How boring. Only two color bricks! Is that a record?

Seems cool if you wanted a bunch of white parts, but even then the Price to Part is a bit yikes

This set is surely something different: its inventory is even 100.1% complete. Not kidding. (Is that a first on Brickset?)

I have downloaded the book it came with back then. It was nice for architecture enthusiasts. Wanted to own the set but it was unjustifiably expansive of course.

@MCLegoboy said:
"A bunch of white stuff in the form of bricks intended for adults and costing a lot of money.
We are talking about LEGO, right?
Right?"

Aw yeah, get us that pure Danish snow

And if they're anything like the few people of the target audience I've seen in my town... these bricks will now be nice and yellow-tanned unevenly because they were proudly displayed on the windowsill.

You forget it comes with a book too. (Main reason I bought the set.)

@whiteghost said:
"This set is surely something different: its inventory is even 100.1% complete. Not kidding. (Is that a first on Brickset?)"

Far from it: The same is true of 6858, 8017, and 11914, all of which leave that .1 percent in the dust, especially 11914.

I bought this for my wife. It’s a nice set, with an inspirational book, and an emphasis on building and structural form, by using simple shapes and a certain amount of SNOT. We got the set out the other day for the first time in a while and my wife’s now keen on getting another to bolster the piece count.

I loved this set so much that I bought two.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @whiteghost said:
"This set is surely something different: its inventory is even 100.1% complete. Not kidding. (Is that a first on Brickset?)"

Far from it: The same is true of 6858, 8017, and 11914, all of which leave that .1 percent in the dust, especially 11914."

6858 (as an example) lists design 50861 twice, as item 4244953 AND item 6064174. This is a negative side effect of collecting set inventories from the replacement parts service. The rpService lists whatever parts match, and if they happen to have had two different items in stock, both got collected into the inventory and presented.

That's how the database has inventories listed that have greater than 100% elements .
MOST inventories here have inventories of less than 100% because rpService doesn't list sticker sheets, which are part of the piece count, so the inventories fall short by 1 or sometimes 2 counts.

The pretentious presentation of this completely hooked me as a youngster into thinking it was brilliant. Fortunately I can now recognise that it's just a bunch of bricks.

I found this set in the gift shop of the National Building Museum years after it retired and I leaped to get it before I started architecture school a few years later.

@jackiebritton said:
"I loved this set so much that I bought two."
You paid 320 pounds for a couple of white and trans-clear bricks?
This must be a hell of a set - doesn't look like it though. Why not just buy the pieces far cheaper on Bricklink? There's nothing remotely exclusive included in the set, is there? I mean apart from the book, but why would you want two copies of it?
The rarest part appears in 32 sets. What's to love so much about this set?

This set may seem like the most boring thing ever, but it isn't; exactly the opposite!

It is perhaps one of the most creative sets ever and therefore perhaps represents the LEGO philosophy more than most sets (past and present).

Granted, it may be a bit one-sided (it's all about the shape, not the color), but still...
As a means of teaching the basics of architecture it's great!

@AustinPowers said:
" @jackiebritton said:
"I loved this set so much that I bought two."
You paid 320 pounds for a couple of white and trans-clear bricks?
This must be a hell of a set - doesn't look like it though. Why not just buy the pieces far cheaper on Bricklink? There's nothing remotely exclusive included in the set, is there? I mean apart from the book, but why would you want two copies of it?
The rarest part appears in 32 sets. What's to love so much about this set?"

No of course not, I got a discount.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @whiteghost said:
"This set is surely something different: its inventory is even 100.1% complete. Not kidding. (Is that a first on Brickset?)"

Far from it: The same is true of 6858, 8017, and 11914, all of which leave that .1 percent in the dust, especially 11914."

I did solve the issue with 6858 in time to enshrine it in the RSotD comments, which was that the motorcycle tires got counted twice because they're listed under two different element ID numbers. Comparing 11914 against Bricklink, I think it's most likely just a case of the minifig not being included in the official piece count, but being included in the inventory (legs+torso+head+hair=4pcs). 8017 being off by 5pcs makes me think that's the same issue (legs+torso+head+helmet+cape=5pcs). I can't see anything else that makes sense. The alternate inventories actually increase the piece count by 6, not 5.

@dulcaoin:
Or maybe it's the alternate inventory adding four plates and two bricks, but omitting the sticker sheet brings it back down to a +5 discrepancy?

Seems like a conplete rip off for a pile of white and transparent bricks.