Random set of the day: Mia's Magic Tricks
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 41001 Mia's Magic Tricks, released during 2013. It's one of 36 Friends sets produced that year. It contains 90 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$9.99/£9.99.
It's owned by 4,253 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 $9.70, or eBay.
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We place the bunny in the sacrificial box, and lo and behold, we stave off the Fabuland invasion one more day!
Hey, Friends RMotD and RSotD!
I remember this set. Always thought the disappearing bunny play function was kinda fun.
@BabuBrick said:
"Hey, Friends RMotD and RSotD!"
And I've got both!
I've always found the wand piece to be quite cool.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @BabuBrick said:
"Hey, Friends RMotD and RSotD!"
And I've got both!
"
Nice! My sister has the Magic Tricks set; I don’t think she ever got today’s Olivia, though.
@Maxbricks14 said:
"I've always found the wand piece to be quite cool."
I've started using it as a rotation point in MLCad, largely because I know I don't use it to actually build with, and it also the white tips mean it stands out visually from anything else in the design.
If this were Autumn, that rabbit would be allowed to roam free, fat and happy. If this were Olivia, that rabbit would go into space, possibly to meet Princess Chang'e on 80032's Moon Base.
If this were Nova, that rabbit would have gone missing, presumed dead.
I always thought that Lego's magic trick was the way it makes our money disappear.
@BabuBrick said:
"Hey, Friends RMotD and RSotD!
I remember this set. Always thought the disappearing bunny play function was kinda fun."
Does it sorta just knock the rabbit off its perch into a cubby when you close the door?
I always enjoy simple magic trick gimmicks (the mirror slide is another that comes to mind), it's a setting that works naturally with LEGO play functions.
@Nuclearxpotato said:
" @BabuBrick said:
"Hey, Friends RMotD and RSotD!
I remember this set. Always thought the disappearing bunny play function was kinda fun."
Does it sorta just knock the rabbit off its perch into a cubby when you close the door?
I always enjoy simple magic trick gimmicks (the mirror slide is another that comes to mind), it's a setting that works naturally with LEGO play functions."
Looking at the instructions, the box has a floor you can slide out that drops the rabbit into the concealed tabley bit below. Possibly not entirely safe for the rabbit but still a neat trick
Love the colors on this one!
Real magic would be fitting the bunny into the top hat, but that is no longer allowed.
One of the first, and one that showed early on that Friends can contain a much broader amount of subjects than the previous 'girl' themes did. After all, this is only the second magician after the 2010 series 1 CMF.
To think they would end up revisiting this set's theme for a whole wave in 2019!
@Binnekamp said:
"One of the first, and one that showed early on that Friends can contain a much broader amount of subjects than the previous 'girl' themes did."
3933 was the very first Friends set I bought (In large part because wanted the old tool wheel in purple), so yeah, the line was showing early on that it could do more than just stereotypically girly stuff, although it did take a while to move away from stereotypically girly color schemes.
Mia looking pretty fancy in this one! Guess she really committed to the role here if she went all-out with buying a full tux for it; especially since she never used it again after this one show, if it not appearing in any further sets is any indication.
That or, I guess, I wonder if she just raided her dad's wardrobe for it instead...
@Zordboy said:
"I always thought that Lego's magic trick was the way it makes our money disappear. "
Yeah, it feels like a mean trick to lose a critical part of the set when it isn’t advertised as such. Dirty play by TLG in the Friends line.
who is making a Zatanna mini-doll from this?
@Binnekamp said:
"One of the first, and one that showed early on that Friends can contain a much broader amount of subjects than the previous 'girl' themes did. After all, this is only the second magician after the 2010 series 1 CMF."
The new colors they added just for this theme were popular across the board. They did also do a good job of not pigeonholing the main girls in exclusively housewifey hobbies. It was just the minidolls where they were a miss for many AFOLs (although it’s been suggested to me that they helped attract mothers and grandmothers into buying the sets for little girls).
@ThatBionicleGuy:
You know you can buy T-shirts with tuxedo prints on them, right? I see nothing here to suggest she didn’t do that.