Had a great time building this set. The Details are amazing. Love the characters and the vehicle. Wish it would have come with Dino. I would recommend this set to freinds.
I build LEGO sets and then share them with my elementary school students. I played the intro and ending of the Flintstones cartoon so the kids would know what the set was all about. After I showed the set to them, they asked where Pebbles and BammBamm and Dino and the Sabre-toothed tiger were. Yeah, the set is cool, but would have been better with these “missing” figures.
While the house and minifigures make for a decent display, that is really the best that can be said about this set. The car is a huge miss, without even a way to put the minifigures feet through the bottom and serious proportion issues. The set looks good closed and from the front, but when opened it is really lacking. The nod to bowling, which was featured from the first Flintstones episode, is i nice idea, but my 7 year old has made much more convincing pins. Since the Lego Movie II it seems that mixing Friends style minifigures and standard minifigures should no longer be taboo, and Wilma and Betty really should have been done in the Friends style since their physiques are so radically different from Fred and Barney. Lastly, at a time when Lego has multiple Jurassic Park sets out, as well as dinosaurs featured in the latest Lego Movie, the addition of a dinosaur or two to the Flintstones set does not seem as though it would be that hard to do. If anything, it would even make a great excuse to develop a brontosaurus model that can cross over with Jurassic Park. This set is not horrible, but it is underwhelming on almost every level. A 3 star review would not be horrible for most items, but this is really the first Lego set that I have ever bought, especially an Ideas set, that was disappointing.
loved the kit, Flintstones are my fav cartoon from saturday morning. wish they still showed it id watch. the kit was amazing and fun to build just wish they had dino, pebbles and bamam. =)
Very disappointing build. Tiny, tiny house. Few features within house that even resemble the Stone Age family's home. No Dino. Really felt like it was a rushed done on the cheap project. Really unless you must have the Flinstones I would not waste money on this build step up the few bucks and get the Steamboat Willie.