Extra parts in 6754 Family Home

[Andy D]

Fresh off of my build of the Scoripion Pyramid a couple of weeks ago and in a continuing effort to reduce my backlog of "sets in the closet" I decided to build another set this week. It was between a modular (yeah, I have several "in the closet") and a Creator house (got a couple of those as well). I didn't want to commit to a modular as for me that's an 8 to 10 hour build, not ready for that right now.

After looking at what was available, again considering size and colors I decided on the 6754 Family Home. It was really a fun build and as usual I learned a few things (Creator sets really seem to teach me). I spread the build over three days (Mon, Tues, and today, Wed). I really like the result and it will be hard to consider parting it out, but part it out I will (at some point). Though I may consider one of he altenate builds (the Mediterranean House) before putting the parts in inventory.

I noticed something very unusual... There are a large number of extra parts. There is the usual assortment of 1x parts but it seems like more than usual, maybe a couple of dozen.

It is the other parts that surprise me...

In tan there are...

6 - 2x12 bricks

1 - 2x3 bricks

1 - 1x2 brick

1 - 1x3 brick

1 - 1x6 brick

1 - 1x1x6 brick

In a dark grey

1 - 2x6 brick

1 - 2x6 white plate

And a light grey 1x2 slope

Seems like a large number of extras, the only thing I can think of is that they are required in one of the alternate builds. But I thought LEGO usually uses fewer parts in the alternte builds.

Is this normal for this set?

Andy D

Edited March 21, 2013 by Andy D

[Phazon]

I have the set, but I immediately used it for MOC'ing. The parts look somewhat strange to be extra, on the other hand, are you sure that you've completed every step in the manual? The tan bricks could be part of the construction beneath the roof. There are a bit too much tan bricks and maybe you are just lucky!

[Andy D]

Yeah, I've checked and rechecked. I did find a couple of easy examples of the extras tht would be used used in the alternate builds, not used in the main build.

Andy D

Edited March 22, 2013 by Andy D

[Cian]

From memory all the parts get used in at least one of the alternate builds - I built all three before dumping to parts. But there is definitely a lot left after the primary build.