JMBricklayer 20106 Botanical Collection White Orchid Not Lego Set Review

Hi and welcome back to It's Not Lego, my blog that reviews all the latest building block sets coming out of China.  Last week, I reviewed the JMBricklayer Flower Bouquet set from their Botanical Collection/Home Decor theme.   Today, we will look at another set from that series, this time it's the 20106 White Butterfly Orchid.

Once again, JMBricklayer has provided this set for me to review, A big thank you!

The beautiful white orchid set can be found on their the JMBricklayer website or from their Amazon shop if you like it.  Most sets come with free worldwide shipping.  Check out their website for more details.  On sale right now!

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Details

• Brand: JMBricklayer
• Set: White Orchid 20106
• Theme: Botanical Collection/Home Decor
• Piece count: 581 pieces
• Numbered bags? N/A (not applicable)
• Stickers or printed parts? None
• Missing or deformed pieces: No
• Extra parts: Yes
• Minifigures: No
• Lighting kit: No
• Brick Quality and Clutch: Just one clutch issue, otherwise not bad
• Measurements (approx): just under 12" H, approx 11" wide
• Age Rating: 14+

Unboxing

JMBricklayer has departed from their black boxes with this new green box to showcase their floral line.  Although there are three coloured flowers depicted on the box, this set only includes the white orchid.  I think the same box is reused for each flower given that there are three different set numbers on the front  and side of the box.  

The white orchid is a smaller set with only 581 pieces and therefore divided up over 7 bags of parts.  Of those, one bag consists of about 120 1x1 round pieces that is used to represent the dirt inside the planter.  So I don't know if they count towards the total part count.  If they do, then the flower itself is made up of 461 pieces.

The bags are numbered with prefix JK29012, which, when I checked against brick4.com, indicates that this set is a re-pack of Jaki branded Plante theme.

http://brick4.com/search/set/?s=29012

Just an FYI, brick4.com is a database of sorts for Lego and not Lego building block sets.  I would say it's about 99% complete, with only a few sets missing from it's database.

Here's the instruction manual, that confirms my brick4.com findings.  The cover reads Plante de la Vie which translates to Plant of Life.  Using Google Translate, the Chinese captions read "Rotate the flowers arbitrarily" and "Moveable flower branches, move your posture as desired".

Here's a screen grab/google translate of the text I found on the inside cover of the manual.

There are a total of 44 pages in the instruction booklet, each step being clearly marked and easy to follow.

You basically have to open all of the bags to begin building.  I always find it's easier during the build process, if I've already sorted the parts by colour.

The white orchid set comes with this black brick built planter, which is the first thing to be constructed.

Now we are building some small flowers and leaves that will serve as decoration for the orchid.

Next to build are the stems of the orchid.  This actually looks pretty good the way it is.  I like that it looks like there are flowers in various stages of blooming.

There are two methods of attaching the orchid petals, one of which doesn't clutch as well as the other method (flower petals on the right side tend to fall off).  It would have made sense to just use the method on the left for each petal.

The flowers look nice, just have to be extra careful handling them because they are delicate, just like real flowers.

There are a total of 6 orchid flowers.  After attaching the flowers, the completed set is just under 12 inches tall.  I think it would have looked nicer if the stems were longer, making the flowers more upright.  For the soil pieces, I didn't use the entire bag, maybe only one third of the bag.

Here's the White Orchid and the Flower Bouquet pictured together.  I found the build to be not too challenging, making it an appropriate set for people who want to get started with Lego compatible sets.  I'm going to rate this set a 4.5 out of 5, taking marks away for the loose petals and the short stems.  Otherwise, the Orchid looks very nice on display for a table centerpiece or to liven up a boring room.

Let me know in the comments if you agree with my assessment or not.  That's it for now, bye!