Random set of the day: Creator Tub
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 5369 Creator Tub, released during 2005. It's one of 37 Creator sets produced that year. It contains 700 pieces, and its retail price was US$20.
It's owned by 117 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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Creator box, followed shortly by a tub. Unfortunately this one doesn't come with 200 extra pieces.
700 pieces! But no extras.
You'd have to be a pretty tiny creator to fit in a tub that small.
My first LEGO set ever!!! I remember going to ToysRus and my dad got me this. Little did he know it would lead to a lifelong obsession (collection). Though mine was an exclusive so it came with an extra box of bricks tapped to the top!
Ouch. This is when Lego learned how to charge.
3033 from a few years earlier was also $20, but it had 1200 pieces in it. Boring ones, mind you, but so too mostly are the pieces in this set. The orange bricks were still pretty rare back then.
Dang
No way huwbot just hit me with my first legos ever
Where’s the extras?
@MCLegoboy said:
"700 pieces! But no extras."
Lego did a promotion at Toys 'R" Us where this one came with a stock-clearing box strapped to the top,like the one @PetesBricks mentioned. I bought four of those.
Any extra part is welcomed but 2x bricks are not very useful, especially todays detailed sets. They feel like Duplo bricks by now.
Today LEGO would charge 20 Dollars for such a storage tub itself, let alone 700 pieces.
Also, I love 2 by x pieces. One can never have enough of those. Classic LEGO.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why there are so many Creator brick boxes of the era. Sometimes they were sold both with and without extra parts.
@Lego_lord said:
"Any extra part is welcomed but 2x bricks are not very useful, especially todays detailed sets. They feel like Duplo bricks by now."
Terrain and filler. I'm not a MOCer but still use them when I need to make a CMF display that fits in a tea box. I do however often lack plates for the surface unfortunately
@PurpleDave said:
"You'd have to be a pretty tiny creator to fit in a tub that small."
You can use the 700 pieces to enlarge it!
…slightly!
This Tub actually had to be recalled due to a huge consumer lawsuit after it turnt out to only have 699 pieces.
Rather unusual, very vintage basic with just bricks; no plates, tiles, slopes, wheels, modified or decorative pieces. Useful if building large sculptures, but not sure if anyone else knew what to do with them?
That's Creator shaming.
@Your_Future_President said:
"Dang
No way huwbot just hit me with my first legos ever"
You are right. it didn't. This is PetesBricks first set.