Friends

Friendship Tree House Hangout

A cozy, story-packed treehouse that hides its best ideas around the back.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 42652 · 2025

Pieces701

Minifigs4

Year2025

Set number42652

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The verdict

This is one of those sets where the play value is genuinely lovely once you get inside it, and honestly a little wasted on the outside.

You get a music lounge, a veggie patch with pickable carrots, a trunk hideaway, a bedroom, a rock-climbing wall and a working lift, all crammed into one tree. It's a warm, generous little world for a kid to disappear into. Just know going in that the price runs a touch steep for what you get, and older Friends treehouses set a high bar this one doesn't quite clear.

Best for: Kids 8+ who love open-ended pretend play and a treehouse full of little zones

The full review

What it is

The thing that got me about this treehouse is how much life is stuffed inside it. Open it up and there's a music lounge, a little bedroom, a kitchen, a trunk hideaway, a rock-climbing wall, a working lift, and a veggie garden where you can actually pick tiny carrots out of the soil. It's the kind of set where you can see the play patterns before you've even finished building, and that's a real compliment for a Friends model. Liann, Autumn, Leo and Zac all come along, plus a dog and a raccoon, so there's a full little cast ready to move in the second the last brick clicks.

The catch

I do have to be honest about a couple of things. The first is the exterior. For a set that's this rich on the inside, the front face is strangely flat and unremarkable, and a lot of the charm is tucked around the back where you don't see it on a shelf. The second is the price. At $69.99 for 701 pieces, you're paying a bit more per brick than Friends usually asks, and the build itself is on the easy, breezy side rather than a meaty challenge. It goes together smoothly with very clear instructions, which is lovely for the target age, just don't expect it to test an experienced builder.

Who it's for

So here's where I land. If you (or a kid in your life) love the Friends world and want a treehouse that's basically a playset first and a display piece second, this is a genuinely warm, well-thought-out choice that will get played with for hours. The interchangeable windows and loose planks mean it can be rebuilt and re-arranged endlessly, which is exactly what you want from a toy at this age. If what you're really after is the biggest, most striking Friends treehouse for your money, though, the older 41703 still wins on scale and presence, and it's worth comparing the two before you commit. For pure open-ended play, this one absolutely earns its spot.

The parts story

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

Building this is a relaxed, satisfying afternoon rather than a marathon. The bags are organized by section, so you assemble the tree trunk and its hideaway first, then layer on the rooms and zones one at a time, and each little module gives you that quick hit of a finished space. It's genuinely well paced for a younger builder, with clear steps and no fiddly sub-assemblies that fall apart in your hands. The interchangeable windows are a small touch of cleverness, they clip into any opening, so the same handful of parts lets a kid keep redesigning the facade.

On the parts front there are some nice things scattered through the box. New Elementary flagged a few fresh molds shared across the January 2025 Friends wave, including a plate round with a clip on the underside in pearl gold, a tiny cap with a pin connector in lime, and the new yellow sunflower. The recolors are where the treasure is: dark orange quarter-cylinder wall pieces, three lavender 1x4x3 windows, a lime slide element, and eight of the stacked leaf plant pieces in lime for all that foliage. It's a little light on truly rare parts, but those greens and lavenders are lovely to have in a parts drawer.

Fun facts

01The set packs six separate play zones into one tree: a music lounge, a veggie garden, a trunk hideaway, a kitchen, a bedroom and a rock-climbing wall, plus a working lift.
02Every window clips into any window opening, so the facade is meant to be rearranged and personalized rather than built one fixed way.
03It comes with four minidolls (Liann, Autumn, Leo and Zac) alongside a dog and a raccoon figure.
04At 701 pieces it's roughly 400 parts smaller than the earlier 41703 Friendship Tree House, which many fans still consider the best treehouse the theme has made.