Random set of the day: My Special Storage Space
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 7532 My Special Storage Space, released during 2004. It's one of 40 Clikits sets produced that year. It contains 115 pieces, and its retail price was US$35/£24.99.
It's owned by 40 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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Huzzah! Clikits!
For Lego to be reminded of Clikits, is properly like me being reminded of my teenage years.
Return of the King! Praise be Clikits!
Well isn't that special.
@NatureBricks said:
"What happens when we run out of Clickit sets?!?!"
Then comes the end of all things...
@NatureBricks said: "What happens when we run out of Clickit sets?!?!"
Don't tell Huwbot that, you'll just upset him.
Looking at this vs. some of the buildable storage, pencil pots etc in the Dots theme really shows some progression.
This might not be a popular opinion but I am rather glad that TLG has been venturing into new domains, however uninterested I might be (borderline heretical to some, clearly).
Obviously, I want more pirates, castles, space, and monorail.
But then, I can see my daughter actually like this LEGO-style Claire's.
@NatureBricks said:
"What happens when we run out of Clickit sets?!?!"
Huwbot will not allow that to happen. He has kidnapped Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen and is refusing to let him go until he replaces the entire LEGO product line with Clikits.
@DragonLord56 said:
" @NatureBricks said:
"What happens when we run out of Clickit sets?!?!"
Then comes the end of all things..."
When that happens, dogs and cats will live together in harmony, the Earth will become peaceful, and the entire world population will join hands and sing about buying each other a Coca-Cola (like in that old commercial) while the actual question to "the meaning of life, the universe, and everything" is read out loud. (everyone knows the answer to this question is 42)
Subsequently, the universe suddenly ends in the Big Crush, with the end credits rolling shortly thereafter. (Hopefully, there is enough budget leftover for a sequel universe.)
I bought a bulk lot of Clikits a while back (one of a few, as I recall): the seller was a 20-something young lady who prepared every set for my 7yo daughter to enjoy. I never did add those sets to my list of owned. Wonder if this was one of them.
If I had this set, my special storage space might be the garbage bin.
Sorry. Somebody had to say it.
But what I really mean is: “Yay, Clikits!“
Dark Age justified.
Telling Clikits sets apart from each other always gives me headaches... Those box pictures are about as informative of the content as some Basic/Free Style sets.
If you can't find the inventory picture at least... Did Clikits sets have inventories somewhere on the package or the instructions? Did Clikits sets have instructions at all? :D
@NatureBricks:
Somewhere in a box in my condo is some small giveaway pack of Clikits that I was handed one year at NYTF. If that has never been entered into Brickset’s catalog, then it’s impossible for @Huwbot to run out of Clikits sets.
'My special storage space' sounds a bit ominous... "my pens and pencils, stickers, rings, pictures, selfies, oh and the voodoo doll, my enemies list, etc etc."
Not yours, mine.
@madforLEGO:
Have you ever watched Deadpool 2?
cute but not too useful, as tends to be for clikits. the airy, lightweight 00s design vibes are big in this one.
even though star best girl [STAR BEST GIRL!] I have to say, daisy's colour scheme is lovely here.
When a random set comes along
You hope it’s Clikits
When Huwbot picks something wrong
It must be Clikits
Now Clikits
Into Shape
Won’t Hold It
Set is Lame
Try to return it
It’s not too late
To KMart
Clikits, noooooo!
Shiny!
Honestly, my favorite thing about Clikits is the translucent canvas elements. As huge of a DOTS fan I am, there's no way DOTS would have such a thing. It's kind of a bummer.
@Lip_McTile said:
"cute but not too useful, as tends to be for clikits. the airy, lightweight 00s design vibes are big in this one.
even though star best girl [STAR BEST GIRL!] I have to say, daisy's colour scheme is lovely here."
There is something surprisingly soothing about the amber and dark magenta colouring; it’s like looking at a sunrise
To quote Palpatine: "Long have I waited…"
@NatureBricks said:
"What happens when we run out of Clickit sets?!?!"
Clickits only ends if we let it end.
Aaaaand... on the wanted-list!
Yesterday, one of the best Lego sets ever. Today, something that isn't even real Lego. Huwbot giveth, Huwbot taketh away.
I only have a regular storage place.
What we are storing must be really special as all the boxes look empty to me?
I am one of the special forty people who admit to owning this set. Those boxes are quite handy for parts sorting / MOC sub-unit organising, etc. Just don't put really tiny pieces in them...
That's a good one! Got this in a giant clikits bulk lot off ebay
@jackiebritton said:
"I am one of the special forty people who admit to owning this set. Those boxes are quite handy for parts sorting / MOC sub-unit organising, etc. Just don't put really tiny pieces in them..."
I think you are the only one who admits owning this set. The other 39 people are sitting silently...
@MeisterDad said:
"I bought a bulk lot of Clikits a while back (one of a few, as I recall): the seller was a 20-something young lady who prepared every set for my 7yo daughter to enjoy. I never did add those sets to my list of owned. Wonder if this was one of them."
This is the sweetest story and made my morning. It's a real-life Toy Story 3, and just as warm and fuzzy
YUSSS
@tomthepirate said:
"This might not be a popular opinion but I am rather glad that TLG has been venturing into new domains, however uninterested I might be (borderline heretical to some, clearly).
Obviously, I want more pirates, castles, space, and monorail.
But then, I can see my daughter actually like this LEGO-style Claire's."
I feel like this is something a lot of AFOL commentators forget about. Innovation requires experimentation. While not every new idea thrown at the wall will stick, but if we don't try something out we'll never discover great new things. If no-one thought of combining sci-fi and western we wouldn't have Star Wars, if no-one tried to bring platforming to 3D we wouldn't have Mario 64, and if no-one thought of making a sitcom family animated and dysfunctional we wouldn't have the Simpsons. While all of these things feel like tropes or established genres now, and the time they were pretty much unheard of.
Again that's not to say innovation is inherently good. For every Star Wars there's a The Room. For every Mario 64 there's a No Man's Sky (at launch.) For every Simpsons there's a Problem Solverz.
LEGO is much the same way. Movie tie ins may have gotten us LEGO Jurassic World, but they also got us LEGO Angry Birds. Combing mobile apps and bricks may have gotten us LEGO Super Mario, but they also got us LEGO Vidiyo. Buildable action figures may have gotten us BIONICLE, but they also got us Galidor.
Yeah Clikits didn't do to hot and wasn't well received, but we would have never known that if LEGO hadn't taken a risk and tried something new. The success of things like Friends and Dots shows that making a girly or jewelry theme isn't inherently bad, it's just working out the kinks that will make it work that was difficult, and Clikits was an important step in that learning journey.
@NatureBricks said:
"What happens when we run out of Clickit sets?!?!"
Then we start over again.