REVIEW: 42639 Andrea's Modern Mansion

[Pchan1983]

Here is my review on LEGO Friends 42639 Andrea's Modern Mansion:

THE GOOD:

• It looks absolutely beautiful, the exterior design is just so good. 
• The use of colours is great and well balanced.
• The swimming pool, the jacuzzi, the waterfall are all great!
• Lots of nice furniture builds and the piano might be the best music instruments build in this scale!

THE NOT SO GOOD:

• none to be honest, most of the points I'm going to raise are nip picking.
• Expensive and LEGO stores exclusives, so unlikely to get discount.
• The sports car suspension is too low, the front bumper touching the ground when getting out from the garage lol

I can confidently say, this may be the best looking LEGO friends set ever! or to some extent the best looking house across all themes.  Been impressed since the image was leaked and it really did not disappoint.  The exterior just looks stunning.  It's a big set but not really massive and just the right size of any shelf display.  Great use of colours across the mansion and I love how it stands out with different architectural design compared to a lot of other sets.  This makes the building experience refreshing.  Whether is the user of colourful garage door tiles for the colourful shades or use of curves for the central pillar, it's great.  The cool thing with the shades is that it also look great if you look out from the inside from one of the windows.  The central pillar have curved windows to show you the elevator, which I first experience the same technique to build a working elevator from the Monkie Megapolis City.  This took it to another level with the elevator going down to the pool with a curved blue transparent piece.  With the roof garden, a great swimming pool, an outdoor jacuzzi and a very very lovely looking water fall, the exterior is a 10/10.  Now this set also have very spacious and detailed interiors full of full and detailed furnitures build.  For example, different types of bed, very cool looking lamp and probably one of the best piano build in this scale ever!  With a recording studio at the ground level hidden with a double bed underneath the pool.  Plus a garage let you push the car out.  One thing to note is I really like the flooring desing on the corridor of the 3rd floor with a new (i believe so since I haven't exp it before) element to create a really nice pattern.  Regarding the sports car, it's actually build more like the 6 studs wide speed champion car than your typical lego cars.  With 10 minidolls included, it doesn't just look great but also very lively.  It's hard for me to find something not good about this, except probably the high entry price for this and the exclusivity which makes it hard to find a large discount.  Other than that, I could point out the car suspension being too low & may be the elevator doesn't have doors and with considerable gap which could be deadly if it's a FINAL DESTINATION situation XD. Definitely a set to recommend and can't wait to see the next Friends set =)