Beginner
≈ 10 hSuggested range6 h 30 min – 14 h 30 min
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Friends · SET 42670
Heartlake City Apartments and Stores
A colourful neighbourhood gathers apartments, bakery, pottery studio and launderette around shared spaces.
- Pieces
- 2,040
- Release year
- 2025
- Theme
- Friends
- Set number
- 42670
- LEGO recommended age
- 12+
- LEGO retail price · Italy
- 169.99 €
Retired from the LEGO Italy catalogue when checked on 23 October 2026. Availability can change. Check the store for the latest information.
Retail price reported by the LEGO source for the stated market. Check the store for current price and availability; this does not establish the launch price. LEGO ↗ · Reference checked on 23 October 2026
Official English name verified at: LEGO English catalogue ↗ · Checked on 24 October 2026.
TIME TO BUILD
How long does it take to build Heartlake City Apartments and Stores?
A starting point for planning your build. Times for each experience level are editorial estimates, not measurements submitted by HowLongToBuild users.
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Intermediate
≈ 6 h 30 minSuggested range4 h – 9 h 30 minExperienced
≈ 4 h 15 minSuggested range2 h 45 min – 6 h 15 minBased on one person building the set for the first time, following the original instructions and using numbered bags where supplied. Includes normal piece-finding and minor adjustments; excludes long breaks, filming, dismantling and modifications. Sources may use different methods. This range is neither a statistical interval nor a limit: your build may take less or more time.
How we estimate times · sources and method
Three homes, shops and community space with furniture and small functions. The three central durations are model-specific editorial assessments. Planning ranges extend approximately from 65% to 145%, rounded to quarter-hours; they are not measured experience-level averages or guaranteed limits.
Sources do not always specify the builder’s experience. The three experience bands are our editorial assessment, based on the complexity of the set and individual accounts where available.
- LEGO Italy · Heartlake City Apartments and Stores ↗
This source documents the model’s features and components, not a timed build. No sufficiently verifiable individual building-time report has been identified for this set.
- LEGO building instructions · Heartlake City Apartments and Stores ↗
Set-specific instructions checked against the set number, piece count and year. The duration is an editorial assessment based on piece count, construction type, mechanisms and detail.
Checked: 23 ottobre 2026 · Method v1.0 · Limited reports; not a statistical average.
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How much display space does it need?
Model or component measured by LEGO
- Height
- ≈ 31 cm
- Width
- ≈ 39 cm
- Depth / length
- ≈ 14 cm
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Which model was measured? · original Italian specification
Dimensioni: set di 2.040 pezzi con un modello principale che misura 31 cm di altezza, 39 cm di larghezza e 14 cm di profonditàApproximate assembled-model measurements, not packaging dimensions. Allow extra room for handling, moving parts and the display stand. The comparison uses the measured model’s overall footprint, allows a 90° rotation and does not assess stability or shelf load. Source LEGO ↗ · 2026-10-29
BEYOND THE BRICKS
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Inside the set
A turning pottery wheel
A moving wheel accompanies working washing machines.
LEGO sourcePersonal homes
Apartment details reflect their inhabitants rather than repeating one interior.
LEGO sourceBeyond the set
The stories, places and inventions behind your build.
Shops below, everyday life above
Two surviving Tudor merchants’ houses in Gloucester had ground-floor shops with domestic or working rooms above. Their historic facades concealed mixed uses, much like many neighbourhoods today.
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The sixteenth-century merchants’ houses had ground-floor shops with domestic and workshop space above. Later pin manufacturing and subsequent conversion changed their use again. A historic facade can contain successive occupations, beyond the picturesque idea of one shop beneath one home.
Timber framing was structural
In historic timber-framed houses, the beams formed the supporting frame rather than applied decoration. Gloucester also preserves infill made from laths, clay and straw between the timbers.
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Historic England records timber framing, infill and surviving beams at Westgate Street. The visible grid was more than applied decoration. Joints, infill and later alterations reveal both the construction system and changing use across the buildings’ material history.
Expanded stories updated on 29 October 2026
Written by HowLongToBuild · Sources are linked with each story · Checked on 23 October 2026. Historical facts and story details refer to the context described.
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The Secret Life of Pets offers a comic character for small figures and everyday scenes. The affinity is lively domestic storytelling, not nature in general.
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The Secret Life of Pets (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Alexandre Desplat
Rhythmic and livelyA build to spread over several sessions: choose the more understated option when you want the instructions to take centre stage. The music does not set your pace.
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