Today’s guest article comes from Casey McCoy, an AFOL from the Chicago-land area and an active MOC builder. You can find him online on Flickr and Instagram. BrickNerd sent him 42639 Andrea’s Modern Mansion to review and remix. Friends of the Past Friends in High and Low Places Friends has never been a staple of my LEGO collecting career. Having grown up alongside my sister’s Belville collection and developing a soft spot for Paradisa in my teen years, LEGO Friends has never quite scratched the itch of bizarro parts (Beville) or nostalgia (Paradisa) for me in my later, AFOL years. (No surprise either: I’m not the target demographic). Whether a combination of serviceable but unremarkable builds or the mini-dolls that I can’t get used to, Friends has been somewhat maligned by AFOLs in my eyes and treated as an interesting novelty to indulge in occasionally without much thought thereafter. Despite this,...

