Name: Fire Dragon's Lava Cave
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 41175-1
Rating: 85 (10 reviews)

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Recommendations

Indifference 71%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Average PPP for System in 2016 is 0.12. PPP for this set is 0.1, which is better.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. 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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Average PPM for System in 2016 is 16.64. PPM for this set is 21.3, which is worse.

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

PPM only takes the number of minifigs into account and discards everything else. It's a guide, not a rule.

Review breakdown

Scored reviews

amazon.com Recommendation: meh 4.7 / 5 → 94 / 100

LEGO Recommendation: meh 4.6 / 5 → 92 / 100

ttpm Recommendation: meh 4.5 / 5 → 90 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: yes 4.3 / 5 → 86 / 100

The Rambling Brick Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 → 80 / 100

Blocks Magazine Recommendation: no 65 / 100 → 65 / 100

Unscored reviews

JANGBRiCKS

FriendsBricks Recommendation: meh

Brickset News

New Elementary

Set information

Set ID: 41175-1
Name: Fire Dragon's Lava Cave
Parts: 441
Minifigs: 2

Retail price (USD):
Original: 39.99
Inflation adjusted: 42.6

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.09
Inflation adjusted: 0.1

Price Per Minifig (USD):
Original: 20.00
Inflation adjusted: 21.3

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amazon.com

Recommendation: meh 4.7 / 5 from 133 reviews

Lego blocks have always been a hit in our house. I bought this for my daughter for her birthday and she loves them. Once she builds a set and plays with them for a while she will "build her imagination" into different creations over and over.Hours of fun to be had by all. Plus they have always been a guilty pleasure of mine. Sometimes I build them so I can build with them too.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 133 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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LEGO

Recommendation: meh 4.6 / 5 from 5 reviews

This set is absolutely amazing! Zonya is gorgeous! She can move her head, neck, feet, legs, wings and tail. She is a little smaller than Gust the wind dragon, but larger than Sapphire, Merina, and Thorne. The cave has a sliding feature with moss beds in it. This set comes with Emily and Azari.

This score from LEGO is an aggregate of 5 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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ttpm

Recommendation: meh 4.5 / 5

This is a fun LEGO Elves set that offers both construction and imaginative play. Once built, kids can pretend to enter the Lava Cave with the use of Azari's magic fire powers, discover the secret map, fly off for an adventure on Zonya's back, and more.

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Brickset

Recommendation: yes 4.3 / 5 from 1 review

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The Rambling Brick

Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 by Richard

The dragon has grown on me. I will aim to brick build a head some day. The selection of parts is fantastic for crafting a magical rocky landscape – you would need to extend your parts to be able to create a good tree.

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Blocks Magazine

Recommendation: no 65 / 100

41175 Fire Dragon's Lava Cave was reviewed in issue 21 of Blocks Magazine.

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JANGBRiCKS

by Jang

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FriendsBricks

Recommendation: meh by LMM

Dragons and caves with Lava, oh my, I didn't think I would enjoy this set as much as I am. The Dragon design, pieces, articulation, pose-ability, sturdiness, colors, markings and obvious personality are winning! The cave is something that can be built upon and the techniques are clever, whimsical, and pack so much interaction in a medium LEGO set.

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Brickset News

by MeganL

The Shadow Fountain is great and I love the premise of turning poisoned water to pure water, and the lava cave, with its sliding mechanism and details of crystal rockfalls and toadstools are great. I really like how the Elves sets tie into an overall story, and this set offers lots of opportunity to reenact that story plus encourage children to make up stories of their own.

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New Elementary

by caperberry

As the second-largest set of the spring 2016 Elves wave, the Fire Dragon's Lava Cave doesn't disappoint. Zonya the Fire Dragon is, I'd argue, one of the most impressive LEGO dragons we've ever had, with an amazing build and loads of personality. And while it'd be easy to dismiss the other scenery and landscaping of this set as filler, it actually turns out to be quite impressive, offering multiple play scenarios and foreshadowing the darker, spookier mood of this summer's Elves sets. Ultimately, while this set may be filled with fantastic parts, once you've put it together it might be hard to convince yourself to take it back apart!

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