Random set of the day: Prehistoric Power
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 4892 Prehistoric Power, released during 2006. It's one of 21 Creator sets produced that year. It contains 380 pieces, and its retail price was US$19.99/£14.99.
It's owned by 1,637 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 $80.80, or eBay.
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A stegosaurus and a giant sloth! Neat!
Hashtagprehistoricpowah
@MCLegoboy said:
"A stegosaurus and a giant sloth! Neat!"
A giant sloth? @MeganL would probably be disappointed.
GoGoLEGORANGERRRRRRRRRS...what; they passed in 'Ideas', and will out this or next year...:)
They look fantastic!
@TheOtherMike said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"A stegosaurus and a giant sloth! Neat!"
A giant sloth? @MeganL would probably be disappointed."
Honestly I’m surprised Lego hasn’t done any kind of sloth variant in its recent 3-in-1 sets
My parents bought this back for me when they went on holiday.
I remember that I didn't much care for the models with instructions, but there was this awesome gigantic sauropod on the box (I think it was meant to be a big Brachiosaurus), so I attempted to build that instead of the cover animals.
Edit - yeah, looking at the instructions now, right at the very back, there's a big double page of alternate models, and yeah, there's the Brachio. I still have it, actually. I took one of the red-armoured knights from "Knights Kingdom", and I made him into a superhero on my Lego Justice League (I think I called him King Brachion, after my favourite giant robot from Super Sentai), and I gave him the Brachiosaurus as his noble steed.
Yeah. I was that kind of kid. This was a lovely trip down memory lane, actually. Anyway.
@Zordboy said:
"My parents bought this back for me when they went on holiday.
I remember that I didn't much care for the models with instructions, but there was this awesome gigantic sauropod on the box (I think it was meant to be a big Brachiosaurus), so I attempted to build that instead of the cover animals.
Edit - yeah, looking at the instructions now, right at the very back, there's a big double page of alternate models, and yeah, there's the Brachio. I still have it, actually. I took one of the red-armoured knights from "Knights Kingdom", and I made him into a superhero on my Lego Justice League (I think I called him King Brachion, after my favourite giant robot from Super Sentai), and I gave him the Brachiosaurus as his noble steed.
Yeah. I was that kind of kid. This was a lovely trip down memory lane, actually. Anyway. "
That’s the kind of nostalgia I come here for. Thanks
Great parts set, although found own mocs limited by having no rotational knee joints compared to 4894 Mythical creatures.
Beast Wars!
Lego couldn't make a set this goated today. They don't know how. They lost the technology.
Prehistoric power = oil and coal.
This is an 8-in-1 set, and there’s an image of the set box in the system. Why is the main image one of the instruction booklets showing only 25% of the official builds?
It's Mecha-Mammoth and Techno-Triceratops! Just look at those glowing eyes!
@StyleCounselor said:
"Prehistoric power = oil and coal."
Oil and coal are from ancient plant matter, not dinosaurs. They also are way, way older than any dino, and if I'm remembering the PBS documentary I watched correctly, the oil and coal comes from the very first trees - so old, decomposers did not yet exist that could digest them and break them down! When all these multitudes of trees died of old age or fell over in storms, they laid there for eons and were gradually covered by other dead trees and plant stuff. Eventually these trees were compressed enough to become oil and coal. Meanwhile at some point fungus evolved and started breaking down newer plants - so all the coal and oil we have is all we're ever gonna have, thanks to the humble fungus among us.
@Murdoch17 said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"Prehistoric power = oil and coal."
Oil and coal are from ancient plant matter, not dinosaurs. They also are way, way older than any dino, and if I'm remembering the PBS documentary I watched correctly, the oil and coal comes from the very first trees - so old, decomposers did not yet exist that could digest them and break them down! When all these multitudes of trees died of old age or fell over in storms, they laid there for eons and were gradually covered by other dead trees and plant stuff. Eventually these trees were compressed enough to become oil and coal. Meanwhile at some point fungus evolved and started breaking down newer plants - so all the coal and oil we have is all we're ever gonna have, thanks to the humble fungus among us."
