#Disney up house with balloons movie

There isn't enough space for both chairs in the set, but that's also the point-this set needed to be a bit bigger to depict the movie properly.

Most egregiously, Ellie's empty chair is missing from the build-a side-by-side placement with Carl's chair could have anchored the set around her absence. Little things, like a mailbox with handprints on it or Kevin the Tropical Bird, could have made the set more immersive. The weaknesses in this set are from what's not there rather than what is. And lastly, you build the front yard, with a helium tank, mailbox (sans handprints, unfortunately) and the bushel of balloons extending out of the chimney. You build the chimney separately and fasten it to the house via LEGO Technic pins. You build it as three separate panels, and then you connect them at an angle to two pink walls to form a curve. The sticker detail on the front door has multiple locks on it to keep people out.

The home is well-kept but stuck in time, likely at the moment that Ellie was no longer there to renovate it. The designers did a great job of capturing the house's cozy aesthetic. You start by building the house's foundation, foyer, and porch, which is reinforced by off-white support posts. And there's a lot of nostalgic pictures on the walls-of Ellie as a girl and a woman, and of Ellie and Carl on their wedding day. There's a spool for the garden hose that Carl uses to tow his house behind him, after he crash lands near Paradise Falls. There's a re-creation of the 'Our Adventure Book' that Carl looks through, in one of the movie's most emotional scenes. There's a jar of coins labeled 'Paradise Falls' that, if you angle it correctly, can be seen from the outside through the window. There are a lot of movie details crammed into a relatively small space. The second Minifigure is of Carl, whose head has a reversible face-one that is fixed into a curmudgeonly scowl, and the other with a slight smile. The first Minifigure is of eight-year-old Junior Wilderness Explorer Russell, who comes with a massive backpack that's laden with accessories and is nearly the size of him. The set contains two Minifigures-three if you include Dug the dog, which is perfectly designed to resemble his animated counterpart.

Disney up house with balloons