Had that background picture been taken slightly more to the left, would it have been redesigned or reissued in the wake of a certain attack in 2001...?

It came out during my dark ages. If it had come out later I would still not have been interested in it as a display piece. But it does look like it would have been a nice way to buy sand green bricks in bulk.

@TomKazutara:
I’ve never watched it, but I recognize that as being from a marionette movie in the style of Thunderbirds.

@SolidState said:
"As much as I love modern and advanced Lego building techniques, it would be great to see some classic brick on brick sculptures like this get released again. The aesthetics are so quintessential Lego and every other brick building toy company is doing what Lego won't."

Bonus points, making it out of simple bricks means its easier to remodel to represent damage, as any disaster movie always seems to find a way to target Lady Liberty

Great timing as the world could use some liberty. Sad times :-(

@Brickalili: Disaster movies don't always target Lady Liberty, sometimes they pick on other landmarks.

It looks like from some arcade pixel game.

This set has a special feeling, just not quite sure what it is.

The face is very well done for just bricks and plates. As well as displaying the final model, seems to be a UCS quantity of sand green bricks and plates for the childhood artist in all of us to have a bit of experimental fun!

@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"The small one, from Las Vegas..."
The one in Vegas is just a copy of the one in New York. But the one in New York is itself a copy of a smaller one in Paris. The Parisian one and the NY one were created by the same sculptor, Frederic Bartholdi.

I bought one of these on eBay for cheap - the only difference was all the pieces were in regular dark green, so it looked pretty awful.

It was for a black and white film I was making, so it all worked out in the end ??

I think it’d look better with just a big flat tile as her face.

It looks so cool. The texture made with simple bricks and a large scale is astounding.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Brickalili: Disaster movies don't always target Lady Liberty, sometimes they pick on other landmarks."

Not always. But it’s a pretty common target. Everyone wants a piece of that green!

It has the place of honour in my collection. The only mod I made was to replace the green with gray bricks for the tablet she is holding. Looks much nicer that way.

Gee, I guess trying to start the Team America theme roughly 12 hours ago was just a bit too much despite censoring myself.

@1265 said:
"I purchased this set approx 20 years ago at 75% off MSRP at KB Toys. I still have it MISB."

That’s AMAZING!!!….. but, what are you waiting for??
Either sell it and make like a 4,000% profit (!!!), or open it and build it already!!
The way the world is going, it might just get nuked in a few weeks or months, so you may as well live it a little!!
Just sayin’…..

I don't see the Ghostbusters anywhere! How are they going to stop Vigo the Carpathian now?!?

(side note: based on that sequel's climax, how in the HECK did they get Lady Liberty back to her pedestal?)

@MCLegoboy :
Huh. Guess so. My post, which includes no quoted text, appears to now be the first remaining post in that convo.

@Murdoch17:
It would certainly help explain how they ended up in the doghouse, again, leading into Ghostbusters 3.

@PurpleDave said:
" @MCLegoboy :
Huh. Guess so. My post, which includes no quoted text, appears to now be the first remaining post in that convo."
Kind of a shame, I never saw how badly I screwed things up. XD

Oddly though, this wasn't released in 2000 everywhere in the world, making the introduction of Sand Green a feat of Life on Mars in some countries...

I have been building 3724 for the past 5 days.

@Lego_mini_fan said:
"I have been building 3724 for the past 5 days. "

I wanted to finish mine in a single 6 hour session, my shoulder ached for the rest of the day :S

I never disassembled him afterwards, however I did remove the baseplate, as I thought it looked better. He's surprisingly stabile without it^^

Miles ahead of the newer 20142. The smaller scale, and the shield for a face just simply don't work. And this set, aside from tons of the highly desirable sand green bricks, uses no special parts and does a better job, while still looking like LEGO.

I have actually been there, on vacation about a decade ago. Meant to get the Statue of Liberty CMF, but never did.

@MCLegoboy said:
"Gee, I guess trying to start the Team America theme roughly 12 hours ago was just a bit too much despite censoring myself."

https://brickset.com/article/63525
When I did it, it was really tempting to use the word "truck" in the lyrics.

@Atuin said:
" @Lego_mini_fan said:
"I have been building 3724 for the past 5 days. "

I wanted to finish mine in a single 6 hour session, my shoulder ached for the rest of the day :S

I never disassembled him afterwards, however I did remove the baseplate, as I thought it looked better. He's surprisingly stabile without it^^"

I didn't experience shoulder ache while building that thing because I take breaks on bigger sets. I managed to take him off the baseplate and it barely broke (Well except for the feet). The instructions slow me down a lot because how bad they are.

@Norikins: I used "motherbricking" here:
https://brickset.com/article/66305/review-10297-boutique-hotel

@Atuin:
For a 1500pc set? 10179 is the only set I’ve ever had to split over two days, and that was more due to the terrible way they sorted the parts combined with the fumes coming off the freshly-printed instruction tome. I got Home Alone built in about seven hours, and that’s nearly 4000pcs. I did the math, and I think I could pull off the UCS MF2 in one (very long) day, since it has numbered bags instead of the mess they gave you with the first version.

@MCLegoboy:
I saw at least two comments that were trying to expand on yours, and the one that I replied to (which also got deleted because it quoted yours, I’m thinking), which sounded completely bewildered by it all.