X2X2/3 finally getting released in a transparent colour. Hoping this is the first of many transparent colours for that piece, but Im sure micro-scale neo-classic space builders will greatly appreciate this part in trans-yellow
Those exposed technic parts don't look good... I hope they are covered somehow
Friends knocking it out of the park (pun intended) yet again.
It looks fun, though it's probably going to be quite expensive, unfortunately.
I like the new fern pieces.
I want to ride that dolphin.
@ozbrickcreator said:
"Those exposed technic parts don't look good... I hope they are covered somehow"
They are at the back and in any case I thought it was great that such mechanisms are finding their way into Friends sets.
@ozbrickcreator said:
"Those exposed technic parts don't look good... I hope they are covered somehow"
It is a set intended for...children, what do u expect? It's maybe 15 pieces. I think kids would prefer a spinning function instead of a cleaner, static model.
Friends is a better city than City.
I think my 31084-1 is getting an extension!
@Huw said:
" @ozbrickcreator said:
"Those exposed technic parts don't look good... I hope they are covered somehow"
They are at the back and in any case I thought it was great that such mechanisms are finding their way into Friends sets."
Not to mention that parks in real life do have exposed beams and machinery
I'm pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of Technic in this set, I hope we see more Technic functions in sets like Friends. For all LEGO have spoken about inclusion and STE(A)M subjects for girls, my experience and knowledge of Friends, Disney, etc. suggests there's a lot of progress to be made in creating more complex builds in these lines. This looks like a great step forward.
Cool set. Hope the price is reasonable.
@magmafrost said:
"Woah, 11477 PLATE W. BOW 1X2X2/3 finally getting released in a transparent colour. Hoping this is the first of many transparent colours for that piece, but Im sure micro-scale neo-classic space builders will greatly appreciate this part in trans-yellow"
If you will look slightly to the left, it's also coming in trans light blue.
How is it supposed children will jump into the turtle, the dolphin and the sea-horse?
@kazar14 said:
"Friends is a better city than City."
That's been true for 10 years now. City is just a sad, shambling wreck of a once glorious theme.
That looks like a very fun set to build. It is awesome to have all of that functionality to the ride in a Friends set. It’s great to have that new fern piece in another color!
Weird to see this many limbs per minidoll on a Friends set.
The palm tree looks awkward, the minidoll skull looks hella creepy, Otto’s hair works great as a limpet, the tiny squid/octopod design is actually really clever, and I’m actually shocked this is the first time I’ve seen that part used as seaweed.
@Huw:
There is an open archway in front of the mechanism. The question now, is what precisely does “Connected Feature” mean? The obvious option is that this is the first in a series that will allow you to link everything up to a single crank, but only time will prove if that’s correct.
@kyrodes:
Beams, sure. Machinery, not to this extent (well, maybe somewhere in this world, but probably not wherever Heartlake is located). Stuff has to be covered up or otherwise guarded so kids don’t wander up and shove their hands in. I used to work for a company that made guards and covers for chain and belt drives, and one of the weirder sales that happened during my time there was when one of the Disney parks ordered a guard to be shipped Next Day Air. They failed an inspection, and had a ride that was shut down until they could properly cover some bit of machinery.
@Adrianucho said:
"How is it supposed children will jump into the turtle, the dolphin and the sea-horse?"
Catapults. I’m pretty sure there are discount catapult merchants all over the place.
Given that Nova is involved, there is a non-zero chance that those are actual hollowed-out animal-carcasses. That said, this thing looks phenomenal. Even the simplest bits like the boardwalk and the beachfront are just *chef's kiss*.
On the one hand, I'm digging that "this audience is now also getting to experience Technic", but who are we kidding? The Friends-line is rocking it. I think their audience is bigger than ever before.
This set looks marvellous!!! They made a great job with new Friends sets. Is there a price?
@PurpleDave said:
"The question now, is what precisely does “Connected Feature” mean? The obvious option is that this is the first in a series that will allow you to link everything up to a single crank, but only time will prove if that’s correct."
My assumption is that the one crank will operate moving parts for all three rides/attractions (the spinning animals ride, shooting gallery, and the wave pool). I imagine that the waves move up and down and the kraken and pirate ship "targets" in the shooting gallery move side to side. The beach and boardwalk are raised up high enough to leave room for gears or a drive shaft connecting the smaller attractions to the mechanism shown in the cutaway image.
@Ridgeheart said:
"On the one hand, I'm digging that "this audience is now also getting to experience Technic", but who are we kidding? The Friends-line is rocking it. I think their audience is bigger than ever before."
This is hardly the first Friends set to include clever Technic gear functions, even if its functions are the most complex/elaborate we've seen so far! Some other neat examples include:
• 41033 — Closing the "dam" up top causes the waterfall to slide back behind the hidden cave as if the flow of water has stopped.
• 41105 — The holographic panels and the curtain of blue fog rotate in sync for Livi's big entrance, and the two dancer pedestals downstage are also geared together.
• 41133 — The shaker ride's carriage flips its riders around as it moves around its central axis.
• 41713 — A simple tellurion simulates the movement of the Sun, Earth, and Moon.
Anyway, I am REALLY impressed with this set! It has lots of attractive details, from the brick built coastline to the wooden boardwalk to the brick-built animals on the spinning ride and shooting gallery. And it also has a lot of VERY clever use of new and recent parts — the blade pieces used as seaweed, the fern pieces as palm fronds, and the Ninjago dragon horns used as the neck and tail of the brick-built seahorse.
The biggest surprise for me is that LEGO is releasing another Friends set with a 12+ target age so soon after 41732 from earlier this year! I don't think even Ninjago has ever gotten more than one set with such a high target age in a single year. It's a reassuring sign that LEGO recognizes how much the Friends theme can resonate even with teen and adult builders. And the elaborate mechanisms and high level of detail are certainly in keeping with that advanced target age.
