I wanted to finish up the rest of the Elves series but I've been busy. I think after this batch I'm going to take a break posting about sets for a while. I haven't bought much of anything of late, partly because not much interests me, and partly because I've reached a bit of saturation. I have mostly enough parts to not need more of certain kinds and sets come with lots of extra bits that I don't always have a use for. Because of what I was building for the comic con I wanted the Elves sets for the leaf parts, big plates and some of the figures.
41075 The Elves' Treetop Hideaway is a 505 piece set and it's 50 bucks. That's just over a dime each with the tax added. It's a great set for colored pieces, there are 40 different colors, including all the transparent parts. You get to make a couple of tree houses and some landscaping around them. It's all very colorful though I would prefer if the trees were one solid color and actually grew up around the house. They look like they had their tops sawn off and houses built on top. Here's the description from the Brickset site:
Go on a journey through the magical new universe of the LEGO® Elves with Emily Jones!
Enter the magical world of the LEGO® Elves with Emily Jones. When wandering in her grandmother’s garden she suddenly finds herself transported through a magic portal to a Treetop Hideaway in a whole new universe. Explore the surroundings with Emily as she realizes that she’s no longer in the human world and meets Azari Firedancer and Farran Leafshade, the Fire and Earth Elves. Make Farran climb down the magic ladder and show her around his extraordinary home. Cook carrot soup over the fire for them to eat while Emily explains that she needs to get back home, and the Elves promise to help her. Send some food up to the treehouse in the magic bucket lift for Farran’s panther cub Enki before they all meet up with the Water and Wind Elves – Emily will need their help too! Includes 3 mini-doll figures: Emily Jones, Azari Firedancer and Farran Leafshade, plus Enki the panther cub.
- Includes 3 mini-doll figures: Emily Jones, Azari Firedancer and Farran Leafshade, plus Enki the panther cub
- Features a magic portal, parting leaf curtains, magic ladder bridge, bucket lift, sofa bed, table and stools, and a secret compartment
- Accessories include 2 juices, carrot, 2 apples, bag, letter, magic potion and fire and earth power icons
- Help Emily Jones discover and learn about the magical universe of the LEGO® Elves
- Open the leaf curtains to let light into the Treetop Hideaway
- Find a letter from the Wind Elf in Farran’s secret compartment
- Set off with Emily and her new elf friends on their quest to help send her home
- The Elves’ Treetop Hideaway measures over 6” (17cm) high, 9” (25cm) wide and 4” (12cm) deep
- Go to LEGO.com/elves to discover more about Emily Jones and the magical universe of the LEGO® Elves
- Collect all the LEGO® Elves models to find the 4 magical keys and send Emily Jones back home to the human world
There's 24 plant parts in the set, you can see most of them up there. I did like the colors of the parts and used all the different colors that came with the Elves sets for my part of the group build at the Comic Con. Here's a link to the pictures in my Flickr album. I really liked the green plant stem with 6 stalks. I used all I got. There's 110 parts in dark red. That's one of my favorite colors and I've gotten a nice pile of parts to use someday. I used the big 8 by 16 and 16 by 16 plates as bases on my part of the group build. People use them for Micropolis too. I do like the new fence part in sand green. There's a pearl gold one in another set. There are some nice printed parts and a sticker sheet that comes in two versions. I got a set about a month and a half ago and a couple more a couple of weeks after that. I have got both versions of the stickers. Here's what they look like.
The one on the left is on white paper and the one on the right is a transparent sheet. You can see that they are quite different. The transparent is the one I found in the two sets I got later. That should give you a good indication that I liked the set and thought it had a nice assortment of parts that I wanted. I'd certainly want to get a couple more but only on clearance at this point. Doubtful that's going to happen. The Friends sets sell super well and this is probably going to do the same. The Friends sets aren't on sale or clearance very often. That's one down and a couple more small ones to go.
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