Incredibly special. It has 54 whole instructions.

Are we sure there's 200 pieces? Did anyone double-check?

I was looking for some fencing stuff the other day, and I found a bunch of it in an old Duplo tub, which is about 20 years old. It's the same type of tub these used. Sturdy, and well made. And it's not the only one pulling a new job after I moved to larger storage in my teen years. Yet, now they think it's more sustainable to use a flimsy cardboard box which tears quickly.

This set is neat in that it appears to have some colors and pieces unusual to these types of sets and desirable, but in quantities of 1 so not of much use. What's confusing me is that Bricklink is saying 100 pieces standard, then another 100 that vary between set to set. Then looks like what you will be getting is one huge question mark.

Another set in the "totally random" category, looking at the parts list I really suspect Lego made this to clear out leftover oddball parts from their warehouse. Apart from the usual "way too many 2-by-X parts in primary colors" it's just too many obscure parts/colors it only has one of (even when you'd need more to do anything useful), like a single orange 3x3 slope, a single black fence part, a single sand green corner brick, a single dark blue headlight brick and 2x2 slope etc etc. In addition there's 2 1x1 bricks and left/right 2x4 wedges in some obscure "yellowish orange" color that's only been made from 2002 to 2004. Did anyone find any use for parts from sets like this?

That's the most baffling assortment of parts I've ever seen for a set.

This must have been the stuff that was left over for years that they were just dying to get rid of it for a profit than just chuck them all at LEGO Stores with play areas or you know, recycle the parts. Looking at the BrickLink listing, it was a bucket with 100 parts that were basic bricks, and then the other 100 were whatever was on hand, so yeah, they were desperate.

It probably cost more to make the buckets than the parts inside were worth. Special indeed.

Ah yes, I got this one (still have it), as the notes say it was a promo for soap powder at supermarkets lol.

Are we just gonna gloss over the 48 CREATOR SETS. Seriously this isn’t Star Wars, it shouldn’t need 48 sets just to depict the same things every year

The main problem with these bins is that they don't have any wide or long plates, e.g. 6x6, 4x8, 2x10, 1x12 etc., which are the start of most mocs, and tend to have too many double width bricks when everyone mainly uses single width. In the end ok for toddlers new to the Lego world, but for mocs just better using standard sets.

back in the day my brother owned the limited edition bin with the gold bricks. never had this one though.