Heartlake City Pet Centre is the rare Friends set where the price does most of the heavy lifting — a full vet clinic, kennel, and grooming station for $59.99 feels like LEGO® left money on the table.
The Pet Centre packs three distinct play zones into one set: a vet clinic, a kenneling area, and a grooming station, all for sixty bucks. That's a lot of physical footprint and story potential for the money, and it shows in the B+ overall. The build itself is straightforward Friends fare — color-forward, functional, not trying to win any technique awards — but it hangs together well on a shelf and reads as a complete little world. Three minifigs and a handful of animals give kids real cast variety out of the box. The weakest link here isn't the set itself — it's what happens after: resale on retired Friends sets from this era has been flat at best, so the value story ends the day you open it. Buy this for the fun it delivers right now, because that's where all ten of its points live.