LEGO® 40411 Creative Fun 12-in-1: Professor's "One Set" MOCs

Today we welcome the Professor (on Instagram) for an altogether different kind of LEGO® review! He's a French engineer who loves LEGO Star Wars and Creator – especially the 3-in-1 sets, as he loves to create his own alternate models – which made him ideal to take on the new set 40411 Creative Fun 12-in-1. This is a gift-with-purchase in many parts of the world from July 1 to 26 with qualifying purchases over $85 / €85 / £85.  He added so many of his own builds, it's now a 50-in-1! 

According to me, LEGO is synonymous with infinite play. I love making several creations from just the parts of one set – what I call One Set MOC. This is the very essence of LEGO. Only limited by your imagination!



That is why I loved the '12-in-1' concept of this set, 40411. After having quickly looked at the parts, and models list, my enthusiasm subsided a little. I think that the models are quite simplistic, which is normal for a rather young audience I suppose. Unlike the Creator 3-in-1 sets, where we have real parts reusability, here we have the impression of having several small sets combined in the same box. In fact, I feel that some models were created independently of each other.

Each set seems to have its own specific pieces, with dedicated colours :

• the pineapple, with its green leaves
• watermelon, and its four large red parts
• ice cream, with its brown parts
• the castle, and its beige parts
• the duck, and its round and yellow parts
• the fish, and its small light green parts
• the pink flamingo, and its… pink parts

In the end, we have these seven small 'sets' which rarely use the parts of the other sets. And then we have five models which have obviously been made with parts from others, but are not as successful:

• the cherries
• the boat
• windsurfing
• the little fish and the coral?
• the parrot

In my opinion, there are too many colours, and too many parts not reused from one model to another.

In honesty, I didn’t actually make all the models; I preferred experimenting with the creative capacity of this set instead. Speaking of which, it wasn’t easy with so many colours, and so many varied pieces. I also regret that some pieces are not as numerous as I expected. For example, we only have three round bricks; with four, we could have made car wheels.

Nevertheless, after a few days, I managed to make a fair number of creations, and I transformed this 12-in-1 into a 50-in-1 set by adding my own 38 creations. Some of mine are not the best, but no worse than those of original of the set.

Here are my creations, grouped by their theme.

Animals

Coral and yellow fish

Parrot

Hummingbird

A bird in a nest

Peacock

Ant

Butterfly

Lion

Dog and rabbit

Coloured fish

Constructions and landscapes

Inca temple

House

Beach landscape

Little house near a river

Mc Donalds

Objects

Pizza

Music box

Perfume bottle

String instrument

Watch

Saxophone

Tape dispenser

Gun

Flower pot

Smiley

Sci-Fi

Star Trek USS Enterprise

Wall·E

Star Wars ship

Multicoloured Millennium Falcon

Star Wars Snow speeder

Star Wars Sand speeder

Transport

Pirate ship

Cart and horse

Bike

Fighter jet

Helicopter

Sailing ship

Old plane

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