Heartlake Skate Park

This is a great set for a little girl who likes the Lego Friends sets. It's a different idea w the skate park and it has a number of small pieces that make up the park. My daughter loves moving them all around her other sets and changing them up slightly. There is a lot of creative options with this set. I also like the addition of this sport to the Friends sets more less

The half pipe is very brightly colored but it's a nice build. I do find its weird there promoting graffiti on the bottom! Poor Charlie has to skate up the hole pipe just for a sniff off the bone on display. The bottom of the cones are quite nice being transparent and all. I love how they didn't make the cones pink! The vending machine is a lovely looking build and I was shocked to see how it works. Play features are becoming more plentiful in mini-doll themes and I'm happy to see that development. The skateboard has a nice sticker. The way they attached the rope is; you attach the rope before you clip in the wheels. I'm not sure why the peer was included, you think they would make two different sets but oh well. I like the coconut tree construction and its skateboarding sign. I like the build of the peer too, it's nice and simple but effective. The only thing I don't like is the colors. Not because there bright because there's too many. I think the peer would've worked much better in just tan and lavender. I'm not sure what the other part is because I don't skateboard :P Whatever it is it looks nice, but like the peer it has too many colors. The ramp should be completely Iight stone grey, not orange and medium lavender mixed in! The orange bench should provide enough colour. The boom box to the side has a nice construction, we finally get the medium azure 90's-2000's phone in a cheap set! The bar to the side is a nice place to do tricks. Mia's helment in this colour is new. Unfortunately it's not a new mould and is simply the horse riding helmet in a new colour. I wish they used the minifigure helmet and added the ponytail on to it, but oh well. Her face, torso, legs and camera are nothing new. I do like the outfit combination, its very tomboyish (like Mia) with just the right girliness. It would've been nice to see a new top or trouser colour just because these pieces have become so common. Charlie is here too! Now that they've introduced Cookie, a much better looking Dalmatian I'm surprised they kept Charlie. Oh well you can see the spots on his hind legs in the first picture. I love the design of this thing and I'm glad to see more "tom boy" Friends sets, but it needs a colour scheme! I aploud them for not using pink but throwing lavender and bright orange everywhere isn't any better. I would've been fine with Mia having pink/lavender skates and the orange in the set being lavender, if it meant the set would have a subdued colour scheme. The vending machine is amazing! It's super fun to play with! I wish another character was included instead of Charlie, it's not safe for children to learn about taking their dogs skateboarding! The price is fine for what you get. You should definitely get this set if it goes on sale, I'm not sure if you should otherwise. more less

This set is designed for action play in mind. The techniques used are clean and useful for re-building later. The colors are so vibrant (and the stickers are too - there's one with graffiti and a lovely motif for the skateboard) that it sits well in Heartlake City for enjoyment by residents and visitors alike. more less

The completed set is nice, if a little disjointed. Though I appreciate the lack of pink in this set, the color scheme is a bit forced, with lavender and orange highlights on what would probably be concrete construction. The half-pipe is a nice bit, and I like that it was designed with a hinge so that it can be swung open to act as a pair of quarter-pipes (or a single, wider quarter-pipe). more less

One of the criteria that I use to evaluate a Friends set is how well (or not) I would see this in the City universe. I'm often puzzled why City and Friends sets are complementary (though in a way that's nice too). I think the skate park would work well in a City environment; save for a few lavender pieces in this set I could see this in the City world. more less