My early Christmas present to myself for 2024. I opened this early because I want to have the time to build it while I'm off from work. A little LEGO building time each day in addition to walking, cooking, movies, and reading sounds like just the thing. This set should make a nice accompaniment to set 10305: Lion Knight's Castle.
Bag 1
We begin with the carpenter/woodworker minifig and several small builds mostly for her shop, but it also includes a cart selling cheese and bread. I love the storytelling already on view with the 3-legged table (propped up by a stump) and a new table leg turning on the lathe. A stickered tile on the broken table shows plans for a chair, and then we build the exact chair.
Bag 2
The ground floor of the woodworker's shop boasts a neat blue and white awning. I especially enjoyed the mushrooms growing on the front lawn.
Bag 3
The upper floor of the woodworker's shop has a folding ladder and a crane to help transfer heavy items.
Bag 4
We build the thatched roof of the woodworker's shop and a small peasant's cart, and with this I believe the woodworker's shop is now complete.
Bag 5
The ground floor of the farm house is built in the Tudor half-timbered style. There's a hearth and a rack holding different colors of yarn. I appreciate the out-of-context chopsticks hanging from one wall.
Bag 6
The farmhouse roof gets a dark thatched treatment with an inset half-circle window.
Bag 7
The farmhouse gets a garden complete with a beehive and even a bee.
For the interior we get the weaver's loom and a stickered tapestry with a castle scene. This completes the farmhouse and it is attached to the woodworker's shop by a pair of hinges.
Bag 8
We start building the cheesemaker's shop in a tan and brown half-timbered style. The counter holds many types of cheese. I love the little white kitten.
Bag 9
We complete the walls of the cheesemaker's shop. I like the high shelf with a bit more cheese plus a random mug.
Bag 10
The cheesemaker's shop gets a thatched roof and chimney.
Bag 11
Squirrel and goat! I guess the cheesemaker makes goat cheese. This fenced garden completes the cheesemaker's shop and it is attached via hinges to the other side of the woodworker's shop.
Bag 12
A shady tree with a shady crossbow-toting Wolfpack member loitering beneath it. (The Wolfpack were a short-lived LEGO Castle bad guy sub-theme from the early 90's.)
Bag 13
The foundations for a tavern. The cobbled stone steps leading up to the entrance are especially nice.
Bag 14
The ground floor of the tavern comes together with a tapped keg. It's empty, so the barrel filed with transparent yellow tiles on the peasant's cart must be its replacement.