LEGOFriends Stephanie’s Play Cube 41401 Building Kit, with 1 Collectible Mini-Doll Toy Chef; Great for Creative Play, New 2020 (44 Pieces)

Es muy practico y creativo para las niñas, les permite desarrollar su memoria e imaginación.

This is a cute LEGO set in the new Friends Play Cube Series with a purple and turquoise box for Stephanie. If you are a fan of LEGO Friends, of the Play Cube Series, or of Stephanie, or you think you might be, then this is a great set. The set has a baking theme, so there are some fun pieces including an oven and range, counter with cupboard, a whisk, and a buildable cake that utilizes a cool frosting piece new for 2020, available only in this set and in the Baking Competition set (41393). In this set the frosting piece is light aqua. The Baking Competition set has the frosting piece in light aqua and also in brown. I also haven't seen the girl chef hat with hair before - and it turns out, it's new for 2020 - this is the first (and so far, only) set you can find this piece. I like that the Friends line has a good balance of non-pink and pink. In this set, the pink is primarily in the floor and in accessories.A couple unique features about the Friends Play Cube Series which are pretty cool - the cubes are stackable with each other, and once the box is built, the minidoll, and her play elements fit neatly inside the box. This is cool because you can pack her up and take her with you. Each playset also comes with a surprise pet inside - Stephanie gets a dog, but will it be dark azure, magenta, pearl gold, or lavendar? You won't know until you open it up! By the way, if you're a little perplexed about how to open up the Play Cube, as I was for a moment, the latch mechanism is completely unsurprising! It's two LEGO pieces connected together. If you're having trouble getting it open, do what you do with LEGO - use a brick separator (or a butter knife, or similar lever) and it will pop right open. Brick separators can be purchased separately, but they come standard in sets that have around 600 pieces or more (with a few exceptions of lower piece-count sets having them).The set comes with two bags of LEGO, one playcube, a sheet of stickers, a surprise pet, and an instruction sheet. The pieces aren't randomly distributed between bags - instead, all of the pieces of a particular type can be found in one bag, as far as I can tell. So if you dump the bags out and keep the pieces slightly separate, once you've found which pile your piece is in, you may find the rest of them in that same pile or in that one and one other. With this small set, it may not make much of a difference but could help those who are new to LEGO. The play cube set doesn't take very long to build, but is fun and includes a good variety of pieces and a minidoll in a very portable form.The instruction sheet has nice imagery and clear instructions. What little text exists is provided in English, French, and Spanish. The instructions themselves, in usual LEGO style, are all pictures and symbols.

With only 44 pieces, this LEGO FRIENDS STEPHANIE’S PLAY CUBE Building Kit (New 2020 (44 Pieces)) isn’t much of a building kit, but the finished project is a cute, portable toy that has a lot of play potential. I love it because I love dollhouses and miniatures.When you open the finished cube, chef Stephanie is there in her bakery/kitchen, alongside a beautifully decorated cake. (Decorating the cake is a fun part of the build.) She has cupcakes in the oven, and white icing is cooking on the stove. Her little dog is there, too, watching the whole operation.There are really two builds in the cube, one in each half. Both can be pulled out of the cube and placed on a table or countertop for play. The oven door opens so you can remove the cupcakes, and the drawer underneath the cake holds extra decorations (flowers and bows).The background of the right half of the cube is supplied by a sticker that shows an apron hanging up, and a kitchen stool, among other things. Only two stickers (the background just mentioned, and the oven door detail) need to be applied to LEGO elements as part of the “story”. There are extra stickers to be used however the builder chooses.Something that I love about this play cube series, is that the “surprise” for each set is always the same animal, but in one of four different colors. In this set 41401, the animal is a dog that may be red, gold, teal, or lavender. I like my red dog, and am glad there is no real pressure to “collect them all“ when it comes to the "surprise”, because it’s only a matter of which color dog you get.

This is one of the cutest sets and ideas I've seen in a while. The fact that it's portable makes it even more fun. Though if you've ever tried to keep kids from mixing Lego sets, you probably know what a disaster it would be to let them take this to a friend's house.The directions are good, but I don't think I'd go much younger than 6 with this. Putting it all together inside the little box is more complicated for smaller kids, especially if their very fine motor skills aren't fully developed.What this set does do very well, is make it easy to customize your very own "dollhouse". Buy enough of these and you can mix and match, stack and click, to make "rooms" in a house.The number of pieces here is pretty low at 44, and so many of them are really small one button Lego. If this had just been a little bit less expensive I would have given it 5 stars.Once upon a time a set like this would have cost around six bucks. It used to be pretty accurate to say ten cents for every piece of Lego in the set was a good price point, especially if there were not big molded specialized single pieces like dragons, or in this one a travel case for it all. Now I tend to say ten to 15 cents per piece, but everyone's cost go up. Now though Lego sets seem to more and more have too many 1 button pieces to fill out the piece count. This seems to be especially prevalent in the Little Friends sets of late. It's a little disappointing, but I try and look past it because all my kids and I adore Lego. We have rooms full of them on shelves, stands & dressers.

My kids like this set. It’s a nice size for travel. Maybe more for younger kids or to go with another set since there isn’t really a lot going on with it.

Just as pictured

Chegou rápido e bem embalado. Minha filha adorou o brinquedo!

Used for a flight to Florida for our daughter and she loved it.