This kit has been on my wish list since it came out and was viewed at the Glasgow Lego shop. I have been told that due to the cost of it I would never get it. Even hints for my Birthdays and Christmas went unanswered, In the end after selling a lot of items, My wife regnegged and said that I could get it for my 50th Birthday using the proceeds from the sales.

So after a wait due to being out of stock, the kit arrived about a month before my birthday. Should I wait or start building.

Well I started the build and the plan wasn't to speed build and take things slowly (Though not as slow as the year and a bit it took my daughter of 6 to build the disney castle) and the plan was a bag a day.

Build its self was quite smooth, had an issue connecting the last piece of track (Which resulted in a destruction of some of the pillers). Did a rebuild and discovered the issue was I haddnt installed one of the parts.

Yes building white pillars is a bit boring but as I wasnt doing a speed build it was evently paced and got my daughter involved with some of that.

Though Occasionally I did find that she had built bits with out my knowledge like the first 50 bits of chain.

Also something to watch out for is that you will probably get more than the 203 chain pieces (and who is actually going to count all those very tiny chain pieces) So once I installed the chain I then went and removed the slack from the chain by removing the excess pieces.

The also have converted the train from 3 to 6 cars for now.

Runs smooth and a great set.

Fingers crossed that family and friends will take the hints and get me more lego when my Birthday comes at the end of August

I really enjoyed building the coaster. It feels a little big magical every time the cars make it all the way around back to the start, it's just so cool. Adding the motor made the set even more fun. I was able to get two sets of cars going at the same time, though every once in a while would have to hold one back a bit to space them out again.

It was not an easy build. It was a bit repetitive, so it seems like it would be easy, but it's a bit more tricky than other sets I have built. Usually I build a set and it works. I found that this one needed some tweaking. I made sure everything was connected solidly and pushed tightly together, but the cars kept jumping the track at a couple of joins.

Eventually I figured out that those areas needed just a bit more or less height in the pillars, and was able to modify them with pieces I had on hand, to make everything stable. Now the tracks don't come apart and the cars run smoothly.

The coaster also has a lot of play value. I'm not usually one to play with the sets much, but it was a joy to add a bunch of detail. There are places to add birds or minifigs, I have Batman watching over everyone. Emmet, Rey, Finn, Luke, and R2 are placed around the set or in the cars. The hidden side plane has crashed in the middle. It's just so much fun to fill the spaces with little stories.

Let me get one thing out of the way first, this set is EXPENSIVE, but it is not overpriced in my opinion and that's very different. $380, or over $400 after sales tax, is a lot of money for a LEGO set. However you do get what you pay for.

This set is HUGE in terms of not just the number of pieces but also space needed. By comparison, Ninjago City for example has 700+ more pieces but it only takes up 1/3 of the space. But of course Ninjago City is a lot more dense.

This set is also incredibly fun. My kids and I enjoy it quite a bit and it's a great addition to our Fairgrounds collection.

Like the Ferris Wheel and Carousel, the Roller Coaster set can also be a bit tedious and repetitive in its build. IMO the columns varied just enough for me to not go completely crazy each time I dumped out a small mountain of those round 2 x 2 bricks. Connecting 203 chains would have definitely driven me mad had my kids not help me. Aside from that I really enjoyed everything else, especially all the smaller "side builds" like the ticket booth, juice bar, cotton candy cart... etc.

In conclusion, if you can afford it and like roller coasters, this set is a must buy. Not only does it make a great display set, it's also extremely fun to play with. Just be prepared for some minor repetitiveness in the build.

OK, 11 days I hear you say for a build. Mmmmm would have been done in 24hrs maybe solid but we rationed it as it was so amazing we wanted to make it last so we tackled 1 set of numbered bags a day and there were 11 sets in total. It was hard not rushing ahead but drawing it out added to the build.

It was an interesting build. By the nature of the model it was quite repetitive however LEGO managed to break up what could have been monotony with mixing in mini builds so you weren’t concentrating on say just the track for hours on end.

PROs - well look at it, words really aren’t needed. This is possibly one of my most impressive sets and I have a fair few. There is nothing not to like. I bought the motor functions and they are really worth it as an add on, you can literally sit looking at it for hours, it’s quite captivating. If you have the money or are considering spending this kind of money on a set this should definitely be in the running. It is big but worth the space.

CONs - maybe make it easier to detach in two half’s for transportation but I get this would possibly compromise stability. A little more detail, for example the gum under the seat on the bus is amazing, something only the builder knows is there, a little Easter egg almost. However this is my major gripe. Get the pieces right! Seriously LEGO I spent just shy of £300 on a model with you, I expect it to be right however instead of getting 2 1x6 flat pieces I get 1 2x6 flat piece. Luckily I had some in white I bleached up and used but really, every set I buy seems to have issues with the bricks, I shouldn’t be experiencing problems of that nature.

Overall great product though, think it should be sold as a power function set and the motors included as standard with the option to add them into the build as it totally makes the set.