The LEGO store has these sets for 30% off. It's a $100 set in the US and it's got 1490 parts including the 8 minifigs. Normally that would be about 6.7 cents a part. I know a lot of them are small but that's still a nice price. With the 30% off it's just over 4 cents each. Yahoo! I was sitting on a $100 gift card that I got from a guy at work. He had asked me to build a LEGO model last January for a program at the Minneasota Science Museum. I also had $5 in VIP points so I figured I would get 3 of them. It's been a slow period for clearance sets and I had hardly found anything of note lately. I wound up with 3 hundred dollar sets with a total of 4470 parts for about $115 of my own money. Over the weekend I bust all the bags open and sorted out all the parts. After going through it I thought it was a nice parts pack, especially for the kind of parts that I like. My major motivation was the large number of white plates in the set. There are 122 plates of various sizes, including 4 of the 8x16 plates that are used in the base of the house. I could always use a bit of a rejuvination in my white plate stock. The other white pieces in the set are also handy and in good quantities.
You get a cottage and a small building that I can only wish was an outhouse. There's a truck, a sled and an igloo. All the minifig costumes have been in other, mostly holiday, sets but they are costumes of a generic nature which I find more useful than something specific. Here's the description from Brickset which I think came from the LEGO site.
Get cosy in the Winter Village Cottage!
Continuing the winter series, build the Winter Village Cottage for a perfect holiday home. Seat Grandpa snugly by the fireplace with his newspaper as you help Dad to put up the tree, then bake a feast in the kitchen with Mom! When it's time to stock up the storage shed with firewood, bring the kids for a ride with Dad on the sledge watch him cut the wood with his chainsaw deep in the forest. When the snow gets really deep, clear the road with the snowplough, take all of the kids skiing or build an igloo to play in. There's no cosier place to spend long, frosty nights!
- Includes 8 minifigures: mum, dad, grandma, grandpa, 3 children and snowplough driver with assorted accessories
- Features cottage, storage shed, igloo, streetlamp, sled and snowplough
- Accessories include kitten, owl, fireplace with LEGO® light brick function, chandelier, Christmas tree, wreath, gifts, armchair, kitchen appliances and bed
- Storage shed features tools and firewood elements
- Igloo features fireplace and removable roof
- Rare elements and colours included
- Detach the snowplough to store it in the back of the truck!
- Make the fireplace glow with the LEGO light brick!
- Decorate the cottage!
- Fetch firewood with the sledge!
- Drive the snowplough!
- Cottage measures 6.7” (17cm) high, 9.8” (25cm) wide and 5.5” (14cm) deep
- Storage shed measures 4.3” (11cm) high, 2.7” (7cm) wide and 2.7” (7cm) deep
- Igloo measures 2.7” (7cm) high, 2.7” (7cm) wide and 2.7” (7cm) deep
- Snowplough measures 2.7” (7cm) high, 7” (18cm) long (with plow attached) and 2.3” (6cm) wide
I like that they put rare elements and colours included as a feature. There are a few odd parts that only appear in a few sets or in small quantities but hardly anything is really rare anymore. The rarest might be the 2 clear headlight bricks which have only appeared in 7 sets so far. Four of them are large sets and one of them is that limited edition LEGO store set. The other two are smaller size sets. Still, it's safe to say that there might be several hundred thousand, or even over a million, of that rare piece out there. Mind you the cost of the part on the secondary market helps reflects the rarety. A black headlight brick starts at a penny and the trans headlight starts at 25 cents. It really depends on what you can do with them. Sometimes I need to have a part in order to think of a use for it. I didn't bother to build the set but I did look at the instructions to see where those clear headlight bricks went. They are the back window on the slow plow. Here's a look inside the house.
We can only hope that everyone doesn't have to share the same bed. I like parts of the place but not the whole thing. The rooms look pretty nice but the interior of the roof fails. I could see that the interior of the roof might be painted white but then what are those brown and dark blay plates supposed to be. Still, I'm not picking this up to make a little cottage for a scene so I really shouldn't care what it looks like. I can do better on my own anyway. I do like the sticker sheet. It makes a wreath for the door, grandpa's newspaper and a 2x4 size picture for the wall. It's got a moose. Beside the nice big stack of white plates there are some other nice large lots of pieces. There are 203 tiles, most of which are the 1x1 size. There are 40 each of white 1x1 and the dark blue 1x11 for the kitchen floor. There are over 2 dozen of the round 1x1 tile in various colors, including transparent kind.
Since I'm a fan of the medium blue color it was nice to get 173 parts of that color in each set. There are 46 of the 1x1 brick, 35 of the 1x2 brick, 19 of the 1x1 plate and 23 of the 1x2 plate. There are plenty of smaller amounts of other colors, black, tan, both blays, green and dark blue. The reddish brown is another color that is well represented with 217 parts. Not much red or yellow or blue. There are 63 cheese slopes, including some 1x2 size. There are 40 of the tan 1x2 brick bricks. I've been massing enough to make a house. Now I'll use them in the fairy cottage for the comic con. All in all a great set for the parts I wanted and with that free 100 bucks it was a great bargin.
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