Lego?s new ?Friends? set lets you build your own Central Perk
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More than 1,000 pieces dedicated to the iconic TV coffee shop Friends was a show of outsized real estate dreams. A rent-controlled two-bedroom apartment in the West Village for $200 a month" Only on television. Lego is now dedicating an entire set to another Friends-related architectural moment?Central Perk.
In celebration of the TV show?s 25th anniversary, Lego is selling a 1,070-piece set that lets fans reconstruct the iconic Central Park coffee shop. The details are accounted for, down to the orange couch and flowers in a vase. The set includes all of the characters (yes, Rachel has great plastic hair), plus little details like 15 coffee cups, a newspaper, plastic bagels, and a ?reserved? sign. In a nod to the shop?s TV reality, there are also two lights overhead that light the entire ?set.?
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Like most of its hyper-specific collections, Lego is aiming for its Friends set to speak to a particular group of people who care about a particular point in time. If that?s you, you can snatch up the box starting September 1 for $60, or just over a quarter of Rachel and Monica?s rent.
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