LEGO 10275 Elf Club House

I have all the Winter Village sets - they make a wonderful collection especially now that Lego has produced white base plates. This is a middle-ranker, and is the third in the fantasy sub-genre, the other two Santa's Workshop and Gingerbread House being among the finest Lego sets period.While any criticism is only relative, my problems are several. First, I love Lego boxes and have a huge collection but this one's awful black presentation is the worst Lego presentation I have ever seen. It also omits the invaluable list of pieces included. The inappropriate black follows through to the booklet, which is on glossy black paper making it difficult to read and poor to handle. As for the set, the four elves have the same green body - how more interesting were they when ... MoreI have all the Winter Village sets - they make a wonderful collection especially now that Lego has produced white base plates. This is a middle-ranker, and is the third in the fantasy sub-genre, the other two Santa's Workshop and Gingerbread House being among the finest Lego sets period.While any criticism is only relative, my problems are several. First, I love Lego boxes and have a huge collection but this one's awful black presentation is the worst Lego presentation I have ever seen. It also omits the invaluable list of pieces included. The inappropriate black follows through to the booklet, which is on glossy black paper making it difficult to read and poor to handle. As for the set, the four elves have the same green body - how more interesting were they when they first appeared for Santa's Workshop, in stripy blue on light blue, ink blue on red, jeans and Christmas red on green. Every one of them looks better than this generic green. As per normal, the roof is tricky and comes apart easily. The lights are a bit garish compared to the just-so-perfect lights in the legendary Santa's Workshop.The best feature is the triple-bed and the way it tosses the elves out at wakey-wakey time (triggered by the clock - how clever!)One more thing - this set is definitely suitable for anyone above 12. Lego has changed from giving meaningful age guidelines to "marketing for adults" which is their Coke-zero moment. Presumably the black goes with it.

A great Lego set! Really cute set with several neat features like a light that illuminates the inside; a little lever to "dump" the elves out of bed, "time to get up and get to work!"; a great chimney with an integrated waffle-maker! My seven-year old and I have enjoyed putting this together leading up to Christmas. He "admires" it every day!

This is my first christmas set. I sure hope the rest do NOT have the black background on instruction book.My eyes are exhausted from trying to figure out pieces on the black background, that also had a lot of glare from lights. The booklet is a huge NO.Other than that, and two missing pieces which I am waiting on, this was a fun, engaging build.I LOVE the elf bunk beds and the ability to rouse them all from their sleep when it's time to work. Fun mechanism using the clock as the knob. The light in the bunk room works well and is a nice addition to the set.The chimney with its fun waffle station is terrific, although I dont know many elves that like to flip them from the skillet to the floor. I need to build a bakers table for the chef to work on.I wish ... MoreThis is my first christmas set. I sure hope the rest do NOT have the black background on instruction book.My eyes are exhausted from trying to figure out pieces on the black background, that also had a lot of glare from lights. The booklet is a huge NO.Other than that, and two missing pieces which I am waiting on, this was a fun, engaging build.I LOVE the elf bunk beds and the ability to rouse them all from their sleep when it's time to work. Fun mechanism using the clock as the knob. The light in the bunk room works well and is a nice addition to the set.The chimney with its fun waffle station is terrific, although I dont know many elves that like to flip them from the skillet to the floor. I need to build a bakers table for the chef to work on.I wish there had been more white baseplate for staging and adding scenes. The interior is very cramped and therefore limited playability. The gift wrap station is clever.Super bummed that all four elves are pretty boring plain green and basically the same. For this price point (too high by $20 IMHO), I cant think of any reason why four distinctly different elves couldn't have been included.For all that I found lacking, or in the case of the black instruction book—awful—i did have a good time building this set, and am enjoying playing around with it.