Playsets: Samantha's Victorian Manor
Sept 22, 2021 10:16:38 GMT -5
Post by American Girl Rescue on Sept 22, 2021 10:16:38 GMT -5
One of the last American Girl Mega Construx sets made. Released in 2018. Retail $74.99
Choose your story and decorate Samantha’s elegant Victorian Home with your choice of furniture!
Invite your inner interior decorator to Samantha’s beautiful Victorian home! Build this charming 3-story, 6-room manor and tell her story your way by choosing from a trove of accessories to decorate with. Build and rebuild a variety of rooms and furniture to your taste, then have Sam give Nellie the tour or chase her cute kitten around the yard. Treat them to tea in the gazebo, or complete their latest creations together in the sewing room. Whip up a delicious meal in the fully equipped kitchen, burst out in song at the piano, or teach Nellie how to ride a bike on a friendly escapade! Whatever the whim, Samantha’s home is the perfect place to design, decorate and discover your passions!
Ideal for ages 8 and up
Features
• Buildable, 3-story, 6-room Victorian home with period windows, doors and detailing
• Customizable room options: kitchen or tea room, sewing or vanity room, living or piano room, and gazebo or reading room
• 2 Buildable, articulated mini figures, including BeForever characters Samantha and Nellie, in traditional Victorian-era dress, with display brick stands
• Rebuildable furniture can be built 2 ways for customized storytelling
• Rebuildable furniture options includes Victorian-era mirror table, dresser, piano, coffee table, mantle, fireplace, kneeling cushion bench, sewing machine, stool or vanity
• Buildable accessories include a bed, chairs, a storage chest, and a doll
• Accessories include kitchenware, gardening tools, a tea set, 2 stuffed teddy bears, a pet kitten, doll, and bicycle
This was hands-down the EASIEST of the playsets to construct because the bags of pieces are NUMBERED and the instructions indicate when it's time to open said numbered bag to begin constructing the pieces held within! This is totally different than any of the other American Girl Mega Construx playsets that I've constructed. Saved a couple of hours of sorting the pieces by color when first opening all the bags. It took me about 2 hours to construct with the bags mostly presorted. GREAT!
Notice above where it says "rebuildable" -- some of the furniture pieces can only be made by disassembling some of the others. I was disappointed in this aspect, but since there are only 6 rooms to furnish, it would be impossible to have say both a kitchen AND a fireplace area.
I wanted the Piano AND a fireplace even though they use some of the same pieces. I took apart the kitchen (sink & oven) because some of those pieces are needed for the fireplace as well and I constructed a fireplace without taking apart the piano. It's not matching the instructions, but it worked out well, I think.
I also designed an "art studio" space in the gazebo even though I was technically supposed to disassemble the sewing table to do so. Therefore some of furniture pieces in the photos below are "creatively constructed" using what I had!
Choose your story and decorate Samantha’s elegant Victorian Home with your choice of furniture!
Invite your inner interior decorator to Samantha’s beautiful Victorian home! Build this charming 3-story, 6-room manor and tell her story your way by choosing from a trove of accessories to decorate with. Build and rebuild a variety of rooms and furniture to your taste, then have Sam give Nellie the tour or chase her cute kitten around the yard. Treat them to tea in the gazebo, or complete their latest creations together in the sewing room. Whip up a delicious meal in the fully equipped kitchen, burst out in song at the piano, or teach Nellie how to ride a bike on a friendly escapade! Whatever the whim, Samantha’s home is the perfect place to design, decorate and discover your passions!
Ideal for ages 8 and up
Features
• Buildable, 3-story, 6-room Victorian home with period windows, doors and detailing
• Customizable room options: kitchen or tea room, sewing or vanity room, living or piano room, and gazebo or reading room
• 2 Buildable, articulated mini figures, including BeForever characters Samantha and Nellie, in traditional Victorian-era dress, with display brick stands
• Rebuildable furniture can be built 2 ways for customized storytelling
• Rebuildable furniture options includes Victorian-era mirror table, dresser, piano, coffee table, mantle, fireplace, kneeling cushion bench, sewing machine, stool or vanity
• Buildable accessories include a bed, chairs, a storage chest, and a doll
• Accessories include kitchenware, gardening tools, a tea set, 2 stuffed teddy bears, a pet kitten, doll, and bicycle
(Above says there are "2 stuffed teddy bears" when in reality there is only one. Only one is shown in the instruction booklet piece listing as being included. There are 2 bicycles though!)
This was hands-down the EASIEST of the playsets to construct because the bags of pieces are NUMBERED and the instructions indicate when it's time to open said numbered bag to begin constructing the pieces held within! This is totally different than any of the other American Girl Mega Construx playsets that I've constructed. Saved a couple of hours of sorting the pieces by color when first opening all the bags. It took me about 2 hours to construct with the bags mostly presorted. GREAT!
Notice above where it says "rebuildable" -- some of the furniture pieces can only be made by disassembling some of the others. I was disappointed in this aspect, but since there are only 6 rooms to furnish, it would be impossible to have say both a kitchen AND a fireplace area.
I wanted the Piano AND a fireplace even though they use some of the same pieces. I took apart the kitchen (sink & oven) because some of those pieces are needed for the fireplace as well and I constructed a fireplace without taking apart the piano. It's not matching the instructions, but it worked out well, I think.
I also designed an "art studio" space in the gazebo even though I was technically supposed to disassemble the sewing table to do so. Therefore some of furniture pieces in the photos below are "creatively constructed" using what I had!
