Citations › Citation ID: 159

C159. BOOK: Daniel Konstanski, The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks: The Inside Story of a Design Icon (Unbound, 2022), p. 306.

In the bowels of the parts catalogue for LEGO Belville, designers also stumbled upon a part that had been created for that theme’s early 2000s fantasy subtheme. Originally used as crystals to top the spires of a palace, they were the spitting image of snowflakes. One of these was recoloured in transparent yellow and placed atop a large Christmas tree in the square beside the Toy Shop. It proved to be fortuitous that this part’s mould was saved from destruction as many of the sets based on the film Frozen have made use of it.

Snowflake/Star (Part 42409) was originally created for Belville and the moulds were saved from destruction by the new Winter Village series.