Light Kit for The Botanical Garden #21353 Ideas

A building made of glass and plants

The Victorian glasshouse was a product of new materials and a new appetite for plants. Kew's Palm House, completed in 1848, used curved iron and glass to create a climate for species brought back from the tropics, and the Crystal Palace of 1851 showed how much could be built from the same system. Public botanical gardens became places of science, education and leisure, and the glasshouse was their most visible building.

The 3,792-piece LEGO Ideas The Botanical Garden 21353 measures 22 by 51 by 25 centimetres and includes 12 minifigures. It is based on a fan design by Goannas89 and was the sixty-first LEGO Ideas set. The model has a central glasshouse with a dome, two wings, a fountain, a café, a shop and a garden with trees, flowers and paths. The glasshouse is the centre of the composition, and the surrounding garden gives it a setting.

Inside out is how the ZENE Bricks Easy-to-install kit for #21353 works. Warm light sits under the dome and along the planting beds, the café and shop take a softer amber, the fountain a cool blue, and the path lamps a low gold. The glass is left mostly unlit, so it reads as a transparent surface rather than a glowing panel. The glasshouse, the café and the garden run on separate circuits.

A glasshouse is a building where the structure and the plants are meant to be seen at the same time, and exterior floodlighting would flatten both. Lighting the interior makes the iron frame, the leaves and the paths visible through the glass, which is how the real building works after dark.

• Supports already built LEGO® sets with a little refitting required.
• No circuit experience needed, just follow our simple step-by-step instructions for guidance.
• Twisted pair design balances robustness and installation concealment.
• Have your LEGO® sets be exciting and soul-filled even in the daytime.

What's Included

• The Led Light Kit includes Connecting Cables, Lights, Expansion Boards, etc.
• Battery Box (without Batteries).
• Instructions in PDF format provided.

Type: Compatible with LEGO® sets
Material: Eco-friendly ABS plastic

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