Review: LEGO Botanical Collection 10309 Succulents

Today we quickly go around the other novelty of the Botanical Collection LEGO which will be available at the public price of 49.99 € from May 1st: the reference 10309 Succulents, which allows with its inventory of 771 pieces to assemble nine plants forming a small modular set.

Difficult to pass after the very successful orchid of the set 10311Orchid, the product offered here has its charm but it is necessarily a little less elegant. It's the subject matter that wants that and this set still has some arguments to make, such as the possibility of assembling it with several people. LEGO indeed provides three instruction booklets and three separate bags that allow you to assemble three of the nine planned plants.

We can therefore consider that the experience is to be shared, even if the assembly of some of these succulents will only take a small handful of minutes. I engaged in the exercise as a family, with three, everything was completed in half an hour. I'll spare you the usual construction steps, it's up to you to discover the different techniques and parts used to obtain the final result, there's no need to spoil this pleasure for you.

For those who are wondering, there is not really any added educational value in this box, but LEGO takes the trouble to identify the different plants to build over the pages of the three instruction booklets. There won't be any chance of forging a solid culture about what the different assemblies represent, but you will at least be able to put a name to each of them. It is then up to you to document yourself if necessary so that you can skilfully present and comment on the construction in front of your friends.

If we take each of the plants individually, the result is in my opinion very unequal with for example an Aloe Vera, a moon cactus and a Sempervivum passable, a very correct sea urchin cactus and burro tail and two Echeverias which I find very successful. It is the set that will have its little effect and you will have to wait until you have finished assembling and connecting the small black pots to each other to obtain a visually rather convincing result.

We are not going to swoon for hours in front of these few plants, but the block will, for example, make a very original decorative centerpiece on occasion. Bringing together succulents, the construction does not take up much volume on arrival and it is the moon cactus which sets the maximum height with 13 cm high.

The modularity of the overall construction is interesting, it allows many combinations and it is only limited by the size of certain plants whose leaves protrude from the frame. Depending on the space available or the use of the construction, you can choose to group the different plants by balancing the volumes or align them wisely on a shelf. Small appreciable detail, the red axes provided which are used to connect the pots between them can be stored in the black base under one of the plants.

This product is a lifestyle reference that deserves its place on the shelves of a decoration and accessories store and which will undoubtedly have a little more difficulty finding its audience among LEGO fans accustomed to other ranges and universes. . For fifty euros at LEGO, and probably much less elsewhere in a few weeks, this box will make a nice gift to offer to arrive with something other than a bottle of wine and a cake at your friends' house. It's not trompe-l'oeil in the literal sense of the term, but the object has its charm if you can accept the idea of ​​exhibiting plastic-based plants.

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