Random set of the day: Mining 4x4
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 4200 Mining 4x4, released during 2012. It's one of 41 City sets produced that year. It contains 102 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$11.99/£7.99.
It's owned by 10,133 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 $18.70, or eBay.
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Vroom and Boom
I had this one! And 4201 as well
That's a nice little truck. Definitely a great set up to start up lots of adventures, especially if you combine it with 4930. Rock on!
The City mining sub-theme has been consistently good.
I’m not a dwarf but I’m digging a hole.
Diggy-diggy hole,
Diggy-diggy hole.
I remember building this one in LDD. I don't remember exactly why I did so, though. Maybe I just wanted to get some experience with the program before I built my own designs in it?
The mining sets were so cool. I regret not getting more of them.
I like these little 4-wide trucks. There were several that were similar, but not quite identical, and they all looked pretty fun.
This was my first set, that I got sealed :D
I really enjoyed this subtheme. I realise that for die-hard interplanetary miners this may have been a weaksauce tribute, or maybe Baby's First Raiders, but I just really enjoyed it. I always like it when City asks questions other than "where would you like to place your twentieth police-station?", "how many fire-stations does your city require?" and "what is wrong with you, why is your city so full of crime and fire?".
The minis go mining four by four hurrah, hurrah!
…oh but wait there’s only one of him…
One of my earliest city sets! I had to choose this for all the “new” cool pieces, and ones I didn’t have before. The stone, helmet, the new flat 1x1, car chassis and tools and more. I believe this was the first year those 1x1 were introduced.
I recieved this one with a set I bought dirt cheap. In order to sell it I decided to briefly build it to check its completeness the fast way. It was a mostly average truck from the time, but I was surprised by how much the crate of mining stuff and the boulder actually containing rubble and gold ingots made the set feel surprisingly complete. It reminded me of 6431 Road Rescue, which also had a surprising amount of tools for the time.
I sold it quite quickly too, so that was also nice!
@Brickmasterboy said:
"One of my earliest city sets! I had to choose this for all the “new” cool pieces, and ones I didn’t have before. The stone, helmet, the new flat 1x1, car chassis and tools and more. I believe this was the first year those 1x1 were introduced."
I pored through the parts-list to try and figure out what you meant by "flat 1x1". You don't mean... tiles, do you? Because they've been around for a while. Tiles have been around since 1972.
If you mean the round tile, it was first introduced in 2011's set 3300002, to represent a delicious grey cookie.
Someone clearly enjoys their work driving around all day blowing things up, with silver so plentiful everyone can have a metallic hard hat.
@Brickalili said:
"The minis go mining four by four hurrah, hurrah!
…oh but wait there’s only one of him…"
Four by four, hands of... never mind, I can't come up with a rhyme.
@ambr said:
"Someone clearly enjoys their work driving around all day blowing things up, with silver so plentiful everyone can have a metallic hard hat."
Wouldn’t you?
This was the first wave of sets I ever got
@Crux said:
" @Brickmasterboy said:
"One of my earliest city sets! I had to choose this for all the “new” cool pieces, and ones I didn’t have before. The stone, helmet, the new flat 1x1, car chassis and tools and more. I believe this was the first year those 1x1 were introduced."
I pored through the parts-list to try and figure out what you meant by "flat 1x1". You don't mean... tiles, do you? Because they've been around for a while. Tiles have been around since 1972.
If you mean the round tile, it was first introduced in 2011's set 3300002, to represent a delicious grey cookie."
Yeah, so, November 2011, and that was the only set from that year, which is why people frequently forget it was the first. Also, it had a second one under the fireplace screen, because it was mounted at a 45° angle.