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Schoolhouse |
| Now your minifigs have somewhere to send their children to school. No more teen minifigs hanging around on street corners all day, giving the Lego police something to do, or harassed mother minifigs tearing their hair off as their families become too much for them. A more peaceful, better educated Lego citizenry is in your town's future! |
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The old-fashioned two storey schoolhouse accommodates up to 12 students of various ages, plus two staff (4 students and 1 staff minifig included with kit). You can tell this building has a long history by the variety of additions, rooflines, and entrances. Nowadays the students enter from the schoolyard into a hallway with lockers and access to the school office and washrooms. The library is also on the ground floor. |
| Upstairs is a large open classroom with 9 student desks and chairs, teacher's desk and chair, blackboard, clock, and storage along one wall including a waste bin, boombox, and VCR with large screen. By the maps and pictures on the wall, and the picture displayed on the screen, we can tell that the kids are studying Egypt at the moment. |
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At one end of the upper floor is the science lab, complete with microscope, several instruments on the bench, and a wall display showing a space mission. For safety's sake, there's a fire extinguisher on the wall by the emergency exit.
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| You can remove the schoolhouse roof to reveal the inside of the upper floor, and even remove the front and back upper walls completely to allow better access. Once one of the walls is removed, the upper floor interior slides out completely for access to the lower floor. |
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Outside, the kids can play in a well-equipped schoolyard during recess and lunch breaks. Fully fenced and gated for security, there's a slide (carefully engineered so that minifigs can sit at the top, slide down, and even stop halfway down holding onto the sides!) and a jungle gym/fort for climbing and pretend play. Kids who ride their bikes to school will find a bike rack at one end of the yard (one bike is included with the kit) as well as the ubiquitous garbage bin. |
| This kit is based on the original wooden schoolhouse in my community, still used to this day as a preschool, and very nicely maintained by the local school district. |
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Technical notes:
- The baseplate is a 32x48 grey one, custom cut from a large 48x48 baseplate, along with the 16x24 baseplate which forms the removable interior of the upper floor. (Some of the pictures show a green upper floor, which was what I had on hand for the prototype, but the grey looks better).
- The parts list for this kit includes 16 blue 1x4x3 windows, almost 300 black roof slopes (including 44 convex corners and 8 concave ones!), 18 chairs, 8 doors, 11 fences, and much more. You get all required parts (over 1600!) and complete full-color printed instructions, plus a numbered and signed certificate of authenticity, all packed in a sturdy re-usable storage box with full color illustration on the lid.
- Note that the purplish color in the pictures is actually blue - the purple color is due to the lighting. (And even if I could get purple bricks, I don't think I'd do a building in a yellow and purple color scheme!)
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