• Birthday Cake

    <h1>Birthday Cake</h1><div class='tags floatleft'><a href='/sets/40048-1/Birthday-Cake'>40048-1</a> <a href='/sets/theme-Seasonal'>Seasonal</a> <a class='subtheme' href='/sets/subtheme-Birthday'>Birthday</a> <a class='year' href='/sets/theme-Seasonal/year-2012'>2012</a> </div><div class='floatright'>©2012 LEGO Group</div>

    Birthday Cake

    ©2012 LEGO Group
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    HBLG

    Written by (AFOL , gold-rated reviewer) in United States,

    Dear Lego Group:

    Thank you for the flat blue round plate with central studs. It is nice. It's shiny. I did not have this before. I'm pretty glad to have it, especially since it was free.

    But I wanted to tell you something you may not have realized. Someone put it into birthday wrap that must have had some other Lego bricks in it. They are yellow and white. A few are brown. And there were some sprinkles in it that I like too -- dark red ones. I call them the teeth, but not where my flat blue round plate can hear me. I don't want to spook him.

    Well, that's all. Thanks for the plate. And the teeth.

    Yours truly,

    Me
    My House
    My Country
    The Earth
    The Universe

    2 out of 7 people thought this review was helpful.

  • Birthday Cake

    <h1>Birthday Cake</h1><div class='tags floatleft'><a href='/sets/40048-1/Birthday-Cake'>40048-1</a> <a href='/sets/theme-Seasonal'>Seasonal</a> <a class='subtheme' href='/sets/subtheme-Birthday'>Birthday</a> <a class='year' href='/sets/theme-Seasonal/year-2012'>2012</a> </div><div class='floatright'>©2012 LEGO Group</div>

    Birthday Cake

    ©2012 LEGO Group
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    Nice little gift

    Written by (AFOL) in Germany,

    This little set was a little give-away for the 30th Birthday of TLG in Aug 2012. It was included in every order over 50 USD in Northern America, resp. 55 EUR in Germany. In UK it was not available until Brickset achieved a special offer: It was included for orders above 25 GBP with the code "CAKE" during Oct 2012.

    Pros

    • Free give-away
    • some nice parts like the blue baseplate (unique), the reddish-brown slope and the dark-red teeth
    • can be used as birthday present

    Cons

    • Not many parts (24)
    • Easy build (at least the front is SNOT)

    I had some problems at first, recognizing it as a birthday cake. But later on I realized that it is most probably meant to be piece of a cake - to be more precise - of a sheet cake.

    After all, I am happy that I did not miss it, as it is a wonderful memento of TLG's 30th birthday. With objective eyes it is nothing special though. A birthday set from TLG could have been bigger.

    4 out of 4 people thought this review was helpful.