71006 The Simpsons House (Press Release)

[Rick]

71006 The Simpsons™ House

Ages 12+ 2,523 pieces

US $199.99 - CA $229.99 - DE 199.99€ - UK £179.99 - DK 1,699.00 DKK

*Euro pricing varies by country. Please visit shop.LEGO.com for regional pricing.

D’oh! The Simpsons™ House has been turned into LEGO® bricks!

Build The Simpsons™ House with detachable roof, modular design, car with dent, the famous family couch, 6 minifigures and so much more.

Recreate hilarious scenes from the classic animated TV series with The Simpsons™ House. Taken right out of Springfield, this amazing model is crammed with tons of LEGO® brick detail. Lift off the roof and open up the house to discover Homer and Marge’s big family bedroom including bed and Maggie’s crib, Bart’s room with his skateboard and Krusty the Clown poster, Lisa’s room with her favorite books, jazz poster and more, and bathroom with shower, toilet, sink and mirror. Lift off the top floor to reveal the fully-fitted kitchen with dining table, chairs, yellow and light-blue tiled floor and lots of pots, pans and other accessories. Then it’s into the living room with couch and TV playing Itchy and Scratchy, purple piano and more. Next to the house is the detachable garage, complete with workbench, tool rack, vacuum cleaner, broom, toolbox, tools and the family car, complete with dent (because only in a LEGO world are dents a plus!), opening trunk and ‘radioactive’ bar from the nuclear power plant. Step outside onto the terrace and you’ll find loads of cool items, including a grill, wheelbarrow and air conditioning unit with ‘Property of Ned Flanders’ decoration, sausages, 2 garden loungers, flowerpots, a shovel, 2 fruit cocktail glasses, Lisa’s camera, Bart’s skateboard ramp with ‘El Barto’ graffiti and an antenna on the roof. The Simpsons™ House is the perfect collector’s item for fans of all ages. Includes 6 minifigures: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and Ned Flanders.

• Includes 6 minifigures: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and Ned Flanders
  
• First floor includes yellow and light-blue tiled floor, sink, oven and stove, drawers, cups, pot, pan, bowl, mixer, plates, cake tins, cutlery, dining table and 4 chairs
  
• Living room features TV playing Itchy and Scratchy, couch, boat painting, telephone, carpet, purple piano and staircase to the second floor with family photos
  
• Bart’s room features a bed, night lamp, desk with pin board, chair, Krusty the Clown poster, skateboard, shelves with books, radio and a cap
  
• Marge and Homer’s bedroom features a bed, 2 side tables, Maggie’s crib and Marge’s bag
  
• Lisa’s room features a vanity mirror with hairbrush, stool, bed, table with lamp and cup, shelves with books, magnifying glass, backpack and a jazz poster on the wall
  
• Bathroom features a shower, toilet, sink and a mirror
  
• Detachable garage features the family car, tools, workbench, tool rack, vacuum cleaner, toolbox and a broom
  
• Family car with space for 4 minifigures features a dent in the front and an opening trunk to store Homer’s suitcase and a ‘radioactive’ bar from the nuclear power plant
  
• Outside area includes a grill, wheelbarrow and air conditioning unit with ‘Property of Ned Flanders’ decoration, sausages, 2 garden loungers, flowerpots, a shovel, 2 fruit cocktail glasses, Lisa’s camera, Bart’s skateboard ramp with ‘El Barto’ graffiti and an antenna on the roof
  
• Can you spot all the items Homer has “borrowed” from Ned Flanders?
  
• Remove the roof and top floor to access the different rooms inside
  
• House is hinged in the middle for easy access
  
• The perfect set for fans of LEGO® brick building and The Simpsons™!
  
• The Simpsons™ House measures over 9” (23cm) high, 16” (42cm) wide and 9” (24cm) deep
  

Available for sale directly through LEGO® beginning

February 2014 via shop.LEGO.com, LEGO® Stores or via phone:

US Contact Center 1-800-453-4652

CA (English) Contact Center 1-800-453-4652

CA (French) Contact Center 1-877-518-5346

European Contact Center 00-800-5346-1111

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[larsyuipo]

awesome!

[Mesonak]

Wow. $50 cheaper than I'd assumed it to be.

Fantastic set. :D

[just2good]

Such a lovely set... Love the price! Also, the release date is so much sooner- thanks Carlos!

[badbob001]

They do look printed, but I would think the printing would scratch off around the arm joint if it were. And if it is printing it really looks solid, usually the colors end up looking a bit thin when you print a solid color over a solid color. Perhaps by molded it means two colors of plastic molded together. It is definitely impressive. I can't wait to find out the process behind it.

In the video, he specifically says:

"We have molded sleeves and shorts in the minifig."

He mentions both the sleeves and shorts in the same sentence, which would imply that both are molded. I can accept that the arms are two pieces but the shorts definitely look printed. In the end, I bet both are simply painted but with much better opaque paint.

[CM4Sci]

$200...

Agh I want this!

-Sci

[CM4Sci]

In the video, he specifically says:

"We have molded sleeves and shorts in the minifig."

