These were really awesome sets i bought a bunch back then I no longer have them but brings back memories looking at the pics

@GSR_MataNui said:
"Hey, didn't we get Ultimate Beast Master on RSotD or RMotD not long back? "

https://brickset.com/article/129982/random-set-of-the-day-ultimate-beast-master

I recall wanting this one back in the day. Flaming monster podracer? Yes, please. Unfortunately, I had a tiny budget in 2016, and this set (just like every LEGO in-house theme from Chima onward) had to compete with Ninjago for my money. And, as usual, Ninjago won (with 70603 in this case).

This RSotD has also got me thinking about statistics, as it seems like we've been getting a lot of recent RSotD lately. In the past 10 days, we've only seen one pre-2000 set (7821), whereas we've also had x1 2001, x1 2007, x1 2011, x1 2013, x1 2014, x2 2015, and now x2 2016.
I guess this was inevitable. Because RSotD began when none of the most recent 1.5 decades of sets were eligible, it has had more time to draw from pre-2000 sets. On top of that, there are substantially more sets released per year now than in the 1978-2000 period, so each new year that becomes eligible adds a ton of sets into the more recent end of the pool, while the far past end of the pool only shrinks.
The end result is that the eligibility pool for RSotD continuously skews towards newer sets over time. I must say, I'm not looking forward to the frequent reminders that I'm getting old that all the '80s kids have been experiencing.

More orc and the awesome "FARMER'S CAP" that lego refused to reuse in the ICON castle sets.

Not a bad set, but at that point, I think I was just a bit tired of the very similar lava monster builds from Nexo Knights. Absolutely LOVE the horsey though!

Great set

@BLProductions said:
"I recall wanting this one back in the day. Flaming monster podracer? Yes, please. Unfortunately, I had a tiny budget in 2016, and this set (just like every LEGO in-house theme from Chima onward) had to compete with Ninjago for my money. And, as usual, Ninjago won (with 70603 70603 in this case).

This RSotD has also got me thinking about statistics, as it seems like we've been getting a lot of recent RSotD lately. In the past 10 days, we've only seen one pre-2000 set (7821), whereas we've also had x1 2001, x1 2007, x1 2011, x1 2013, x1 2014, x2 2015, and now x2 2016.
I guess this was inevitable. Because RSotD began when none of the most recent 1.5 decades of sets were eligible, it has had more time to draw from pre-2000 sets. On top of that, there are substantially more sets released per year now than in the 1978-2000 period, so each new year that becomes eligible adds a ton of sets into the more recent end of the pool, while the far past end of the pool only shrinks.
The end result is that the eligibility pool for RSotD continuously skews towards newer sets over time. I must say, I'm not looking forward to the frequent reminders that I'm getting old that all the '80s kids have been experiencing. "

70603 is cool, too.

I grabbed a few of these when they went on clearance as parts packs for LOTR or Halloween layouts. I have yet to open one. :(

One of 54 sets?! Has any theme had a bigger launch year than Nexo Knights?

I bought the big red dome pieces a while ago, intending to use them for a Squig from Warhammer. One of these days I'll get around to it! Feels like the perfect piece.

Could we just pause Ninjago for a couple of years and have Nexo Knights back?

@Norikins said:
"One of 54 sets?! Has any theme had a bigger launch year than Nexo Knights?"

Ninjago started with 43, and Harry Potter only had eleven. Vidiyo has 50 on Rebrickable, but some of those are duplicate entries for the blind packs.

@PhantomBricks said:"Nexo Knights was over hated, especially since it gave us more of my beloved trans neon orange."

It also gave us a lot of useful pieces. The 2x3 pentagon tile is the most famous, but there were a lot of other pieces that were pointer than what we'd had before, which allowed for new possibilities in shaping. It also gave us https://brickset.com/parts/design-22484.

@Brickalili said:"“We’re going to give the bad guy a chariot.”

“Okay.”

