Review: LEGO 41914 DOTS Creative Picture Frames

Welcome to our review of LEGO 41914 DOTS Creative Picture Frames! This is our first LEGO DOTS set review, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with how fun, creative, and interesting this build is. This set includes enough parts to make 3 picture frames and has plenty of colorful tiles to customize and decorate them. You can follow the suggested designs or have fun coming up with your own!

Packaging

Right away you can see that the box for this set is a bit different. This set is actually packaged in a storage tray that is very helpful when building and decorating the picture frames. But, it can also be used afterwards for LEGO brick sorting. As you might be able to see, I got this set for a great deal at Kohl’s.

The outside box does a great job at showing the different features of this build. It also provides some ideas of how to decorate your picture frames.

Once the outer cardboard is removed, you can get a great look at the sorting/storage tray. I like how the top is clear with the LEGO logo. All the small DOTS pieces are packaged separately which makes it very easy to open and keep them sorted.

Instructions

The instructions do emphasize creating your own design, but it does provide many different examples of ways to decorate the picture frames.

As this was our first DOTS build, I was happy to see this package insert showing many different DOTS sets. After having fun and being pretty satisfied with the picture frames, we are excited to try some other DOTS builds.

Build

The included tray is very nice to keep all the parts separate. There are even some shallower compartments at the north and south ends of the big middle compartment. This allows most of your time to be spent decorating and less time hunting for parts (which we always appreciate)! If you seem to be always hunting for parts check out our guides on sorting LEGO mistakes and best LEGO storage solutions.

The final build results in three different sized picture frames! I followed a suggested design for the small purple one on the right, but came up with my own designs for the other two. It was fun to try different designs and see what I could come up with!

LEGO calls these white brackets on the bottom left “z” bricks (technically they are Bracket 5 x 2 x 1 1/3 with 2 Holes, you can see why they call them “z” bricks instead). They are used to connect the picture frames as shown on the bottom right. This is a neat feature if you want to create a picture collage instead of displaying each frame separately.

At the end of the build, there are plenty of parts left over! And of course you can use the tray to sort and store your other bricks and pieces!

Conclusion

As our first DOTS build, the LEGO 41914 DOTS Creative Picture Frames was surprisingly fun and a great way to show off your love of LEGO with your favorite pictures. This would make a fun gift for parents for their home or office! One of the best parts is that you can keep the box as a sorting tray, and it does fit well in our existing storage containers!

Thanks for taking a look at our review of LEGO 41914 DOTS Creative Picture Frames! We hope you have as much fun building and decorating as we did!