Random set of the day: Model Town House
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 4954 Model Town House, released during 2007. It's one of 22 Creator sets produced that year. It contains 1174 pieces, and its retail price was US$69.99/£44.99.
It's owned by 3,945 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $178.10, or eBay.
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I did not know this set existed. I don't know how. It's an amazing design.
A classic!
Apparently anyway. I never had it.
It would be nice if they did some larger scale creator houses again though.
I got this in a bulk haul, nearly complete and finished it off with parts from Bricklink. Beautiful architecture! I am amazed to see how much it goes for used. The only semi-rare pieces are the windows.
This was one of my white whales for the longest time. What a precursor to the awesome LEGO buildings yet to come.
I miss when Creator buildings looked like this. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for a certain era of LEGO that is now long gone, but this to me looks far more like the spirit of LEGO than modern sets like 31139.
Oh I have this set stashed somewhere. Forgot about it.
Great set. Was very happy to get a complete boxed one for £75 from eBay. Also prompted me to get several other excellent Creator houses of a similar era (4956, 5771, 5891, 6754)
People would go nuts for this today if it was a Modular or BDP set.
And it was $70 USD.
Heh.
@Rare_White_Ape said:
"People would go nuts for this today if it was a Modular or BDP set."
Yes, it was this traditional style that attracted me to 910050 Antique Shop!
I have this set. I like it but don't love it. The garage is a tad undersized for most cars, and the interior is completely barren and hollow. Moc-ing it is also a bit difficult because the house is thinner than it looks and there's no good way to add stairs or floors.
Was a time when this, the Apple Tree House, and another yellow Creator house were not uncommonly seen on our layouts, if we needed one or two blocks of filler. We’ve moved past the need for that, mostly, though we do sometimes still get the odd Modular, or some IP-based building (I’ve modified both Flintstones and Home Alone for layouts, so I can’t really complain).
I prefer the parts for the roof of this set instead of the parts needed for the roof of the Rivendell set!
Now that feels like a bit of a challenging 3-in-1; that’s a lot of deconstructing and rebuilding you’d need to do for each modern, feels like a child might find that a bit trying
Nice looking house. I've seen it but didn't feel the need to have it. Although I prefer the classics, new modularsa are amazing. Houses like these feels stuck in the middle, at least to me.
@Brickalili said:
"Now that feels like a bit of a challenging 3-in-1; that’s a lot of deconstructing and rebuilding you’d need to do for each modern, feels like a child might find that a bit trying "
Huh? Don’t you always need to break a 3-in-1 set down completely to build the alternatives? There do not seem to be many challenging building techniques involved, so I’m confident most kids can do this, don’t underestimate them.
The car looks weird, as if it's pasted onto the render instead of rendered with the house.
It's a nice design, but I remember passing on it, at the time, because of the lack of interiors.
I'm not saying the set isn't great, but looking through the instructions, it does seem a little odd that there's not even an attempt at any sort of interior given such large windows.
@MCLegoboy said:
"I'm not saying the set isn't great, but looking through the instructions, it does seem a little odd that there's not even an attempt at any sort of interior given such large windows."
None of the creator houses to the time had an interior that came with the Set. I had the Red Roof one from the same year, interior also sparse.
This was the second set that I bought after my dark age (the first being 10182 Café Corner). I really enjoyed the build, at the time, but it is a little "basic" by 2025 standards. Eventually mine got rebuilt as a signal box for my Lego railway.
Today this would be 180$
@GusG said:
"Today this would be 180$"
And have 30 stickers.
I like the old style brick build walls and classic slope brick roof, going back to the original Lego sets and only 2 main colours makes a great parts set for your own architectural mocs, which avoids looking like a mess.
@dudeski said:
" @Brickalili said:
"Now that feels like a bit of a challenging 3-in-1; that’s a lot of deconstructing and rebuilding you’d need to do for each modern, feels like a child might find that a bit trying "
Huh? Don’t you always need to break a 3-in-1 set down completely to build the alternatives? There do not seem to be many challenging building techniques involved, so I’m confident most kids can do this, don’t underestimate them.
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Yes, which is why they’re normally smaller than a house. I feel like having to take apart something that large would get monotonous for a child, it’s why the Dreamzzz sets usually try to keep a core build
@Brickalili said:
" @dudeski said:
" @Brickalili said:
"Now that feels like a bit of a challenging 3-in-1; that’s a lot of deconstructing and rebuilding you’d need to do for each modern, feels like a child might find that a bit trying "
Huh? Don’t you always need to break a 3-in-1 set down completely to build the alternatives? There do not seem to be many challenging building techniques involved, so I’m confident most kids can do this, don’t underestimate them.
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Yes, which is why they’re normally smaller than a house. I feel like having to take apart something that large would get monotonous for a child, it’s why the Dreamzzz sets usually try to keep a core build"
What's the matter with kids these days? When I was a kid we dismantled and rebuilt entire layouts without thinking about it. That was part of the fun of playing with LEGO after all, wasn't it?
If kids want near instant gratification they should play with something like Playmobil.
This house isn't a difficult build by any means so taking it apart and rebuilding it isn't much of an effort.
This set would have 3000k + pieces these days.
…looks like modular announcement is coming..
@Miyakan said:
"A classic!
Apparently anyway. I never had it.
It would be nice if they did some larger scale creator houses again though."
Scale if quite alright, minifig can fit just fine...
I love this set (bought 2nd hand, but I love it just the same)
@Brickalili said:
"Now that feels like a bit of a challenging 3-in-1; that’s a lot of deconstructing and rebuilding you’d need to do for each modern, feels like a child might find that a bit trying "
I actually think this set is much easier to break down than most modern sets due to this sets bigger bricks.
I really miss this series. I've some of the models, but unfortunately not this one.
It would be great to see other sets like this again.
This was quite the set! I actually saw it on sale at a market this spring, but I didn't have the funds for it. T'was a good price too. Ah well.
I've got this one on MILs. Need to add furniture inside, but I absolutely love it.