Friends

Liann's Family House

The Friends house that finally learned to skateboard, with a warm little heart tucked inside.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 42687 · 2026

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Year2026

Set number42687

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The verdict

This is the first Friends house to come with its own skate ramp, and honestly that one detail tells you everything about how much personality LEGO packed in here.

The peach and purple color combo could have looked sickly, but it lands soft and pretty instead, and the little nods to Liann's Chinese heritage (bamboo, chopsticks, a bottle of chili oil) gave me a genuine smile. Two sticker sheets and a couple of very plain rooms hold it back from greatness. If you love a play-first dollhouse with real charm, this is one of the better ones LEGO has made lately.

Best for: Kids age 7 and up who want a colorful, play-ready house with pets and a skate ramp

The full review

What it is

The skate ramp is what got me. I have built a lot of Friends houses over the years and they tend to blur together into pastel kitchens and tidy little bedrooms, so seeing a proper ramp bolted onto the side of Liann's place, complete with stairs up the back and a box of inline skates waiting on the first step, felt genuinely fresh. This is a 946 piece house that comes with four minidolls (Liann, Michelle, Paisley and Nova), two pets in their own terrariums, and a peach and purple palette that I braced myself to dislike and ended up charmed by. The half-circle tiles used across the upper roof give it a soft, storybook shape, and the balcony and garden mean the play spaces spill outward instead of staying boxed in.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the caveats, because they are real. There are two sticker sheets in the box, and on a house at this price I always wish LEGO would print more of those details instead. Some of the interior rooms, the kitchen especially, feel a little bare once you have them built, with basic appliances and not quite enough clutter to make them look lived in. And the axolotl, sweet as it is, is the exact same figure from the Axolotl Adventure Boat, so if you already own that one you are getting a repeat. None of these are dealbreakers, but they are the difference between a very good house and an all-time one.

Who it's for

Who should get this: anyone building for a child who lives for imaginative play. The skate ramp, the mural in progress, the boom box, the art supplies, the little Chinese food details like noodle boxes and soy sauce, all of it is designed to be picked up and played with rather than admired on a shelf. The four minidolls give you enough of a cast for actual stories. Who should skip it: adult collectors chasing display pieces or clever engineering will find this a fairly simple build, and if stickers genuinely bother you, this set asks you to apply a fair few. But as a warm, colorful family house that kids will actually use, it is one of the better ones in the current Friends lineup.

The parts story

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

Building this is a relaxed, pleasant afternoon rather than a challenge, which is exactly right for the age range. It arrives in eight numbered bags plus one unnumbered bag holding two 8x18 plates and the ramp piece, with three instruction books so a couple of kids can build alongside each other. The house goes up in cheerful sections and the pace never drags, though experienced builders will breeze through it. The most satisfying moments are the small ones: laying the half-circle roof tiles and clicking the terrariums together.

There are no headline new molds here, but the color work is where it earns its keep. The peach and lilac bricks and that soft throw rug in the kitchen add up to a palette you do not see often, and the pet terrariums with their food accessories are a genuinely lovely little sub-build. Popcorn the gecko and Bubbles the axolotl are the sweet standouts. At about 7 cents per piece with four minidolls in the box, the part count value is honestly strong for the theme, even if the reliance on stickers rather than printed tiles is the one note that keeps parts fans from raving.

Fun facts

01This is the first house in the entire Friends theme to include a skateboarding ramp, tying into Nova's skater storyline.
02The set leans into Liann's Chinese heritage with details like bamboo, chopsticks, noodle boxes, soy sauce and a bottle of chili oil.
03Bubbles the axolotl is the same animal figure first released in the 42681 Axolotl Adventure Boat set.
04It launched on January 1, 2026 at 69.99 USD (59.99 GBP / 69.99 EUR) with 946 pieces and four minidolls.