Quick look: 5009157 Amelia Ticket Booth
Posted by Huw,
21356 River Steamboat has just been released at LEGO.com and those purchasing it this week will receive 5009157 Amelia Ticket Booth as a gift with purchase.
Read on to find out whether I think it's worth buying the boat now to acquire it.
Summary
5009157 Amelia Ticket Booth, 152 pieces.
A solid GWP but not particularly exciting
The set was provided for review by LEGO. All opinions expressed are those of the author.
Like many GWPs, it comes packed in a yellow box and, in common with others that do, it has around 150 pieces, packed in a zip-lock bag.
The titular booth sits upon an octagonal base with a small jetty protruding from one side. It's smaller than minifig-scale, evidenced by the door at the back, and CapnRex101 and I don't believe it matches the scale of the boat. Unfortunately, he has the boat and me the booth and, because we are 300 miles apart, we can't photograph the two together.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about it is that it includes a unique printed 'Amelia' tile. The designers must have had a surplus in their budget, although it is uncommon for yellow box GWPs to contain stickers, so perhaps that's part of the reason.
The ticket tile has been used many times before, most notably in 10257 Carousel and 10258 London Bus.
There are a few details inside, although I'm not really sure why, because the roof has not been designed to be removed so they are inaccessible once it's been added.
There's a statue and till on one side, and a tiny model of the Amelia on the other.
To he honest this is not a particularly exciting GWP and certainly not an essential companion to the boat itself.
If you're planning on buying the boat this week and receive this with it, you will enjoy it, but it's not really worth adjusting your spending plans to acquire it: it does not have the same FOMO factor as, for example, The Shire's GWP...
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I like how the lint in the photos is instantly attracted to the model.
Eh. Disappointing GWP for an anti-disappointing set.
What is this?
A ticket booth for ants?!
;)
Would be nice if it was minifigure scale, though adding another brick or two in height would sell it as one easily enough.
If and when I get the 21356 it will be displayed on a shelf, on the stand. Even if the scale of 5009157 matched it would really need a river scene to display it well, so I'll wait for a better, unrelated GWP.
Only 300 miles separate you two? Looks like this calls for a ROAD TRIP!
Oh, so THAT’s why the number in the ticket is 0937…
Those black skeleton legs in the barriers still leave me cold *shudder*
I think instead of Amelia it should have been called 'The Flying Dutchman' or 'Marie Celeste'. Different style of sailing vessels, I know, but this set and gwp have a similarity in missing minifigures.
You could add a layer of plates to make the roof removable, wouldn't cost much.
Despite lack of minifigures I ordered both and they shipped today, along with 30690, which will go on eBay. I'm looking forward to receiving them, though I must resist building until after I come back from Bath next week, otherwise I'll rush trying to finish the set over the weekend so the house isn't untidy.
It’s such a weird scale, I find it awkward. But I had no intention of buying the boat, so it was never aimed at me anyway!
@Euroseb11 said:"Those black skeleton legs in the barriers still leave me cold"
What's the big deal? Skeleton legs has been used this way in both 10185 and 10232 (both on the facade and the sidewalk barriers), and probably lots of other places, over ten years ago.
I think there's a red round tile missing from the microscale Amelia.
Really odd that the scale of the ticket booth seems smaller than 21356 River Steamboat.
@Murdoch17 said:
"Only 300 miles separate you two? Looks like this calls for a ROAD TRIP!"
Keep in mind, @Huw and @CapnRex101 live in England, so they percieve that as a longer distance than you and I do. "An American thinks a hundred years is a long time. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way."
@axeleng said:" @Euroseb11 said:"Those black skeleton legs in the barriers still leave me cold"
What's the big deal? Skeleton legs has been used this way in both 10185 and 10232 (both on the facade and the sidewalk barriers), and probably lots of other places, over ten years ago."
3932 using it for a microphone stand is always the first use that pops to my mind.
Even TLG get their mind-boggling minifig scales mixed up :0)
Looks nice, but will look very underwhelming next to the Steamboat.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
"Only 300 miles separate you two? Looks like this calls for a ROAD TRIP!"
Keep in mind, @Huw and @CapnRex101 live in England, so they percieve that as a longer distance than you and I do. "An American thinks a hundred years is a long time. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way.""
Usually it takes longer to travel three hundred miles in the UK than it does in America. At least it feels like it when I compare it to covering a similar distance on my American road trips a couple of decades ago. I remember doing 300 miles and more easily in a day in the USA. Not so here, too exhausting and time consuming!
"But I would walk five hundred miles,
And I would walk five hundred more..."
@daniellesa said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
"Only 300 miles separate you two? Looks like this calls for a ROAD TRIP!"
Keep in mind, @Huw and @CapnRex101 live in England, so they percieve that as a longer distance than you and I do. "An American thinks a hundreAd years is a long time. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way.""
Usually it takes longer to travel three hundred miles in the UK than it does in America. At least it feels like it when I compare it to covering a similar distance on my American road trips a couple of decades ago. I remember doing 300 miles and more easily in a day in the USA. Not so here, too exhausting and time consuming!
"But I would walk five hundred miles,
And I would walk five hundred more..."
"
That's funny, I always imagined Cap'n Rex just down the stairs of Brickset Towers.
In Colorado, we drive 300 miles to ski, bike, hike, or boat for another 5-6 hrs.
I did 500 miles in northern Italy in one day plus 3-4 hrs of sightseeing and dinner. I also did 475 miles in Brazil in one day plus dinner and a World Cup match. Those were exhausting.
I would posit this with the old saying:
"An Englishman knows how to start a World War. An American knows how to finish one."
Happy 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord (next week)!! See ya in Boston. ;)
@namekuji said:
"I like how the lint in the photos is instantly attracted to the model."
I don't see it. What part number would that be?
I really dont like this "its not for minifig" era
Might be the weird scale, but looks more like the row boat rental shack from Silent Hill 2 to me than a boat ticket booth