Friends

Comic Book and Game Store

A pop-colored Heartlake hangout with a working slushie machine and real charm.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 42674 · 2025

Pieces1,005

Minifigs4

Year2025

Set number42674

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The verdict

This one snuck up on me.

On paper it's just another Friends storefront, but the color scheme pops, the little play features actually work, and the ComicCon costumes on the four minidolls are ridiculously fun. The pile of stickers is the thing that'll test you, so if you hate sticker application you'll grumble your way through the walls. Everyone else gets a bright, quick, genuinely happy build.

Best for: Friends fans and color lovers who want a playable build packed with charm

The full review

What it is

The Comic Book and Game Store (set 42674) is one of those LEGO® sets that reminds you Friends quietly makes some of the most cheerful builds in the whole catalog. It's a two-level shop for Heartlake City with comics and toys downstairs, a video game zone up top, and a little slushie stand bolted onto the side with rooftop seating. There's an alien plushie, a unicorn plushie, a working token vending machine, and a Space Invaders style arcade cabinet that genuinely plays. The color scheme is what got me first. Bright turquoise, dark purple and pops of lime everywhere, the kind of palette that makes a shelf look happy just sitting there. At 1005 pieces it's not a huge set, but it's dense with personality, and the four minidolls in their ComicCon costumes (robot, superhero, galactic explorer and knight) are some of the most fun Friends characters I've seen in a while.

The catch

Now for the honest part, and it's a single word: stickers. There are a lot of them, and they carry a big chunk of the storytelling here, so you can't really skip them without the shop feeling bare. Most are fine, but there's one genuine nightmare. Applying a sticker to the curved inside of a 4x4 quarter cylinder is the kind of thing that makes you take a deep breath and question your life choices. Beyond that, the two things worth knowing are size and challenge. A thousand pieces sounds substantial but this one builds quickly and easily, so at its ninety-ish dollar RRP you're paying partly for the minidolls, the printed pieces and the play features rather than raw brick count. And if you live for clever engineering, there's not a ton of new technique here to chew on. It's a play set first, and it knows it.

Who it's for

So who should grab this one. If you love the Friends line, collect Heartlake City storefronts, or just want a bright playable set that a kid will actually pull off the shelf and use, this is an easy yes. The working vending machine alone earns its keep. Builders who care most about part count value or a meaty engineering challenge might feel a little short-changed, and sticker-haters have been warned. But the Brickset community landed it at a glowing 4.8 out of 5, and I get why. It's not trying to be the biggest set in the room, it's trying to be the most fun, and on that front it mostly wins. This one won me over slowly, and I think it'll do the same to you.

The parts story

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

The build breaks into friendly, digestible chunks, which is a big part of why it goes so fast. You start with the slushie stand and its working token dispenser, twist the front lever and a card drops down, and you can refill it through a slot up top. From there you move into the two-level store, ground floor for comics and toys, upstairs for video games, plus two side builds: the vending machine and that Space Invaders style arcade cabinet. Nothing here will stump an experienced builder, but the pacing is lovely and the little play functions keep it from ever feeling like busywork. It's a quick, breezy sit-down build, the kind you finish in an afternoon and immediately want to play with.

On the parts front there's real treasure for element hunters. Two brand new molds debut here, a lime antenna headwear accessory and a transparent opalescent unicorn horn. The recolors are the good stuff though: 24 medium azure masonry profile bricks, eight dark purple 1x4x6 door frames, plus turquoise plates and a dark turquoise helmet that parts collectors will happily raid the set for. Printed pieces do heavy lifting too, with cute animal and star tiles, a robot costume print, and a Moon Pegasus shield. There's even a genuinely obscure orange crate whose mold traces back to the 2002 Jack Stone line. For 1005 pieces the value is fair rather than spectacular, but the recolor and print haul gives it more MOC appeal than the sticker complaints might lead you to expect.

Fun facts

01The vending machine really works. Twist the lever on the front and a token card drops out, and you can top it back up through a slot in the top.
02Two new molds premiere in this set: a lime antenna headwear piece and a unicorn horn in transparent opalescent, both shared with the Costume Party set from the same wave.
03One orange crate element in the set uses a mold that first appeared way back in LEGO's 2002 Jack Stone line, making it a genuine deep cut for parts collectors.
04The four minidolls (Zac, Nova, Liann and Aliya) are dressed for ComicCon in robot, superhero, galactic explorer and knight costumes, all unique to this set.