Here is my review on LEGO Friends 41757 Botanical Garden:

THE GOOD:

• Looks stunning, great shelf display.  Despite being open back it has lots of depths and never a facade.
• All those plant mini builds are stunning and open your eyes on what elements can be used.
• lots of new cool parts (e.g. lime green saxophones, brown ducks ... etc)
• Very engaging building experience.
• Competitive pricing.
• Getting the new hair style from the BTS set without the need to buy the BTS set =P

THE NOT SO GOOD:

• None to be honest.

What A Set!?  I can't believe how good this is.  Looks beautiful, great depths considering it's an open back design, and a very rewarding building experience.  Plus you get couple of great new parts.  Major reviewers have been praising this already and it's the real deal.  The exterior is really something else, but that's not the only thing.  There are plenty of species of plants mini builds which works surprisingly well.  I do question the idea of placing the corpse flower indoor, poor LEGO minifigure visiting this garden.  It's also pretty big, taking up the area of 2/3 of a typical modular base plate.  As a bonus, you get that new hairstyle previously introduced from the BTS set.  What also make this set special is the pricing, it is actually a very good deal even without discount.  Luckily for me, our local stores doing buy one get on half price, so I bought two.  Really keen to make a more complete version but initial analysis show I might need a few extra parts of buy another one to make that happen.  It's definitely a recommendation from me to any one, even for those who never into Friends theme, this is something you should check out.

This does look like a very good set, even though I do not collect or build Friends sets. I have noticed how much they have improved in the last couple of years and quite frankly seemed to have knocked this new wave right out of the ballpark, good job LEGO. 

Thanks for the review as always @Pchan1983, may seriously consider picking this one up.

I recently picked up mt first Friends set, it's a smaller one but this garden set looks like it might be my next dip into the Friends pool.

Well you two are ten years too late to the party, but better late than never. 

Interesting set ...thanks for the review! 

On 6/4/2023 at 7:29 AM, Johnny1360 said:

Thanks for the review as always @Pchan1983, may seriously consider picking this one up.

thanks, don't think just buy.  It's really good.

 

On 6/4/2023 at 2:47 PM, Henchmen4Hire said:

it might be my next dip into the Friends pool.

the community center is also great =P

You know when a set just begs to be modded that it is something special. I picked up a pair of them for my wife's birthday next month. I know "she" is going to have a blast with this one!

On 6/17/2023 at 6:38 AM, Silverhurst said:

I know "she" is going to have a blast with this one!

haha