The Lego Botanicals theme continues to grow, as a new flower display for your wall is unveiled, that’s aimed squarely at Valentine’s Day gift buyers.
Although Lego has always made sure not to offer sets involving realistic war machines or weapons, traditionally a lot of their sets have erred more towards boys toys, especially with licences like Star Wars and Marvel.
That has changed in recent years though, most obviously, and successfully, with the Botanicals line of brick-built plants and flowers. What started off as just a few experimental sets has bloomed into one of Lego’s most successful adult themes, with multiple new designs introduced every year.
For obvious reasons, there’s always at least one released around Valentine’s Day and this year it’s a flower arrangement designed to go on the wall, that features pink camellia, purple clematis, dark red wild roses, and mimosa.
There’s been a few wall-mounted Botanicals sets before, including winter and spring wreaths, but the new Flower Wall set features a trellis system that allows you to rearrange the flowers however you want or even add ones in from other sets. The trellis itself can also be built in various different shapes, depending on where you want to display it.
What’s made the Botanicals sets popular even amongst veteran Lego fans is the clever way they reuse existing Lego pieces in unusual ways, to give the impression of a flower. Colouring minifigure hats or roller skates pretty colours has been a common method in the past and the Flower Wall looks to involve some other inventive techniques.
As such, there’s very few Lego pieces made specifically for the Botanicals range, although in this instance Lego has debuted new pink and purple colours, which will inevitably be adopted for use elsewhere, for no doubt very different purposes.
It may not seem the most immediately romantic gift to give on Valentine’s Day but it’s not just the Botanicals range that’s become popular with adults in recent years, with an ever increasing range of Lego sets, across all sorts of different themes, now aimed purely at adults.
There’s lots of reasons for this, with Lego offering a welcome distraction in an increasingly digital-only world, but one of the key attractions is that it’s actually a very social activity, building a set together, which makes for an unconventional Valentine’s Day activity.
The only downside with Lego is, of course, the price, although Botanicals has an advantage there as well, since there are no external licenses involved and so the value for money, in terms of the number of pieces involved, tends to be a lot higher than other sets.
As such, the Flower Wall is made up of 870 pieces and costs £79.99, which still isn’t cheap but around the same as a bouquet of real flowers, which is never going to last anywhere near as long.
The set goes on sale from February 4 on the Lego website, but you can get it on February 1 if you’re a Lego Insider, which involves only a free sign-up. Valentine’s Day, in case you’ve forgotten, is on February 14 – which is a Saturday this year.
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