Random set of the day: Construct-a-Zurg
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 7591 Construct-a-Zurg, released in 2010. It's one of 15 Toy Story sets produced that year. It contains 118 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$24.99/£19.99.
It's owned by 2680 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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The greatest minifigure of all time
And our first Toy Story set for RSOTD!
Sooooo, this counts as Constraction, right? Or at least, it can be argued as such, yes?
Oh yes, This set, the pillar in the center got chewed up by my dog, truly tragic, I do find how noticeable the pieces of this set are in my collection though
Truly a nostalgic one for me! The Buzz Lightyear figure never had much appeal to me, but this guy I always wanted, had such a BIONICLE feel.
TOY STORY! My first complete theme!
@MCLegoboy Constraction is a whole separate thing with it’s own building system. This is just an oversized brick built figure
Say what now?
Looking at the set inventory, seems like the mouth grille and the chest logo are actually printed on their pieces. I'd assumed they were stickers, thats actually kind of neat
DEstrOY BuzZ liGHTyeaR! DESTroY BUzz ligHTYEaR!
One of the last Lego sets I got before my kinda 'dark ages'! Toy Story 2 has huge huge HUGE nostalgia for me, it was the first time I ever remember seeing a movie in the cinema, and - despite, when I first saw it as a kid, being low-key traumatised when he blasted Buzz to pieces in the opening - I quickly developed a particular soft spot for Zurg; one that only grew once I discovered he was played very comedically in the 2D-animated Buzz Lightyear of Star Command TV series. When this set came around it was, basically, a given that I would buy it.
That said, I wasn't wholly impressed by the build, especially for his lower-body. Those hollow semicircle bits were just placed around a single pillar to support them, nothing else, and that felt like a bit of a let-down there. Still, it was a cool set to me; and not least because of the amount of (then uncommon) purple pieces it contained ^^
Very effective and unique character design. What's especially interesting is that this is basically a CCBS style figure made out of System elements.
I picked this up in a charity shop a week before Christmas.
A couple more TS sets appeared under the tree
Always wanted this set just for the ball launcher.
@julianbricks said:
"Always wanted this set just for the ball launcher.
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That ball launcher came with quite a few of the 2008 BIONICLE sets
So we meet again, Buzz Lightyear... FOR THE LAST TIME!
@Alrighty said:
"The greatest minifigure of all time"
And then there's Zurg.
I love all four Toy Story movies, but Toy Story 2 holds a special place in my heart. It felt like that's when they finished bringing the core group of characters together, and Zurg was an awesome secondary villain.
When this set came out, I chased all over to every Walmart in the area (the only LEGO Store in the state wouldn't open for a few more months) and bought at least ten copies. Besides the large quantity of dark-purple parts, it came with a Claw Alien, which is one of the two most common minifigs in my collection. I can't remember which I have more of, but between that minifig and the S1 Robot, I have over 100 of one, and over 70 of the other.