Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers

Building this one is a three-act affair. First you assemble the frame, then you tile out the canvas backdrop from a grid of light bluish grey 16x16 plates (with that thinner strip up top to mimic Van Gogh's added slat of wood), and finally you get into the flowers. That last act is where it earns its keep. Instead of laying flat tiles like a normal mosaic, you build each sunflower up in layers so the blooms stand roughly three bricks off the canvas. Around bag 25 the whole thing shifts from flat mosaic to a proper textured picture, and those steps feel a lot like a Botanicals build, all clips and petals and gradual layering. It's genuinely satisfying to watch the depth appear, even if lining the petals up neatly takes some patience.

On the parts front, a two-dimensional set like this is always a good source of tiles, but the flowers bring the interesting bits. There's a new recoloured 1x2 plate with vertical clip used across the sunflowers, plus 13 of the long horn/vine element in yellow doing petal duty. Colour nerds will notice LEGO tweaked its bright light yellow recipe here, so the newer pieces run a touch more opaque and lighter than older yellow parts, and the clip plates read slightly more orange than the grille slopes beside them. At 2,615 pieces for $199.99 the value is fair rather than remarkable, but a big chunk of those parts are useful tiles and clips, so parts-monkeys buying to break down for a MOC won't feel robbed.