LEGO Minecraft has been around for awhile now and it may appear to be slowing down just a little in recent years, but it still churns out a good set every now and then. The bog standard LEGO Minecraft sets are usually based on in-game elements such as houses, animals and mobs, we’ve had pretty much all that Minecraft can offer so LEGO went one step further and went 18+!
The Adult range of sets are designed to be a bit more challenging and appealing to the older collector. This means that LEGO Minecraft can create more complex sets that lean more towards display rather than play. So what better set to start the sub-theme off than one of the first things you craft in Minecraft, the humble Crafting Table. It makes total sense, it’s a cube, everybody who plays the game knows what it is and it looks cool sat on display.
This isn’t really a review post, but more an appreciation of an underrated set. You start off building the base and quickly build up the Crafting Tables brown sides, which have hanging tools portrayed on them. Inside is where the magic is as it houses the micro-sized Biomes including the mini characters.
The design team did a fantastic job with this set, from the first brick to the last, it’s a pure joy to put together. Constructing the Biomes it took me back to when LEGO made the exact same scale builds called Micro Worlds. I had a couple of them that I found at a carboot years ago, but never truly appreciated them until now – sadly they are long gone now.
Each of the Biomes can be removed rather easily as that are only attached by a stud or two. They aren’t modular sadly so you can’t stank them in different ways, but that’s not the point. It looks great on display and the inclusion of the mini characters is something truly special to build and have as part of a display.
Included in the set in brick, well plate & tile, form is Steve and Alex, a Skeleton, Villager, Witch, Creeper and a Cow & Pig. Thanks to them being small parts, you get almost all of them in duplicate from the spare pieces. Again this is great news for collectors, double the display opportunities and potential stories, why not pop them in the Biomes?!
Spin the set around and you have a whole new display option, the Crafting Table design itself. If you’ve played the game you’ll know it is spot on and I’ll be honest I like it on show this way. You can even detach the mini characters and the plinths they stand on and reattach them here, perfect.
As I said before, this is a truly underrated set and one I’m glad I picked up in sale. As good a build as it was I don’t think paying full retail is worth it, for 1,195 pieces it naturally feels fine, but then you realise most of those are 1×1 plates and tiles, which isn’t a great exchange. Luckily I picked this up in a recent Amazon sale for £59.99, a while £20 cheaper, it pays to shop around, unless you have unused LEGO Insiders points or gift vouchers to spend.
In short, if you’re a Minecraft and LEGO Minecraft fan, I highly recommend picking up this beauty of a set. It brought so much fun to a lazy Sunday afternoon for me and my Son, we couldn’t stop smiling and feeling chuffed at what we had built. I’m sure it will go into his LEGO Minecraft display in his room, although I’ll often pop in to appreciate it from time to time.
We hope you enjoyed this style of post, it’s not a full review but rather a appreciation on a set we’ve built and had a good experience with. The last one we did was for LEGO The Mighty Bowser, which was also my set of the year!
I’ve been Greg from The Brick Post – keep on building, keep on posting.
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