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To everyone celebrating Christmas or just content to bask in the holiday spirit, I wish you a very merry LEGO-filled Christmas! There are two levels, a bedroom and bathroom on the upper level, and a living area downstairs with everything you need to raise a Gingerbread family. They’re based off the same Gingerbread Man mould from LEGO Minifigures Series 13, with a few small cosmetic changes such as the aforementioned facial features, but also red candy buttons on their bodies. As the Gingerbread Baby is still an infant, he/she (it?) is still co-sleeping and has a cute little crib set up right next to its parents’ bed. At the time he had recently moved from Lego Duplo to Lego so the first step was to empty the drawers of Lego Duplo. These were passed on to his younger sister.
LEGO have another classic Winter set on their hands with 10267 Gingerbread House, and it’s not an understatement to call this one of the best Winter Village sets of all time. In 2019, LEGO flips the formula on the head once again with a whimsical fantasy build, with the delightfully charming Gingerbread House. Apart from being a stunning display piece thanks to the highly detailed roof and decorative icing, I also appreciated the play features baked (heh) into the set.Last year we spent some time sorting out our 5 year olds bedroom. He doesn’t seem to need much sleep so we wanted to make an area for him to play when he wakes up early. He already had an Ikea Trofast unit but we thought we would give it a makeover and make it more useful. By letting their designers’ imaginations run wild, LEGO have yet another hit on their hands with the Gingerbread House, easily making it one of the standout sets of 2019. The Lego Gingerbread House 40139 is a limited edition set for 2015 and contained 4 bags of Lego, one loose piece and the instruction booklet. LEGO 10267 Gingerbread House receives a rare 5/5 rating, only the third perfect score I’ve issued this year.
It was fun to build and I quite liked that everyone made a bit of it. It’s part of the Creator range but we didn’t find it particularly difficult to build. The set includes a lovely gingerbread house with lots of detail, a gingerbread man and lady figure with baby, a Christmas tree with presents and toys. The living room raises more disturbing questions. Firstly, the fireplace does heaps in helping create a really cosy environment, and I also like the chocolate bar lounge chair.
He’s recently started collecting Lego Star Wars so perhaps we’ll be making some grey, space themed base plates for him to play with next. As you can see, he has plenty of space to build and display finished models. What do you think?
We followed the instruction booklet and loved watching the set come together. The outside of the house is decorated with candy-cane columns, frosted roofs with colourful candy buttons and pink and purple windows. Turn the house around and you can see inside the gingerbread house with a kitchen, lounge, bathroom and bedroom. I absolutely love the roof on the gingerbread house, which gives this model its signature look. It mimics the look of icing on the gingerbread house which also doubles as a heavy cover of snow. LEGO must’ve done something right as the set has been sold out for weeks now, which speaks to how well its been received by LEGO fans.
The icing on the cake (heh) is really the dollhouse design and inclusion of plenty of living areas which allows you to setup so many different scenes for the Gingerbread family. We tried to help him organise his Lego sets by labelling each drawer. This lasted a few days before everything got mixed up again! Thanks so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed this review! Did you manage to buy the LEGO Gingerbread House and have you built it? I’d love to hear that you thought of the set in the comments! Let’s meet the Gingerbread family! We have Mr Gingerbread, with a very respectable dad moustache, and Mrs Gingerbread who sports a gingerbread skirt. On the house’s right side is an alternate entrance, complete with candy cane pillars. There’s also an outdoor picnic table, which has bits of ice/icing (man, I love the double entendre in this case) hanging off the edges.
The size of the LEGO Gingerbread House, and all its other accompaniments make this seem like great value for the pricetag. It’s not the largest set, but because there’s so much going on with the design, it feels substantially larger than it really is. Then we attached the base plates. I bought a few and spray painted one of them with white paint. My son had received lots of Lego Arctic sets for Christmas, so I thought it would be fun if he had a snowy looking base plate.The upper level bedroom has quite a few fun little design flourishes. The bed looks like a bar of white chocolate, and there’s a cotton candy (fairy floss for you Aussies) lampshade as well. The last time LEGO veered from your typical Winter Village build was with 2014’s Santa’s Workshop, so this kind of feels like we get a fantasy build every 5 years.
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