LEGOFriends Heartlake International School Playset, Building Toy for 8 Plus Year Old Kids, Girls and Boys with 5 Character Mini-Dolls & Accessories, Birthday Gift Idea 41731

Granddaughter love Lego Friends.

Great

As described as lego, good details

Lovely Lego set! Grand daughter very pleased. Would recommend

The media could not be loaded. My 13 year old daughter loves the LEGO Friends playsets - let's face it, you're never too old for LEGO! She already has a few sets, so I thought that she'd love the International School set which also features some new characters for 2023!The set comes in a large, bright, attractive box containing 7 numbered bags, stickers and 3 pictorial instruction booklets. The instructions are clear and very easy to understand. I sat with my daughter and we had lots of fun building this together - we both took a manual and built separate parts before sharing the last manual. I find that building LEGO is a great way to get creative and interact with your kids.The school looks wonderful when built. It's bright and colourful and full of a variety of lovely rooms with clever detail. The rooms are a modular design and each completed room is a separate unit which can be rearranged and put together however your youngster prefers.Classrooms include an art room, a very cool looking science room and a media room! There's also a canteen, outdoor play areas and even a loo!The playset comes with 5 lovely figures - 4 students ( 2 girls and 2 boys ) and also a teacher, as well as a school hamster!My daughter is thrilled with this set and loved building it. It's a wonderful LEGO set for creative youngsters and will inspire many hours of imaginative play.

I spent the entire evening with my granddaughter constructing two Large Lego playsets, it speaks volumes as to their quality that once completed i wouldn't let her take them home, Christmas is over and these are solely for use at grandads house!This Lego Friends Heartlake International School Playset is manufactured with a target audience of 8 yrs + in mind and comprises of 985 pieces, it arrives in a very large box that is suitably branded and like every Lego product comes complete with assembly instructions.Lego branded playsets always appear expensive at first glance and they no doubt are, however some of that expense is immediately justified when the box arrives and you notice how big it is, especially when compared to the smaller individual items and some sense of satisfaction is gleaned from seeing this.Lego is always the go to brand for innovation, no set is limited to the layout that is depicted on the box, you can always switch parts of a building around or attempt to construct something else entirely, though this isn't always successful.This set contains five figures, figures are an important part of Lego playsets nowadays and are probably more important than the amount of bricks, the more figures, the more play value the intended recipient will contrive from it and five is a good amount.Lego designers have a habit of constantly innovating to produce new depictions of real life counterparts, there's very little that hasn't been manufactured in the brick form, though somehow they manage to find dozens of new items every single year.From the anatomy skeleton included in this set, to the water dispenser and the functional basketball hoop, all are beautifully depicted and are faithful representations of their real world counterparts.This is a great set and represents good value for money when compared to the smaller sets that abound, clever marketing also means that they'll never run short of things to add, or desire long after you've built it, every youngster will desire a complete town, but it's up to you how big you make it.Recommended

It was easy to build to my daughter loved every second of it

Anyone who knows the Lego brand will know that you tend to get what you pay for and this school building set is no different in quality and building methods.However this set has a slightly older feel to it and this is reflected in the age range for play with it being targeted at ages of 8 and upwards. This is probably due to the fact that these age ranges are when kids are in school, probably enjoying their initial years of primary education, making friends and building those little friend networks we all experienced as children and this playset sort of compliments the ages. I do think it would be suitable for ages younger though.Priced at just under £90 at time of review you get a pretty large brick set here (just under a thousand bricks/pieces) so a lot of patience is required and may require adult supervision or help. What I love about Lego though is their pretty easy to follow manuals (which you should always keep) and their numbered bags which separate all the pieces and makes building and locating that little bit easier.The characters inside this aren't like the usual Lego men/women and are more realistic looking designed as kids which is something I never expected Lego to do. Always thought they'd use their traditional design but they're steering away from their usual designs which is adventurous on their part. The brick colours are also blander in colour than usual playsets but this is because the set is school themed and more appropriately designed to reflect real life.The set is like a smaller dolls house in some respects with interactive parts to swap and change if desired and what kid doesn't love to play with dolls houses?There's lots of really nice elements to this set that are fun for kids to play with.Not sure the marketing though is very good as it doesn't sound like an appealing set to parents to buy for their kids and are more inclined to go for the more colourful, themed sets such as Mickey mouse, starwars and so on.I didn't even know that Lego had created a school/friends set tbh.What I've always loved about Lego though is the way you can just do whatever you please with the sets, you don't have to follow the manual, you can build whatever you wish and we all know that most sets are inter buildable between each other. But to be honest for this price, you'd want your child to build this and keep it built and not just smash it up and chuck it in with the rest of their Lego lol.That's where the box comes in handy and the box easily holds all bricks and pieces should your child decide to deconstruct this. Again I'd advise on keeping that manual if you wish to either build it again or pass it down the family.Another great Lego set and appropriately priced for the amount, design and theme.