REVIEW: 42620 Olly and Paisley's Family Houses

[Pchan1983]

Here is my review on LEGO Friends 42620 Olly and Paisley's Family Houses:

THE GOOD:

• Both houses look great with great colours.
• Two houses are separate, yes not connected but you can place next to it.
• Both houses has very nice exterior details.
• Paisley's house has the edge in terms of interior details and one of the most detailed dinning room.

THE NOT SO GOOD:

• Paisley's dinner room despite being very details, it's very inaccessible due to the roof cannot be opened easily and very tight space.

This is one of the 2 friends sets in this wave that caught my eyes when the wave was first announced. The modern mansion and this.  With some luck, this set was on 25% discount so bought it without hesitation.  And it's GOOD.  It's looks very nice and even in LEGO city, you rarely get to see houses with such unique characters and looking great at the same time.  I really love the colours on both.  And don't let the product image deceive you, you actually get to build 2 separate houses.   There are nothing to fix them side by side on default.  Both houses looks great on the exterior but I like Paisley's one slightly more.  Olly's one has some nice designs but overall lack the same level of both exterior and interior details of Paisley's.  And the vanity in the toilet may be just a bit too high for any minifigures or minidolls.  Paisley's house has much more details, I like the exterior texture of the chimney and Paisley's also has a very very detailed dinning room with stove, fridge and dinning table.  Also featuring a LEGO child sit!  Despite all the cool details, Paisley's house is very hard to access as the roof is not easily removable.  So you pretty much left to place minifigures or minidolls from the opened back side.  And there are no rooms to do this for the dinning room.  I wonder why they even bother to make the fridge openable lol.  It's also a welcome to have a new leaves element with very nice violet colour.  With 6 minidolls, it a set pack with details and fun.   I do wonder why Paisley's mother is missing.  I'm also very tempted to buy another one to make a full enclosed house but have other priorities on my wish list.  This is probably the 2nd best Friends set this year, given it's very hard to top the Andres's mansion.  With a very accessible price and lovely looking houses that can easily fit into any LEGO city, it's definitely a set not to be missed out!