Family Beach Vacation Fun (LEGO 42673)

About this set

This is the LEGO Friends Family Beach Vacation Fun set, set number 42673, with the LEGO Friends logo on the box. The theme is a beach vacation, and the part count is 1140 at a 3/5 difficulty. The build uses brown, yellow, blue, green and pink to shape the beach setting, and the finished model includes a beach, a dolphin, a slide, palm trees, a shop, minifigures, a surfboard and a sun umbrella. I would build the shop and the beach base as two separate sub-assemblies first, then join them, and leave the slide and palm trees for last, since the slide's support points are easy to knock loose while the rest is still going together. Keep the minifigures, surfboard and umbrella aside until the end so they don't get crushed mid-build. At 1140 pieces and 3/5 difficulty, the bulk of the work is the repeated parts in the shop and beach detailing, so spreading it over two or three sessions works well. It suits builders who have already done smaller Friends sets and want a larger beach scene with minifigures, and anyone arranging displays by color or season.