Random set of the day: Create Your Dreams
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 4026 Create Your Dreams, released during 2003. It's one of 39 Creator sets produced that year. It contains 100 pieces, and its retail price was US$3.5/£3.99.
It's owned by 422 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 $10.00, or eBay.
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I'll create nightmares thank you very much!
Not much to create with, so I'm not sure whose dreams are being created with this!
"They can create any dreams they want, so long as they can be expressed in 4-bit graphics."
- Henry Ford, I assume
As a Bionicle fan, I found this set absolutely fascinating that it was packaged in a Toa Cannister-like packaging. Sometimes with a red lid, sometimes with a blue lid. Looked like a giant 1x1 round brick with a 1x1 round plate on top. Kinda cool, but slightly disappointing no Toa was to be found inside.
And if you're dreaming about two small birds and a thin yellow shed, you're in luck! This set is for you.
Ah, that famous Chinese car brand!
I feel like creating my dreams would need way more then just one hundred pieces
@Zordboy said:
"And if you're dreaming about two small birds and a thin yellow shed, you're in luck! This set is for you."
Two small birds and a thin yellow shed is exactly what I dream about!
How did you know?
@bnic99 said:
" @Zordboy said:
"And if you're dreaming about two small birds and a thin yellow shed, you're in luck! This set is for you."
Two small birds and a thin yellow shed is exactly what I dream about!
How did you know?"
Dammit I came here just to make this same joke!
It feels a lot older than it actually is. It looks more like a 70s or 80s set than a 2000s set.
I came by the red and blue stud topped canisters with this set in it just last week at a flea market. They were a blast from the past!
Interestingly I have the instructions for this set from another set I own, 4538 Special Edition Tub. It had the same content as these canisters but came with more specialized parts. Apparently those were randomly selected from surplus and added in the tub within a seperate plastic bag. Mine was shared with a nephew, so I didn't know that had been what it was like when it was new.
Anyway, same instruction booklet.
This seems to be the blue lid version. 4027 is the red lid version. I have no idea if they're different. Both have 100 parts at least.
@Brickalili said:
"I feel like creating my dreams would need way more then just one hundred pieces"
Yeah, even if we're limiting ourselves to Lego dreams (not to be confused with Lego Dreamzzz), mine would require a lote more. I mean, I have almost fifteen hundred sets on my wanted list!
...only one of the bids has eyes...?
I feel like the duck (?) at the front here, with the slopes and the eyes, is the protagonist of this set. I wonder if he's lonely and so is trying to Create [His] Dreams by building a friend - the very square bird with no eyes - out of pieces of his house?
If so... it could probably be going worse? But it also could probably be going better, too...
@Nuclearxpotato said:
" @bnic99 said:
" @Zordboy said:
"And if you're dreaming about two small birds and a thin yellow shed, you're in luck! This set is for you."
Two small birds and a thin yellow shed is exactly what I dream about!
How did you know?"
Dammit I came here just to make this same joke!"
Did either of you recently order something from Amazon Canada?
So I can build me in a pirate outfit decapitating myself and drop kicking my head through some goalposts made of celery, singing "Achy Breaky Heart" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" at the same time, while my wife, who does not exist, is riding a moose that's karate chopping murderous penguins in clown costumes?
Wicked...
@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"So I can build me in a pirate outfit decapitating myself and drop kicking my head through some goalposts made of celery, singing "Achy Breaky Heart" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" at the same time, while my wife, who does not exist, is riding a moose that's karate chopping murderous penguins in clown costumes?
Wicked..."
Does that moose also bite your sister?
"Create your dreams. Although - maybe not the one where you're giving birth to the clown with your father's face."
I M A G I N A T I O N
I think not. My Lego dreams look nothing at all like this. Usually they involve finding a huge quantity of vintage sets from the 80s and early 90s unopened on a toy store shelf, just waiting to be purchased. Frustratingly, the dream always ends with them slipping through my fingers—they disappear or something—so maybe I don't actually want to create that dream anyway.
I did once have a dream about opening the new Lego catalog and being horrified to see all the sets looked pretty much like Playmobil, with just a few pieces. I'd call it a prophecy, except that the Jack Stone era which came a few years later didn't look anywhere near as good as Playmobil OR the stuff in that dream. Yes, real-life Lego managed to be worse than my worst nightmares.
This set's packaging was neat though. I bought both this set and its counterpart just to get that single-stud lid in case I ever needed something like that. It's been collecting dust for 20 years now, but hope springs eternal!
@AllenSmith said:
"I think not. My Lego dreams look nothing at all like this. Usually they involve finding a huge quantity of vintage sets from the 80s and early 90s unopened on a toy store shelf, just waiting to be purchased. Frustratingly, the dream always ends with them slipping through my fingers—they disappear or something—so maybe I don't actually want to create that dream anyway."
My Lego dreams tend to be about finding sets that don't actually exist (and once about building a set with parts that don't actually exist) but I did dream recently about Lego apparently trying to get rid of a stock of 8525 on lego.com. I also remember dreaming about reading the Brickset review of 42181 (before the actual review was posted) that said that the set came with a reintroduced Technic fig. I was particularly disappointed to wake up from that one.