We’re about a week away from Easter, which means there’s no better time to review the 2017 Easter LEGO Seasonal Set – 40237 Easter Egg Hunt!
Well, I would’ve loved to have reviewed this set much earlier, but it takes like 2 weeks for LEGO orders to get to Australia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
40236 is the second seasonal set of the year, following on from 40236 Romantic Valentine Picnic which was a delightful return to the minifigure vignette formats, which in my honest opinion, are the best kinds of seasonal sets.
Here’s a quick review of the 2017 Easter LEGO set. If you’re still after one, there’s still time to order it from LEGO.com. I wouldn’t sit on them if you plan on buying – the Seasonal Sets don’t typically last a long time. The Valentine’s Day one for example, is already sold out in the US.
Name: Easter Egg Hunt
Set Number: 40237
Pieces: 145
Price: AU$14.99 | US$9.99 | £8.49 (Buy from LEGO.com [AUS] [USA] [UK])
Exclusive to: LEGO.com / LEGO Brand Retail Stores / LEGO Certified Stores
Minifigs: 2
Theme: Seasonal
Year of Release: 2017
Let’s meet the minifigures in the Easter Egg Hunt. First up, we have an adult female minifigure with black shoulder length hair, and a fun, almost kiddie dolphin-print halter top and bright cyan-coloured pants.
I love how colourful she is – my theory is that people who enjoy colourful clothes are more upbeat and bright and make excellent company.
Her black hairpiece is fairly uncommon, and has only been found in Ninjago sets, as well as in Series 15’s Jewel Thief, but it’s one of the nicer and more normal female hairstyles in LEGO, so I’m always happy to have an extra on hand. Her torso with the dolphin design is also fairly uncommon, having only shown up in the Ferris Wheel set, a Juniors set and a promotional Toys R Us set.
There’s nothing particularly special about the boy minifigure as he’s made out of common City minifigure parts – the orange side-swept hair, freckly smile, blue checked shirt and khaki short legs.
Here’s a look at the back printing of the mum and the kid. The mum (I’m going to assume she’s the mum) has a dual-sided face with pink sunglasses on.
There’s a bit of an Easter Egg (figurative) here which I’m going to run with – she has the same face as the lady from 40236 Romantic Valentine Picnic. It would be really sweet if the couple in the Valentine’s set got married, had a kid and now the mum is putting an Easter Egg hunt for their son.
Sure she has a different hair colour, but you can dye your hair.
The kid also comes with a LEGO magnifying glass. I’ve always loved how these actually work!
The Easter Egg Hunt set as a whole is actually a trio of little vignettes. I feel that it’s less cohesive compared to the Valentine’s Set, and I would’ve much preferred a larger and more unified build.
The premise of the set is for the kid to locate 3 Easter Eggs hidden in all three scenes.
The set comes with a lime green wheelbarrow which contains some dirt with a carrot growing out of it. It’s quite safe to assume that the lady is a bit of a keen gardener.
The first mini-vignette is a small vegetable patch which has some carrots growing in a planter box.
The planter box contains a hidden compartment – upon opening it you’ll find the first Easter Egg which is blue in clour!
While it’s a small build, I thought the hidden compartment mechanism was very well executed.
The second mini vignette is a small flower garden, which has small pathway running through the flower beds.
Where could the Easter Egg be hidden here?
Pop open the letter box to reveal the second Easter Egg, a grey one!
The third mini-vignette is a hen house, complete with a white chicken, and a small nest with an egg inside. Where could the egg be here?
Here we go! Cunningly hidden under a white flap!
While the set might seem pretty basic, it does come with some very desirable parts such as a healthy amount of new Tan-coloured masonry bricks you see above, the grey and blue eggs which were only available in Angry Birds sets, as well as the black leaf-patterned fences.
What I liked:
- Nice assortment of parts and minifig accessories
- Easter Egg Hunt element is very cute
What I didn’t like:
- Disjointed mini vignettes
- Design is a little too basic
Final thoughts: To be honest, I was a little disappointed by the Easter Egg Hunt set. I probably shouldn’t compare it to its predecessor, Romantic Valentine Picnic but it’s hard not to.
Thematically, 40237 Easter Egg Hunt is very clever. I really love how the designers incorporated a mini-game of having minifigures find hidden eggs across the vignettes very charming and it definitely nails the whole Easter Egg vibe.
I didn’t quite like the overall build. Because it’s 3 smaller vignettes combined, the model does look a little disjointed & messy as there isn’t a cohesive way to bind all three scenes together in a way that’s visually pleasing.
The builds while simple, are charming in their own rights, and I do like the variety of different settings, with the veggie patch being my favourite of them all.
For an adult collector like me who is into displaying sets, Easter Egg Hunt just doesn’t hit the right notes for me. I still hold the 2015 Seasonal Easter Set in very high regard and the best Easter set yet.
I do think that this set is much better positioned to be enjoyed by younger kids – building all three vignettes does create quite a sense of achievement after each one is done, and the Easter Egg Hunt element is of course very well executed.
At least this makes for a very cool parts pack!