“The bad guys are lava themed so it’ll be pulled by two big blobs of lava.”

“With big goofy faces on?.”

“Absolutely, and they’re going to be linked up with chains of fire.”

“Oh like Ghost Rider’s?”

“Sure. For play features we’re going to give it a catapult. We’ll use globs of lava for that too.”

“With more goofy faces?”

“You know it!”"

I was thinking about those smaller globs. If you put one of those in a socket joint an just kept working it around, how long would it take to wear the printing down? And would the original socket design as used in Throwbots/Slizers wear it down at a faster rate?

@BLProductions said:
"I recall wanting this one back in the day. Flaming monster podracer? Yes, please. Unfortunately, I had a tiny budget in 2016, and this set (just like every LEGO in-house theme from Chima onward) had to compete with Ninjago for my money. And, as usual, Ninjago won (with 70603 in this case).

This RSotD has also got me thinking about statistics, as it seems like we've been getting a lot of recent RSotD lately. In the past 10 days, we've only seen one pre-2000 set (7821), whereas we've also had x1 2001, x1 2007, x1 2011, x1 2013, x1 2014, x2 2015, and now x2 2016.
I guess this was inevitable. Because RSotD began when none of the most recent 1.5 decades of sets were eligible, it has had more time to draw from pre-2000 sets. On top of that, there are substantially more sets released per year now than in the 1978-2000 period, so each new year that becomes eligible adds a ton of sets into the more recent end of the pool, while the far past end of the pool only shrinks.
The end result is that the eligibility pool for RSotD continuously skews towards newer sets over time. I must say, I'm not looking forward to the frequent reminders that I'm getting old that all the '80s kids have been experiencing. "

The pool shrinks as it grows, though. And yes, there were eight hundred and forty-eight sets released in 2016, but not all of those are eligible for RSotD, as they either have ten pieces or fewer (most Collectable Minifigures) or are multipacks.

This set has two cool functions, one is the catapult and the other is opening and closing the mouths of those 'fireballs'. Rather nice playset!

@GSR_MataNui said:
"Hey, didn't we get Ultimate Beast Master on RSotD or RMotD not long back? "

I think so? Can't recall how recently though...

@TheOtherMike said:
" @BLProductions said:
"This RSotD has also got me thinking about statistics, as it seems like we've been getting a lot of recent RSotD lately. In the past 10 days, we've only seen one pre-2000 set (7821), whereas we've also had x1 2001, x1 2007, x1 2011, x1 2013, x1 2014, x2 2015, and now x2 2016.
I guess this was inevitable. Because RSotD began when none of the most recent 1.5 decades of sets were eligible, it has had more time to draw from pre-2000 sets. On top of that, there are substantially more sets released per year now than in the 1978-2000 period, so each new year that becomes eligible adds a ton of sets into the more recent end of the pool, while the far past end of the pool only shrinks.
The end result is that the eligibility pool for RSotD continuously skews towards newer sets over time. I must say, I'm not looking forward to the frequent reminders that I'm getting old that all the '80s kids have been experiencing. "

The pool shrinks as it grows, though. And yes, there were eight hundred and forty-eight sets released in 2016, but not all of those are eligible for RSotD, as they either have ten pieces or fewer (most Collectable Minifigures) or are multipacks."

I took it to mean that the pool of, say, pre-2000 sets (which had much smaller variety per year) has been steadily shrinking as sets from that era get picked. And the post-2000 pool has been growing faster than it could ever be depleted, as more sets get added each year (~500) than could ever be picked in one calendar year (~313) once you account for 52-53 VSotW picks. So yeah, the combined pool will soon be over 50% post-2000 releases, if it isn’t already. And as the total number of sets released each year increases, it will skew the RSotD “half-life” closer to the ten-year cutoff.

@PhantomBricks said:
"As others have already said, I loved the horse jets! If they had them in a cheap set on their own, I definitely would have picked them up. The Minifigs were excellent, and the builds could be really good depending on the set. Nexo Knights was over hated, especially since it gave us more of my beloved trans neon orange.
This set was simultaneously a stand out while not interesting to me. It was a good lower end set in the wave though."

