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Alpine Lodge

The cosiest Winter Village yet, with dark orange logs you'll fall for.

Brick Rated Score

4.3/5

Set 10325 · 2023

Pieces1,517

Minifigs5

Year2023

Set number10325

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The verdict

This is the biggest Winter Village set LEGO® has made by piece count, and it earns the size with a proper three-storey chalet you can open right up.

Those dark orange logs are the detail everyone remembers, and the light brick in the chimney glowing through two fireplaces is genuinely lovely. The trees are a touch small and the roof props are a bit fiddly, but this is a warm, easy set to love. If you keep a snowy village on a shelf every December, you'll want it.

Best for: Winter Village collectors who set up a snowy scene every holiday season

The full review

What it is

The Alpine Lodge is the 2023 Winter Village set, and it's the biggest one LEGO has done in the line by piece count at 1,517 parts. What you get is a three-level chalet you can lift apart floor by floor: a reception room downstairs with a check-in counter, a coffee machine and a log fire, a guest room on the second floor with two beds and a second fire, and a tiny loft bedroom tucked up under the roof. Outside there's a wood store, a ski box, a little skating area, a toilet cabin, a snowmobile and a holiday tree. The thing that got me, and pretty much every reviewer, is the dark orange logs. That colour makes the whole building read as warm timber instead of plastic, and the way the walls are textured with different wood tones is the kind of detail Winter Village fans get quietly obsessed with.

The catch

I'll be straight with you about where it falls a bit short. The trees are cleverly built but genuinely too small next to a chalet this tall, and if you've got other Winter Village sets you'll probably want to swap in something bigger. The roof is the other niggle. Both roof panels are held on with Technic beams, and while LEGO tried to hide them with flowers, they stay pretty visible, and lifting the roof off to reach the loft is more awkward than it should be. The loft itself is so cramped that you kind of forget it exists once the build is done. At $99.99 the value is fair rather than amazing, though it is the most pieces you'll get in a Winter Village box. Since it retired at the end of 2025, prices have already climbed, with sealed sets running around $140, so it's no longer the easy grab it once was.

Who it's for

If you're a Winter Village person, the ones who rebuild the whole snowy street on a mantel every December, this is a clear yes and probably a highlight of your collection. It's a relaxing, detailed build with real charm and one of the nicest colour palettes the line has used. If you don't already do the Winter Village thing and you're just after a clever engineering challenge, this won't be the set that converts you, and now that it's retired you'll pay a premium for a fairly gentle build. But as a cosy centrepiece for a festive display, it's hard not to smile at it.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build works its way up floor by floor, which keeps things moving nicely. You start with the ground-floor reception and its little details like the check-in counter and coffee machine, then stack the guest room, then cap it with the loft. The star technique is the log-cabin wall work: layers of bar and clip parts and textured bricks in mixed brown tones that make the timber feel hand-hewn rather than flat. The chimney hides a light brick in the flue that you activate by pressing the chimney cap, and that single brick throws a glow into both the downstairs and upstairs fireplaces, which is a genuinely clever bit of routing. Even with the light off, transparent orange elements in the hearths keep that warm look. It's a calm, satisfying build with no real slog, though the Technic-beam roof mounting at the end is the one section that feels more functional than elegant.

For parts, the headline is the dark orange used for the logs, a colour choice that does a lot of heavy lifting and is great for anyone building rustic or wood-toned models of their own. The minifigures are a good haul too: five of them, with the two lodge owners standing out, the female owner wearing a new torso with a detailed knit-jumper print and a hair piece that hides an alternate expression, and the male owner in a reddish brown flat cap, overalls and printed sand blue legs. Nearly every torso is double-sided and most of the legs are printed, which is a lot of decorated pieces for a Winter Village set. You also get a bird, a cat and a squirrel to scatter around the scene. At 1,517 pieces for the original $99.99, the part-count value was the best the line had offered.

Fun facts

01The Alpine Lodge is the largest LEGO Winter Village set by piece count, narrowly edging out the sets before it at 1,517 parts.
02A single light brick sits in the chimney flue and, when you press the chimney cap, lights up both the downstairs and upstairs fireplaces at once.
03The dark orange logs that give the chalet its cosy timber look are the detail reviewers singled out most often as the set's best design choice.
04The set retired at the end of 2025 and sealed copies have since risen to around $140, up about 40% from the $99.99 launch price.