What?! What?!... What have you DONE?!... What's that?!

@TheOtherMike said:
"Finally! Another TLM RSotD! I always liked the propeller made of tools and the horizontal stabilizer made of ladders on this one."

What the heck kind of plumber uses a hatchet, though? Standard metal pipe is going to wreck the tool with the first plow, copper is going to get crushed, and PVC will shatter.

Still on the wantlist! Mainly for the plumber van...

It looks like a fun set, specially aiming through the toilet seat part. Made me smile.

@WideWonderfulWilliam said:
"Consider the quality of that water.

This is deeply unpleasant."

That's why you never mess with plumbers. And their friends.

@PurpleDave said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"Finally! Another TLM RSotD! I always liked the propeller made of tools and the horizontal stabilizer made of ladders on this one."

What the heck kind of plumber uses a hatchet, though? Standard metal pipe is going to wreck the tool with the first plow, copper is going to get crushed, and PVC will shatter."

Guessing you've never had to deal with your average cowboy/rogue/dodgy trademan.

I have this set, but I only built the plumber van as I didn't care for the wacky alt mode. Same goes for the garbage truck and ice cream seller sets that were also released...

@transamman6585 said:
"I can't believe TLM was 11 years ago. Thats what brought me out of my dark ages, seeing the trailers for it in 2013. Made me go to my parents' house and bring all childhood sets home and build them again. Thats when I discovered and joined Brickset as well. LEGO hit a homerun with that movie. Surely, I'm not the only one with this story. "

TLM didn't bring me out of a dark age (I never really had one, more of a dim age where I still bought and built Lego, but it had lost some of its luster.), but talking about the trailer reminds me of the first time I saw it, before Despicable Me 2. I was sitting there thinking, "Even if the movie sucks, that was worth the cost of admission!" The presence of the "1980-something Space Guy" was a big part of it.

@CommanderR3x said:"These were cool sets. Such a shame Lego discontinued the Lego Movie franchise"

I was very upset when I discovered that TLBM was going to get a sequel, but Lego's partnership with Warner Bros. ending put the kibosh on that.

I encountered this set from a collection buyout/bulk purchase a decade ago.

I found out the hard way that the Flying Flusher shown here does not nearly use all the parts used in the Plumber Van and porta potty build. Notably the opaque door. It was annoying to have to get as many parts from Bricklink as I did to actually complete it. The plumbing van was cool but felt a bit empty inside. The plungers are just stuck on jumper plates in there.

Funilly enough the triple connector used for the 'rotor' here is not used in that build, so neither option uses all parts.

And strangely it's the other way around with the Ice Cream Machine from the same line. You instead are left with more parts when you build the civilian vehicle instead of the rebuilt vehicle.

@transamman6585 said:
"I can't believe TLM was 11 years ago. Thats what brought me out of my dark ages, seeing the trailers for it in 2013. Made me go to my parents' house and bring all childhood sets home and build them again. Thats when I discovered and joined Brickset as well. LEGO hit a homerun with that movie. Surely, I'm not the only one with this story. "
You and me both! A very long dark age indeed as I was 55 at the time. First set bought was the bike chase and really hooked me back into LEGO. Especially the CMFs. Due to some health related enforced downtime, I’ve recently been catching up with sets I didn’t get at the time (expensive!), this one included and rebuilding the ones I do have. Just wondering if I really want to shell out for Spaceship and Sea Cow!
That movie has a lot to answer for.

@PurpleDave said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"Finally! Another TLM RSotD! I always liked the propeller made of tools and the horizontal stabilizer made of ladders on this one."

What the heck kind of plumber uses a hatchet, though? Standard metal pipe is going to wreck the tool with the first plow, copper is going to get crushed, and PVC will shatter."

That's for opening up drywall.

@tne328 said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"Finally! Another TLM RSotD! I always liked the propeller made of tools and the horizontal stabilizer made of ladders on this one."

What the heck kind of plumber uses a hatchet, though? Standard metal pipe is going to wreck the tool with the first plow, copper is going to get crushed, and PVC will shatter."

That's for opening up drywall."

Or in case the leak is severe: wetwall

Never got this one, but I did pick up 70805 when my oldest was jonesing for more Lego Movie 2 sets. The alternate build is a really nice garbage truck.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"Finally! Another TLM RSotD! I always liked the propeller made of tools and the horizontal stabilizer made of ladders on this one."

What the heck kind of plumber uses a hatchet, though? Standard metal pipe is going to wreck the tool with the first plow, copper is going to get crushed, and PVC will shatter."

Well, what kind of port-a-potty errupts with 'blue' water? And, why is a plumber involved?

The only reasonable answer is that Joe the plumber is also an exorcist."

So this set foretold Hidden Side?"

