Review: LEGO 10329 Tiny Plants

October 30, 2023 |

LEGO’s growing Botanical Collection continues to surprise and delight with 10329 Tiny Plants, the next in the wildly popular series.

All the hallmarks of LEGO Botanicals are here with an interesting twist, as you build a collection of 9 botanicals, from flowers to succulents and even carnivorous plants, each housed inside their own tiny LEGO flower pots.

10329 Tiny Plants has a release date of 1 December 2023, making these excellent Christmas gifts for fans of LEGO Flowers and Botanical sets, and can now be pre-ordered from LEGO.com or Amazon.com

See below for regional pricing and links, where preorders are now open worldwide

10329 Tiny Plants [US] – US$49.99 [Amazon pre-order]
10329 Tiny Plants [AUS] – AU$99.99
10329 Tiny Plants [UK] – £44.99
10329 Tiny Plants [EU] – €49.99
10329 Tiny Plants [CA] – CAD$69.99

Let me take you on a journey to discover these 9 delightful Tiny LEGO Plants, and jump straight into the review!

Who is this set for? Fans of LEGO Flowers and Botanicals looking for a very cute and tiny additions to their growing collections. It also makes for an excellent Christmas gift idea.

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Special thanks to LEGO for sending this set for this review!

10329 Tiny Plants Set Details

Name: Tiny Plants
Set Number: 10329
Pieces: 758 pieces
Price: US$49.99 / AU$99.99 / £44.99 / €49.99 / CAD$64.99
Exclusive to: N/A
Theme: Icons
Release Date: 1 December 2023
LEGO Designer: Theo Bonner

Unboxing and Instruction Manuals

Opening up the box, you’re greeted with 3 individual instruction manuals, and 6 numbered bags to get you started on your Tiny Plants build.

The build is split into three distinct categories, where you complete a set of 3 Arid Plants, Tropical Plants and Carnivorous Plants. This conveniently also means that you can share the build with up to two other people making this an excellent group activity for couples, friends or even family members.

You’re given an introduction to the set, and designer, Theo Bonner and the manuals contain plenty of interesting information about the plants and botanicals which is great for learning.

Throughout the build, there are also some pretty humorous quips about the recolours, and creative use of elements (what LEGO fans affectionally call Nice Parts Usage, or NPU) to further enhance the immersion as you build.

Oh, and there are no stickers in this set too.

The Build Experience

There’s a small, medium and large pot, each with their own build techniques, although this is extended replicated acoross all 3 categories.

There’s a slow increase in complexity as you move from smaller to bigger pots, although they’re simple enough for beginners, yet interesting enough for veteran builders.

According to designer Theo Bonner, as the Botanical Sets and LEGO Flowers attract plenty of new fans, the progression is intentional, with the small pot being super simple, the medium pot introducing SNOT techniques (Studs Not on Top) for the pot, and the largest one adding more advanced techniques like angled clips.

Here’s what some of the pots look like. The larger pot techniques are brilliant, and I especially love how it’s built at an angle, but gaps have been minimised for aesthetics thanks to angled clips on the inside.

As an added bonus, the smaller ones are simple enough, even for smaller kids to build, allowing this to be shared across age groups, so don’t let the 18+ label scare you away.

Tropical Plants

The build begins with a trio of Tropical Plants, where you build a False Shamrock, Jade Plant and Laceleaf.

False Shamrock (Oxalis Triangularis)

Here’s a look at the False Shamrock, which can easily be mistaken for a clump of butterflies. What better way to use the LEGO Butterfly element to capture the plant’s iconic look and still look convincing and organic enough thanks to how the butterflies are connected to a spiky plant piece.

New LEGO element enthusiasts will be delighted with plenty of new LEGO butterflies, recoloured in purple for the first time.

Jade Plant (Crassula Ovata)

Next we move on to a Jade Plant, a popular succulent that’s commonly identified by its large bulbour leaves. To bring the Jade Plant to life, LEGO recoloured the Newsie Hat from Series 24’s Newspaper Kid, which is just the perfect element to be used here.

I also found it interesting that round 1×1 tiles were attached via clips, meant to represent smaller juvenile leaves. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not an illegal technique!

These Newspaper Kid hats in Dark Green are excellent, and will work very nicely for more hat options for minifigures.

Laceleaf (Anthurium Andaeanum)

And lastly we have the Laceleaf, also known as the Flamingo Flower or Painter’s Palette, with tall stalks, broad leaves and unmistakeable red and yellow flowers.

I really like the smaller bud, with a horn, and the generous use of the new Donkey Kong leaves which just add a touch of realism to them.

Crawling about the soil is also a tiny ladybug, giving this potted plant an excellent sense of scale.

The Scallop Shells are recoloured in red, and the green leaves were introduced in LEGO Donkey Kong sets, but fans will welcome more of them into their collection based on how versatile they are. The ladybugs (and leaves) were also included in the recent Insect Collection Ideas set.

These Monkie Kid staff hilts in bright green are also one of the designer’s favourite recolours in the set.

Carnivorous Plants

Next, we move on to a peculiar collection of plants with an appetite for insects! Photosynthesis and getting nutrients from the ground is so passe and pedestrian, and why bother when instead, you can eat unsuspecting insects instead!

Venus Flytrap (Dionaea Muscipula)

We open up with what is perhaps one of the most well-known carnivorous plants, the Venus Flytrap with its terrifying jaws that clamp shut once it attracts bugs attracted by its bright colours.

While not as scary as Nintendo’s LEGO Piranha Plant (also conveniently kinda a Venus Flytrap and a Botanical Collection set), it’s still a tidy little build that makes great use of the limited elements to bring its unmistakable shape to life.