Yes!! Tr.neon orange!!!
I didn't plan on getting this set, but it went on sale and then I got another copy in a haul. I like the big printed red domes

@PurpleDave said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @BLProductions said:
"This RSotD has also got me thinking about statistics, as it seems like we've been getting a lot of recent RSotD lately. In the past 10 days, we've only seen one pre-2000 set (7821), whereas we've also had x1 2001, x1 2007, x1 2011, x1 2013, x1 2014, x2 2015, and now x2 2016.
I guess this was inevitable. Because RSotD began when none of the most recent 1.5 decades of sets were eligible, it has had more time to draw from pre-2000 sets. On top of that, there are substantially more sets released per year now than in the 1978-2000 period, so each new year that becomes eligible adds a ton of sets into the more recent end of the pool, while the far past end of the pool only shrinks.
The end result is that the eligibility pool for RSotD continuously skews towards newer sets over time. I must say, I'm not looking forward to the frequent reminders that I'm getting old that all the '80s kids have been experiencing. "

The pool shrinks as it grows, though. And yes, there were eight hundred and forty-eight sets released in 2016, but not all of those are eligible for RSotD, as they either have ten pieces or fewer (most Collectable Minifigures) or are multipacks."

I took it to mean that the pool of, say, pre-2000 sets (which had much smaller variety per year) has been steadily shrinking as sets from that era get picked. And the post-2000 pool has been growing faster than it could ever be depleted, as more sets get added each year (~500) than could ever be picked in one calendar year (~313) once you account for 52-53 VSotW picks. So yeah, the combined pool will soon be over 50% post-2000 releases, if it isn’t already. And as the total number of sets released each year increases, it will skew the RSotD “half-life” closer to the ten-year cutoff."
Yeah, that's what I meant, thanks. My 2:00am brain was not being very articulate. Point being, as time goes on, we'll be seeing a lot more of these post-2008 white-background "modern LEGO" sets and fewer of the older/wacky sets from the early 2000s and before. Personally, I find the latter group more interesting for RSotD, as I've seen all the recent stuff before when it was revealed here on Brickset. 2014 still doesn't feel like that long ago, and I don't appreciate the reminders that it is....

I’ve been trying to put my finger on why the Nexo Knights stuff doesn’t appeal to me, and honestly I think it might just be the colour schemes, because the whole steampunky knights thing is pretty cool. Lego colour theming is really top notch these days. The Nexo Knights stuff is just… fine.

I like how the name includes a fun quirk of the language. The leading 'cha' is not pronounced the same in Chaos and in Chariot

@Hiratha said:
"I’ve been trying to put my finger on why the Nexo Knights stuff doesn’t appeal to me, and honestly I think it might just be the colour schemes, because the whole steampunky knights thing is pretty cool. Lego colour theming is really top notch these days. The Nexo Knights stuff is just… fine."

Nexo Knights isn't steampunk. If it's any -punk, it's cyberpunk.

@Zordboy said:
"I just love Macy's little jet-flying-horse, there. "

The whole style of Nexo knights really reminds me of the Netflix film "Nimona." The movie is set in a sci-fi Euro-fantasy kingdom with similar flighting robotic horses.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Hiratha said:
"I’ve been trying to put my finger on why the Nexo Knights stuff doesn’t appeal to me, and honestly I think it might just be the colour schemes, because the whole steampunky knights thing is pretty cool. Lego colour theming is really top notch these days. The Nexo Knights stuff is just… fine."

Nexo Knights isn't steampunk. If it's any -punk, it's cyberpunk."

I've heard similar cyberpunk medieval styles called "punk monk."

@BLProductions said:
"2014 still doesn't feel like that long ago, and I don't appreciate the reminders that it is...."

2016 sets have been fair game for…64 days now.