Random set of the day: NBA Basketball Teams
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 10121 NBA Basketball Teams, released during 2003. It's one of 55 Sports sets produced that year. It contains 20 pieces and 5 minifigs, and its retail price was US$10/£5.99.
It's owned by 120 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 $116.90, or eBay.
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I bet this set holds some sort of record for most stickers.
@Brickbuilder0937 said:
"I bet this set holds some sort of record for most stickers."
It does!
https://brickset.com/article/56577
Good lord those have got to be some of the ugliest minifig faces I’ve ever seen. What in the world?
This is the ideal male minifigure facial design. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
Well these minifigs sure have a spring in their step!
Am I the only one that was disappointed that Shaquille O'Neal in The Lego Movie didn't have these spring legs?
@PDelahanty said:
"Am I the only one that was disappointed that Shaquille O'Neal in The Lego Movie didn't have these spring legs?"
“Yall ready for this?”
…
“Oh no! They were ready for that!”
Miles Turner went on for a bit about he is a AFOL. Celebs... just like us.
https://www.si.com/nba/2023/12/09/pacers-myles-turner-builds-legos-and-doesnt-care-whether-you-think-its-cool-or-not
I see these guys, and I think: Go, go Gadget Legs!!!! Also, would still like to what would happen using a pair of those legs in a 'super launcher'...sound-barrier breakage? Some kinda' orbit...:D
@R1_Drift said:
" @Brickbuilder0937 said:
"I bet this set holds some sort of record for most stickers."
It does!
https://brickset.com/article/56577"
That's a great article! I must have overlooked it back in the day!
How about some new NBA minifigs? That would be fun. They put some of them on t-shirts, etc. But, no minifigs that I'm aware of.
Those faces are perfect!!!…for a MOC involving lowlife muggers getting squashed by steamrollers.
Otherwise, I can't really imagine any use for them.
@AllenSmith said:
"Those faces are perfect!!!…for a MOC involving lowlife muggers getting squashed by steamrollers.
Otherwise, I can't really imagine any use for them."
I got some of them in a bulk lot I bought on ebay.
Indeed these have got to be some of the ugliest face designs LEGO ever decided to let go into production. Some of them look as if the printing machine had an accident.
Are these guys even supposed to be famous basketball players? I’d have no hope of recognising them even if they were fantastic representations, so I’ve got no idea if these gurning caricatures are actual people or just generic faces
@Brickalili said:
"Are these guys even supposed to be famous basketball players? I’d have no hope of recognising them even if they were fantastic representations, so I’ve got no idea if these gurning caricatures are actual people or just generic faces "
Generic. The stars of the day got named figures.
Even while generic, it still doesn't save them from looking racist. Can't even defend this with the benefit of the doubt of the designer possibly being the same one that designed the early Harry Potter figs because they've also got some weird faces, but at least they're still somewhat normal and not accentuating features to such an uncomfortable degree.
@shedjed said:
"Miles Turner went on for a bit about he is a AFOL. Celebs... just like us.
https://www.si.com/nba/2023/12/09/pacers-myles-turner-builds-legos-and-doesnt-care-whether-you-think-its-cool-or-not"
Okay, some of those have got to be commissions, but otherwise, not a bad collection! I'm curious to see what his MOCing capabilities are.
@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"on the second day of Brickmas, Huwbot gave to us...
a build-your-own-team kit,
and a Town Jr. Space Train!"
The 12 Days of Christmas start on December 25 and run through to January 5th, it's not the leadup to Christmas Day.
2003 was peak early 2000s weirdness. We got many modern parts that started to pop up, yet it was the last year in o colors and the first with fleshies elsewhere in this very theme. And the head designs... we had some 90s Town heads, the weirdly stylized HP style heads, the zany Racers heads, the World City heads... and these realistic-ish Sports heads that had all of the above to supplement them. Truly a turning point.
@MCLegoboy said:
" @NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"on the second day of Brickmas, Huwbot gave to us...
a build-your-own-team kit,
and a Town Jr. Space Train!"
The 12 Days of Christmas start on December 25 and run through to January 5th, it's not the leadup to Christmas Day."
That's weird though as it fills the time after Christmas. I suppose it's the things you get at Christmas spread over the ensuing days?
Either way, the 12 days of Christmas at Brickset doesn't have to follow the 'rules' if you ask me. A leadup is more fun imho.
@Binnekamp said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
" @NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"on the second day of Brickmas, Huwbot gave to us...
a build-your-own-team kit,
and a Town Jr. Space Train!"
The 12 Days of Christmas start on December 25 and run through to January 5th, it's not the leadup to Christmas Day."
That's weird though as it fills the time after Christmas. I suppose it's the things you get at Christmas spread over the ensuing days?
Either way, the 12 days of Christmas at Brickset doesn't have to follow the 'rules' if you ask me. A leadup is more fun imho."
At least for the Christian Church, the Season of Advent is the leadup to Chirstmas (the 4 Sundays before Christmas Day mark each week meaning Week 4 is only 1 day this year), and then Christmas runs from December 25th through Januaray 5th, and then culminates with Epiphany/Three Kings Day, which is January 6th. I don't know when the song 12 Days of Christmas was written, but that's likely why. Christmas is technically a 12 day celebration even though it's more contemporary iteration is more just 2 days at best with Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. And then commercially, and the Advent Season is just the 24 days leading up to Christmas, but the Christmas season has really been going on since Thanksgiving for us in the US (although really a lot earlier, practically since Halloween as it is in many part of the world), and if you're still doing any shopping for Christmas by mid December, you're already too late, and everyone's really kind of Christmased out by December 25th. There's no standard rule anymore when money gets involved so do whatever you like.
I am completely neutral on all sports matters. My mom is from OK, my dad is from DE, I was born in MI and I currently live in OH. I feel like taking sides on sports is going to betray some part of my heritage. So I just stay neutral.
...BUT if there's a team named after wolves, I just might take the slightest interest.
@brick_r said:
"I see these guys, and I think: Go, go Gadget Legs!!!! Also, would still like to what would happen using a pair of those legs in a 'super launcher'...sound-barrier breakage? Some kinda' orbit...:D"
At least nobody would cry over the damage caused to the spring legs.
@MCLegoboy:
Compare the named minifigs, though. Even the Caucasian players had heavily stylized faces of this nature. And being based on real players, you’d have to assume every one of those players had to sign off on their own likeness.
Also, depending on your denomination, the 12 days of Christmas either run 12/25-1/5, or 12/26-1/6. Some include the day of Christmas, and others don’t start counting until the next day. I have no idea which is more common, but I did try to find out because I was curious which day would be most appropriate to watch Twelfth Night.
Also also, I was seeing Christmas merch as early as July/August this year, I believe. Certainly by September you could find something Christmas-related in pretty much every major chain store. Seasonal sections were still devoted to Halloween, but you’d see random Christmas-themed non-perishable foods, like cereal.
“Okay now smile for the camera guys. Group photo.”
Space Jam
Random Minifigs of the Day
I wish faces like this still existed. 97-06ish was a real golden era for fun, wacky heads like these.