Props to the design team for continuing to wow us more and more, even after a decade of LEGO Friends sets!
Looks to me from the white 'motion' lines indicated near each attraction that the big pirate ship on the marque rocks back and forth along with the sea animal ride rotating and waves in the wave pool moving up and down when turning the crank for the 'connected function'.
Lego Friends remains one of the strongest original themes for Lego, hands down! I love the use of the fern pieces introduced in the Rivendell set 10316-1 earlier this year as palm tree leaves.
Looks like a fun place.
If only there wasnt those minidolls..
I don’t collect it but Friends is defiantly the best line LEGO are putting out atm.
@Oli said:
"If only there wasnt those minidolls.. "
You are better buying this, getting 4 new minifigs from pick-a-brick (or using some you already have) and thrashing the minidolls if they are not your thing.
Assuming this would be a City set, first it would cost $100 more than what this set will cost. Second there would be a crook in it and a policeman in a quad-bike chasing after him. There would also be a garbage bin on fire somewhere and a fireman on a quad-bike attending to that. Most likely, there would also be a TV channel helicopter filming all the mayhem taking place at the City Park (i.e. whatever activities you could do at the park would be second in nature in the background).
From what we can see, very nice set. Looking forward for the review.
Just for kicks, check how compatible recent Friends-sets are with minifigs, compared to - I dunno, five years ago? That's a big difference. That's Heartlake City reaching out, mending bridges. Or taking over. Honestly, I'm fine either way.
Absolutely fantastic looking build.
LEGO has really been going all out on Friends recently, which is working! Love the look of this, although I have some higher priorities at the moment.
@Aanchir said:
"My assumption is that the one crank will operate moving parts for all three rides... "
The One Crank.
One Crank to rule them all, One Crank to find them, One Crank to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
Lego City keeps getting the same ol same ol rehashed sets, and Friends gets all the original stuff. Are Friends sets really selling that good for Lego to concentrate all their new ideas on them. Too bad some aren't incorporated into City, they have some nice sets.
Beautiful looking set, and sounds like it has one or more awesome working features!
But it doesn’t look anywhere CLOSE TO 1,300+ parts!!
They must be all 1x1 tiles & plates!
@pteric:
With Elves done, the only two themes that are primarily targeted at girls are Friends and Disney Princess. With fewer choices, it takes less of an overall market share for those themes to be considered a smash success.
@pteric said:
"Lego City keeps getting the same ol same ol rehashed sets, and Friends gets all the original stuff. Are Friends sets really selling that good for Lego to concentrate all their new ideas on them. Too bad some aren't incorporated into City, they have some nice sets."
I mean, in fairness, Friends has plenty of repetition itself. This isn't even the theme's first boardwalk amusement park set — 41337, 41373, and 41375 came out just four years ago, with a very similar sort of nautical theme. And many of this year's other sets are also stuff the theme has had in abundance over the years: bedrooms, houses, schools, hair salons, grocery stores, animal rescue/care sets, etc.
And to the City theme's credit, last year's range introduced that theme's first ever school, school bus, observatory, fairground ride, grocery store, factory, lifeguard station building, greenhouse, henhouse, and moon base — as well as its first barn and horse trailer since 2009, years before the Friends theme even EXISTED.
So in spite of all the City theme's repetitive subject matter like fire and police sets, I think it has also been branching out in some interesting ways in recent years — and I wouldn't be surprised if this summer's City range brings even more of that sort of novelty.
@Aanchir said:
" @pteric said:
"Lego City keeps getting the same ol same ol rehashed sets, and Friends gets all the original stuff. Are Friends sets really selling that good for Lego to concentrate all their new ideas on them. Too bad some aren't incorporated into City, they have some nice sets."
I mean, in fairness, Friends has plenty of repetition itself. This isn't even the theme's first boardwalk amusement park set — 41337 , 41373 , and 41375 came out just four years ago, with a very similar sort of nautical theme. And many of this year's other sets are also stuff the theme has had in abundance over the years: bedrooms, houses, schools, hair salons, grocery stores, animal rescue/care sets, etc.
And to the City theme's credit, last year's range introduced that theme's first ever school, school bus, observatory, fairground ride, grocery store, factory, lifeguard station building, greenhouse, henhouse, and moon base — as well as its first barn and horse trailer since 2009, years before the Friends theme even EXISTED.
So in spite of all the City theme's repetitive subject matter like fire and police sets, I think it has also been branching out in some interesting ways in recent years — and I wouldn't be surprised if this summer's City range brings even more of that sort of novelty."
I like that modern home from the year before that too. I think the first wave with the road pieces? Daughter had the hidden side beanie hair maybe?
Also City had a little natural history museum caveman exhibit hidden in the corner of a set (that I wasn’t about to buy just for that), which paired very well with the Arctic explorers having sabertooth cat and woolly mammoth remains - which can fully be repurposed for the living thing for prehistoric play
And very cool snowmobiles and so on
City drops cool things but I guess it can be a trickle.
I’d like to see a prehistoric friends set
@joedapoboy said:
"I’d like to see a prehistoric friends set"
So...Scarn's Cool Cave, and Thog's Mammoth Rescue?
By connected function I hope as well as the turning the fairground ride the handle also moves the waves or surfer up and down? If not, maybe an interesting STEM project.
@PurpleDave said:
" @joedapoboy said:
"I’d like to see a prehistoric friends set"
So...Scarn's Cool Cave, and Thog's Mammoth Rescue?"
Yes frickin exactly lol
Are those Bright Light Orange 26047s (1x1 plate with handle) in the seahorse's crest?