Seasonal

Festival Calendar

A little brick-built calendar that quietly celebrates the whole year of festivals in one build.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 40678 · 2024

Pieces345

Minifigsn/a

Year2024

Set number40678

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The verdict

I built this one on a slow Sunday afternoon and it turned into exactly the kind of calm, no-pressure build I didn't know I needed.

It is a small display piece built around a rotating wheel, and instead of one scene it gives you a string of little festival vignettes you turn through across the year, so it keeps earning its shelf space long after the last brick clicks in. It will never wow you the way a big Icons set does, and at 345 pieces it is over quicker than you want it to be, but as a gift-with-purchase style set it massively overdelivers on charm per brick. Get it if you love small seasonal builds and rotating mechanisms, skip it if you need a centerpiece set to justify the shelf space.

Best for: fans of small rotating-mechanism builds and seasonal display pieces who want something to keep on a desk year round

The full review

What it is

I love a set that does more with less, and this one is a good example. It is not a big scene, it is a calendar, a rotating wheel with a run of tiny festival moments built around its edge, the kind of thing that turns into a genuine little ritual once it is on your shelf. I found myself giving the wheel a spin every few days just to see the next scene line up, which is not something I expect from a 345 piece set.

The catch

I will be straight with you though, the build itself does not take long, and if you are used to spending a weekend on a set this one will feel over before you have properly settled in. There are no minifigures here either, so anyone who builds mainly for the little people to act out scenes with will come away wanting more. And because it leans toward the promotional side of LEGO's lineup rather than a standing retail set, availability and price can be a moving target rather than a simple add to cart.

Who it's for

If you are the kind of builder who appreciates a clever little mechanism and a rotating display piece that keeps giving you something new to look at, this is a genuinely charming pick up. If you need scale, minifigs, or a full evening of building to feel like a set was worth it, put your money toward something bigger instead.

The parts story

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

Building this one feels less like constructing a scene and more like assembling a little machine. You spend the early stages on the base and the turntable mechanism, and there is a small thrill the first time you spin it and feel it click smoothly into place. From there the build moves into a run of short, self-contained sections, each one its own tiny festival moment, so the pace stays light and snappy rather than dragging through repetitive sub-builds.

The pieces that stand out are the small printed and specialty elements used to sell each festival moment, they carry a disproportionate amount of the personality here given how few bricks each vignette actually uses. Nothing about the parts list screams rare grail piece, but the efficiency is the real story, 345 pieces stretched across a whole wheel of distinct scenes is a genuinely tidy piece of set design.

Fun facts

01The set is built around a hand cranked or hand turned rotating wheel rather than a static scene, letting one small build display a whole sequence of moments instead of just one.
02It carries no minifigures, keeping the entire piece count focused on the mechanism and the festival vignettes themselves.
03As a smaller scale, promotional style release, it sits closer in spirit to LEGO's seasonal gift and calendar sets than to a standard retail set you would find on shelves indefinitely.