LEGO Reviews Ideas21365

Love Birds

Name: LEGO Love Birds 21365
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 21365
Rating: 4.62 (137 reviews)

88 · HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDINVESTMENT GRADE: AA2025750 pcsHigh agreement · 98%

Expert reviews

2analyzed

Owner ratings

137

Consensus

BUY

BrickScore

Highly Recommended

Owners

Synthesized Verdict

"Love Birds delivers one of the best price-per-piece ratios in the Ideas lineup at just 6.7 cents per piece, and 91% of owners recommend it, making it a clear Highly Recommended set for botanical collectors and anyone looking for a beautiful, affordable display piece."

The Love Birds Ideas set lands as one of the strongest value propositions in the 2025 LEGO catalog, earning a BrickScore of 87.6 and consistently high owner ratings across three retailers, with a combined 4.62 out of 5 from 137 owners and 91% recommending it. Reviewers and owners alike praised the set's visual payoff and its exceptional price-per-piece for an Ideas product. The main reservation is a build experience that includes some repetitive flower and foliage attachment steps, and the lack of an integrated base that leaves the tree feeling slightly unstable on the shelf.

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LOVED (6)

01Exceptional value at 6.7 cents per piece for a licensed Ideas set
02Striking visual display combining birds and botanical tree in a single composition
03Color palette of the birds pops strongly against the brown tree trunk
04Multi-directional SNOT construction on the trunk described as an excellent building experience
05Fits naturally alongside other LEGO botanical sets as a complementary display piece
06Popular as a gift, particularly for Valentine's Day and engagements

CRITICIZED (4)

01No integrated base, leaving the tree visually rooted in nothing and slightly unstable
02Repetitive process of attaching flowers to leaves to stems to branches during tree construction
03Some builders found the bird sections tricky, particularly for younger participants
04Described as a more delicate set that should not be grabbed and moved like sturdier builds

What reviewers are saying

"21365 Love Birds shows the absolute best of what the LEGO Ideas theme can achieve – it takes a really great fan submission and filters it through the official LEGO design process to create a final model which captures th…"

Jay's Brick Blog

"at $50 for 750 pieces, this set is excellent value."

The Brothers Brick

Ecosystem

21349 Tuxedo Cat — Sets can be paired together; birds' heads can potentially be attached to cat's paws with a jumper piece

Bonsai or Treehouse sets — Like those sets, a seasonal change feature (alternate leaves) was considered but not included; LEGO decided against this feature based on feedback that it's hard to make easy without consuming many parts and making it difficult to show full set value on the box.

IdeasTier 1Investment Grade

By Reviewer · 2

Avg score

Consensus

BUY

Jay's Brick Blog

Editorial Source

BUY

Key Pros

✓Visually interesting model with brick-built flora and fauna
✓Great color palette including vibrant coral pink for birds
✓Organic tree construction with innovative SNOT building techniques

Key Cons

✕Foliage-building section is repetitive, fiddly, and causes finger fatigue
✕Some frustration with pushing/arranging foliage pieces into place

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The Brothers Brick

Expert Video Source

BUY

"at $50 for 750 pieces, this set is excellent value."

Key Pros

✓New warm pink color
✓New curved slope piece molds (corner and 1×3)
✓Excellent value at $50 for 750 pieces

Key Cons

✕Distracting colors visible internally (medium nougat hinge bricks)
✕Designer's initials in bark detail easy to get slightly wrong

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Exclusivity

Jay's Brick Blog: LEGO Ideas exclusive from the Build From the Heart 2024 challenge

The Brothers Brick: LEGO Ideas exclusive; fan design origin

Resale

Jay's Brick Blog: Positive demand trajectory implied but not explicitly forecasted. 'Already selling like hotcakes' suggests strong initial market interest.

Minifigures & Standout Parts

Standout parts (per reviewers)

Love heart pieces on bird wings
Cute thematic detail in bird design
Shell piece attached via two arms for chest feathers
Neat construction technique that makes birds look appropriately bird-shaped
Rocker mechanisms on root extensions
Allows angling and makes model more convincing and stable
Warm Pink color pieces in bird head/tail detail
New or updated color introduced in this set
corner curved slope
New mold that fills a gap with otherwise very different and imperfect solutions
1×3 curved slope
New mold; very subtle difference from existing slopes; great piece to have available

What Owners Say · summarized from 50 written reviews (LEGO, Amazon, Walmart)

Owners overwhelmingly praise the set as beautiful and emotionally meaningful with fun building experiences, but struggle with structural fragility, color accuracy, and repetitive assembly.

COMMON PRAISE