Random set of the day: Hillside House
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 5771 Hillside House, released during 2011. It's one of 17 Creator sets produced that year. It contains 714 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$69.99/£49.99.
It's owned by 5,832 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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Does that even count as a hill? I'm from Florida, most things are flat, or have fallen into a sinkhole, but I would think a hillside house would be like those houses where there's another floor that's down the side of the hill and the first level of the house is really the top.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Does that even count as a hill? I'm from Florida, most things are flat, or have fallen into a sinkhole, but I would think a hillside house would be like those houses where there's another floor that's down the side of the hill and the first level of the house is really the top."
In Kansas, that's a hill.
I really wish I picked this up. I remember really wanting this.
Talk about making a hill out of a slight grade…
I remember seeing those old designer commentary videos, and wanting this set so badly. Early 2010's Creator was baller, what happened?
I loved these style of Creator houses. They were beautiful models. I bought a couple, but not enough.
@DragonLord56 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Does that even count as a hill? I'm from Florida, most things are flat, or have fallen into a sinkhole, but I would think a hillside house would be like those houses where there's another floor that's down the side of the hill and the first level of the house is really the top."
In Kansas, that's a hill."
In The Netherlands, it's a mountain.
Is that guy trimming his pet duck with two feathers?
@cluening:
He’s plucking it before throwing it on the grill.
@R1_Drift said:
"Early 2010's Creator was baller, what happened?
"
I don’t know what baller means, but I like the current Creator Castle, pirate ship and Viking ship (although expensive)
It was sets like this that made me regret having a dark age (and end up spending countless hours on eBay! This plus 5891 Apple Tree House were 2 that I was very pleased to get hold of. Also 6754 , 4886 , 4954 and 4956 were other good eBay wins.
The backless houses of today all need 2 to make them proper!
@saltytbone said:
"I don’t know what baller means"
slang for cool or amazing
There have not really been sets with a lot of red roof slopes in a while now.
Current sets with a lot of slopes, but in white :
21058 : The Great Pyramid of Giza
100x 2x4
16x 2x3
20x 2x2
8x 2x1
48x 2x2 outside corner
21330 : Home Alone
77x 2x4
10x 2x3
4x 2x2
64x 1x2
14x 2x2 inside corner
36x 2x2 outside corner
Still, I hope to see such unlicensed sets again, even if they have little to no interior.
Shame we don't get Lego Creator houses like this anymore :(
Love it. I still remember this one. I can't believe it's been this long ago. Wow, time flies.
For now, you have evaded me, Hillside House! BUT SOMEDAY... !
These Creator houses were great! I looked forward to new ones coming out to build up my suburbs…until there were none anymore.
Aren't these LEGO Creator houses just beautiful?
I had no idea Lego had a Shirley Jackson set.
This is one of the first creator house sets that switched from baseplates to regular plates, which resulted in me stopped buying any more creator houses.
@cluening said:
"Is that guy trimming his pet duck with two feathers?"
Its LEGO's idea of clippers for the shrub, as he is near what looks to be a shrub. At least I'm guessing they are supposed to be clippers. Nice use of a feather part though IMO.. Its a nice set, and likely would be 100 USD now if it was made today... Which incidentally appears to be what they go for now in sealed box on eBay.
Creator houses used to be so classic and house-like if that makes any sense
The house is beautiful. I guess the interiror is upto your imagination (or parts bin). The car could have been much much better though. That too can use some imagination.
This reminds me very much of one of the first sets I got, https://brickset.com/sets/6374-1 Holiday House when I was about 8yrs old. used to build it over and over again. The box had a picture of an alt build that I figured out how to build and would just go back and forth between the two, good memories :)
This was a set that everyone wanted when i was a kid, think it was probs for the sound brick
...We're more than 10 years removed from when they started putting minifigures in Creator sets?
Sad that this is one of the last few proper classic homes they built. I'd love to see a big house building like this as part of the 90th anniversary stuff but I don't think any are going to be revealed.
That doorbell on the door’s left looks like it’s on an axle, does pushing it in do anything? This doesn’t look like the type of scene to have dramatic exploding walls but you never know!
@Brickalili said:
"That doorbell on the door’s left looks like it’s on an axle, does pushing it in do anything? This doesn’t look like the type of scene to have dramatic exploding walls but you never know!"
There's a sound brick behind it. The one the above comments are talking about.
I miss sets like these.
This helped us buy out first REAL house. Every time we saved another thousand pounds towards our deposit we would build another few pages. A kind of motivational totaliser.
Absolutely adorable set. The only thing I would prefer is a baseplate instead of plates, but otherwise looks really nice.
Great set, the doorbell was an added surprise and kept kids assumed for ages. I brought two sets, so they could also build the alternative set with the red pick up truck at the same time. I have now combined together, as there are lots of useful white bricks, window frames and red roof, to use as an architect set.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Does that even count as a hill? I'm from Florida, most things are flat, or have fallen into a sinkhole, but I would think a hillside house would be like those houses where there's another floor that's down the side of the hill and the first level of the house is really the top."