You're supposed to preface this with: "Quick Lore."
The sequel to 4507 Prehistoric Creatures. Roughly the same scale on the main models, same colors, same eyes...
Pretty cool that they did that. It's a cool set overall, and it's before 3-in-1 became the norm the next year so there were like 12 models and possibly more with instructionless images.
The parts were also more versatile than what you get now. So overall pretty cool!
Man, I miss the vibe of those technic claw pieces (here in trans neon yellow) so much.
Literally never seen this one, and I thought I knew basically every LEGO set since the 1980’s!
Looks neat!
I can’t believe the original commenter said that Woolly Mammoth was a Sloth!….
It’s got tusks!
@StyleCounselor said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"Prehistoric power = oil and coal."
Oil and coal are from ancient plant matter, not dinosaurs. They also are way, way older than any dino, and if I'm remembering the PBS documentary I watched correctly, the oil and coal comes from the very first trees - so old, decomposers did not yet exist that could digest them and break them down! When all these multitudes of trees died of old age or fell over in storms, they laid there for eons and were gradually covered by other dead trees and plant stuff. Eventually these trees were compressed enough to become oil and coal. Meanwhile at some point fungus evolved and started breaking down newer plants - so all the coal and oil we have is all we're ever gonna have, thanks to the humble fungus among us."
You're supposed to preface this with: "Quick Lore.""
whoops! sorry.
31379 Fierce Dinosaur color scheme comes close.
@lemish34 said:
"Literally never seen this one, and I thought I knew basically every LEGO set since the 1980’s!
Looks neat!
I can’t believe the original commenter said that Woolly Mammoth was a Sloth!….
It’s got tusks! "
Sabertoothed Giant Ground Sloth.
I bought this set for my youngest son for Christmas 2005 but I don’t remember building it with him.
@PurpleDave said:"This is an 8-in-1 set, and there’s an image of the set box in the system. Why is the main image one of the instruction booklets showing only 25% of the official builds?"
Maybe for the same reason 41020's main image is the alt-build?
@Murdoch17 said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"Prehistoric power = oil and coal."
Oil and coal are from ancient plant matter, not dinosaurs. They also are way, way older than any dino, and if I'm remembering the PBS documentary I watched correctly, the oil and coal comes from the very first trees - so old, decomposers did not yet exist that could digest them and break them down! When all these multitudes of trees died of old age or fell over in storms, they laid there for eons and were gradually covered by other dead trees and plant stuff. Eventually these trees were compressed enough to become oil and coal. Meanwhile at some point fungus evolved and started breaking down newer plants - so all the coal and oil we have is all we're ever gonna have, thanks to the humble fungus among us."
Still prehistoric, though.
@PineRoots said:"Man, I miss the vibe of those technic claw pieces (here in trans neon yellow) so much."
I think you mean "Technic eye pieces." It's right there in the name: https://brickset.com/parts/design-41669
@TheOtherMike said:
" @PineRoots said:"Man, I miss the vibe of those technic claw pieces (here in trans neon yellow) so much."
I think you mean "Technic eye pieces." It's right there in the name: https://brickset.com/parts/design-41669"
Ugh. You’re reminding me of a stupid argument from back in the day. So the Bohrok had two of those high on the sides of their head, and two white hooked bits below them. In all of the promotional material, the transparent parts were shown to glow, much like the coincidentally-also-transparent parts that represented eyes on the Toa and Turaga. And the white parts didn’t. So when I discussed these on MaskofDestiny.com, I referred to the white parts as teeth and the transparent parts (which even have a spheroid cavity inside that helps sell the look) as eyes. And, I assume thanks to a certain individual who couldn’t allow himself to be witnessed agreeing with me, I would constantly have people telling me the transparent parts were teeth. Like the Bohrok had two different types of teeth (one that matched across all types, and one that varied by flavor of Bohrok) and zero eyes. These _were_ teeth…on the Bahrag…when they were white. But generally speaking they were the eyes they were always designed to be. Or motorcycle headlights. Even that was probably more common than being used as teeth.