In my opinion, this is the best Minecraft Lego set you can buy!
This playset is probably one of the best in the Minecraft series, since it allows for some imagination.
It is often said that
Minecraft is the Lego for this generation. Personally, I think that implies that
Lego have been replaced by Minecraft. But the Lego Minecraft series is here to
prove that Lego and Minecraft are a match made in heaven, since they kind of
have the same basic foundation of building a world one block at a time.
Lego Minecraft Crafting Box - Review
The first three playsets
in this series, The First Night, The Farm and The Cave, give you some of the building possibilities you can find in
a Minecraft “Survival game mode”. If that’s true, "Creative mode" comes alive in this set,
LEGO Minecraft 21116 Crafting Box. Just like in Minecraft where you can
create your own world, the Crafting Box allows kids to be able to make their
own habitats for Steve or follow the instructions booklet (with eight pre-set options). This set is like the Lego of old where it was about using
your imagination to build and create.
The Crafting Box playset
is useful in several ways. Maybe you bought one of the other playsets, and once
you built them as per instructions, you don't particularly want to
disassemble them. This is where the Crafting Box comes in: it perfectly allows
for MOCs (My Own Creations) - and just as perfectly compliments and extends any
other sets.
It has a huge assortment
of pieces (521 pieces), including some that are not in the other Minecraft Lego sets. The
minifigures are Steve, a Skeleton, and a very neat Mooshroom (which is so far,
exclusive to this playset). There are torches, some plants, carrot, mature
wheat, a “diamond” pickaxe, skeleton’s bow, and pieces to make a furnace,
Redstone and lapis lazuli ores, and TNT. Also, you can make fences, lava and
water flows with the pieces included.
The playset comes with an instruction booklet with 8
different building options. Being able to
make eight different models will keep people entertained and happy. But the real beauty of the
set is that there are enough pieces that you don't need to follow the
directions and you can come up with some really neat builds, everything from a
tiny carrot and wheat farm, caves and scenes from nature to different buildings
and houses.
There are two instruction
books that come with the set. The first shows you how to put together all of
the smaller components of the set (everything from the torches to the different
parts of the buildings) and the second book shows you how you can combine those
to make 8 different scenes. There are idea pages after that with different
scenes you could build, but no instructions to those. Younger children will
need help putting these together.
Hint: I recommend the
purchase of a large building plate along this playset if you don't have a few
lying around. It has made a huge difference for free building as well as
setting up a scene from the instructions and being able to move it around.
In my opinion, this is
the best Minecraft Lego set you can buy! My recommendation would be to
purchase one of the other sets we already reviewed in addition to the Crafting
Box, because by itself the set is missing some mobs that really complete the
Minecraft look (mainly the Creeper). Personally I would recommend getting The Farm or The First Night in addition to this set. Or, if possible, you may
instead choose to spend the money on a total of three Crafting Box sets, which
when combined with the First Night, The Farm and The Cave will exponentially
increase the building possibilities to the point where they will nearly rival
the "real" Minecraft, i.e. the video game. I just love the versatility of this set!
Having a background in
Minecraft will probably make this more relatable to kids, but even without
knowing what Minecraft is, I really think this would be a set that will be fun
for a long time for anyone. Hours of fun!
All in all, this is a
great selection of Lego at a great value.
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