Random set of the day: Freekick Frenzy
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 3423 Freekick Frenzy, released during 2002. It's one of 43 Sports sets produced that year. It contains 54 pieces and 2 minifigs, and its retail price was US$10/£7.99.
It's owned by 556 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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of the 10 last sets of the day, what if you hypothetically could own one, build one (but not own it at the end) and delete one, which of each do you choose?
I would say own Battle for Geonosis,
Build the blue roadster
and delete this one
Looks like a Japanese Game Show. The score is 6-12, although I'm not sure how that adds up with these point increments.
Oh.... I used to own that set. It was my third Lego set ever, after 4176 and 4617. To be more correct, I lost so many parts from the set that I can't even consider it part of my collection anymore, same for the other two. Good memories.
I was thinking that the piece holding up the board with the holes could be useful for holding up other things, so I looked up the inventory on Bricklink to see if it had been used in any other sets. It had, and every one of them was Scala. Wasn't expecting that.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Looks like a Japanese Game Show. The score is 6-12, although I'm not sure how that adds up with these point increments."
Obviously one player forgot to pet the Soccer Salamander(TM) on the way in and was deducted four points. The other player brought smoothies for everyone on his team and earned two extra.
I LOVE LEGO SOCCER!!! I wish the sports themes would make a comeback!
@GSR_MataNui said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Looks like a Japanese Game Show. The score is 6-12, although I'm not sure how that adds up with these point increments."
Obviously one player forgot to pet the Soccer Salamander(TM) on the way in and was deducted four points. The other player brought smoothies for everyone on his team and earned two extra. "
While the poor goalie is strapped to some kind of swinging pendulum which resembles a medieval torture device.
What the hell is going on in Lego City today.
@Zordboy said:
" @GSR_MataNui said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Looks like a Japanese Game Show. The score is 6-12, although I'm not sure how that adds up with these point increments."
Obviously one player forgot to pet the Soccer Salamander(TM) on the way in and was deducted four points. The other player brought smoothies for everyone on his team and earned two extra. "
While the poor goalie is strapped to some kind of swinging pendulum which resembles a medieval torture device.
What the hell is going on in Lego City today."
“Today”
> 2002
The 6-12 is the age range, anyone over or under those ages who touches this set immediately gets her/his/their/zeir head cut off by a katana.
Source: I witnessed it once.
If Lego would include the word Frenzy in the names of all of their sets I'd be cool with the price hikes. E.g. calling it Hogwarts Castle Frenzy would now be worth an 18% increase.
“Frenzy” is an expertly applied word to this set. Very apt.
“Make an expression like you’re badly constipated, so we can put your photo on the box.”
They call it "free" kick frenzy while the goalie clearly looks like a hostage.
I have a couple of soccer sets but I didn't see this one before. Surprising. Even more surprising was the parts used for holding the cards. I've never seen them used in MOCs, too. Usually people love using strange parts in their MOCs.
Sets like these are what stuck to me the most about the 2002 Soccer (Football if you're not North American) range. Just a lot of weird contraptions that don't look like they have much to do with football, but are probably a lot more fun than 'realistic' sets. This was an era when 'Just Imagine' and not much later 'Play On' were lego's slogans.
Such a shame that lego wasn't doing great financially.
So if the striker gets the ball through one of the holes but then the goalie stops it from his weird pendulum thing does the striker still get the points or is it all void? I just want to understand the rules for this baffling set up…
A bit of an odd mix of pastimes. Football and Lego seem to be appealing to opposite ends of the evolutionary scale!
Looks like a punishment training for goalkeepers
Thanks LEGO, but I’ll stick with Subbuteo.
@Lego_lord:
That part was created for Scala, and only appeared in a handful of those sets in 2000, before being brought back for this one Soccer set. It did receive a brief bit of attention two decades ago, but it only came in white, orange, and bright-green, and the crosscuts didn’t seem to offer any connection possibilities besides foam cards. Given such limited availability, it was also difficult to obtain. These days, you could just drop some in your online PAB shopping bag, but back then people had to part out sets that weren’t easy enough to find that you could scoop them up on clearance, or desirable enough that people would bother to hunt them down to the ends of the earth. A few people tried them out, got bored with them, and the community moved on to other things.