Halloween Graveyard Building Block Set

Well, I finally became a victim of social media advertising. I kept seeing ads from the website Temu with some fun looking, Halloween themed building block sets. They were super cheap so I figured why not check it out. The first set I got was this cemetery. 

The set comes in a poly bag (no box) with an instruction sheet and all the pieces in a smaller bag. You get what you pay $4.00 for. The set name on the bag is Graveyard Blocks. To me, one gravestone does not a graveyard make. 

 

Fun fact: the word graveyard refers to a burial area around the grounds of a church or other holy building. A literal grave yard. Cemetery is the general term for a burial area. Graveyards are a type of cemetery. The More You Know...

 

I thought this would make a good place for some of my LEGO Halloween figures to hang out. It's got a creepy tree with a couple of cute ghosts. Are they real or just decorations? There's also a little lantern at the base of the tree to light your way. If this lantern were in an actual LEGO set, there would also be a translucent yellow brick that would plug into it to "light" it.

 

Let's take a closer look at each of the three parts.

 

There's lots of little flowers in the tree branches that keep it from being too plain. A recurring theme with these non-LEGO sets is that sometimes things can be difficult to assemble and/or stay together. The way the greens connect to the branch is a little sketchy and once you get two branches on, each additional one is more challenging to get connected.

Pretty straight forward pumpkin patch. Some of them have yellow translucent bricks inside but without any light underneath it, you can't really tell.

And then...whatever the heck this is supposed to be. I get the skulls fitting in with the spooky theme but what is this mess? Is it some kind of carnivorous plant?

For such a small set, it took longer than it should have to put together. This is mainly due to the instruction sheet. They decided to print it on a midnight blue, glossy paper. Because of the unfortunate background color and shininess, it made the instructions very hard to read. I got to a point where I was either missing a piece or just couldn't make out what the correct piece was. But I wasn't going to let one piece ruin the whole thing so I faked it with what I had.

I got this set for the "discounted" price of $4. Supposedly, the "full" price is $9 but part of Temu's thing is making it seem like you're getting a deal. I'm pretty good at guess-timating LEGO set prices based on the number of pieces but this doesn't say how many pieces it is. For $4, you can't go wrong.

If you want to pick this set up, here's the link. They have a variety of building block sets if you search for Halloween LEGO. Just be aware that Temu is a marketplace with different sellers so it's worth browsing around to see if you can find what you like at a better price.

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