The LEGO Botanical Collection continues to impress with its beautiful and creative designs. These sets are filled with interesting new elements, gorgeous colors, inventive part usage, and clever building techniques. One of my favorites this year is the #11505 LEGO Botanicals Woodland Mushrooms.
The set includes 806 pieces and features a charming arrangement of spotted red toadstool mushrooms surrounded by fibrecap, earthstar, chanterelle, bonnet, and oyster mushrooms. Two purple autumn crocuses and vibrant green bracken fronds provide a natural frame for this delightful forest-floor scene.
The iconic toadstool mushrooms are instantly recognizable thanks to their spotted caps, which are achieved with printed elements. I also particularly like the undersides of the two larger mushrooms, complete with realistic white gills and a charming skirt-like detail.
The smaller mushrooms showcase equally clever building techniques, utilizing recolored minifigure caps, shells, cones, shield elements, and other unexpected pieces. Discovering how familiar elements have been repurposed is part of the fun of building this set.
In fact, the entire model is a treasure trove of botanical elements, featuring a wide variety of petals, leaves, and organic shapes. I could easily imagine this display incorporated into a fairy garden populated by minifigure elves or even the classic LEGO Elves mini-dolls. In the video below, you can see a bit more about the set as well as a brief interview with LEGO designers who work on the Botanical Collection.
Sets like this help keep the LEGO hobby fresh and engaging. They provide experienced builders with new pieces, techniques, and sources of inspiration, while also welcoming newcomers into the creative world of LEGO. The Woodland Mushrooms set is substantial enough to be an enjoyable building experience, yet not so large or expensive that it feels intimidating. In fact, I have introduced several older friends and family members to the hobby through the LEGO Botanical Collection.
There is a lot to admire in this series, and I continue to be impressed by the LEGO designers’ ability to bring new ideas, techniques, and artistic concepts to the collection year after year. If you would like to check out this set as well as other sets in the collection, visit the LEGO Botanicals section of the Online LEGO Shop.
What do you think? How do you like the LEGO Botanical sets? Feel free to share your thoughts and own reviews in the comment section below!
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Oh, haha! I was just looking at this set. It’s really cute! It even has that cave at the back that would be perfect for fairy folk! 😀