I think it’s supposed to hint at being in a hilly area. Houses on hillsides are more often stepped like this house is, at least in Europe where space is at a premium and people make do with whatever the terrain is like. Many houses, or the plots of land they’re on, were established before widespread mechanical levelling of land. The work had to be done manually which was slow. It was usually faster and easier to work with Mother Nature rather than recontour the landscape.
I climbed the lowest mountain of Japan, Tempozan, not once but even twice! But with an elevation of 4,53m, that's still a very serious climb compared to this....
But all jokes aside, looks like a perfectly fine set! And I didn't even know that sound brick existed, cool feature!
This just feels so much more *LEGO* than anything made these days. It's not overly simple but also not too complicated, just a perfect in-between that feels like what LEGO was all about for most of it's history.
Get this guy involved and it can become a mountain:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0112966/
(The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain)
Every time I pass by the spot I have this house displayed, I have to ring the doorbell :)
First impression from jagged edge of roof was this is a new Minecraft set. I miss when Lego was Lego and fans didn't demand that studs be hidden and jaggies all get smoothed out with specialty pieces
This house and 5891 always have a bit of a 'Pleasant Valley Sunday' feel to me!
'The weekend squire just came out to mow his lawn'
'Charcoal burning everywhere'
'Mrs Gray, she's proud today, because her roses are in bloom'
Remember the Lego Creator Island browser game? It involved building a neighborhood of Creator houses and other sets.
I wish even big creator sets had just one Minifig and more pieces
What sorcery is this ? A complete house, not a half, a façade on steroids or a modular? Is this one set and not two to make one ?
/sarcasm off.
I miss sets like this.
@Mandalorian6285 said:
"wow I didn't think Lego would be smart enough to put a solar panel on that long ago....?"
Consumer solar panels have been around since at least the '70s.
@sjr60 said:
"This house and 5891 always have a bit of a 'Pleasant Valley Sunday' feel to me!
'The weekend squire just came out to mow his lawn'
'Charcoal burning everywhere'
'Mrs Gray, she's proud today, because her roses are in bloom'"
Here in status symbol land!
@VintageDude said:
"2011 was also the year that saw 8110 Mercedes-Benz Unimog U400
for $120 for 2046 parts, at Toys´R´Us around November - December in Sweden.
Considering the price of this set, 5771 Hillside House: $70.... for 714 parts."
parts count is like the worst way to compare, especially a technic set with 317 black pins, 107 blue axle pin, and 166 3L blue pins
Fantastic set, but the car is a bit crap. It fits with the Modular aesthetic, but yet is a single family home instead.
flashbacks to LEGO Creator Builder's Island, that pleasant timewaster of an online game.
*ding dong* woof woof!
@TeriXeri:
All those parts probably cost more to bring to market than you would be willing to pay for them on the secondary market. Like it or not, they help determine the base price of Technic sets. Electronic and pneumatic parts establish the high end of the price range, but if you want to buy the set, you have to pay for all those hundreds of connectors.
If you’re not happy with the price-per-piece metric, maybe you should adjust the target. It’s expected for minifig themes, but nobody would happily pay $0.10/pc for a box of miscellaneous basic bricks. People have much lower targets for those, probably topping out at $0.05/pc. Anything above that, they’ll pass on, unless they feel it has truly exceptional parts.
So look over the last, say, 10-15 years (that skips the period when Technic was abandoned). Figure out the average price per piece during that period, and determine which sets you felt were above value or below based on that number. Then see if the community agrees.
I love this set. My kids loved it too, especially the doggie doorbell! I like the dog and the BBQ. Ah memories!
@sjr60 said:
"This house and 5891 always have a bit of a 'Pleasant Valley Sunday' feel to me!
'The weekend squire just came out to mow his lawn'
'Charcoal burning everywhere'
'Mrs Gray, she's proud today, because her roses are in bloom'"
"AFOLS complain about how hard life is, and the kids don't seems to understand..."
;-)
Creator houses are always a delight
@VintageDude:
8880 retailed for $130, at $0.97/pc. The other three all retailed at $199.99, 8043 at $0.178/pc (with PF elements), 8110 at $0.098/pc (a bit of PF and pneumatics), and 9398 at $0.151/pc (yet again with PF elements). So the short answer is that you saved about $270 over retail, and those prices don’t really mean much in the grand scheme of things.
@VintageDude said: "It´s always good to walk a mile in someone else´s shoes!"
Yes!
That way, you can say what you like about them, because you're now a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.
@VintageDude:
That’s an entirely different discussion. You’re holding that up against a discussion about whether or not MSRP is rising, and why this is or is not the case, and saying, “I got isolated discounts on a handful of sets.” It still has nothing to do with trending changes to MSRP, and does very little to explain why they were priced that low. If you’re correct about when you made these purchases, none of these sets were out of production at the time of purchase, so unlikely to have been put on clearance (except maybe 8880). You didn’t mention if they were damaged, or if the entire stock of those was reduced so deeply. You also didn’t say whether this level of deep discounts is typical of Technic sets where you live, or if these are the only such discounts you’ve found over a period of nearly 30 years.
You got these four sets well below MSRP, and apparently were happy enough with the purchases to recall what you spent on them so long ago. Sometimes that’s the whole story.