Review: LEGO Creator Expert 10267 Gingerbread House

Today we are quickly interested in the LEGO Creator Expert set 10267 Gingerbread House, a box that joins the long list of sets that form the Winter village with LEGO sauce. Festive spirit, snowy roofs, Christmas tree and various and varied gifts, this new box of 1477 pieces sold for € 94.99 is in the theme.

Since this is a set from the Creator Expert range, the set obviously gives pride of place to elaborate construction techniques and finishing details that are usually absent from sets considered more lambdas.

Without revealing too much so that those who will spend their money on this set will benefit from the many techniques implemented here, there is something to have fun and learn in the process to combine a few pieces to obtain an original effect. The junction of the roof tops, the windows clad in glittery bricks or the bathtub on the first floor are among the many elements that make good use of these techniques that non-MOCeurs are not always used to encounter, except to be fan of type sets Modulars.

The final model measuring only 26 cm wide, 21 cm high and 13 cm deep, you will understand that the 1477 pieces are mostly small elements that intervene in the construction of the house and the various accessories that make it. accompany. Pass from the imposing Imperial Star Destroyer from set 75252 that I just finished taking apart and repacking for the future winner of this set had something relaxing. Here, everything is in the details and we never get bored.

We quickly go over the mini-things that accompany the house and the characters in this box: another mini Christmas tree here surmounted by a star made from diamonds already seen in other colors within the Elves range, a few gifts, a rocking horse, a pram, a snowblower and some toys. These elements will easily find their place in your dioramas, that's always right.

No unusual process in the construction of the gingerbread house, we go up from the bottom to the top. A little tiling, a few sweets, the fireplace, the living room armchair, the furniture, everything is linked together to finish with the installation of the various roof panels. Unlike a classic home, here some of the furniture has been reimagined in a candy version and it is very successful. The white chocolate bed, the cotton candy bedside lamp and the candy or cake-based drawer handles make their little effect.

Among the new coins available in this box, we will retain the colored ingots Tan that dress the first floor bed and the purple colored 1x1 glitter bricks used for the construction windows. The pink version of these bricks, also present in this box, made the heyday of the Belville range in the 2000s and an appearance in the LEGO Friends Advent calendar in 2012.

This half-house is above all a playset, with its open side which allows you to enjoy the different rooms and their fittings. Once again, we could debate the interest of providing us with a half-construction when the model is rather intended to be enthroned in the middle of a winter village emerged from the boxes on the occasion of the end of year celebrations, but I find that the house here remains sufficiently "closed" to be able to be exposed from certain angles.

The set incorporates a luminous brick which allows the hearth of the fireplace to be lit on condition that you keep your finger pressed on the smoke coming out of the duct on the roof. As usual, it is not possible to leave the fireplace on all the time, except to tinker with the construction, and that's a shame.

This fireplace is also a little strange: it is open both to the interior of the house and to the outside. It's totally fancy, but it allows you to take advantage of the integrated lighting on both sides of the construction.

In the official product description, LEGO announces three minifigures. In my opinion, it is a bit of an exaggeration, the baby is a simple slice of gingerbread embodied by a pad printing on a tile. LEGO misses in my opinion here the opportunity to provide us with a baby in Medium Dark Flesh composed of the elements that we have already obtained for example in the sets 60134 Fun in the Park City People Pack et 10255 Assembly Square.

The two real figurines delivered in this box are very successful. Their torso takes the design already used for other characters of the same type by adding red buttons for the festive side. On the other hand, no pad printing on the legs of the two characters as on the figurine of the 11th series of collectible characters launched in 2013 (71022) or that of the promotional mini-set 5005156 Gingerbread Man offered in 2016.

The female character, however, received special care with a decorated skirt and a pink insert between the two slices of gingerbread on the head. All in all, we find ourselves there. The flat baby comes with his bottle, an accessory already seen in many sets in the LEGO Friends range.

In short, this set should in my opinion quickly become a staple of everything Winter village who respects himself. It is really in the theme, its assembly is an opportunity to discover some original techniques and and this pretty gingerbread house filled with sweets is a feast for the eyes.

As a bonus, LEGO provides a very large handful of 70 Spare Parts, those extra pieces that are left on your hands as you finish putting the build together and start wondering where you left something behind ...

For those who are wondering, there are only three stickers in this box: the family photo above the fireplace, the doormat and the sign. Candy lane fixed on one of the two barley sugars.

I say yes, although a "real" baby would have been welcome.

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