The 1477-piece Creator Expert Gingerbread House is Lego’s sweetest set ever

Ever since 2009’s Winter Village Toy Shop arrived, Lego’s invited brick fans to prepare for Christmas by building a suitably festive set. This year’s Lego Creator Expert Gingerbread House (£84.99, available 1 October) is an entertainingly literal take on its name. The 1477 pieces really do combine to fashion a gingerbread dwelling, including frosted roofs with gum drop buttons, and some lovely brick-built candy cane columns. Even the family inside is seemingly edible, comprising two gingerbread minifigs and a gingerbread baby print on a 2×1 tile. A glowing fireplace (by way of a Lego power brick) adds to the atmosphere, in a set that really does look good enough to eat. (Stuff top tip: probably don’t actually eat it, mind. Lego’s painful enough when you tread on some. We shudder to think what an entire set when nommed would do to your insides.)

Craig Grannell Contributor

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I’m a regular contributor to Stuff magazine and Stuff.tv, covering apps, games, Apple kit, Android, Lego, retro gaming and other interesting oddities. I also pen opinion pieces when the editor lets me, getting all serious about accessibility and predicting when sentient AI smart cookware will take over the world, in a terrifying mix of Bake Off and Terminator.

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