Name: Banana Balance
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 3853-1
Rating: 70 (3 reviews)

Banana Balance is LEGO set 3853-1. It has a score of 70. This is bad compared to all other sets. The set is recommended by 0 reviews, based on 3 scored reviews and 3 reviews total. It is ranked in the bottom 14.28% scored sets on Brick Insights. We know this set was released in 2011, and it is categorised in Games.

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Recommendations

Avoid 67%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Average PPP for Other in 2011 is 0.29. PPP for this set is 0.23, which is better.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as Other. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPP is a guide, not a rule, and affected by the type of parts included. A set containing small generic parts generally have better PPP than one containing larger specialized parts.

Price Per Minifig (PPM)

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We do not currently know how the average price per minifig for this set compares to other sets.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as Other. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

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Review breakdown

Scored reviews

Eurobricks Recommendation: meh 86 / 100 → 86 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: no 3.2 / 5 → 64 / 100

amazon.com Recommendation: no 3 / 5 → 60 / 100

Set information

Set ID: 3853-1
Name: Banana Balance
Parts: 49

Retail price (USD):
Original: 9.99
Inflation adjusted: 11.35

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.20
Inflation adjusted: 0.23

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: meh 86 / 100 by Dunjohn

I haven't tried the NinjaGo game yet, but of the other Wave 4 games, this is easily the best for parts, albeit highly specialised ones. Gameplay's also rather specialized but works well. It's particularly easy for adults to "accidently" lose at, too.

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Brickset

Recommendation: no 3.2 / 5 from 4 reviews

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amazon.com

Recommendation: no 3 / 5 from 11 reviews

If your kids are into Legos, then yes, you should buy this game. If you are buying it as a fun game, it's average at best. It's a good concept, but just didn't seem to be that fun. There are better balancing games out there, and the "fun-ness" if being Legos quickly wears off. I have a 6 year old and a 4 year old that I tried playing it with, and neither of them were super into it. Maybe the gameplay is too intricate for them. My kids are really into Legos so that gave it the bump up from 1 to 2 stars.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 11 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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