2014 Friends Sets - Rumours and Discussion

[penguinz]

Brickshop Holland added pictures of two Friends sets that as far as I know, we did not have photos of yet. You can find them on their Facebook, or I deep-linked them below:

41057: Heartlake Horse Show:

41056: Heartlake News Van:

[Yooha]

Oh my, that pinguin is so cute! I love these Friends set more and more (just to get straight, I'm a guy)

[lightningtiger]

The horse show is cute and will sell well, but I can't wait to download this instructions to the TV news van.....city-ify it I will except that spot light.....meh !

The van itself is very nice, hence coloured differently it will sit in a city layout just so perfectly !

Also that van could be changed in a food van too.

[CM4Sci]

Finalized images are here!

-Sci

[Brickity]

What is the price of those pet series? There are many interesting pieces in those baggies!

[Lordofdragonss]

Gotta get the turtle! The last one was so cute!

Sadly only good partpack is a tiger (but he is the cuttest!)

[El Garfio]

LEGO City never needed bathrooms, it was just populated by men and they just used a tree.

There are WC in the Police Station jails (but as it's seen, prisoners push them to escape and look for a tree )

[LukeWarmTea]

Hey does anyone know if TLC have a plan regarding how many sets each Friend is assigned? We seem to have a million Stephanies, and I know Emma doesn't have many sets. Are they addressing the balance in the new series do ya think?

Also, yay more men/boys!

Oh and I agree with above - the Disney series will probably give us a 'prom' (I'm hoping they call it a 'ball'!) cause you know, we have a high school now. Maybe it'll be in the gym?! So exciting!

[Redhead1982]

I'm looking forward to some of the new wave Friends' sets, and I'm curious about the release date(s). Is there any info about the date?

[just2good]

Some of the new Friends 2014 sets are at Walmart! I found the Stephanie's Beach House set, and the Juice Bar set at a Walmart near me in Margate, Florida. I picked up the Beach House set, and it is fantastic! Definitely my favorite 2014 set that I own at the moment. The design is phenomenal, as goes for some of the new pieces! Only major flaw is that there's a window next to the shower, so everyone can see the minidolls showering.

If video reviews are your thing, I made one here:

[meyerc13]

That surprises me at one level, because Wal Mart and Target aren't known for stocking new sets that aren't on their planogram between shelf resets. However, on another level it doesn't surprise me at all because every store I've been to has had a decimated LEGO Friends section. I think most parents who are accustomed to other themes know that if a LEGO set tops a child's wish list, if you haven't bought it by mid-November you might be out of luck. I suspect there are a lot of parents who are new to LEGO via Friends, and I feel sorry for them if they didn't know to shop ahead. At least this gives them hope of putting some Friends set under the tree, and it helps reinforce the magic of Santa since these technically are supposed to be 2014 sets. In my house it is well known that Santa has early access to the new LEGO sets since Denmark is so close to the North Pole.

[Herky]

I saw all the new Friends sets except the two posted above (tv and horse show) at the Lego Store in St Louis, Missouri today...my daughter is going to bankrupt me. Very nice sets too they were almost flying off the shelves, in another note though, had not gotten here the Dolphin Cruiser and they were out of those, I hope TLG does another production run on those.

[Sarah]

I saw all the new Friends sets except the two posted above (tv and horse show) at the Lego Store in St Louis, Missouri today...my daughter is going to bankrupt me. Very nice sets too they were almost flying off the shelves, in another note though, had not gotten here the Dolphin Cruiser and they were out of those, I hope TLG does another production run on those.

On lego Shop at Home it says that the next shipment is due in Dec 30.

(I've got several friends looking for the Dolphin Cruiser! Lego Friends has really been wiped out this holiday season)

[Soundmanred]

The news van and tiger are must buys for us! My daughter always liked Lego, but Friends has really put her over the edge.

[just2good]

I've seen the News Van and Horse Show all over eBay, so I'm guessing they came with the Monday/Tuesday shipment at the LEGO Store.

[Mooch]

I picked up 41039 Sunshine Ranch at a Toronto Lego store today. They also had 41057 Heartlake Horse Show, but those were the only new sets I saw (they also had some Disney Princess sets).

[CM4Sci]

Sort of off topic, but can someone who has the sets takes one of the new golden stud piece and put it on a cupcake from the Cafe set? I'm curious to see if it can be used for a cupcake...

Thanks!

-Sci

[TheLazyChicken]

I don't know if this has been posted but over at brickset they showed the catalog with another animal series with pictures.

The bear set looks nice.

Edited December 24, 2013 by TheLazyChicken

[TheOrcKing]

Ah, so that is Series 5. The monkey looks like an altered (printing and reversed mold) version from Minifigures Series 7 Jungle Boy. I think the coloring for the parrot or whatever type of bird it is specifically is nice.

[just2good]

The two Animal Pack series for next year are definitely looking better than the ones for this year. Can't wait to pick up the monkey, tiger, and penguin ones.

[TheLazyChicken]

The two Animal Pack series for next year are definitely looking better than the ones for this year. Can't wait to pick up the monkey, tiger, and penguin ones.

Yep, they are! I am also picking those up too!

[Lordofdragonss]

The Orangutan one ios must have not only great pieces, but the animal included looks great!

The penguin have once again problems like many other Friends animals- great mold but weird positioned printing destroys it.

[xtremegoogler]

[Chocolatecake]

Seems like we will be able to build a Zoo with the Friends animals.

The parrot and the orangutang looks really great, the printing on the parrot is great.

[just2good]

This was posted on Brickset. Looks like a nice poly! I didn't see it on the calendar, but supposedly it's a S@H promo from December 27th-January 31st.