Random set of the day: Creator Strata Red
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 4279 Creator Strata Red, released in 2003. It's one of 38 Creator sets produced that year. It contains 1000 pieces.
It's owned by 100 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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Ah, it's so _boring_! You can use it to make a...brick. With a flag on it.
@PurpleDave said:
"Ah, it's so _boring_! You can use it to make a...brick. With a flag on it."
A smiley, many-eyed, surrealist brick with a flag on it
@Mr__Thrawn:
Giving it the ability to attack you in your sleep doesn't really help matters, you know.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Mr__Thrawn:
Giving it the ability to attack you in your sleep doesn't really help matters, you know."
At least they’re smiley mouths and not fanged ones
Did they just hop on the computer and run a random name generator for this set?
Eh, just wait for the next Clikits/Scala/Beville/Galidor set for more action.
@Mr__Thrawn:
You don't watch a lot of Shark Week, I'm guessing. Great whites?
A lot of these pieces look oddly familiar, perhaps I got this as a child. Even then, a lot of the parts were mostly used to bulk out builds. It helps when you don't care if your colorful dumptruck glares at you...
I feel like this is a looney toons creator bucket
I’ve always wondered what the grey tired eyes are for.
@Darth_studious:
They're angry eyes. The thick part of the eyebrow is usually closest to the nose.
@PurpleDave said:
"They're angry eyes. The thick part of the eyebrow is usually closest to the nose."
But if you turned them around the other way, they were sad eyes. Good times.
I have a few of those smiley print bricks, but never knew where they came from. Probably wouldn't have ever found out if it weren't for Huwbot, so thanks my guy!
I’ve made that model on the cover.
Not very useful to me. There a few slopes in the lot, but not enough to secure a buy.
Some transparent and printed parts do catch my eye, but I’m not going to donate an organ to get this.
We’ve definitely seen that set image before. Same set with a different name and number or did Lego get lazy and just reused the picture?
For a 4 year old or parent you need to have a lot of imagination as to what to do with a bucket of 1000 bricks and slopes. Same problem 40 years ago, with the same bricks and slopes sold in tubes in the historical 1960's Swiss article.
There were far more interesting creator designer 4101 and inventor sets 4094 this year, with multiple models to build which Huwbot needs to find!
^ This RSotD has revealed 2003 to have been a really interesting year for Creator!
Such a wonderful theme.
@Brickalili said:
"We’ve definitely seen that set image before. Same set with a different name and number or did Lego get lazy and just reused the picture?"
No, it's intentionally the exact same set, in a different color of tub.
@bananaworld said:
"^ This RSotD has revealed 2003 to have been a really interesting year for Creator!
Such a wonderful theme."
That's because 2000–2005 Creator was a totally different theme before the branding was then applied onto the separate Designer Sets subtheme — the final wave of Designer Sets was rereleased with the new Creator branding complete with unchanged set numbers. What was Creator, then Bricks & More, is now Classic, and even then, only a vestige thereof (and of the old old old Classic/Basic).