Overall

Every year Lego has exclusive seasonal sets for Easter Christmas etc. and this is the one for Easter 2017 and I think that Lego did a good job on this one it follows the 2017 seasonal format ware the build is split into 3 pieces plus accessories on the side.

The Build

The three section are built alike they all have a fence in the back and all have a place to hide an egg. There are a lot of nice details like a mailbox, carrot planter, flowers and a chicken coop. The accessories are a green wheelbarrow, a magnifying glass, a chicken, a basket for the eggs and the eggs themselves.

The Minifigures

The figures are simple, but, are acceptable and would be good in a city setup. The woman has black hair a green torso and blue legs. The boy has dark orange hair a dark blue torso and dark tan short legs.

The Parts

There are some nice parts in this set like the eggs in blue, gray and white, plus the accessories and chicken.

Conclusion

In the end I think this a great set and I everything a good seasonal set should be, for $9.99 USD I think it is a good deal too. I hope this review was helpful to you thanks for reading.

Set #40237 Easter Egg Hunt: The second seasonal set from 2017 is another solid looking Vignette style set, and we’ll cover all of the good aspects and the bad in this review. The biggest positive alone easily to mention is the very cheap inclusion of more egg pieces first introduced with Angry Birds Movie sets.

Box/Instructions

Box: In keeping with this year’s seasonal box design a large egg is printed on the front of the box where you can put To: name From: name when giving this set out as a gift. It’s a very nice looking box design and shows off the set very nicely. Overall great functional box.

Instructions: The instructions are typical for Seasonal sets, they show the build of each small piece in sections, and include a parts checklist in the back. The back cover also shows off our next Vignette style set, a Halloween themed piece. I’m kind of surprised there’s no summer based set honestly, it is seasonal, though not exactly holiday… however I digress.

Parts

A large selection of small parts make up this set, the biggest draws in my eyes are the three large egg pieces, one white, one grey and one blue, the chicken, the fancy black fence-like decoration elements and the lime green wheelbarrow, not to mention a handful of tan mason bricks. Some great parts for MOC fans or just clever builders in general.

Minifigures

Boy: Carrying a magnifying glass to hunt out his eggs, this little guy is dressed in a plaid checker-patterned top and has messy tan-orangeish hair. Standard design and parts use for these sorts of sets.

Mother: Using the exact same head as the female from the Valentine set I’m left wondering if she’s a sister or meant to be the same person with a different hairstyle, here she has a Black Widow hairpiece in black identical to the Jewel Thief from CMF Series 15… Perhaps this is in fact the Jewel Thief in plain clothes. She’s got a nice pair of light-blue legs and a dolphin patterned top in lime-green. She gets an orange basket for an accessory.

The build

Every section of the vignette is built up in sections, you have three areas where eggs are hidden, and each section together is built on a small 6x6 plate in dark green or a 6x8 light green coloured plate. Every section of build can be finished in a little under ten minutes with rapid-fire building techniques that impress and create some nice scenery. Nothing stands out as difficult or tricky, squeezing single studs together to make rows of flower can be a tad repetitive though.

The completed model

As this is an outdoor vignette style set there are a few things to bear in mind, making a large backdoor setting wouldn’t have been practical in my opinion due to the nature of hunting for eggs hiding them away in different locations makes sense.

The first small area represents a garden path leading up to a front gateway with a mailbox on one side, the mailbox is a fairly standard design, we’ve seen this particular micro-model in numerous sets in other Themes before. The garden path is a nice touch, with four flowers on each side of the main path, two each of colours orange, light purple, dark purple and teal. Hiding inside the mailbox is the grey egg, just pop it open and there you’ll find it.

The other portions of the model represent backyard locations, the first is a little chicken coup with a fence behind it matching the gate. There’s a small nest where the hen has laid a regular sized egg using the small spherical cane topper piece used to tip Saruman’s wizard’s staff in LotR and The Hobbit sets. A white flag piece is used as a door for the chicken and inside is the large white egg to be found by the young boy.

A third section builds another small section of the fence with a carrot garden in front of it, you get two carrots, one in the wheelbarrow and one growing out of the ground. The carrot garden rests on a hinged plate, open it to reveal the blue egg, the rarest of prizes.

Overall opinion

Wonderful looking series of vignettes and a far more interesting set this year compared to last year. There’s a lot to like about this set, and only a limited amount to be disappointed with, I would have liked to have seen a larger baseplate with more detailing for a fenced in yard setting, but what we’ve got makes for a good first attempt and should be easy to MOC a full yard with enough parts. The fence design is really impressive and I find myself wanting more of that part to make a fully enclosed fence.