Taking Sunroof to an entirely different level.

Well, yeah, with the walls all perforated like that, it’s going to be hard to keep the sunshine out. Bugs, too. And rats. Raccoons. Birds. Not to mention your neighbors are going to be in for quite a shock. I mean, you’d be better off living in a tent.

Ah, part of that final wave of Belville. I got a couple of the smaller ones from that 2008 wave and would have liked to have gotten this as well, but I never managed it.

To paraphrase "The Rocketeer": "House? They don't got a house. They've got a gazebo."...And yes, that dose also lead to "Knights of the Dinner Table".:D

Also...:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQm3uAPGUt4 :)

More specialized parts than normal parts.

…at the happy, haunted sunshine house…

I remember this one, my cousin had a few of the last Belivlle sets. I never saw it in her collection, but this one is vaguely familiar. One of the better Belville sets in my opinion, mostly because t isn't TOO reliant on specialist parts.

@Atuin said:
"A set with some REALLY crazy recolors of otherwise common parts. I kinda like that aspect of Belville."

Including the Trans-Pink Chef's Hat / Spongebob Jellyfish as a gelatin dessert! This is the only time it appeared outside the Spongebob theme.

Dang I hadn’t realised Belville kept going until 2008, I thought it had quietly faded out much earlier into the 2000s. That gives it a lifespan of a about 14 years, that’s solid innings, good for them

@Nuclearxpotato said:
"Including the Trans-Pink Chef's Hat / Spongebob Jellyfish as a gelatin dessert! This is the only time it appeared outside the Spongebob theme."

For whatever reason, I wound up with a *heap* of those pieces, back in the day. I think I turned them all into jellyfish for underwater themes.

@TheOtherMike said:
"I'm looking at the way they did the baby seat and all I can think of is 1356."

I'm looking at that baby, and - yeah, 1356 sure checks out.

@Brickalili said:
"Dang I hadn’t realised Belville kept going until 2008, I thought it had quietly faded out much earlier into the 2000s. That gives it a lifespan of a about 14 years, that’s solid innings, good for them "

That's longer than both Bionicle generations combined! I hadn't realized that it went on that long, either. Friends will hit fourteen years next year, and it ain't going anywhere anytime soon.

The last wave of Belville, I believe. This one is kind of nostalgic to me as Belville became quite modern at this time. It had outlived the 2003-2004 period of internal restructuring and it still had a whole plethora of recolors and odd parts usage. And it even featured those wall parts again, which had happened less over the years. The house also is one of the few from the theme to actually use a hinge brick system instead of just floating the sections next to each other.

And yet, this was the end. Very bittersweet.

That 8x8 transparent plate for the table top is the best piece ever. I genuinely hope everyone gets to experience one.

….Crickey! Look at the size of that dunny! Speed Champion size!

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Brickalili said:
"Dang I hadn’t realised Belville kept going until 2008, I thought it had quietly faded out much earlier into the 2000s. That gives it a lifespan of a about 14 years, that’s solid innings, good for them "

That's longer than both Bionicle generations combined! I hadn't realized that it went on that long, either. Friends will hit fourteen years next year, and it ain't going anywhere anytime soon."

Ninjago only just hit fourteen years this very year. I realise Belville never released as many sets as any the themes we mentioned, and definitely wasn’t as story driven as Bionicle or Ninjago, but that still seems impressive

@namekuji said:
"That 8x8 transparent plate for the table top is the best piece ever. I genuinely hope everyone gets to experience one."

I think I needed one in trans-light-blue, and at least three different sellers sent me trans-fluorescent-blue instead. And then refunded me the money when I informed them that the color was wrong! Eventually I had to start asking sellers to verify the color before I placed an order, because I really did need one in TLB.

My other tale is that my LUG had a bunch of parts that were being distributed via parts draft. I was just far enough back in line that I could see the table, but the people at the front of the line just stopped as soon as they got to the table, instead of processing around it as instructed (we were trying something different than one person at a time, in the hopes that it would speed things up). I could see a bag with about ten TFB plates in it, and I both knew the value of that bag ($100+), and would have been happy to find uses for them…and then one of the guys in front of me looked down and said, “Oh, I guess I’ll just take these.” Still not over that one.

So many sexy parts... delightful.

@namekuji said:
"That 8x8 transparent plate for the table top is the best piece ever. I genuinely hope everyone gets to experience one.

….Crickey! Look at the size of that dunny! Speed Champion size!"

With the not-all-that-recent-anymore switch from PC to MABS, we've seen a massive increase in transparent parts, including plates - but not, as of yet, the bigger tiles. Unless you count the transparent 3x4 "CMF-stand"-pieces, which are kind of nice.

I'm willing to bet that we'll get bigger plates soon enough. I'm willing to bet we'll get _almost everything_ in transparent soon enough, now that the technology has evolved.

Of course, that also means that most large MABS parts helpfully come pre-scratched and pre-scuffed, saving us all so much time. Swings and roundabouts.

@PurpleDave said:
" @namekuji said:
"That 8x8 transparent plate for the table top is the best piece ever. I genuinely hope everyone gets to experience one."

I think I needed one in trans-light-blue, and at least three different sellers sent me trans-fluorescent-blue instead. And then refunded me the money when I informed them that the color was wrong! Eventually I had to start asking sellers to verify the color before I placed an order, because I really did need one in TLB."

I'm reminded of when I ordered two of the octagonal canopies without axle holes from Bricklink, to build 6932. The seller sent me ones with axle holes, and I didn't think to contact them about it. If I ever get the bag with the parts out of storage, though, I'm going to look for ones without the hole, and contact the sellers to verify that they're selling the piece they say they are.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @namekuji said:
"That 8x8 transparent plate for the table top is the best piece ever. I genuinely hope everyone gets to experience one."

I think I needed one in trans-light-blue, and at least three different sellers sent me trans-fluorescent-blue instead. And then refunded me the money when I informed them that the color was wrong! Eventually I had to start asking sellers to verify the color before I placed an order, because I really did need one in TLB."

I'm reminded of when I ordered two of the octagonal canopies without axle holes from Bricklink, to build 6932. The seller sent me ones with axle holes, and I didn't think to contact them about it. If I ever get the bag with the parts out of storage, though, I'm going to look for ones without the hole, and contact the sellers to verify that they're selling the piece they say they are.

"

"RE: REMEMBER THIS, AXLE-HOLE?

Dear Sir or Madam, I hope this message finds you well..."

@TheOtherMike said:
"I'm reminded of when I ordered two of the octagonal canopies without axle holes from Bricklink, to build 6932. The seller sent me ones with axle holes, and I didn't think to contact them about it. If I ever get the bag with the parts out of storage, though, I'm going to look for ones without the hole, and contact the sellers to verify that they're selling the piece they say they are."

Well, I’ve got another one of those stories. When I built my Routemaster, I (foolish me) decided I wanted the trim line to be tan instead of yellow. And I (foolish me) ordered tan 6x8 plates, probably even from three different sellers, paying an arm and a leg each time. And they all showed up in dark-tan. Dark-tan was selling for $0.10/ea. So I didn’t have the parts I wanted, and I didn’t even care about the ones I got refunded for.