Oh, last but not least, we’re also treated to a teaser of this year’s Halloween seasonal set at the back of the instruction manual!
Rating: 3/5
Thanks for reading! If you’ve built this set, I’d love to know what you thought of it in the comments section.
If you’d like to win a copy of 40237 Easter Egg Hunt, don’t forget that you still have time to join my Easter LEGO Giveaway, which is running in tandem with LEGO’s own competition. Check out the #LEGOEaster post for more details! You still have 3 days left to join!
Can’t wait for the Easter Holidays!
They have these for sale at the Dreamworlds store. Or at least they did on good Friday.
Oh wow, really? That’s awesome. That fills me with hope that we’ll get other seasonal sets too. Fingers crossed there’ll be some during the opening tomorrow.
Yes, it was a pleasant surprise
As always a great review Jay. The set hasn’t really jumped out at me, so i’ll be giving this one a miss. My small Easter Lego Display, which is now complete thanks to my (rather expensisve) Bunny Suit Guy arriving in the mail yesterday will have to wait until next year to expand depnding on what seasonal set is released. I am looking forward to the Halloween set though.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the review! Yeah, it isn’t as great as the Valentine’s Day set. LEGO should really re-release the Bunny Suit Guy. They did so with the Chicken Suit Guy, so I was expecting that they’d re-release him this year. Would help a lot of fans and kids get a chance at once without having to spend a fortune.
Yup, Halloween looks great! Can’t wait for that! I wish the next Seasonal set wasn’t so far away!
I quite like this set, and will be keen to add to my recent Easter chick purchase. Hopefully the new store at Chaddy will have it in stock.
Unfortunately, they didn’t have any. Was pretty disappointing!
I liked getting three eggs, a couple carrots, and another chicken with the set. I didn’t have any eggs so I was especially excited for those! I thought the build was simple but fun! Also, I missed out on the last seasonal Easter vignette so it was fun to follow your link and see the 2015 set.
Yes, the eggs are my favourite too! I think the 2015 vignette was pretty charming because of the broken egg and how nice it looked as a self-contained scene. I still have mine on display in my room!
I’ve got this one on the way. Mostly getting in for the chicken piece which I only have in gold and silver.
Nice! A few years ago, I bought dozens of chickens on Bricklink on a whim. One of the best decisions I’ve ever made, heh.
Nice review! Thank you for notifying me that the lady minifigure was the mom; I honestly thought she was the kids wife/daughter or something lol. Sorry for being cringy. The Halloween one looks like it has a great assortment of parts, and the minifigs look rather pleasing. I will be sure to pick one up!
Could be an aunt, or a very tall lady friend? Haha 😉
Yes! Also, I think the visual effect of the buildings against the orange background is pretty clever!
I’d have liked to buy this for my kids to enjoy at easter. I have never purchased anything directly from the lego store. You say it took a couple of weeks to get here. Is the postage price reasonable, or expensive?
Thanks Jay!
Postage is a pretty bad price. Usually I only order things in big orders because you need $200 for free shipping. Alternatively if you live in Melbourne you could wait until the opening of the Chadstone store in a week and a half
Postage price is awful if you’re in Australia. You can get around it by ordering more than AU$200, but that’s quite a steep price, although with Triple VIP points going on, it’s the best time to buy online!
I have a strong suspicion your order didn’t take two weeks to get to Australia, rather it was already in Australia and it took two weeks to get from Macquarie Park (the suburb of Sydney where Lego’s Australian warehouse is located) to you. The last time I ordered something via Lego.com I received tracking updates showing my order being scanned as leaving Macquarie Park two days after my payment was processed and then being scanned as arriving at AusPost’s main Sydney distribution centre in Alexandria that same afternoon a fews hours later. There it sat for a further 12 days until it was delivered to my workplace in Sutherland, 30kms to the south, appearing to have been used for football practice somewhere along the way. The enemy appears to be Australia Post. That’s the who. As for the why? Who the hell knows. My enquiries with Australia Post as to why they take so long to deliver parcels has so far yielded no results.
I’m pretty sure Australian orders from LEGO.com come from the European warehouses. After all, our online inventory is linked to the EU/UK one. The tracking update on LEGO.com has always been quite terrible and isn’t particularly reliable. It just registers at Alexandria, but I don’t quite believe that it’s there.
There is a theory that it shows up at Alexandria on the tracking so that it doesn’t seem misleading that stock comes from Europe instead of Australia, which to your regular LEGO fan might be a little confusing.
I do like the mini vignettes, as they can be easily set up and moved around to different locations throughout my little city,
Oh, good point! I do wish they were slightly more elaborate, but it’s par for the course for such a small set.
Hi Jay,
I am wondering how to leave comments. And for some reason this article had a reply button so I used that, but some others didn’t.
Oh hey Damien, thanks for the heads up. Looked like there was an issue in my settings which caused some comments/reply buttons to not show up, especially for older posts.
It should be fixed now! I’ve also moved the Comment Box above the comments as well, so it’s a bit easier to find.
Let me know how it looks now!