Cat Playground Adventure — A- · The Brick Drop Score
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The Drop Score
Cat Playground Adventure
42612-1 · Friends
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Friends sets at this price point usually feel like a pile of pastel bricks and not much else — Cat Playground Adventure is the exception that earns shelf space AND keeps kids busy.
Is the price fair?BFair for what it is — not a steal, but nothing to argue with at $10.99.
Will you love it?ACharming little scene that actually holds together as a playset.
Holds its value?C-Don't bank on this one — small Friends sets rarely pop on the secondary market.
True ValueB
$9
Street price
$10
Parts value
116%
Ratio
The parts alone are worth about 116% of the street price — the basis for this B price read.
What you get
Plain bricks
$6
Printed & detailcalc
$1
Figures (×2)
$3
BargainThe parts alone are worth more than you pay — $10 of parts for $9.
The Full Take
Friends micro-sets are a gamble: too small to wow, too simple to hold attention, and usually priced just low enough to feel like a safe skip. Cat Playground Adventure dodges most of that. The cat play structure has real charm — the climbing frame and accessories read as a coherent little scene rather than a half-finished vignette. Two minifigs at under eleven dollars keeps the value conversation easy for parents. It won't move the needle for collectors or investors, but as a sub-$15 Friends set it's punching above its size. The playability-to-price ratio is where this set makes its case, and it makes it well.
