LEGO Creator Australia Postcard Block Building Set, 19

I bought this ‘Australia' postcard to make a life story trio with my ‘London' postcard (where I lived for a while) and the ‘Paris' postcard (where my wife grew up), with this one reflecting where we now live. We don't live in Sydney, so I was delighted that LEGO has deliberately stepped away from what could have been a ‘Sydney' postcard with a predictable but entirely unimaginative Opera House/ Harbour Bridge theme, to create something different that reflects the whole country. Whilst some city buildings, Opera House included, are instantly recognisable, they hardly capture Australia's character whereas I think this postcard has achieved that well. It has something for any Australian, regardless of their state or territory, and while the selection of icons may not be front of mind for many tourists, they are nonetheless very recognisable by locals. I love the inclusion of the cockatoo, the foliage is nicely done, and arguably the shed, windmill and 'dunny' have been part of Australian architecture for much longer than the Opera House or almost any city structure for that matter. The chosen features work really well together, to include any city feature into this scene would simply not work. I agree that as an outback scene it might have been nice to include a reference to Uluru, but as this scale I imagine it would have been difficult to do it justice. And if the goal was to be location agnostic then that would have spoiled it. Nice touch with the aeroplane in QANTAS colours... ;-) As somebody who migrated to Australia nearly 20 years ago, and has lived in a regional town for the last 8 years, this postcard reminds me of what my Australian home feels like much more than any city landmark; as an example, I see and hear the extremely noisy but loveable cockatoos every day. If I wanted a Sydney/ Opera House scene, I would have bought the Architecture set 21032.

I had mixed feelings about this set—excited, disappointed, insulted, puzzled and amused—but with a little humour, it grew on me, and I began to really like it, especially when I challenged myself to mod it with just the pieces it came with. I like that I could add a representation of Uluru in the background. I like that I could grow a eucalyptus tree to look, well, more like a eucalyptus tree. I like that I could turn the leaves down to look like gum leaves, and I could add gum nuts including one in bloom. I like that I could add long grass around a waterhole. I like how I could shrink down the giant cockatoo, and move the kangaroo sign towards the centre stage. I like how I could even pop out one of the clouds just for fun. I like how this set unexpectedly stretched my imagination, that it is LEGO, and an Australian postcard—after all, I haven't found a 2D one better than this. The old Qantas plane is cute, and the windmill is fun to spin. The desert flowers are a nice touch. I just added some more bare dirt because that's a lot of what the Australian Outback is. I'm a fan of this postcard series and have enjoyed building all five of them so far. I hope to see more countries than cities, including Japan and Egypt, among many others. I look forward to collecting more postcards and seeing what LEGO comes up with next—Please keep them coming.

I bought this because of how much was crammed into such a small build, and based on other reviews. It's an easy, but satisfying build, with lots of thoughtful details: the cockatoo, the billabong, the Qantas plane, the old ‘thunderbox'. I moved the kangaroo sign to the back and the water to the front, because I felt that the billabong was too obscured where it was. There is room for some creative flexibility with this build. I recommend this as an ideal gift for practically anyone. It's fun, eye-catching, starts conversations and displays easily. It might be the build that got someone hooked on Lego.

I can't wait to give this to my new son in law. This is where they spent their honeymoon.

I feel like under the blue sky there should've been more reddish brown of the desert, with Uluru in the centre. Centre of the post card, centre of Australia. Then on the right a minimal but recognisable Sydney opera house, to go with himeji castle on the Japan one. A random shed in the middle? Have a small outback dunny on the left. Missed the (post) mark with this one…

Great fun series of builds, this Australian outback card is a stereotypical image of Australia and unlike the other ‘postcards' in the series which show recognisable architecture. Disappointing choice.

We enjoyed making this postcard as it's Lego. But visually it dosnt look as nice as the others. Because it's missing the landmark that represents Australia! And we'd have loved a cute koala in the eucalyptus tree instead.

Having built the previous Postcards and found then great value for money I really don't know what Lego were thinking of here. All previous ones are for Cities why is this Australia. I am struggling to see how any of this portrays such a diverse country. No Opera House, No Koala, No Kangaroo just a lot of nothing. How it represents Australia is anyone's guess - I would imagine many Australians will be very upset. Does Lego do no market research before issuing sets? Great disapointment for series that has, up till this, been great.

Australia has so many iconic places, for example the Great Barrier Reef, Sydney opera house and Uluru and to have none of them featured is just really lazy. Australia didn't even have a flag and every other postcard has an iconic location as well as a corresponding flag (not including Beijing which is a whole other oversight on legos part). The only reason I bought it was to complete the collection but just a really lazy idea for this build.

I've loved the previous postcard sets and looked forward to a Sydney version. Instead Lego have given us this sorry rendition of what? An outback windmill with a bird in a tree and a dunny shed? Perhaps Lego haven't heard of the Great Barrier Reef, the Daintree rainforest, Uluru, Kakadu etc. And did I mention Sydney? As an Australian, this lazy, thoughtless design is deeply disappointing and practically an insult.