Yay or Neigh?
LEGO Friends continues for another year, and we’ve been slated with the whole first wave of 2025. Taking a look into the Horse and Pet Vet Clinic, how does Friends hold up for 2025’s first wave?
Horse and Pet Vet Clinic
From first glance to this set, without seeing its name I would assume that this is just another stable house. But alas, this time around we have a stable and vet clinic mixed in one.
Focusing on our exterior, we are greeted with the classic tan coloured stable house and bright coloured rooftops. We also get lavender door and window arches – but we also get birdhouse inbuilt to the house above the door too.
The set is accompanied by a large pet bed, where it is implied the larger dog has her puppies, and a signpost for the vet on a signpost near some sunflowers. If there were no sign at the top of the house and on the signpost, this would look like a normal farmhouse, and I’m not sure if that’s a good thing.
Spinning the model around, we see the inside of the model and all the clinic’s details. Inside here we see a feeding station, an x-ray machine, documents, pens, medicine equipment, a computer and a keypad. It’s almost a switch between night and day between the two sides of the model. Even moving upstairs, the pet bath makes the whole space feel purposely together. Like that this is all the clinic, and not just the lower floor. We are also given a picture of a blue bird and a flamingo, of which I do not understand. Hopefully it is just art, but if it alludes to something, I don’t know what it is.
The minifigures for the set are Autumn and Olly, but also accompanied by the clinician. The Doctor presents another new representation – facial birth marks. LEGO continue to push through with representation and I respect them all the more for it.
Verdict
This set is probably one of the weaker ones of the wave, but that isn’t in a way I mean to discredit it. The inside clinic looks fantastic within the space and very easily feels right at home. The sticker details in the set are also top tier. My issue with the set resides with the fact that one side of the set feels drastically different from the other. Removing two stickered elements from the outside turns the build back into a normal farmhouse. And if consumers look past that point, then this is just another farmhouse and it won’t sell as well.
I like the set, but this drastic 50/50 effect didn’t work as well as maybe the designer wanted it to. Maybe a colour bleed through or more medical things that can be seen from outside might have better avoided this.
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