Mind-Blowing LEGO Figures | The Frog House 21256 Review

Hey everyone I’m mind and this is set number 21256 the Frog house from the Lego Minecraft theme this set contains 400 pieces three Minifigures as well as four other Lego Minecraft mobs and it will retail for $54.99 in the US when it officially releases on January 1st 2024

This set was gifted to me early for review by the LEGO Group through the Lego ambassad network but all opinions expressed in this video are my own I’ve got lots of early reviews coming so if you enjoy this kind of content you want to see more make sure to leave a like on

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Don’t know what to say about it this is of course another set in the Lego Minecraft like animal houses collection which when those started out I thought they were really fun really cool it was so wacky getting like brickbuilt versions of all these different Lego animals that also doubled as houses and

I do still like those sets don’t get me wrong but I do feel like they’ve kind of started to wear thin they’re running out of animals to do and I don’t know at this point I would kind of just prefer a normal house in the Minecraft style

Might just be me though that being said I do really like the idea of the frog frogs in Minecraft are super cute so getting a giant Minecraft frog sounded awesome that being said I don’t think this house achieves that I get what they’re going for here but I’m really

Not a fan of what they did at the front cuz I guess they want the house to be very open cuz this is a house in a swamp so I guess you don’t want like enclosed walls in a swamp but it does kind of just ruin the Frog’s face for me like it

Just feels like his mouth’s been torn open and I think the mouth is one of the cutest parts of the Minecraft frog I get that the fences at the front sort of represent the mouth I don’t know it doesn’t work the best for me cuz like you’re building in such a large scale

Compare that to how cute the tiny frogs look this just really doesn’t capture that so yeah that’s my biggest let down with this set there is still things I like about it but I am starting this review off by saying I’m probably going to have a lot of negatives to this one

Anyway moving up close you can see the house is built on top of water and I like the way they did the frogs feet I think that’s captured well we do get the printed frog eggs piece in this set which is not new that came in the what

Was it called the pumpkin farm the set with the witch in 2023 so it’s cool to see that’s coming in more than one set and of course because it’s such a small piece you you do get an extra in this set other side basically identical though without those frog eggs the

Stairs that lead up to the Frog House look like they’re meant to be made out of Mangrove wood which is a nice nod and of course this is Lego standard fence gate design so you can open it up like this and that way Minifigures can walk

In and out around the side we have like a window that’s covered up in fences that actually I think looks really good I think around the side that’s perfectly fine and you can see the back’s open too completely but I think it’s very weird that the front’s the most open part of

This build I feel like if the front was covered but back and sides were like open I would not have minded that as much but the front of the frog is like the most iconic part so that’s the part that should have been closed up back

Legs have a little bit more to them you can see this fence is used right here that’s a nice touch I appreciate them trying to make this actually look like it was built in Minecraft and then there’s a lily pad too which obviously makes a lot of sense for a swamp but

Also fits the frogs perfectly foot on the other side is basically the same thing and then the roof with the Frog Eyes On Top is made to be easily removed before we do that though I do want to talk about this roof a little bit cuz this is another one of my major

Criticisms with this set is the color here just does it work this is a completely different color from the rest of the Frog’s body everything else is dark orange but this is like the color that they use for like Oak planks and like that’s fine on the floor I don’t

Mind that in the actual body of the house and if the entire frog was built out of that color I don’t even think that would look too bad obviously dark orange is better but using the both interchangeably it’s just a little bit ugly especially cuz it’s just a plate on

Top of everything right like everything else is dark orange even Brown down here fits in but then abruptly changing to this color and then going back to dark orange up here it’s really not doing the Frog any favors that color is incorporated a little bit around the

Back too but it really just isn’t enough so this giant plate on top being this color feels so out of place I really wish we’ had gotten part in dark orange in this set now I kind of get why the way that designing a Lego set works

