Friends

Heartlake City Friends Club House

A proper open-plan clubhouse packed with play, if you can make peace with the color clash.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 42689 · 2026

Pieces794

Minifigs5

Year2026

Set number42689

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The verdict

This is one of those Friends sets that just keeps handing you things to do: a zip line, a climbing wall, a slide, a hidden computer, a drone on its own launchpad.

The whole gang is here, all five of them, plus three pets, and the multi-level layout genuinely rewards little hands. My one real hesitation is the color scheme, because the 2026 warm pink and blue violet fight each other in a way photos soften and real life does not. If you buy for the play value it is a joy, and if you buy for a display shelf you will notice the clash.

Best for: Kids 8+ who want a busy, do-everything Heartlake hangout with the full Friends cast

The full review

What it is

The Club House is the big social hub of the 2026 Friends wave, and the thing that got me is how much it wants you to actually play. This is not a quiet dollhouse. It is a three-level open-plan hangout with a zip line strung between floors, a climbing wall, a slide, a hidden computer for solving a mystery, and a drone that sits on its own launchpad. All five of the current Friends turn up here, Autumn, Nova, Aliya, Leo and Liann, along with Churro the cat, Honey the bunny and Popcorn the gecko. The kitchen alone is stuffed with waffles, donuts, strawberries and a popcorn machine, and there is a gaming TV with controllers for the downtime. For a set aimed at eight-year-olds, that is a lot of story hooks in one box.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the caveat everyone keeps raising, because it is the honest one. LEGO introduced two new colors for 2026, warm pink and blue violet, and this set leans on both at once. In the official photos they look cheerful. In your hands, under normal light, the blue and the pink genuinely clash, and it is the kind of thing you cannot unsee once someone points it out. The other niggle is small but real: there is a door on the upper level that opens onto nothing until you build the zip line, so mid-build it looks like a mistake. And at 89 dollars for 794 pieces, the value per part is on the steep side even by Friends standards, where the minidolls and big printed panels always eat into the count.

Who it's for

So who lands on the happy side of this one? Kids who want a busy, everything-happening playset will adore it, because the features are the point and they all work. Parents buying for imaginative solo or sibling play get strong value in fun-per-hour even if the price per brick is high. The people I would gently steer elsewhere are display-shelf collectors and anyone sensitive to color harmony, because the pink-and-blue fight will nag at you every time you walk past. Buy it for the play, not the shelf, and you will be glad you did.

The parts story

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

Building it feels like assembling a little apartment block that keeps surprising you. You work up through the levels rather than out, so there is a nice sense of the clubhouse growing taller and busier as you go, and the play functions get slotted in as you build rather than bolted on at the end. It is squarely an eight-plus build, so it moves quickly for an adult, but the multi-level connections (the slide, the zip line anchor, the climbing wall) give it more structure than the average Friends house and keep it from feeling repetitive.

For parts people there is real interest here. The set debuts the first-ever LEGO tandem bike frame, a proper new mould in medium lavender, with clips for handlebars designed around the minidolls' fixed wrist angle. You also get three of the weeping willow leaf element in green (a mould that first showed up in the Icons Autumn Cottage Garden), and a sitting bunny in ochre yellow. On top of the moulds, this is a good source of the brand-new warm pink in useful quantities, including a dozen of the 5x5 macaroni round corner bricks in that hue, which parts collectors will want long before the color spreads to other themes.

Fun facts

01The set introduces the first tandem bicycle frame mould LEGO has ever made, in medium lavender, with handlebar clips shaped for minidolls' fixed wrists.
02It arrived alongside LEGO's two new 2026 colors, warm pink (430) and blue violet (431), and uses both heavily, which is exactly what drives the clash reviewers keep flagging.
03All three pets have names: Churro the cat, Honey the bunny and Popcorn the gecko, and the same sitting bunny mould also appears in the Heartlake City Bunny Hotel.
04The upper-level door that seems to open onto thin air is intentional; it becomes the exit for the zip line once that feature is built.