Absolutely! 70423, what a great set.

Didn't get this one...which is odd, I have two of the Transfo...er' convert-a-vehicles (:D)...maybe three (is 70814: Emmet's Construct-o-Mech considered one? It's made of construction vehicles, so...?) Otherwise, I've got 70804: Ice Cream Machine and 70805: Trash Chomper, because...well; Ice Cream Truck, and Garbage Truck, need I say more:)...kinda' mad I didn't get 70812: Creative Ambush as Canada did have Target stores at the time...oh well:)

@brick_r said:
"Didn't get this one...which is odd, I have two of the Transfo...er' convert-a-vehicles (:D)...maybe three (is 70814: Emmet's Construct-o-Mech considered one? It's made of construction vehicles, so...?) Otherwise, I've got 70804: Ice Cream Machine and 70805: Trash Chomper, because...well; Ice Cream Truck, and Garbage Truck, need I say more:)...kinda' mad I didn't get 70812: Creative Ambush as Canada did have Target stores at the time...oh well:) "

Don’t forget there were micro versions of the ice cream and garbage trucks.

@Binnekamp said:
"I encountered this set from a collection buyout/bulk purchase a decade ago.

I found out the hard way that the Flying Flusher shown here does not nearly use all the parts used in the Plumber Van and porta potty build. Notably the opaque door. It was annoying to have to get as many parts from Bricklink as I did to actually complete it. The plumbing van was cool but felt a bit empty inside. The plungers are just stuck on jumper plates in there.

Funilly enough the triple connector used for the 'rotor' here is not used in that build, so neither option uses all parts.

And strangely it's the other way around with the Ice Cream Machine from the same line. You instead are left with more parts when you build the civilian vehicle instead of the rebuilt vehicle."

I wonder if anyone has put together parts lists for sets like this. Like lists of pieces that are used in one build option but not the other. I had to manually figure out what pieces came with, but were not incorporated into, the Ev3rstorm build of EV3, and a list like this would have saved me two to three hours of double-checking myself.

@PurpleDave: Oh...were those micro-builds official, because I don't see them listed...?

Also, it kinda' stinks that TLG and WBs...relationship went so sour. I mean: yes, four movies within five years is a 'stretch' (looking at YOU 'Dismal' Star Wars...)...but now we don't even get those Lego (blank) DVDs, where (blank) would be DC, or Scooby-Doo, and so on...I mean, I'd rather watch a Lego DC show, than one of Star Wars...or 'Morbid'...and usually with said DVD/Blu-Rays, you also got a figure...not always one we wanted (I think Guy Gardner would've been better than Batzarro, but I didn't get a vote...)

@brick_r said:
" @PurpleDave: Oh...were those micro-builds official, because I don't see them listed...?"

Yes; I happen to have the set:
https://brickset.com/sets/5002041-1/The-LEGO-Movie-Accessory-Pack

Speaking of The LEGO Movie: Have anyone used the piece of resistance for anything cool in MOCs?

@Murdoch17 said:
"I have this set, but I only built the plumber van as I didn't care for the wacky alt mode. Same goes for the garbage truck and ice cream seller sets that were also released..."

The wacky alt-modes were what attracted me to the sets. Wackiness in underrated.

@Gibbo1959 said:" @transamman6585 said:"I can't believe TLM was 11 years ago. Thats what brought me out of my dark ages, seeing the trailers for it in 2013. Made me go to my parents' house and bring all childhood sets home and build them again. Thats when I discovered and joined Brickset as well. LEGO hit a homerun with that movie. Surely, I'm not the only one with this story. "

You and me both! A very long dark age indeed as I was 55 at the time. First set bought was the bike chase and really hooked me back into LEGO. Especially the CMFs. Due to some health related enforced downtime, I’ve recently been catching up with sets I didn’t get at the time (expensive!), this one included and rebuilding the ones I do have. Just wondering if I really want to shell out for Spaceship and Sea Cow!
That movie has a lot to answer for."

I can't speak for 70810, as that's the only non-polybag, non-promotional TLM set I didn't get, but 70816 is awesome, awesome, AWESOME! And besides, 70810 is from before they fixed the brown problem. The only brown in 70816 is one https://brickset.com/parts/6081990/stick-6m-w-flange.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"I loved all of the transformable 2 n 1 Lego movie sets. They were so creative and what Lego should be more often. "