Sometimes I don’t have the budget for a color change this part already existed in this color it didn’t exist in dark orange I assume so they couldn’t use it in dark orange cuz they probably couldn’t afford to change that part that being said this is a product that people

Are buying just because that’s how that works internally doesn’t mean I have to enjoy the result necessarily and yeah I don’t think that looks great so very unfortunate but now let’s take that off so we can take a look at the full interior so here’s inside of the Frog

House and one thing I’ll say I like about this set is how spacious the interior is that’s one thing that always sort of bothered me about like Lego Minecraft sets when I was younger is there wasn’t too much room to actually play with my Minifigures in actual

Minecraft you have all this room in your house the Lego Minecraft sets are often very jam-packed which makes sense of course they’re making a toy they’re trying to make it cheap but I always appreciate things like this cuz I feel like you could properly play in here

You’ve got the bed the crafting table the furnace a little Shelf with a cake on it as well as a potion and then a Minecraft chest around the side which we’ve open it up has two slime balls I assume those are meant to be or emeralds

Maybe but then the rest of the floor space is just yours and do whatever you want with you can put more accessories from other sets if a kid’s like playing with their friends they could put more beds in here and of course the furniture that’s already in here is easy to remove

So if you want to take the furnace or anything else out you can we also have brickbuilt frog lights in the wall which is a fun touch so yeah this interior genuinely seems like a lot of fun to play with I just wish the rest of the

Set was a little bit better and I think that’s about all I have to say for the actual frog house build of this set however that’s not it for the builds because we also have this little farm that goes off to the side and I mean

This is cute this is good for Play We got some wheat some what I assume are beetroots and then who knows what plant this is a composted to put them in as well as a little flower growing out of the ground but there’s not much else to

To this build it just feels like a nice bonus and this doesn’t connect to the main build but you can very easily sled it in the side right here or around front or just put it wherever you want and finally because the set’s meant to

Be a swamp it also comes with a boat and this is just like a Minecraft standard boat build they use wooden shovels to represent ores it’s got these rounded pieces on the bottom so it sort of like rocks back and forth a little bit and there’s room to fit two minifigures

Inside here’s a look at two of the Minifigures in the set actually riding in the boat yeah something like this is always appreciated but has come in many other sets before so not anything too crazy but again good for play happy it’s here but you know even though I’ve had a

Lot of criticisms with the main building this set what’s really good in this set is actually the Minifigures so now let’s take a look at them so here’s the first minifigure in this set who was just called the swamp Explorer and there of course just the new player skin for this

Set I do like the design of this one the dark blue for the hair is kind of neat and I like the sort of goggles at the top I assume that’s what that’s meant to be and yeah this is a dark blue Lego Minecraft head which I’m not sure if

We’ve gotten before there’s no back printing which I do feel like is a little bit unfortunate cuz I think a lot of Lego Minecraft figures do get that but I suppose it’s not a huge deal that it’s not there and in terms of torso print it just seems like a really nice

Robe the silver is a fun Touch Too in terms of accessory as you can see there’s a fishing rod with fish on the end that’s just a whip piece with a fish attached and then just a standard Lego Minecraft Diamond Sword which of course Very iconic item from the video games

But not actually the most exciting to get in sets cuz it comes in lots of sets so it’s actually quite easy to get so yeah cool minifigure nice exclusive but it’s a Lego Minecraft figure it’s simple I don’t have too much else to say I guess it is an interesting expression

One eye is like bigger than the other it does seem like with this wave of Lego Minecraft sets they’re trying to give the Skins Expressions which I’m kind of mixed on I think it’s a cute idea I like it for Alex and Steve not sure about for

The other characters but hey I mean they’re trying something new at the very least then here are the other two full Minifigures in this set we have a zombie and a drowned zombie the basic zombie I don’t have anything to say about same zombie that’s been around since 2014

