Random set of the day: Nesquik Bunny Film Set
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 4049 Nesquik Bunny Film Set, released during 2001. It's one of 46 Studios sets produced that year. It contains 28 pieces and 3 minifigs.
It's owned by 217 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 $125.30, or eBay.
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Arghh, it's the Nesquik bunny who, if you take his mask off reveals a white head with spaced apart eyes and a large smile creepily staring at you!
As for the set itself, hardly a film set. Just a director, a cameraman and a tiny little car with the Nesquik bunny who is gonna get you!
I once saw a YT video of a guy in Europe (Germany, maybe?) who had about 50 of these bunnies for a project, and then supposedly got rid of them right after that. What an interesting pseudo-licensed theme Studios was. They even had a Spielberg Move Maker set.
The Nesquik bunny is at least in the top 5 of most cursed minifigs.
@MeisterDad said:
"They even had a Spielberg Move Maker set."
The guy on the left is basically Spielberg, in all but name.
@Randomness said:
"The Nesquik bunny is at least in the top 5 of most cursed minifigs."
You mean the NO. 1 spot for most cursed figures! have you seen the head piece on him!
@Maxbricks14 said:
" @Randomness said:
"The Nesquik bunny is at least in the top 5 of most cursed minifigs."
You mean the NO. 1 spot for most cursed figures! have you seen the head piece on him!"
I have, in a YouTube video, but I've not seen every figure ever and I'm sure there's worse somewhere.
Hopefully not, but if this exists...
I don’t believe that there’s a more edible-looking headpiece.
That Nesquik Bunny's face is infamous as one of the most cursed minifigure heads ever
@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"a bit late, i know, but neither rain nor snow nor website outage will keep me from my appointed weirdness."
Your fine. I’m just excited that brickset is back!!
I recall flavoured milk making its way back into my diet just to get this.
Worth it just for the shifty eyes effect you get from rotating the bunny's head left and right.
@AverageChimaEnjoyer said:
"That Nesquik Bunny's face is infamous as one of the most cursed minifigure heads ever"
I’ve intentionally bought a few of the underlying heads. Never got the rest of the minifig, though.
@MeisterDad said:
"I once saw a YT video of a guy in Europe (Germany, maybe?) who had about 50 of these bunnies for a project, and then supposedly got rid of them right after that. What an interesting pseudo-licensed theme Studios was. They even had a Spielberg Move Maker set."
Actually that Movie Maker set was the basis for the entire theme.
The first wave resolved around various addons for that set to recreate several 'action effects' for scenes, to be edited in the included software (which notoriously would only run on Win '98 and Win ME btw, the camera already had USB though).
The second wave brought us the actual first representation of the Jurassic Park IP in Lego form, although it barely managed to be recognisable at all, given it was all done with existing pieces, even reused minifigs from Adventurers to... pose as Alan Grant and Amanda Kirby, I guess? It did give us a Spinosaurus (although a bit odd looking) with the iconic '90s 'JP' logo tattooed on his hip, yay!
The third wave was all about horror movie monsters and the back then brand new ability to change a minifig's faceial expression (due to double sided head-printing developped for Prof. Quirrel in 2001). Whilst there was some sort of addon software in the largest set, I can't tell you much about it. The sets themselves had average early 2000 action features, that could pass as action scene implements? Judge it yourselves ;)
The fourth and last wave was the slightly more movie-accurate representation of the 2002 Spider-Man movie, which also gave us our first fully green minifigure with the Green Goblin. Although 3 sets were planned, only 2 were released, with the wrestling scene getting cut. Some of it's special elements did make it into a Shop-at-Home exclusive accessory pack though (that oddly enough had backdrops for said wrestling scene). Sadly, the wrestler minifig itself was never released (although some seemingly escaped into the wild it seems), so no minifig Macho Man Randy Savage...
As a last bit, there is a ridiculous high amount of promotional sets for Studios, the majority being from a 24 piece collection of Coca Cola polybags (most never containing more than a minifig or like 10 pcs), that was exclusive to Japan. A similar line was released in 2002 for the Football line, both had an absurd amount of exclusive parts as well (orange dragon arms, old silver minifig torsos, red Johnny Thunder hat...). However, there were also a few promo sets around Nestle's Nesquik products, that I even remember being promoted in the Lego Club magazine in early fall 2001, but I never saw them in stores in Germany. All four main components of this set were also available as separate polybags in either of these promotions. And there was also a set featuring Captain Redbeard, as sort of a sneak peek of his return in the Legends line in late 2001, weird...