Small but deadly! I also really like the use of colours here, with the Lime Green contrasting against the dark pink, and pops of dark green and red to add a pop of colour.

These cake icing elements are recoloured in lime green for the first time. And I like how they also look like ooze.

Red Sundew (Drosera brevifolia)

If getting clamped by a plant’s jaws aren’t scary enough, why not get stuck in some sticky hairs, coated in viscous liquid that makes escape impossible if you’re a tiny insect!

The Red Sundew is brought to life thanks to this ingenious recolour of LEGO Hairbrushes to dark red. The hairbrush is just an inspired choice here, with the bristles accurately mimicking the tiny hairs and droplets of ooze of the Red Sundew’s.

Here’s a look at the new recolours, which also include pink epaulettes used for the Sundew’s flower!

Yellow Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia Flave)

Well if being clamped by jaws, or stuck to sticky hairs isn’t your cup of tea, how about accidentally falling into a Pitcher Plant, whose walls are too high (and smooth) to climb out of, while you tire and drown in a pool of ooze as the plant digests you?

Well that’s the fate that befalls bugs who accidentally plunge into Pitcher Plants, which once again use a very interesting yet fitting element – Pith Helmets from LEGO Adventurers to simulate the Pitcher Plant’s shape!

There’s even a transparent stud on the inside to represent the liquid that pools inside the base!

I also really like the use of lime green mopheads for the body, which have a lovely organic shape and curves to them.

This isn’t the first time LEGO have attempted Pitcher Plants – in the Friends Botanical Garden set, they were built out of saxophones!

Absolutely love the use of these hats in Spring Green. I can’t think of another set that would justify this unusual recolour, but I’m so glad it happened here.

Arid Plants

Next we move onto some Arid Plants featuring succulents and cacti! These have a connection to 10309 Succulents, which was released last year and should please fans of cacti as we get more interesting variants of these hardy plants.

Britton’s Liveforever (Dudleya Brittonii)

First, we have Britton’s Liveforever, featuring an otherworldly colour scheme. I love the soft purple, and lavender tones, as well as the subtle upside down blue flower, punctuated by a singular mint flower.

Eastern Prickly Pear (Opuntia Humifusa)

Next we have one of the more interesting builds, the Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus. It features an ingenious build technique that enables its shape, and also printed Cactus round 2×2 tiles!

The singular Prickly Pear Fruit flowering adds a dramatic dash of yellow, and I also like the tan sand in the pot.

Love these printed elements, and am glad we got at least one new print introduced in this set.

Pincushion Cactus (Mammillaria Crinita f. Zeilmanniana)

And last but not least, we have this bulbous Pincushion Cactus which looks satisfyingly prickly.

Despite it being a round shape, I was really impressed with the techniques used to minimise gaps and layering that makes it all possible.

Oh and the recolour of this spiky plant element in tan is also going to be really useful. Plus, you get so many of them! Thankfully while they look prickly, you won’t poke an eye out or pierce your skin. On that note, don’t jab your eyes with them.

What I liked:

Super fun interesting build that features clever techniques
Lovely recolours and Nice Parts Usage galore
Terracotta Pots give these Tiny Plants enhanced displayability
Affordable and makes for a great gift
Out in time for Christmas

What I didn’t like:

Build ends too soon as I wanted more!

FINAL THOUGHTS:

10329 Tiny Plants is an absolutely delightful build that encapsulates the best elements of LEGO’s Botanical Collection.

It’s another great entry that builds upon LEGO’s beloved Botanical sets, while introducing new concepts and a whole other dimension of displayability thanks to the lovely looking Terracotta Pots.

It’s a lovely introduction to LEGO Flowers, and even for seasoned LEGO fans, there are still plenty of surprises and delights waiting to be discovered, whether you’re a fan of inventive parts usage, or creative build techniques, this set has it all.

The colours are also wonderfully varied, and complement the earthen pot tones, as well as each other, making this a great set to display on its own, or next to your other LEGO Flowers.

The pots itself are the secret MVPs, as they’re a common sight in gardens, especially if you like Succulents, and they just make the vibrant LEGO Flowers and Plants so much more pronounced.

This becomes immediately apparent when you put them next to the LEGO Succulents set. While the Succulents have larger and more elaborate plants, I think the Tiny LEGO Plant Pots just gives it an extra level of aesthetics that make it an easy one to display.

10329 Tiny Plants is a fantastic and enjoyable progression of LEGO’s growing Botanical Collection, and so close to Christmas, this makes for a really superb gift, especially if you want to introduce LEGO to your Friends and Family.

I also really appreciate that the set’s price has been maintained at US$49.99 / AU$99.99 despite living in the swirling chaos of inflation. LEGO have squeezed a lot of value into 10329 Tiny Plants, which is always something to praise.

These are cute, aesthetically pleasing and deliver such a unique LEGO building experience and is such a delight from start to finish.

Rating and score: 4/5 ★★★★☆

Build [4] – Varied fun build that’s beginner-friendly yet interesting enough for LEGO veterans
Real Value [4] – Awesome value and I’m glad the price has been kept the same as other Botanicals
Innovation [3] – More of the same LEGO Flower building techniques you enjoy, but the addition of the Terracotta Pots is the real game changer
Coolness [5] – It’s now one of my favourite LEGO Botanicals to display
Keepability [5] – Looks awesome to display and is also easy to find space for as they’re so compact and tiny

Thanks so much for reading my review of 10329 Tiny Plants

Special thanks to LEGO for sending this set over for an early review!

What do you think of the LEGO Tiny Plants set? Will you be adding this to your Christmas wishlist or gifting these to loved ones?

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