It’s good at what it wants to be but I have no comment always good that it’s coming in sets but nothing too exciting the drown though I actually do really like this guy has been coming in sets for a few years now but he’s become slightly more common as the years have

Gone on and that makes me happy to see cuz I feel like this is just a more interesting version of the zombie and obviously they shouldn’t phase out the zombie or anything but I’m glad this guy is here alongside him the tatter clothes I’ve always thought look really nice and

Sand Green’s like a really cool color for the skin and there is back printing here and then also he comes with a trident accessory which that’s always nice to get cuz you can’t just give that to a player skin too if you want and I believe this set does come with an extra

Of that piece too so you get two of it in the set and even though the drown have become slightly more common they’re still not super common so if you’re trying to build up like a larger Lego Minecraft world this is a great character to add to your army so yeah

Both good inclusions not much else to say and now we get into the non- minifigure mobs in the set and here are the first two we have a small slime as well as a frog specifically an orange frog the small slime used to be rare but

That actually comes in quite a few sets nowadays still a really cool part I love the trans grain it’s just so pretty and obviously it’s the perfect color for the Slime but then the frog the frog is absolutely awesome now this guy is not new he did come in one set previously

This year but I mean come on how could you not love this guy look at his little face look at the shape of his body they captured him absolutely perfectly his eyes look so silly his mouth’s so cute I’m really glad he didn’t remain exclusive to one set and he came in

Another one so happy to see him here but of course this is the Frog House the set didn’t just come with one frog it came with a total of three so here we have the green frog and the gray frog the gray frog is another re-release he came

In a set in 2023 but the green frog is all new and exclusive to the set at least as i’ be filming this video they chose to use a bright green instead of normal green for the green frog and I think that fits perfectly it just pops a

Lot more than normal green would but of course all three of the frogs have that same very silly face same design for the body basically just the same thing recolored three times but I love them so happy to get all of them here just a fantastic collection to now have look at

These three together they’re adorable and so overall what are my thoughts on the set I don’t know man I really want to like this set like I truly want to like it Frog House sounds like a fun idea and I love that we get three of the

Frog figures in this set the New Skin’s really cool I’m happy to get another drown and I think if I was a kid I would have fun playing with this like I love how spacious the house is you get the farm off to the side you get the boat

Like I feel like it does open up to a lot of creativity that being said there’s a lot of things that go wrong with this set something I haven’t talked about yet is the price 55 was it yeah $55 is ridiculous for this this should

Probably be 40 I can kind of say 45 cuz there’s a big pieces used but even though the set is like physically kind of big a lot of that is those big plate pieces there’s not actually a lot that goes into this set so $55 does feel like

A lot and the Minifigures are good don’t get me wrong but it doesn’t feel like $55 worth of Minifigures I think 45 probably is the right price at least to my eyes and 50 would have been okay but 55 is really pushing it and then yeah as

I mentioned the look of the Frog house just isn’t the best they ripped off the Frog’s face like what happened to him poor guy I get the design choice I just don’t really agree with the design choice you know so I really hesitate to recommend this set if budget’s not

Really a factor to you you’re just like yeah I I’ll buy whatever sure go for it I guess if you’re a huge fan of Minecraft frogs and you don’t mind how the house looks and you really want the green frog go for it and I will say

Probably for kids who don’t really care as much about how the set looks and more just how fun they are to play with again I reiterate there is a lot of fun to be had here the biggest highlight of the set is how spacious it is and how much

You get you get good guy you get bad guy you get animals you have this big house to play with you got the farm to play with you have the fishing rod like there is a lot of playability here in a $55 set but that’s probably the only part of

This set that feels worth that price so for older collectors especially no I don’t recommend it if you find it on like 40% off maybe but I honestly would recommend you wait and see if the green frog comes in another set cuz it’s probably not worth

Picking up this set for but of course those are just my thoughts let me know what you guys think of this set in the comments below if you enjoyed this video make sure to leave a like on it and subscribe to my channel if you’re new

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