Random set of the day: Baby Iguanodon
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 7001 Baby Iguanodon, released during 2001. It's one of 12 Dinosaurs sets produced that year. It contains 23 pieces, and its retail price was US$3/£2.99.
It's owned by 1,089 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 $19.30, or eBay.
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Oh look, it's a baby dinosaur!
Second time this set has appeared (5951 is the polybag version)
Yeah sure... that... an iguanodon...
This looks like the budget ran out halfway through production.
This was one of my first sets. It has a certain kind of charm..., but the sand blue pieces made it valuable for my small collection at the time.
@GSR_MataNui said:
"Yeah sure... that... an iguanodon..."
Iguanadon't.
And some people are complaining about the dinosaurs in the up-coming Rebirth sets...
@GSR_MataNui said:
"Yeah sure... that... an iguanodon..."
To be fair, they were clueless about what iguanodon looked like when it was first discovered. I believe the thumb spikes were thought to be a nose horn.
Whatever it is, it looks like it teleported into a rock.
Well, maybe if I take off my glasses and squint a little.
As much as I criticize dedicated parts--yeah, the dedicated dino molds introduced alongside Jurassic World look like what they're supposed to, as opposed to a pile of random bricks with a couple of dinosaur parts.
Petrificalus Dinosaurus!
Early 2K sets, they are not all bad but some of them are hard to look at.
I'm calling him Aladar (iykyk).
@SearchlightRG :
Yes, that's correct.
Gonna be wild if we discover dinosaurs did actually look like this. Swing from the shrink wrap theory to the building block theory
When LEGO still had a long way to go...
Seriously, form parts for the ends but then, for the body, lo-res standard bricks???
These were impulse sets, so give them some slack. The first system dinosaurs only appeared in 2000 the previous year, and those were minifig scale specialized moulds. This line was buildable and whereas the larger ones used specialized parts (that would later be used for a mutant killer whale, elephant and even Dewback and Veractyl from Star Wars), these small ones could only use the small versions of parts from the line. Hence the blocky body.
It's because at this larger scale there were only larger parts for bodies.
And hey, people would complain too if these were NOT brick-built either and people would call it juniorization.
I think one thing I could say is that the colors of sand green and sand blue were very drab. Especially sand blue.
Reminds me a little of the USS Pegasus in the Star Trek TNG episode of the same name.
Anyway, I have that head mould in sand green for some reason. Guess it came in some bulk lot I once bought on ebay.
Poor example for the series. The exposed neck bulb wasn't meant to connect like this...
There was an adult "Iguanodon" as a B-model for the Mosasaurus (6721), which this is probably meant to complement. The adult one is mildly more accurate, but the bar isn't really high there.
Still some nice parts (wish we had a full castle dragon in sand blue :D)
Not sure how kid friendly but have strange Star Trek Bork vibes here with an alien head, arms and tail stuck in a mechanical body,
Whoops, forgot about Random Set of the Day because of how great that Daredevil: Born Again Season Finale was.
Dinosaurs was a great little line. This looks nothing like what an Iguanodon looked like at the time, more like a random theropod, but whatever, it was LEGO, it was a dinosaur, I was happy.
@GSR_MataNui said:
"Yeah sure... that... an iguanodon..."
To be fair, when fossils of an iguanodon were first discovered, they also had no idea of how to reconstruct the skeleton properly. Perhaps this is an hommage to that. Or just a poorly designed dino. :-)
This is the last one of the 7000 - 7003 series of baby dinosaur sets to be shown as Random Set of the Day.
Obviously, Hubot is continuing the prequel theme. That dino is Jango colors and clearly got his forearm spike from the same Mandalorian armorer.
@Brickbuilder0937 said:
"This looks like the budget ran out halfway through production."
Yeah they did not have a budget of like €40 to make a 9 piece Spinosaurus like 2025.
It's very obvious when they release a brick-built set like 76974 Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission at a fraction of the cost of moulded dinosaur sets.
@BabuBrick said:
"I'm calling him Aladar (iykyk)."
You beat me to making that reference xDDD That said, I very much appreciate seeing that someone else remembers that movie fondly :D
Personally, though I never got any of them myself, I kinda think these little dinosaurs have sort of a charm to them. They're only babies, after all; I'm sure they'll grow out of their blockiness once they reach adulthood...!
@ThatBionicleGuy said:
" @BabuBrick said:
"I'm calling him Aladar (iykyk)."
You beat me to making that reference xDDD That said, I very much appreciate seeing that someone else remembers that movie fondly :D
Personally, though I never got any of them myself, I kinda think these little dinosaurs have sort of a charm to them. They're only babies, after all; I'm sure they'll grow out of their blockiness once they reach adulthood...!"
Agreed; they're kinda cute.
@TheOtherMike : Funny, I was thinking along JP/JW too...:)
Deleted scene from "Jurassic Park":
John Hammond: "And here is a Baby Iguanodon...and his brother Baby Iguanodan...and his other brother Baby Iguanodean..."
Oh, I get it. The baby Iguanadon is dressed up in a homemade robot costume.
@StyleCounselor said:
"Obviously, Hubot is continuing the prequel theme. That dino is Jango colors and clearly got his forearm spike from the same Mandalorian armorer."
The head also separates easily from the neck.
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Too soon?
@brick_r said:
" @TheOtherMike : Funny, I was thinking along JP/JW too...:)
Deleted scene from "Jurassic Park":
John Hammond: "And here is a Baby Iguanodon...and his brother Baby Iguanodan...and his other brother Baby Iguanodean...""
Okay, so my comment posted, but I'm still not seeing it. Have I been shadow-banned... from myself?
@TheOtherMike said:
" @brick_r said:
" @TheOtherMike : Funny, I was thinking along JP/JW too...:)
Deleted scene from "Jurassic Park":
John Hammond: "And here is a Baby Iguanodon...and his brother Baby Iguanodan...and his other brother Baby Iguanodean...""
Okay, so my comment posted, but I'm still not seeing it. Have I been shadow-banned... from myself?"
Nirvana?
You cannot be OtherMike with such a high level of enlightenment. You are now, TheOneMike.
@PurpleDave said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"Obviously, Hubot is continuing the prequel theme. That dino is Jango colors and clearly got his forearm spike from the same Mandalorian armorer."
The head also separates easily from the neck.
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Too soon?"
Ouch!