Review - The Farm, 21114

One of the first Lego Minecraft sets, The Farm features a fenced area for the included brick-built cow and sheep, as well as a farm, where Steve is growing wheat, sugar cane, carrots and pumpkins. Personally, I really enjoyed this set, and I really like how all the Minecraft themed sets have this really big focus on being able to pull apart the sets and rebuild both the secondary ideas in the back of the book, as well as making completely new creations - as seen in my photo. I feel like this isn't something that Lego has really put lots of focus on since about the late '00s with the really common 3-in-1 stuff you sadly just don't see anymore.

This set includes a cow, and sheep, a skeleton, Steve, and a pumpkin. I've decided to put the pumpkin on the list, as it's the same piece as Steve or the skeletons head. I think this is a great idea, as it allows you to recreate the in-game feature of wearing a pumpkin on your head to appear invisible to enemies.

The brick-built animals in this set are great, and I think using the 1x2 groove bricks as legs is absolute genius. However, I'm really disappointed about their heads, and that they can't be used on minifigures. Granted, I know it would have been difficult to make it work, but it would have been a great feature, not unlike the game's many different player skins. 

I'm pretty impressed with the set itself, the terrain is nice, and there's a lot of brown bricks, which are always helpful. There are a lot of other great pieces too, like the cheese-yellow carrot stalks, the trans blue water pieces, and the all the light brown blocks and plates used for the fences. I feel like there's quite a lot in this set that would ordinarily be really hard to come across in other Lego themes.

Cost wise, the set isn't a bargain, but for the amount of new molds and colours of pieces, combined with the really high amount of good old bricks, I was pretty happy with the cost - around $50 AUD.

But my favourite piece by far is the new Minecraft shovel, which, when held in this position looks just like a bass guitar!

Cost - 3.5/5, Playability - 4/5, Parts - 4.5/5

Overall - 4/5