Christmas Countdown 3 - Lego 10229 Winter Village Cottage Part 1 of 5

We now start on the Winter Village Cottage which was actually last year's release but if you are like me who lived in Singapore, then it only came in 1st quarter 2013 and if things are like before, we will only get the Winter Village Market next year. Woe is those who live here.

At the point of its release, it was the largest set among the Winter Village sets and still is. Correspondingly, the price increase is rather steep but the price per brick ratio is respectable, especially if you get this at 20% off or on eBay, which then brings it to around the price of SGD$160.

The back of the box is great, with such a large set, they squeezed in 3 smaller build in addition to the cottage. This really gives kids many possibilities of making different scenes that they like. Other winter village sets also do this which is what is the great thing about these sets.

The set come with the same standard with come to expect from Lego, the instruction manuals are put in a separate bag with a cardboard backing. Only 4 white large plates came outside of the polybags. Talking about polybags, this set come with 18 whopping polybags.

The polybags are numbered divided into 3 parts but there are 5 builds. So we start with the igloo. This build is more like a warm up, it is nice and cute but is quite quick to build but the big pine tree is a nice addition to my collection. So it the owl too, that is a nice addition to anyone's collection. For the minifigures, oh well they are pretty run of the mill to me. I think I have seen their faces too many times. Would have been nice to get other kinds of head pieces but hey you win some, you lose some. Let us see how the next build will be.