It do be doing something alright, but flying? Well, I suppose you could call it that...

Flyers? I only see one...

@Maxbricks14 said:
"(Star Wars fans, continue the joke)"

No. _Because_ I’m a Star Wars fan.

@Maxbricks14 said:
" @Randomness said:
"Flyers? I only see one..."

You can build multiple "flying" models out of it."

Ok, but I was promised flyers, plural! This is false advertising! I demand compensation!

39 Creator sets produced that year?
Wow, that was a wave!

Upon inspection what I see is:
1) About 40% of these sets would fall into Classic line nowadays
2) Many of these sets have instructions for multiple builds (17, 32, 40, 49!?; see 4099 , 4100 )
3)There are some nice models out there: 4402 , 4403 , 4404

@Randomness: There're some loose bricks getting in on the act.

@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
" @Randomness said:
"Flyers? I only see one..."

You can build multiple "flying" models out of it.

Anyway, they fly now?!?! (Star Wars fans, continue the joke)"

(shrugs) they fly now."

they fly now

It's not every day you see LEGO sets flying over a Tetris field. Now that the game has been beaten, it's even more relevant.

Or perhaps it was prescient in another way, by predicting how Minecraft would look.

The model itself, a little smaller in scale, resembles something I see in City advent calendars.

Zoom in on the cockpit in the photo and you’ll see an unhappy face.

Really looks like it just got shot out of a cannon somewhere in the distance. Certainly one way of getting something to fly!

Arrived as a RSotD just a few days later than its sibling 7218. Apparently, the boat still floats better compared to how this one flies.

Aww, it's kind of cute. I keep seeing a sealed one in a thrift store but for the (not thát high) price it goes for it wouldn't be worth selling on Bricklink. Amd admittedly it's not thát cute...

@ThisAndThat said:
"39 Creator sets produced that year?
Wow, that was a wave!

Upon inspection what I see is:
1) About 40% of these sets would fall into Classic line nowadays
2) Many of these sets have instructions for multiple builds (17, 32, 40, 49!?; see 4099 , 4100 )
3)There are some nice models out there: 4402 , 4403 , 4404 "

Creator used to be just basic bricks. The model building sets were called Designer from 2003-2005. These often had waaay more care put in the instructions than we get now as you'd often get dozens of inspiration models and multiples of instruction alt models.
In 2006 we got what's basically Creator now, and by about 2007 we were down to three models with no more inspirational models to coincide with the removal of back of the box alternate builds (allegedly it's because parents kept calling for instructions because little Timmy couldn't build those exact models and got angry).
I'm not sure if the inspiration models vanished for the same reason, but the timing lines up.

@Binnekamp said:
"... Creator used to be just basic bricks..."

I did not follow Creator around early 2000's. In fact - that was my Dark Age.
Blue sets of Basic line from 90's have a special place in my memory, although I did not have any! But the idea of creating your own stuff freely from simple bricks seemed so nice. And I liked box arts and all.
See sets 525, 545 (this one had store chest, Brickset doesn't have picture for that, but Bricklink does)

But I guess dividing it into two separate lines did make sense.
And I like what Creator has turned into.

And yes, I heard the story about little Timmy got angry.
Not that I get angry with little Timmy. But sigh.

P.S. I did put in front of sets numbers in the previous post, but after editing it two or three times, the hash somehow disappeared. Having editing in two tabs simultaneously didn't help, I guess :)

P.S.2 Basic line honourable mentions: 715, 725, 735 (7+ sets). And there is 4223 from 1998. Nice sets.

@ThisAndThat said:
"P.S.2 Basic line honourable mentions: 715, 725.."
I have fond memories of the one whose number is directly in-between those two: 720. Which came out five years before they did.

*Flyer

I'm curious how many of these there are floating out there. Seems strange that a set mostly distributed as a promotion in two European countries 20 years ago would be a little harder to find; yet this one is still selling for less than it would as a set in store today.