I mean this is what LEGO Dreamzzz is pretty much

But nobody cares about it :-(

@Gibbo1959 said:
" @transamman6585 said:
"I can't believe TLM was 11 years ago. Thats what brought me out of my dark ages, seeing the trailers for it in 2013. Made me go to my parents' house and bring all childhood sets home and build them again. Thats when I discovered and joined Brickset as well. LEGO hit a homerun with that movie. Surely, I'm not the only one with this story. "
You and me both! A very long dark age indeed as I was 55 at the time. First set bought was the bike chase and really hooked me back into LEGO. Especially the CMFs. Due to some health related enforced downtime, I’ve recently been catching up with sets I didn’t get at the time (expensive!), this one included and rebuilding the ones I do have. Just wondering if I really want to shell out for Spaceship and Sea Cow!
That movie has a lot to answer for.
"

I was 27 in 2013 when I first saw the trailer for TLM. The last set I bought was 65153 in 2002 when I was 17. The first set I bought after my dark ages was 21103 in 2013 and I've been buying many sets every year ever since. So, I only had about a 10-year dark age period, but I wish I never did because I missed out on a lot of cool sets.

@transamman6585 said:
" @Gibbo1959 said:
" @transamman6585 said:
"I can't believe TLM was 11 years ago. Thats what brought me out of my dark ages, seeing the trailers for it in 2013. Made me go to my parents' house and bring all childhood sets home and build them again. Thats when I discovered and joined Brickset as well. LEGO hit a homerun with that movie. Surely, I'm not the only one with this story. "
You and me both! A very long dark age indeed as I was 55 at the time. First set bought was the bike chase and really hooked me back into LEGO. Especially the CMFs. Due to some health related enforced downtime, I’ve recently been catching up with sets I didn’t get at the time (expensive!), this one included and rebuilding the ones I do have. Just wondering if I really want to shell out for Spaceship and Sea Cow!
That movie has a lot to answer for.
"

I was 27 in 2013 when I first saw the trailer for TLM. The last set I bought was 65153 in 2002 when I was 17. The first set I bought after my dark ages was 21103 in 2013 and I've been buying many sets every year ever since. So, I only had about a 10-year dark age period, but I wish I never did because I missed out on a lot of cool sets."

Other than a couple of small polybags, bought by my wife, I don’t think I’d actually bought any Lego since childhood - the old red and white buildings era! Discovering the modular series was a revelation - managed to get Grand Emporium and all since, and CMFs are just another level of addiction! Getting a bit more focused on purchases in recent years but have plenty to keep me occupied during retirement!

@WolfpackBricksStudios said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"I loved all of the transformable 2 n 1 Lego movie sets. They were so creative and what Lego should be more often. "

I mean this is what LEGO Dreamzzz is pretty much

But nobody cares about it :-("

I care about some of them, which actually majorly change the build, but look at the picture of back of box of 71499 Mateo's Spray Paint Truck, and it's mostly a "spot the difference" situation, like, nice, you can take off with the paint can, that almost looks the same still.

Meanwhile, with 71483 The Never Witch's Nightmare Creatures you get a bird, or a mech+dog, or a bigger wolf.

And sets don't have to be big to build other things, are proven with 71487 Z-Blob's Robot and Vehicle Adventures or 71488 Bunchu's Creative Animal Adventures which are 20in1.

The plumbing van version of this set is actually really nice. Maybe I’ll get this one out and rebuild it.

Plumbers--the heroes when the you know what hits the fan....

Honestly, I'm surprised why City hasn't had very many sets featuring electricians, plumbers, and even HVAC guys. Yes, boring--but life would be impossible without 'em.

@brick_r said:
" @PurpleDave: Oh...were those micro-builds official, because I don't see them listed...?"

Yup, 5002041. I got it mostly because it showed up free with an order, apparently. And they even had alt builds like the full-size versions, which you can kinda make out in the upper right of the polybag photo.

@fredrigl:
I used a pair of red Pieces of Resistance to make longer legs on Plasticman, but I think that’s it. Color’s such a problem with those, since red was common, silver was rare, and everything else was a pipe dream. Now it’s long out of production, so that doesn’t help.

*Sigh* The good ol' The Lego Movie and the fantastic sets that accompanied it. Good times.

I may be biased due to my age cohort, but I believe that The Lego Movie sets were the best action/adventure play theme Lego has ever made. It had great characters, great models, and wildly creative concepts.

@fredrigl said:
"Speaking of The LEGO Movie: Have anyone used the piece of resistance for anything cool in MOCs?"
Yes! I just used it for hiding the side studs on a 4-stud-wide stud reversal built on headlight bricks. It was an application where all sides had to be smooth and nothing could be hidden on the backside. The piece is perfect for that purpose, but hard to actually use it since it's tall and only came in three colors (two of which being quite rare). I was finally able to use it perfectly on this recent MOC, just to find I needed 8 of them and only had 5. Darn! Every time you get to use a "useless" part, it turns out you don't have enough of them.

Also, RSOD is making me realize I'm old again. This was NOT 11 years ago, right???

easily $50-60 today