Also take note, that during 2001, there was virtually no 'real' Town or City line anymore, with all that being tranferred to Jack Stone. So technically, Studios would be the continuation of the Town line from then on till World City appeared in 2003. Which would make Studios a Town subtheme of all things... Same can be said about Islands X-Treme Stunts, as it is literally based on a game about Lego Town! Why is it even listed as a 'Racing' theme here at Brickset? It has far more in common with Town, than with (Drome/Xalax/Ferrari) Racers.
EDIT: Almost forgot, Lego Island X-Treme Stunts (the 2002 videogame) apparently has a lot of the Studios crew members named. It's seemingly the only time were they got names, however the large manual for the movie maker kit (that doubles as a film maker's guide) has the pseudo-exclusive actress with the red jacket named as 'Vanessa Redstone'. Also, the director looks suspiciously close to Spielberg's photo within said manual. Sadly the printed 'DIRECTOR' cap was never made outside of the keychain (that had a slightly golden chain instead of the regular steel-silver).
Fun fact: I got this set on a whim when I was in my dark ages and it resulted in me finally coming out of my dark ages
I have the rabbit but I think through some other promotion, not this set. Liked turning the head around to give him perpetual creepy white eyes in the bunny mask
Silly bunny, Quik's are for (finger rushes to ear)...what's that...WRONG FRANCHISE!?!?!?:D
@brick_r said:
"Silly bunny, Quik's are for (finger rushes to ear)...what's that...WRONG FRANCHISE!?!?!?:D "
The Nesquik Bunny: he keeps going and going...
No, not this either?
Gotta hurry and comment before this thing goes away to keep the streak alive.
I'd say that the nesquik bunny is always animated and that this is a Who Framed Roger Rabbit style commercial being shot, but I have seen one where it's a practical suit with a guy inside, so nevermind.
Somehow Nesquik has always been the stuff of horrors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h0Lh2sNYYY
I've got this one when I was a kid, one of the ears of the rabbit is a bit chewed on and the cap of the camera guy is broken, but otherwise it's probably one of my oldest sets !
Gotta agree with everyone there tho that the head underneath the rabbit mask is cursed, but it works really well with the mask on.
It seems Galidor wasn't the worst part of that dark LEGO era...
The nesquick bunny is unfrtunately so ridiculously expesive since ever...
So ehm... that cart is quite underbaked. It wouldn't have looked so odd if it didn't have the huge fender with tiny wheels! I think even advent calenders did better!
Used to have all three of these minifigures, but from their individual polybag versions - 4052, 4053 and 4051 - rather than from this set. I can only assume that Lego overproduced them for the Nesquik promotion, because one particular issue of the UK Lego Adventures magazine that year was released with one of those minifigures, at random, as the free gift. The director was the one I got with my copy, but in time I traded other minifigures with friends at school for the other two as well, giving me the set of three.
I didn't keep the bunny in the end, I think I traded him for someone else eventually? But I kind of wish I had kept him just because of how unique and weird of a minifigure he was. I'm sure, too, that not many uniquely moulded pieces were made just for two polybags and then never used again...
@Ridgeheart said:
" @Randomness said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
" @Randomness said:
"The Nesquik bunny is at least in the top 5 of most cursed minifigs."
You mean the NO. 1 spot for most cursed figures! have you seen the head piece on him!"
I have, in a YouTube video, but I've not seen every figure ever and I'm sure there's worse somewhere.
Hopefully not, but if this exists..."
https://brickset.com/minifigs/tls091"
...
Do you perchance have any eye bleach?
I should've also added: despite the head's 'curse', can't help think/feel; if TLG could find the mold and if it could be used in dual-molding, this would be perfect for a Captain Carrot head:
https://superheroes.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Carrot
This. THIS. This is classic.
@brick_r said:
"I should've also added: despite the head's 'curse', can't help think/feel; if TLG could find the mold and if it could be used in dual-molding, this would be perfect for a Captain Carrot head:
https://superheroes.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Carrot"
Just this week, someone posted an excerpt from The Secret Life of Bricks, where it was stated that molds that haven’t been used in more than five years get scrapped because it costs more to keep them serviceable than it does to make new ones. So this mold has not been used in over 20 years now? Unless someone has been quietly using it as a paperweight, I think snowballs have better odds.
If they did find it, dual-molding of the type done on the Bohrok face shields would be difficult enough of an alteration, since you’d have to add new injection gates that would alter the flow of plastic. Doing stuff where you have a crisp line between two colors would be impossible.i don’t know exactly how those work, but it would have to be one of two methods. One possibility is that you mold the core section, eject it, feed it into another machine that will secure the cores in the outer mold, and then do the second round. A more likely possibility is that you mold the core, part of the mold pulls away, another section with a larger cavity replaces that section, and then you do the second injection without ever having ejected the core from the first molding step. Only when the complete element is molded would it be freed from the mold.