LEGO FRIENDS OLIVIA'S HOUSE 3315

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The colour scheme is pleasant, and if you find the pink offensive then it can easily be swapped out as there isn’t really that much of it. It’s almost as if LEGO designed a really cool and detailed house, that looks amazing, and then someone in marketing said “well, yes, it’s nice, but it’s for girls so it needs more pink”. They have the figs pretending to be the size of humans with a model of the house that they’re part of.

This version is fairly substantial, with a large grill and hood, and the medium blue spatula is employed here as a BBQ instrument. The shape of the flowers is a great new mould, and they feel more substantial than the old style flower sprues. Constructing the swing is not challenging, but it’s a break from the brick on brick building and it could have been patronisingly omitted.

From a different angle there are still new things to spot, such as the detailing on the back of the comfy chair afforded by the 1x2 dark bluish grey grille brick.

I'm still not entirely convinced about the friends figures, but 9 parts (the hair being fig friendly) in a 600+ set is hardly worth worrying about. Aside from the foliage, there are also a pair of metallic silver 1x2 grille tiles which, while not being particularly rare, are still always welcome. Bag one builds the sitting room and, as we will find with almost every parts bag, there are structural tan pieces for the walls along with a lot of white and lime green pieces.

The butterflies, ladybugs and rosebuds are all about the same size and shape and are identical bright red so they can sometimes seem to be just red blobs scattered about, so I didn't really care for them. This house is completely designed for interaction and customization, and certainly not with the silly levers and numerous catapults from some of the other lines. The first impression you get from looking at the built set is: “wow, that really is kinda pink”, but if you look closer, and think about removing all the pink slopes and pink baseplates (which are not that many pieces really in a set this size) this could easily be transformed into. As the build is modular in nature, I’ll show the contents of each bag as we build each section of the house and garden. The detailing is splendid, and it is clear the designer of this set really thought about what would make a great set first, and then what would appeal to girls second.

One of the delights of 8403 Family Home (City House) was that there was a modicum of furniture provided. I look at a lot of MOCs on Eurobricks, including (perhaps particularly) the buildings and I enjoy seeing new modular buildings people have created to fit with the now-legendary Grand Emporium and Green Grocer etc, but some of the most common questions asked in the discussion threads for these MOCs are “Does it have an interior? It was weird that the only male figure has a printed/unremovable beard but the two female figures can be any age. We are introduced to Olivia (whose house this is, in case you somehow didn’t know), and even shown how to build her. The left side is bare, and the technic pins attest to the modular nature of the overall build – that this will be attached to another “module”.Thanks to the modular nature of the rooms, if better access to one is desired then they can easily be separated back out.

I know that sounds silly, but the 1x2 dark bluish-grey modified grille bricks really do look like vents, and the white at the top and the bottom looks like coving and skirting board respectively. LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, DUPLO, the FRIENDS logo, the MINIFIGURES logo, DREAMZzz, NINJAGO, VIDIYO and MINDSTORMS are trademarks of the LEGO Group.The Friends theme includes mini-doll figures, which are around the same size as minifigures but are more realistic.