Friends

Andrea's Modern Mansion

The biggest Friends set ever, and secretly a brilliant grown-up build.

4.4/5

Set 42639 · 2024

Pieces2,275

Minifigs11

Year2024

Set number42639

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The verdict

If you or the kid in your life loves Friends, this is the one to get, and honestly plenty of adult builders quietly love it too.

It's the largest Friends set LEGO has made, packed with clever functions and 11 minidolls, and it earns its 14+ age rating with real technique. The colors are loud and the back is wide open, so it won't suit everyone. But for the money, you get a genuinely ambitious four-story house.

Best for: Friends superfans and adult builders who want a big colorful house that plays as good as it looks

The full review

What it is

Let me tell you about the biggest LEGO® Friends set ever made. Andrea's Modern Mansion is a four-story house with 2,275 pieces, and it is not messing around. You get a swimming pool, a hot tub, a toy piano, a karaoke corner, a Zen yoga spot, and an actual waterfall that runs off the roof. Down in the basement there's a recording studio and a garage. This is the set older Friends fans had been waiting for, the one that finally handles the theme like it deserves a proper flagship. If your mate or their kid is into Friends, this is the headline act.

The catch

Here's the honest part. The colors are turned all the way up. There's a lot of red, orange and purple going on, and while it looks great as its own statement piece, it will absolutely clash if you try to park it next to muted Heartlake City sets or a modular street. The whole back of the house is open, which is fantastic for little hands reaching in to play but does mean there's no finished rear if you wanted a fully enclosed display model. And this is a genuinely big, genuinely pricey set at $199.99, so it needs real shelf space and a real budget. It's not a quick afternoon either. That 14+ box marking is the highest age rating Friends has ever carried, and it's there because the build gets properly involved.

Who it's for

So who should grab it? Friends superfans, first and foremost, especially anyone who grew up with the original five girls, because this is the first retail set to reunite Andrea, Emma, Olivia, Stephanie and Mia in one box alongside the newer crew. Adult builders shouldn't sleep on it either. Behind the bright colors it's a surprisingly clever, technique-heavy build with a working elevator and a rolling-car garage function. Who should skip it? Anyone chasing a subtle, display-first house, or someone who wants everything to match their existing city. But if you want a big, playful, function-packed home and you don't mind it being loud, this is an easy set to recommend. The community score sits at a strong 4.4 out of 5, and that feels about right.

The parts story

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

The build breaks into satisfying chunks, floor by floor, which keeps a 2,275-piece set from ever feeling like a slog. You start at the basement with the recording studio and the garage (the car-roll-out function is one of those small mechanical touches that makes you grin), then work your way up through the living spaces to the roof with its waterfall and outdoor Zen area. The star mechanism is the working elevator that actually travels to every floor, and getting it to run smoothly is the kind of fiddly-but-rewarding section that earns the 14+ rating. Landscaping and the pool area add some nice organic shaping so it's not all right-angle rooms.

For parts nerds this is a proper haul. New Elementary flagged around 17 recolors plus new molds, including the long-anticipated 3x3 macaroni brick and a thick fern element that opens up new foliage options. The three garage door pieces come in Trans-Yellow, Trans-Orange and Trans-Dark Pink, which line up into a nice gradient. There's a bird mold printed in Lime for the first time, and a 1x2 tile with an orange koi print on Transparent Light Blue. At roughly $0.088 per piece, and being the largest Friends set to date, it lands as strong value and doubles nicely as a recolor-rich parts pack for MOC builders.

Fun facts

01With 2,275 pieces this is the largest LEGO Friends set ever made.
02It carries a 14+ age rating, the highest LEGO has ever given a Friends set, thanks to how involved the build gets.
03It's the first retail set to reunite all five original Friends girls (Andrea, Emma, Olivia, Stephanie and Mia) in one box, bridging the original and rebooted eras of the theme.
04The three garage doors come in Trans-Yellow, Trans-Orange and Trans-Dark Pink so they form a color gradient, and the set debuts the long-awaited 3x3 macaroni brick mold.