Random set of the day: Laval's Fire Lion
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 70144 Laval's Fire Lion, released during 2014. It's one of 62 Legends of Chima sets produced that year. It contains 450 pieces and 3 minifigs, and its retail price was US$49.99/£39.99.
It's owned by 2,575 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at Brick Owl, BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $175.00, or eBay.
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I found this one, almost complete, at a thrift store once. It's easily the biggest Chima set in my collection, with more than twice as many pieces as the second-biggest, 70129, which is also a Lion Tribe set.
MUNGUS MAKE THE HURTING!!!
HAPPY HAPPY!
Wait, why is this so peak.
Mungus, the stereotypical overgrown idiot. I love how there were bones in the trunks of the mammoths. Yeah, that makes perfect sense for a world as insane as Chima.
A few weeks ago we had the raven zord, now we have a lion zord!
I didn't know Chima had big figures. I good with the minifigures, they look great.
The Grabbing Hands
Grab All They Can
I have just a single Chima set (70226) which I only bought because it was 60% off at the time and contained quite a few - to me - interesting pieces.
Looks like its perpetually saying "Iiiiii'm gonna getchu!"
Although I have some nostalgia of stumbling upon this set in a toy store during my travels, not having known about these sets before they released, I must say it never quite clicked with me.
If you didn't know already, it can change from this 'crouched' mode to an upright mode with the arms up and jaw open. To me it always felt lik a well-engineered solution to nothing. Does it pounce? Not quite, because this looks more defensive than anything. Is it a defensive mode? Not really, the driver(s) sits in an open cockpit (which to me looks like futuristic monoglasses a la ski goggles btw).
If anything its mechanism reminds me of the whole thing going 'boo!'
The mungus bigfig is cool btw. It's the first to have a minifig head, which is of course covered by the chima mammot head. It's cool that he apparently needs three chi orbs to stay revived. The price at the time felt high but I guess it was okay if you consider lego often adding 15,- or 20,- to the price because of the bigfig and because they've got to complete their car collection, darn it! And the swimming pool collection. And private jet collection...
Anyway, I miss experimental function-based sets like this. But personally I'd like a good balance of vehicles and locations. Which was something Chima was reaaaaally bad at, being skewed towards vehicles almost all of the time.
Is this a Technic set or a System one?
Awesome Bigfig!
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Wait, why is this so peak."
It's Legends of Chima, that's why.
@Adrianucho said:
"Is this a Technic set or a System one?"
It is a Chima set. They haven't used System as a name for decades.
I would buy this just for the mammoth big fig, and the red tracks could be very useful for own mocs and gbc, but quite rare as only appeared in 3 sets for a year. I like the way the car windscreen gives the impression of sunglasses. Also included in https://brickset.com/sets/BIGBOX-1 which is probably priceless as no prices shown.
Mungus!
Chima was glorious, I miss it every day
Cool set!
Chima came out during my dark ages, but
I liked Mungus so much that I bought him off Bricklink a few years back and constructed his spiked club.
@ambr said:
"I would buy this just for the mammoth big fig, and the red tracks could be very useful for own mocs and gbc, but quite rare as only appeared in 3 sets for a year. I like the way the car windscreen gives the impression of sunglasses. Also included in https://brickset.com/sets/BIGBOX-1 which is probably priceless as no prices shown."
https://brickset.com/sets/BIGBOX-1
The box is the only priceless part, and only one copy is known to exist for sale on the public market, the other one being owned by Lego Collector Teun from "TheChimaChannel"...
It’s giving off serious zombie vibes.
Just got it in a lot full of Chima sets recently!
@CCC said:
" @Adrianucho said:
"Is this a Technic set or a System one?"
It is a Chima set. They haven't used System as a name for decades."
Yeah, I know it, but there are three main product lines in the LEGO company: Duplo, System and Technic. So my question is valid, as far as it seems that there are more Technic pieces than System ones.
@Adrianucho said:
" @CCC said:
" @Adrianucho said:
"Is this a Technic set or a System one?"
It is a Chima set. They haven't used System as a name for decades."
Yeah, I know it, but there are three main product lines in the LEGO company: Duplo, System and Technic. So my question is valid, as far as it seems that there are more Technic pieces than System ones."
Not for many years. LEGO did away with calling using System as branding and focuses on themes rather than types. The majority of modern (and by modern I mean the past 25 years) have basic bricks as well as Technic style parts. For many years now, "Technic bricks" have been found in just as many non-Technic sets as in Technic sets. They are LEGO parts, not System parts and Technic parts.