Leap Year Building Challenge

Friends Bricks | Leap Year Building Challenge: 

With the extra day of Feb 29th this year ...
Leap forward in time and Build a Heartlake City College Classroom

 or Dorm Room for your favorite Friend

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- Create using authentic LEGO bricks

- Must be original, never before posted online

- Design to fit Heartlake City venue

- Include mini-dolls if you want

- Post your MOC starting February 29th (Leap Year Day)

through the end of 2016 (Dec 31)

- Add to the LEGO Friends Flickr group

and/or the Friends Bricks Forum

- Enjoy inspiring other Friends fans!

Review: 41111 Party Train

Stephanie finds something exciting in the mail as she watches Heidi and Harry the hamsters play outside. 
It’s an invitation to Daisy’s birthday party! Don’t forget to bring a special gift! 
Now let’s get on the party train with Stephanie and the hamsters!

This set was provided by the AFOL Relations & Programs team (AR&P) of The LEGO Group for the purpose of sharing set details with fans.
Opinions provided here solely reflect those of our reviewer. 
Photographs are property of Friends Bricks and are not directed by TLG in any fashion.

Box Front

In these animal-centered sub-theme sets, the animals get featured in the cute illustration in the right corner. 

Box Back 

These fun scenes and more can be built using this set!

Box Top

Review: 41114 Party Styling

Jewel the cat wants to look her best for the birthday party she has been invited to! Let’s help her get ready!

This year’s animal sub-theme revolves around a special party! 

The Friends girls are organizing the birthday party for Daisy the rabbit, and lots of cuddly friends are invited!

This set was provided by the AFOL Relations & Programs team (AR&P) of The LEGO Group for the purpose of sharing set details with fans.
Opinions provided here solely reflect those of our reviewer.  Photographs are property of Friends Bricks and are not directed by TLG in any fashion.

Box Front

Colorful decorative bunting is added to the basic box art to indicate this is a set from the party sub-theme.

Box Top

Box Back

The back of this small box is pretty much filled with all the warning messages in 33 different languages. This was not the case with last year’s small animal sets. 

So, the additional product image which was meant to appear on the back of the box was pushed to one of the sides this year. 

Box Side

The box for the North American market has this alternate product image on the back instead of the multilingual warnings.

Build a display stand

Blending LEGO building with useful items we use around our homes has recently gained in popularity -- with all types of lifestyle and fashion uses across society.  That's why these building tutorials from the LEGO Friends team are not only helpful for learning building techniques -- they are also in style!

So far the items are: a flower-box (that would be handy for Valentines or Mothers Day), string art (create your name for your door perhaps), a kaleidoscope (with bricks creating the groovy shapes & color illusions), a "bricked" floral addition to a headband (or a cool crown one at the end of that tutorial), and the Cupcake display stand that has been embed below (could be built for different food items, or fun for AFOL weddings, and the tutorial also shows other styles ideas at the end):

Click through to YouTube and you should see the prompts for the rest of the tutorials on the right sidebar.
Enjoy the inspiration!

2016 Toy Fair - LEGO Friends Summer sets

New York Toy Fair & Nuremberg Toy Fair displays of LEGO Friends Summer 2016 sets:


LEGO Friends Amusement Park Roller Coaster - 41130

Amusement Park Roller Coaster (1124) entrance
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LEGO Friends Amusement Park Space Ride - 41128

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LEGO Friends Amusement Park Arcade - 41127

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LEGO Friends Amusement Park Hot Dog Stand - 41129

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LEGO Friends Heartlake Horse Riding Club - 41126

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LEGO Friends Puppy Daycare - 41124

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LEGO Friends Vet Horse Trailer - 41125

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LEGO Friends Foal's Washing Station - 41123

display images via Brick Journal & Promobricks
and toynewsi and toyark
some box art via Brickset

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Spotlight: Heartlake Supermarket

LEGO Friends Heartlake Supermarket (41118) welcomes customers with a

bright & curvy design complete with built-in displays, plus it

opens up for restocking the super-fun new printed food items!

Box shows Mia passing the news stand as Daniel gets ready to greet new customers.

The inset image features the new 2016 cash register design printed on a 2x4 slope

brick.  You can also see the store's location -- across from the Cupcake Cafe!

Box back illustrates built-in hinges, tongs for handling delicate pastries (thanks to Exo-Force),

Mia checking out the beauty products, and the cold food display case.

Spotlight: Heartlake Cupcake Cafe

LEGO Friends Heartlake Cupcake Cafe (41119) is the new hangout in 2016!

Build the moving features to spin the display case by the rooftop swirl finial.
Read our Review!

 

Box front shows Stephanie and new Friends character Naomi looking over fresh baked goods.

Box back shows inside the cafe and all the various activities you get to build.

Spotlight: Olivia's Exploration Car

LEGO Friends Olivia's Exploration Car (41116) looks to the stars.  We get to build a rotating

telescope platform using her treehouse as a base.

Box art shows Olivia on a hill near the treetop telescope checking star charts with

her robot Zobo that she created 4 years ago, and is ready with a cup of hot chocolate.

Box back shows her looking through the telescope, then posting her findings online

with her new purple laptop.

Spotlight: Emma's Creative Workshop

LEGO Friends Emma's Creative Workshop (41115) is a creative set about creativity.

Building it can inspire your own aspirations for being a maker.  Learning the clever ways to build a

machine for sewing can help you with techniques for your own LEGO designs.

Box art shows the placement inside Emma's house and how her desk is part of an architectural

section you build that frames the window.  Lovely bows are on display as the header.

The Lamp design echoes the style in other parts of her house.

Spotlight: Pop Star House & TV Studio

LEGO Friends Livi's Pop Star House (41135) is modern and modular!

The house is built a module section at a time, connected, and hinge open for play access.

Box art shows her house high above the city lights.

Box back highlights all the fun you get to build for Andrea's visit to Livi's house.

Another look at how you build modular sections, then build together with the hinges to allow

access inside the house.