Description
The Barnes and Noble store is a large modular building from Lepin that has 3 fully furnished floors. The first two floors of this set are floors on which you can buy books and toys, while the third floor is a Starbucks Cafe. This building follows the official modular guidelines. Minifigures need a store to buy books to expand their knowledge, and a cafe to stay wide awake! This set is an MOC idea kickstarted at LEGO ideas by wooootles. Unfortunately the idea did not reach the threshold to make it to a production phase. Luckily LEPIN has released this set under the number LEPIN 15017. This set is very large with 4616 (!) pieces and based on the box cover around 11 minifigures. It is one of the largest sets in the Creator series.
Sean –
This set is beautiful once its built, but the build itself is tough. First off Lepin doesn’t package the blocks like Lego, so you are constantly having to search for pieces. Second is the design itself. Walls in most of the building are only held together via the top layers. This makes them difficult to keep in place during the build. Third is the first floor itself. The floor is raised slightly, up about 2 plates, problem is they use large long plates for the floor which makes the first floor flimsy. The front door, and rest of the sections in this area up are also difficult to hold together. Part of that could be simply that Lepin blocks are subpar to Lego. Overall a nice build, and a beautiful building.