LEGO Creator 40337 Mini Gingerbread House: Close-up of the next set offered by LEGO

Today we take a closer look at the contents of the LEGO Creator set 40337 Mini Gingerbread House, a small limited edition box of 499 pieces that will be offered by LEGO from December 6 to 24, 2019 from 100 € / 115 CHF of purchase without restriction of range.

You guessed it, this little box allows you to assemble a compact version of the gingerbread house from the LEGO Creator Expert set 10267 Gingerbread House (94.99 €) marketed since mid-September.

With 499 pieces in the box, you can imagine that the inventory here consists of a majority of small elements that will have to be carefully assembled. The set also requires two instruction booklets for a total of 148 assembly steps. In the end, the reproduction offered here is consistent with the large model, all or almost all the attributes of the "big" house are present.

The set offers many original techniques that should appeal to all those who like to discover all the possibilities offered by the LEGO ecosystem. In this regard, this box offers a rather high-end assembly "experience", far from the simplistic polybags or basic constructions sometimes offered in certain products offered on condition of purchase.

There is only one sticker in the box, the one allowing to date the construction with the year of production of this box. You are free to stick it or not on the white part provided.

The back of the model is uniform and full. Due to the very small scale of the construction, there are logically no accessible interior spaces as on the version of the Creator Expert set 10267 Gingerbread House. This mini gingerbread house is anyway intended to end up on the corner of a shelf during the holidays or to serve as an element adding an effect of forced perspective in a snowy diorama.

In the end, I am pleasantly surprised by this small box which is not intended for sale but which still offers a real successful construction. The real downside is elsewhere: the minimum purchase to be reached to be offered this set is set by LEGO at 100 € / 115 CHF of purchase and it is a substantial amount. Evil tongues will answer me that at LEGO "for 100 bucks, you have nothing", but I can not help thinking of all those who hoped to have to spend, as in the past, only 65 or 85 € to take advantage of the offer.

An important detail: LEGO has already in the past put on sale products that were previously offered as part of a promotional offer. This small set is valued at 19.99 € on the page that describes the offer, there may be a chance that it will be possible to purchase it separately in the weeks or months to come, when your LEGO budget has found some color.

Note: The set presented here, supplied by LEGO, is as usual in play. Deadline fixed at December 16, 2019 next at 23pm.

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