REVIEW: 71461 Fantastical Tree House

[Pchan1983]

Here is my review on LEGO DreamZzz 71461 Fantastical Tree House:

THE GOOD:

• Great colour and looks good from the front.
• Excellent minifigures.
• Very interesting ways in building a sign.
• The over is pretty cool.

THE NOT SO GOOD:

• If you have built similar sets, while still fun, it lacks some surprises.
• In theory the room should be just clip on but there isn't much area for you to pivot that allows you to clip on more easily.

Bought this set for the Night Hunter minifig and turns out this is a pretty cool set.  The minifigures are excellent.  The tree house itself is pretty tall, wide too if you take the leaves/foliages into account.  The build itself is fun but if you have been building a lot, it does lack surprises on 'new way' to build things,.  Having said that, it does have plenty of small builds that are pretty cool.  For example, the oven and the arrow signs.   The mail box robot is also pretty cool and it reminds me of a Japanese robot in the 70s-80s era (sorry I don't know the name of it in English).  The piranha plant is also surprisingly fun.   Each of the detachable rooms is a clip on to the side of trunk and have very nice colouring, although the clip-on does not work as easy as it should because of the trunk wall is pretty thin and does not allow much pivot for you to apply some pressure.  I opted with the default configuration as it's more display friendly I would say, the alternate builds are much more aggressive and battle ready with shooters point toward the front.  As with other Dreamzzz sets, the 2 in 1 can be a bit disappointing and require you to take it apart and build it again.   Despite some of these, it is still a pretty cool set and I did end up liking it.  The price without discount though is a bit on the higher end but given Dreamzzz have been heavily discounted, you can probably expect at least a 20% off.  I bought this 25% off which makes the pricing very good.  Definitely a set to recommend =)