REVIEW 40122 Trick or Treat

[santaends]

Halloween is round the corner. Seasonal sets are always widely received, regardless of whether you celebrate it or not. This is the first seasonal vignette released in Singapore. As such, queues were long and stocks always ran out within 2 hours of restocking. Vignettes seem to be more popular than the brick built animal seasonal sets, like the 40090 Halloween Bat. Interesting point to note, all of the seasonal vignettes do not introduce new colours for existing moulds, or new prints for minifigures. Nevertheless, they always include semi rare parts, like the olive green stems as well as offer great re- use of minifig parts, like this pirate torso.

Name: 40122 Trick or Treat Halloween Set

Theme: Seasonal/ Exclusive

Year: 2015

Pieces: 133

Minifigs: 2 minifigures

Price: £8.49/ $9.99/ 18.90 SGD

Resources: Brickset, Bricklink

Rebrickable Inventory: http://brickset.com/...2-1/rebrickable

LEGO Official Shop@Home Description

Dress up as a witch for a Trick or Treat fright night!

Role-play an eerie Halloween scene with this spooky LEGO® Trick or Treat set! Dress up the girl minifigure as a witch, complete with pointy hat and broom, and take a bucket for the treats you hope to receive. Tiptoe past the bat perched on top of the dead tree to the doorstep of the haunted house. Watch out for the big spider and the tombstone on the front porch and be prepared for a big fright when a skeleton answers the door! Includes 2 minifigures with assorted accessories: a female and a skeleton.

• Includes 2 minifigures with assorted accessories: a female and a skeleton
  
• Features a buildable haunted house entrance scene including an opening door, tombstone, plus assorted elements including a spider, pumpkins and sickly green plants
  
• Also includes a dead tree with a bat and pumpkin elements
  
• Role-play a spooky Halloween scene!
  
• Creep past the bat in the dead tree
  
• Get a fright when a skeleton answers the door!
  
• A perfect Halloween gift for LEGO® lovers
  
• Measures over 3” (8cm) high, 2” (6cm) wide and 2” (6cm) deep
  

Image of original box:

It was deboxed and flattened on the spot and put in my file. As a young AFOL, I couldn't bring myself to lug LEGO boxes to college, even for a short 1 hour.

I enjoyed the various role play scenes on the back of the box. The lack of a theme logo like "Limited edition 2015" may suggest it may make a comeback next year. Purely my own speculation. After all, sets like Birthday Table Decoration had an extremely short shelf life, but on S@H, it says it is in production. Last year's halloween bat made a comeback this year, in my local stores.

Front:

Back:

Random page of instructions:

Here are the sealed bags. Eyes lit up upon earth green plates.. haven't had those in my collection since Winter Village Post Office..

Everything laid out. This is quite therapeutic.

Some parts of interest

My first 65 2 x 1 x 2 slope. Surprise find was the dark orange brick with stud on side. Didn't think they'll include that colour in a halloween theme set..

The olive green stem is solid, for those who didn't know. Had always thought they were rubbery. One of those nice elements you can't help but wish they included more.

Finished build. The roof looks smoother than expected, but the tip is a bit off. The centre should have had another 1 x 2 plate before putting the double slope. But what's LEGO for, if you don't customise things.

The transparent brick and plates were used nicely. This is a good time I seen it being used, other than stained glass windows. *cough* Pet Shop *cough*

I love the miniature pumpkins. Always nice to have plain minifig heads.

Small tree build is beautiful. 4 x 3 leaves simple and elegantly placed. If they had the bigger leaves instead, it would look out of proportion.

Spare parts. They gave extra bones. Pleasant surprise. After all, this is my first skeleton since 1997..

"Trick or treat"

Old and new skeleton..from 1997 Witch's Magic Manor. I like the new torso mould. Now the arms are posable. The old hands were great for play though. Used to connect 2 arms together and treat him like a gorilla, since they swing freely. Now I just take pictures.

Size comparison

The height seems to be standardised for vignettes. Around 8 studs tall.

Personal thoughts:

At first I had no intention of getting the halloween or thanksgiving sets. Only wanted the 2 christmas ones. However after looking through the parts list.. price per part was pretty good, and I needed something small to practice for Reviewer's Academy. Previous submission hasn't been graded, so I posted this here. I love the colour combination of purple and black as the primary colours. Much better than orange and black, which tends to be overused around this season. As a town builder, this is a great set for inspiration on how to beautify your door fronts.

Summary Review:

Playability: 7/10 (Lots of knock knock jokes)

Design: 7/10 (Roof is a little off, but transparent colours used to great effect)

Parts: 8/10 (They were great, but none exclusive, and no printed tiles)

Minifigures: 8/10 (Detailed back printing, no dual face print, but nice hat)

Price: 8/10 (Great price per part, not the best. But the best always comes in big sets..)

Overall: 8/10 (A solid affordable set)

Edited October 10, 2015 by santaends