LEGO’s latest addition to what is obviously now an annual line of holiday-themed village sets is 10229 Winter Village Cottage, unveiled this evening at Brickfair in Virginia. The set includes nearly 1,500 pieces, costs $100, and will be available this October.
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10229 Winter Village Cottage
Ages 12+. 1,487 pieces.
US $99.99 CA $129.99 DE 99.99 € UK 89.99 £ DK 899 DKKGet cozy in the Winter Village Cottage!
Continuing the winter series, build the Winter Village Cottage for a perfect holiday home. Seat Grandpa snugly by the fireplace with his newspaper as you help Dad to put up the tree, then bake a feast in the kitchen with Mom! When it’s time to stock up the storage shed with firewood, bring the kids for a ride with Dad on the sled watch him cut the wood with his chainsaw deep in the forest. When the snow gets really deep, clear the road with the snowplow, take all of the kids skiing or build an igloo to play in. There’s no cozier place to spend long, frosty nights!
- Includes 8 minifigures: mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, 3 children and snowplow driver with assorted accessories
- Features cottage, storage shed, igloo, streetlamp, sled and snowplow
- Accessories include kitten, owl, fireplace with LEGO® light brick function, chandelier, Christmas tree, wreath, gifts, armchair, kitchen appliances and bed
- Storage shed features tools and firewood elements
- Igloo features fireplace and removable roof
- Detach the snowplow to store it in the back of the truck!
- Make the fireplace glow with the LEGO® light brick!
- Decorate the cottage!
- Fetch firewood with the sled!
- Drive the snowplow!
- Cottage measures 6.7” (17 cm) high, 9.8” (25 cm) wide and 5.5” (14 cm) deep
- Storage shed measures 4.3” (11 cm) high, 2.7” (7 cm) wide and 2.7” (7 cm) deep
- Igloo measures 2.7” (7 cm) high, 2.7” (7 cm) wide and 2.7” (7 cm) deep
- Snowplow measures 2.7” (7 cm) high, 7” (18 cm) long (with plow attached) and 2.3” (6 cm) wide
- Add the new Winter Village Cottage to other LEGO® Winter Village series models like the 10199 Winter Toy Shop, 10216 Winter Village Bakery and 10222 Winter Village Post Office.
Make that Brickfair, VIRGINIA
^ D’oh! Good catch. :-)
£89.99!? Bloody hell. That’s a bit of a difference in price compared to the previous winter village sets. I’m sorry TLG, it’s a lovely set but you’ve priced me out of the market with that little bombshell.
I’ve been collecting these sets since the train, they are always so cute. 100 dollars is quite a jump compared to the others. Luckily, for me, these come out in October when my birthday is so I can spend Lego gift cards on them.
You guys do realize that this set comes with almost double the pieces that the other three have, right?
The only thing I’d like to have explained is why, even though the U.S. dollar is worth slightly less than the Canadian dollar at the moment, we’re being charged $30 more for it.
The piece count is higher it just doesn’t seem like a bigger set then the others.
Yeah, it doesn’t look a heck of a lot bigger, but it does look bulkier for sure. I have the post office set, and it’s definitely wider. The post office actually felt kind of cheap to me, but this looks like a more substantial building.
Got nothing against paying for more pieces. Just why add all those extra pieces to push up the price when they’ve managed to keep it very consistent for several years in a row? It makes no sense.
I’m sure it could have done without the igloo or at the very least the little wood shed and a few other details. Did it need as many minifigs? Let’s face it, they’re not exactly exclusives. The one blue female torso from last years and the green torso from last year’s advent calender aside…
When you’ve got all your kids Christmas presents to buy not long after, this is just a price jump too far. I cannot justify the cost for my own selfish hobby. It’s alright when you don’t have a mortgage and a family to buy for.
After seeing it in person, it’s kind of a mixed bag for me.
It’s certainly a bigger set than previous years, almost to a fault. It looks great on its own, but I worry that it will overshadow the smaller buildings a little.
Some very nice detail on the inside, but the interior ceiling/roof doesn’t have a finished quality to it, taking away from the overall effect. Plus, if you display the set somewhere, you generally won’t see all that nice detail.
As Carl said, the figs are run of the mill. I like the igloo and wood shed, and the plow is great. Overall, it’s a nice set, but I hope they return to form next year with a slightly smaller, less expensive set.