Review:41059 Jungle Tree Sanctuary/Soupperson1
Soupperson1
Country: Ireland Age Group: TFOL (Sweet Sixteen) Gender: Female
Joined: 28th December 2011 
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Today I'm reviewing a summer 2014 set: 41059 Jungle Tree Sanctuary. This set is a 30€/$ Friends set. I am reviewing each jungle set week by week. This will be the second last one :(, Will it be decent? On to this weeks review(by the way the new reviews come out every Wednesday or Thursday):
- Theme: Friends
- Pieces: 320
- Mini-doll figures: 1
- Price: 29.99 USD
- Brickipedia / Brickset
The Build[edit | edit source]
Mini-doll figure and animals[edit | edit source]
Mia is the character of choice but it's really annoying for three reasons. First Mia already appeared in her own jungle set-jungle bridge rescue and for some reason Andrea/Stephanie share one. Also Mia reuses Olivia's jungle outfit! Why couldn't she used her own jungle top and a pair of shorts? Also why is she the only figure in the set?! It's 30$ 2 figures should be here!!
The animals (except Goldie) all appear in cheaper non jungle sets, animal packs! So most people already have 3 of the four animals. I except the turtle being here as he was in last year's packs. But the others >:( A cheetah instead of a lion would've been cool, a red bird instead of goldie and a brown monkey. All 3 could be used in other jungle sets.
Side-build[edit | edit source]
The side build here is kinda interested as it could've easily not been included and includes a handful of decent parts: the amber walkie talkie, the camera, the laptop. The microscope build looks weird though :P Also why did Mia bring a school bag to the jungle?!
The Sanctuary[edit | edit source]
The sanctuary looks weird more then anything. :S I guess I should go floor by floor. The first floor has a small water area for the turtle at the bottom left corner. For Some reasons there's a big hole in the wall surrounding it. :/ The paddock for the Lion includes Lavender curvy indented bricks (<3) and azure pieces to hold a chicken leg and a bone. It's odd how the girls are rescuing animals but allow the animals to eat other animals. To the right there's another killer mushroom, behind it though are lovely exclusive lime grass pieces! The back is rather boring, but it was nice they included it. It includes a ugly bed and a nice latern build. Seriously that bed is disturbingly ugly.
The second floor is rather weird as well there's a nice birdhouse which is kinda pointless but okay. There's a pink bag with a oats and wheat logo, but there's a biscuit in it. :S There's also a ladder included in front of the birdhouse for uncool people who won't climb the vine. Also on the second floor is a weird random foliage section plopped in the middle, like it owns the place. Also to the right there's an apple and bottle for Mia (I guess she has to care about her health before the dying animals).
The third floor is practically nothing it includes lavender steps and a green vine which swirls around the exterior of the sanctuary, into a lavender bucket on the second floor.
The rest of the sanctuary mainly is built with brown pieces, though lime sword leafs and 1x1 red flower studs are very common here which is nice as those pieces are kinda rare.
Conclusion[edit | edit source]
| Build/Design |    2½ / 5 |
| Playability | 3 / 5 |
| Parts | 4 / 5 |
| Price | 4 / 5 |
| Overall | 3½ / 5 |
Again only just better then meh :P In fairness the parts and price are great! But the design is odd and weird and the characters are such annoying choices! Should you get this set? It's probally going to go on sale for 20$ so I'd say definitely pick it up then(especially if you don't collect animal packs), I'd skip it for now. <3 Soup
The set with Andrea and Andrew, a more decent choice of characters.
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