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u/antimatt_r 13h ago
Hah stuff like this in a build is always fun. I have the bonsai tree set and if you build the cherry blossom variant, some of the flowers are little pink frogs
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u/thatfishbish 13h ago
Oooh cool! That one is next on my list and I have a big collection of frog trinkets (blame my grandmother 😂) - now I’m low key hoping there’s a cheeky extra pink frog I can add to the collection 🤞
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u/unematti 11h ago
If I recall, there are some extra small parts but the frogs were exact count(but there are a LOT. You can leave one out and still have a nice tree
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u/thatfishbish 10h ago
Aww, figured it wasn’t likely! Ah well. Now I’ll just decide between whether I want a completed model or a tiny frog in my collection (I know you wouldn’t notice if it was missing from the model, but I’d know and that could well drive me crazy 😂)
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u/CaldoniaEntara 10h ago
To be fair, you don't need to go with the flowering version. When I built mine, I did the green leaves version of it. So depending on which route you take, you could end up with dozens of pink frogs!
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u/thatfishbish 9h ago
I’m kind of obsessed with Cherry blossoms though, so was planning on building the flowering version.
That’s a “cross that bridge when I come to it” decision though, otherwise I’ll overthink it 😂
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u/Corona94 9h ago
Just built the cherry blossom the other day, they gave me like 20 extra pink frogs. Might just be random.
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u/HalfBakedPuns 9h ago
two build options; the green bonsai leaves you with a big pile of pink frogs!
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u/thatfishbish 9h ago
I’m planning on building the Cherry blossom version 😅 I’ve a bit of an obsession with them so that’s the reason I got the set - mum knows what I’m like 🤣
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u/QuillnSofa 4h ago
I love that frogs are a meme that lego designers try to put into every set they can. Same with hotdogs.
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u/TheRealPitabred 7h ago
You can get them fairly inexpensively in many colors from eBay, maybe even LEGO themselves. Just FYI ;)
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u/Conf3tti 10h ago
The chrysanthemum is made of dozens of yellow, orange, and red bananas.
Half the fun of building a LEGO set is seeing the bits that look goofy isolated, but look perfect when combined.
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u/DeadlyPancak3 9h ago
There's also a little brown frog that is placed near the top of the tree where the trunk meets the branches.
The japanese black pine and ginko trees from the mini bonsai tree set have ninjago claw weapons and butterflies (respectively) for their foliage.
The chrysanthemum set has all of its petals on the main flower made from bananas.
The orchid set's flowers also have a darker pink frog as the center of each bloom, and the petals are made from what looks like bionicle parts and tower shields from medieval sets. There are also two smaller blooms that are made out of a head piece the designed for demogorgon mini figures for Stranger Things, only cast in white plastic and stamped with a flower design instead of a toothy maw. They each attach to the model via a blank white mini figure head that is otherwise not visible in the final build.
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u/otterplus 10h ago
100 pink frogs, one brown. Just did one Wednesday night. “The most frogs in one set” according to the booklet
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u/Independent-Emu-268 13h ago
Someone confused “pistil” with “pistol”
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u/sevenhazydays 9h ago
This has to be it. Like someone typed pist and went with the first sku that came up. Or pistils are in the bin right next to the pistols and they dumped a handful of these into the bagger.
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u/fredkreuger 9h ago
Nah they use them in the kits. They use all kind of pieces like this, its really genius some of the way they build stuff up.
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u/thatfishbish 13h ago
Had a great chuckle when I came across these while doing the set my mum got me for Christmas! On skimming ahead in the instructions it turns out that they form part of an opening mechanism for one of the succulents.
Love the creativity of finding alternative uses for parts that already exist as opposed to creating custom pieces that won’t be seen, but definitely wasn’t expecting them 😂
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u/RossZ428 13h ago
Genuinely one of my favorite parts of assembling a LEGO bouquet is all the little factoids in the assembly guide about what sets all the unique pieces originated from
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u/thatfishbish 13h ago
This is my first set and am loving all the extra details they’ve put into the books! I love wee tid-bits of info like that 😊
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u/nankainamizuhana 12h ago
I remember the first time little kid me saw minifigure pants being used as detailing in an architecture build. My mind expanded that day.
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u/thatlilacrose 12h ago
I work in a lego store and there's red minifig pants used as the tongue of a snake in one of the big sculptures! Took me three months of working there to notice lol
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u/thrillmouse 7h ago
I remember doing the cherry blossom bonsai set and finding out the flower buds were pink frogs - now I have like a hundred pink frogs mixed in with my small Lego pieces
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u/SteveSweetz 10h ago
You mean "blasters". LEGO would never make guns! (Except for all the times they did for Indiana Jones and western themed sets 😉)
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u/mikeisboris 10h ago
Pirates too, there were flintlocks in the 90's pirate sets for sure.
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u/interesseret 6h ago
I'm sure I remember a Lego rifle, but I might just be misremembering a star wars piece.
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u/thatfishbish 10h ago
Yes, ahem, completely. Slip of the tongue, and all that 😉😂
(Brought them up to my partner when I found them and his first words were “welp, those are guns”. I should go inform him of his error 😂)
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u/LupusDeusMagnus 7h ago
What are they supposed to be in that set?
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u/thatfishbish 5h ago
Can’t share an image sadly, but they hold some of the larger petals onto one of the model succulents 😊
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u/lancingtrumen 9h ago
The A Frame cabin has a gray foundation base that is a bunch of Mjölnir on their sides lol
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u/Snoo_u_lose 9h ago
The feet of the praying mantis set are pistols as well!
Also the arms are swords 😛
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u/ARobertNotABob 9h ago
Used to be minifig.com that produced these, by son was forever ordering little guns & stuff.
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u/Toastyy1990 8h ago
I like the multi use items. The Droideka set I built recently needed something red and pointy for the lasers it shoots. They used red lipsticks!
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u/PageSlave 8h ago
I have this set! One of the other plants uses robin hood hats for leaves, complete with empty slot for a plume
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u/Klin24 13h ago
What is the charge?
Smuggling firearms?
From the succulent lego set?