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LEGO is always working to develop innovative new ways to engage with varying mediums and audiences, that’s what keeps the brand popular. With the arrival of a new styled line of brick fashion models for LEGO Disney, LEGO have created a new on-the-shelf display LEGO Disney Princess Cinderella’s Dress set for your home. How does this new style hold up? Read on!
Cinderella’s Dress
LEGO Disney Princess Cinderella’s Dress follows in a similar pattern to the Wednesday and Wicked brick built dolls of last year. With a similar core structure and subtle curves, it feels right at home with these models, barring limbs and a head of course.
The dress gives us implications of fluffy frills with white details around the chest, even giving us a recognisable bow on the back of the dress. We also get some fun printed details on the side moving downwards, a reference to her magical pumpkin carriage. The shaping details on the dress are executed brilliantly – with little studs exposed and closed gaps amongst the dress.
Alas, this is where we talk about the big issue with the LEGO Disney Princess Cinderella’s Dress, this isn’t a dress that reflects any particular moment on screen. This isn’t her final gown, very evidently shown by the figure included with the set, nor is it her house keeping clothes. There isn’t a single scene from the films that this dress corresponds to. Now, this wouldn’t be a gripe for me if they said that it was Cinderella-inspired, but even the descriptions on LEGO.com don’t say this.
It begs me to questions as to what dress this is, and if I’m completely missing something here.
The Box
The display pedestal for the set includes a portrait of the Disney animated Cinderella, adorned with lovely crenulation details. The top of the box looks similar to a teacup saucer, which is topical to the insides of the box. Opening up panels on the side allow us to see a tea party and a spinning wheel. This is intended as a play space for Cinderella and Gus, the two characters of the set. It’s a fun little addition to help accentuate the display of the final model, but parts of me wonder if these parts could be used elsewhere. I don’t think many folks would be too worried if this part of the set was sacrificed for the sake of the dress, as mentioned above.
Verdict
At the end of the review, I have mixed feelings about this set. There’s a lot of potential in a fashion line like this from LEGO, and I’m all for it.
But I’m just a bit confused on the execution of this idea. Are these dresses inspired by the characters? If so, why not allow it to be customised or have other options? Having one person’s interpretation of an inspired dress doesn’t appeal to the greater masses.
Don’t misunderstand me – this is an extremely well built dress and with subtle techniques that make me very happy. But I’m just lost on the allure to these models. If we could built multiple dresses from the parts, I would understand it. The set would feel very fashion-focused, as is the intended audience, but we don’t get that.
We get a single dress design on a display stand pedestal filled with smaller mini-doll play features. I feel the parts of the pedestal could have gone into making this a 3-in-1 set rather than a display for one dress that doesn’t line up with the source material. It feels incomplete, but with a pricetag of $59.99 AUD I would have hoped for something… more.
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