From tomorrow Monday 16 September, set 40694 River Camping Adventure is the gift with purchase with select LEGO® themes. Here’s your early look at what this cute LEGO® Friends set contains!
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40694 River Camping Adventure GwP
- Age mark: 6+
- Pieces: 182
- Release date: 16 to 23 September 2024
- Threshold: US$90/ 90€/ £80/ AU$150 and above
- Qualifying purchases: Limited to LEGO Friends, LEGO DREAMZzz, LEGO Ninjago, LEGO City and LEGO Animal Crossing products, while stocks last
40694 River Camping Adventure on LEGO.com
The built model
It can fold open to reveal two sleeping bags and a crate with supplies.
They picked the perfect spot to camp right in the middle of nature, on the banks of a small stream.
They should be careful of falling trees though, as the beaver seems set on damming the stream.
This might be the final camping trip of the summer, as autumn is right around the corner. To make the switch, the set comes with extra leaves in appropriate colors.
Parts
- 3x 5058 Plant, Leaves Stacked 4 x 5 x 1 2/3 in Flame Yellowish Orange/ Bright Light Orange (6475766, 6507839 | 5058)
- 2x Brick Round 1.5 x 1.5 Dome Top [Plain] in Brick Yellow/ Tan (6487883 | 20952, 37840)
- 4x Brick Curved 1 x 2 x 2/3 Double Curved Top, No Studs in Bright Bluish Green/ Dark Turquoise (6466044 | 3563)
- Tile Round 1 x 1 with Dark Turquoise Beetle print in Transparent/ Trans-Clear (6490892, 6532094 | 98138pr0405)
- Animal, Beaver, Sitting with White Teeth. Nougat Nose, Eyes print in Reddish Brown (6480961 | 5553pr0001)
- Minifig Head with Fire Flies, Sticks, Leaves print in Transparent/ Trans-Clear (6515613, 6490996 | 28621pr9950)
Mini-dolls
Sticker sheet
Conclusion
The summer-to-autumn transition is well timed for the northern hemisphere, but maybe it would have made more sense to offer this GwP at the time of the release of the other Adventure Camp sets?
Or simply head straight to LEGO.com to see what's available:
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Nice review! Looking forward to picking this up—I've got plenty of Dreamzzz and Ninjago sets still on my wishlist so this'll be a great opportunity to get some of them.
ReplyDeleteThe use of the slope/ramp from the Stuntz sets for the peak of the tent here is cool—because of their introduction for nice smooth ramps, that piece has a finer edge than typical slopes, allowing the tent to come to more of a point than normal slopes or plates would.
The crates being able to connect other-sized parts is kind of essential, seeing as they came out more than a decade before the 3x4 "minifigure base" that's sometimes used with them nowadays. Back in the Adventurers theme where it debuted 2x3 plates were typically used (this being before even 1x3 or 2x3 tiles were introduced).
Slight typo correction—you mistyped Nova's name as Nora in the mini-doll section.
I love it! Really great how Friends has embraced the adventure/camping/outdoorsey theme activities. Another in a long list of sets that once I get it I'll swap in some typical minifigs.
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