Man, that is pink and orange. False advertising.

Unless i'm colourblind...

@MCLegoboy said:
"Man, that is pink and orange. False advertising."
Alright, on a technicality, there is a bunch of gold printing all over that baseplate, but I'm not happy about it!

From Bionicle to Belville. Quite the contrast, eh?

@MCLegoboy said:
"Man, that is pink and orange. False advertising."

Would that be porange, or oink?

So how are those Golden Girls Ideas sets coming along, then?

That is a crazy baseplate! Not only is it raised, but if you notice it also has built-in steps in it. Interesting! Don’t remember seeing steps in a baseplate before.

@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J said:
"That is a crazy baseplate! Not only is it raised, but if you notice it also has built-in steps in it. Interesting! Don’t remember seeing steps in a baseplate before. "

The one used in 5978, among others, has them. There may well be others, but that one came immediately to mind.

@SearchlightRG said:
" @Brickbuilder0937 said:
"Should be renamed "The golden pillow"."

Or “The Golden Dress.”"
No way. It's definitely blue.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @LuvsLEGO_Cool_J said:
"That is a crazy baseplate! Not only is it raised, but if you notice it also has built-in steps in it. Interesting! Don’t remember seeing steps in a baseplate before. "

The one used in 5978, among others, has them. There may well be others, but that one came immediately to mind."

6776, 5978, 6416, and 4293 all use the 6092 baseplate which has a shallow staircase (I always associate the staircased baseplate with the Paradisa set from that list). 5808, 5850, and 7577 use the 33214 baseplate which has _four_ staircases. And even Duplo has 2993 which uses the 31458 baseplate that has a small staircase.

The style of the palace would also fit Prince of Persia RSotD from two days ago!

Look at these parrots! In that many different colors! :-)

This set is also interesting for another reason.
If you want to rebrick the ultrarare and frustratingly expensive Classic Space oddity 6901-1, this set is the only other source for the needed 1x4 brick in trans-green.

I like the vibe. Lots of orange (which is a different shade than regular orange I believe).

The 2003 Belville wave was one of the most memorable because the fairy land and golden land significantly deviated from what had come before, both in colorscand subject matter. And to me personally because it's the co-origin of the 7418 Scorpion Palace dome. And because my only belville sets are the polybags Fairy Land 5873 and Golden Land 5872.

@PurpleDave said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @LuvsLEGO_Cool_J said:
"That is a crazy baseplate! Not only is it raised, but if you notice it also has built-in steps in it. Interesting! Don’t remember seeing steps in a baseplate before. "

The one used in 5978, among others, has them. There may well be others, but that one came immediately to mind."

6776, 5978, 6416, and 4293 all use the 6092 baseplate which has a shallow staircase (I always associate the staircased baseplate with the Paradisa set from that list). 5808, 5850, and 7577 use the 33214 baseplate which has _four_ staircases. And even Duplo has 2993 which uses the 31458 baseplate that has a small staircase."

Don't forget 6090 ;)

That baseplate is glorious. And considering how expensive raised baseplates are, that's a fairly reasonable aftermarket-price.

Oh. It's happened. I've become an apologist. I blame ABS-poisoning!

@TheOtherMike said:
"From Bionicle to Belville. Quite the contrast, eh?"

From the scale perspective, Bionicle characters could very well inhabit Beville castles.

@CaptainMoore said:
"This is a good set to go with the Prince of Persia one from 2 days ago :D"

One of the Orient Expedition designers said that those onion dome pieces were even developped as a co-work between the Belville and OE design teams.

@Atuin said:
" @CaptainMoore said:
"This is a good set to go with the Prince of Persia one from 2 days ago :D"

One of the Orient Expedition designers said that those onion dome pieces were even developped as a co-work between the Belville and OE design teams."

...for a second there, I misread Orient Expedition as Orient Express, and the 'OE' bit didn't help. I was wondering what onion domes had to do with steam locomotives and passenger cars from the golden age of rail travel when I suddenly realized my mistake.

Whatever else you may say about Belville, I do love the colour scheme of this wave. The orangey-pinky-sunsety colours were, again, still really rare in Lego at the time, and they look spectacular to me. Not that I ever got any; in 2003 you wouldn't have been able to talk me into owning Lego sets with dolls in for anything, and I would determinedly skip over the Belville pages in the catalogues... but these days I've definitely come to appreciate some things about them.

(In particular: the rare recolours of existing pieces, the uncommon colour schemes, and the way the Belville figures - especially these earlier ones with elbows - look like a good base point for adapting into custom action figures (not that I've got to the point of getting any of them to try that yet; but I see the potential there at least!). So, yeah, I think at least parts of them are kinda neat ^^)