He mentions both the sleeves and shorts in the same sentence, which would imply that both are molded. I can accept that the arms are two pieces but the shorts definitely look printed. In the end, I bet both are simply painted but with much better opaque paint.

Amazing!

-Sci

[Deathleech]

Wow that's a really nice price for this set. Just under 8 cents per piece. Plus it has all those unique head molds. I have to say though, Marge, Lisa, and Bart look wrong. Why do they all have sleepy looking eyes and duck faces? Ned and Homer look by far the best, which is ironic considering everyone complained about them when they were first spotted. I really like the modular home, but overall I will pass on this as I am not a big Simpsons fan at all.

Edited January 8, 2014 by Deathleech

[Carlos S]

Such a lovely set... Love the price! Also, the release date is so much sooner- thanks Carlos!

LOL

I didn't do it

[Freddy Bricker]

So it looks like we will be getting a bathroom, and what appears to be a very small shower, the excitement in me is beyond the roof. I also noted that we will be getting a bigger hallway than expected, I can't wait to see brickfilms of this set, get to work people! I look forward to what this set brings and I thank everyone who has posted news for this set, probably the best this line will ever bring!

[Still Raindrop]

Some NPUs and good techniques for my Creator houses. I just hope that Maggie is one of the CMFs--I could use her (with a different head) as my own baby (whose sigfig is currently much less accurate)

[Sir_Basil_Ashton]

I'm so impressed by how well the house is done. All the details that were added just put this set on my want list. The minifigs can use a little improvement but I've already overlooked that.

[Superfunk]

A must have! Looks like really good value for money with the size, piece count and amazing interiors! The suburbs in my modular city will soon get crazier...

[L@go]

This is for me, apart from the modulars and possibly the big Sydney Opera House, the best set in a long time. The design is clean and very close to the original, the minifigures look more than decent to me (it's not like the characters haven't got cartoonish proportions in the show) and look at that interior. There are obviously many stickers, but they really add a lot to the design, take Bart's room, for example! So much character there.

And finally - those doors in an opaque colour that isn't white.

Probably Marcos' best set yet. Congratulations, if you read this!

Edited January 8, 2014 by L@go

[beatpoet]

Nice, will have to put some money aside for this, its definitely being released earlier than I thought. I am a little disappointed that Lisa has no saxophone, maybe the CMF version will have one though...

[SeanM]

Lego wants ALL of my money this year :(

[BrickG]

I think the minifigures are more well made than people have been saying. They're good enough. Maybe not perfect but still of a good quality. I think I'll buy this set, maybe two so I can easily make a more minifigure scale house with the proper rooms.

The build looks very good and the figures look good. Makes me want to start watching the Simpsons again... Maybe that's the whole idea. Being attacked by nostalgia.

[Roger_Smith]

OK, I'm sold.

This looks amazing.

[ritzcrackerman]

Probably Marcos' best set yet. Congratulations, if you read this!

And he has a lot of stiff competition within the great sets he's created thus far for TLG. He is definitely one of my favorite designers.

I wonder if they'll ever turn him loose on a modular...

[brickbuilder711]

I'll be at the LEGO store to pick it up first thing! 2/28 most likely.

I just love everything about this set! The playability and the value is great.

Here's a record of notable rare or new parts that I'm digging. It's going to be a fun build for sure:

• Lighter flesh 6x10 plate, doors
  
• orange ladder
  
• Is the sofa dark orange? Doesn't look brown
  
• Cool Yellow 1x2 tiles
  
• MdAzure 2x2 tiles
  
• Fl-Yel-Orange 3x3 round plate
  
• Pink doors
  
• White / gray inverse domes :D
  
• Bt-Lt-Blue jumpers
  
• Md-Dark-Flesh 1x2 slope
  
• Orange, pink, purple bits and pieces...
  

[WaysofSorting]

In the video, he specifically says:

"We have molded sleeves and shorts in the minifig."

He mentions both the sleeves and shorts in the same sentence, which would imply that both are molded. I can accept that the arms are two pieces but the shorts definitely look printed. In the end, I bet both are simply painted but with much better opaque paint.

It looks like they mean the two colored plastics are injected/molded into one part with precision - There's no way they could get paint so cleanly between his legs otherwise (short legs) - so sort of like the pieces that fade from one color plastic to another...only here very well done - I wonder if it's a different type of plastic?

[snaillad]

Nice to see the official pics. Im sure this set will make alot of people happy! The house is done well. I probably won't have a budget for this and metalbeards ship. As it stands its the ship for me. Pass sadly!

[ritzcrackerman]

Ugh, just read some other press releases - the Simpsons CMF will jump to $3.99 EA in May. That's getting to be a little much...

[BrickG]

I do feel like the minifigures could use some more outlines to help them look cartoony. Oh, and I "fixed" the eyes. Maybe the blind bags will have good eyes. ;p

(made in 3 minutes and rushed)

[lightningtiger]

Do I spy a car that can sit two minifigs side by side.......OMG ! Lego's designers have finally built a realistic kind of vehicle (even though it's a cartoon one ).

It has every room with such perfect detailing......but why has Bart a pink music system.....must be Lisa's.....he didn't do, you can't prove a thing !

Could this be one of best Lego sets ever.......the first review might tell us.