Yeah, my biggest problem with lego friends is simply that the figures wouldn't play well with other sets, because they are bigger. Because it's true...we had a TON of legos growing up and played with them all the time, but a lot of that time was spent building elaborate doll houses for the figures, and I see no problem with sets built around that. But these figures couldn't ride the horses from the medieval legos, for example, or go into any of the sets created for the little figures...and that's too bad.