Comments on: LEGO® Creator Beach House

By: Scott Allen

Scott Allen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:35:28 +0000

This Lego set is one of the best values we’ve ever gotten with a lego set. The beach house is beautiful – it reminds me of real A-frame houses I used to live near in Hawaii. My 9-year-old daughter had no problem putting it together and she enjoyed the process. In addition, this Creator set contains 3 full sets of instructions to create different buildings so it is more interesting than typical sets that have only one design.

If you haven’t bought legos since you were a kid, they are different now. Typically the set is a detailed model, with step-by-step instructions how to build it. This is great – the sets are more intricate and interesting than they were 20 years ago. However, usually once your kid builds the set design, it just sits there. It is a fun process for them to build it, but I’ve seen less “free building” from kids today using legos.

This set is different – it has three different designs so it has a lot of “playability.” The pieces are also very versatile for free building, so it is the best of both worlds. The set is also much more affordable than other sets that cost upwards of $100 (and above). I would highly recommend this as a gift for any birthday party- fun for both girls and boys.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Santa

Santa — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:13:48 +0000

My son & daughter (9) LOVED this Lego set. They built the first house in a couple of hours straight. It was CUTE! They didn’t want to take it apart, but finally did so in order to build one of the other models. Nice to have 3 models in one kit, and this set seemed more reasonably priced than some others.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Idaho Country

Idaho Country — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:13:23 +0000

We bought this for our son’s 8th birthday. Legos are one of a few toys he comes back to again and again. He never tires of playing with them. I liked this set because it was so different from all the other sets he has (mainly airplanes and trucks). He did get stuck once and needed my help to figure out what he missed during construction. The instructions are quiet detailed. How neat that once the examples are created, then kids love creating their own new things that they come up with in their own minds. I highly recommend this toy!!!
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Blueberry mom

Blueberry mom — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:01:04 +0000

My daughter has built the 3 story version. It took 2-3 hours. Pretty helpful instructions. A few things we had to guess at. She had somewhere to go so she kind of hurried. She still enjoyed it. It was very neat to look at after we were done. Her younger brothers, ages 6 and 3, were interested afterwards but not in building. The 6 yr old not focused enough to read and follow the instructions- hopefully in a year or two. Definitely not for the 3 yr old. He’s into Duplo.
Rating: 4 / 5

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:17:22 +0000

I like this set even though I haven’t put it together yet at the time of this writing. It’s nice that Lego has started putting out housing for the minifigs again. I like the bar-b-que in the back and all of the detail on the box. I am looking forward to putting this together.
Rating: 5 / 5