Yesterday, we took a look at the latest 18+ Botanical set, the Japanese Red Maple. It demonstrates a great balance between organic form, a functional pot and a striking colour palette. Today I would like to look at the other June 2025 Botanicals release: the 10349 Happy Plants. This 217 part set is aimed at a 9+ audience, priced at $AUD29.9/USD22.99/€19.99 / £17.99 and is possibly the cutest set to have sprung up in this breakaway theme to date.
Unlike most of the other sets in this theme, the happy plants build and display experience focuses on the pots rather than the plants. With two pastel anthropomorphic pots, whimsical faces and the ability to hold hands, the plants themselves almost feel like an afterthought, but I think they are also part of the charm. Let’s take a closer look.
The Elements
As well as reddish brown plates, dark green leaves, cockpits and shields, the set features a number of SNOT elements. The myriad of plates, tiles and curved elements in Cool Yellow and bright royal blue suggest an interesting building experience ahead, while there are two printed tiles featuring the most delightful, simplistic smiles.
The build features arches featuring the new 3 plate high curved elements. – 2×2 corner elements in cool yellow, 1×2 in bright royal blue and cool yellow, and also a 4×2 version, in both colours, These have cropped up a lot in recent reviews: I suspect this new geometry has made it much simpler to use these elements then mounted sideways, as they have almost always cropped up in pots and boxes, attached to SNOT elements. I suspect this set will be no different.
The set comes with 4 bags of elements, with 2 instruction books. The first outlining construction of the Dracaena (dragon plant), and the other featuring the flat-leafed Pilea (friendship plant). This makes Happy plants an ideal set to build with a friend.
The Build
Both builds share common features in their construction: A SNOT (Studs not on top) core, as well as smoothly arched corners, afforded by the relatively new arch element.
Technic bricks allow the maracroni tubes to be attached to the sides, as arms, while the legs feature inverted 2×2 round tiles to create a smooth footprint.
The inside of the pot features sloped brown tiles with handles, which will guide the plant into place, and hold it gently.
The plants are built on a round reddish brown root system, with a stud and sprout at the bottom, ensuring the plants are able to extract all of the nutrients from the world around them.
The dragon plant has a small snot core, and also features a few clips, allowing some of the leaves to splay out.
While the friendship plant taught me that a bar can fit under the handle of a shield to provide an additional off-centre attachment point. Bars and clips raise the flat leaves up, and allow for them to be separated or clustered together.
We can the easily drop these plants into their respective pots, giving them the dealing of having their own unique hairstyles.
The plants are set so that their arms can be rotated up and down, and if placed side by side can just about touch hands.
The build is quick and simple, and the final result is effective. These two little guys have been living rent free in my head, and on my mantle piece since I put them together a week or so ago. The delightful whimsy they bring to the table is worth the price of admission, and they also provide plenty of creative ideas for further builds, to create alternative hairstyles.
As kids, many of us would have decorated a paper or plastic cup with facial features, filled it with dirt and topped it off with a carrot top, or grass seeds, before giving it a stylish trim a few weeks later, before ignoring it, having it die off, and then get thrown out because it was occupying valuable space on the kitchen bench…
This set give us the chance to do it again, with or without actual soil and vegetable matter (note for those trying at home… the pots are not water proof).
This simple set brings us just what it says on the box: Happy Plants. The build is engaging, and the final result delightfully whimsical. Along with last month’s baby Spaceman Gift with purchase, cuteness abounds.
I really enjoyed putting this set together, and I have to admit that every time I see it on the shelf, it gives me a little pick me up. I’m happy to give it 4 out of five arbitrary praise units.
Botanicals set 10349 Happy Plants has 217 parts, has RRP of $AUD29.9/USD22.99/€19.99 / £17.99 and is on sale now.
What do you think of this set? What would you grow in it? Leave your comments below.
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