Alright then...

Designer set? Which designer? Are they still employed?

Most wouldn’t be after this...

You know, some of these little proto-Creator sets weren't bad, with an interesting mix of useful pieces.

This ... wasn't one of those.

Quite an oddity this time... I picked this up out of curiosity somewhat in mid 2004 I guess, alongside the other 3 sets from this 'mini-series' (7222 Truck, 7223 Helicopter and 7219 Dinosaur).

They came with their polybags packaged in a clear canister that was almost identical to the ones the original 2001/2002 Toa from Bionicle came in, just with a large up-scaled Lego-stud on top of the lid. They were a promotional item, so also came with a few packs of Smarties candies in the canister and a label that called them 'Fun-Box'.

Not muchn else to say - some sets had a few semi-rare elements in them, but nothing too exciting. The builds are technically the same stuff that was in advent calendars for Basic and Creator at the time (way before there was City or Star Wars) so nothing special there either. Although I have to say I kinda liked the dinosaur.

This looks like an extremely cut-down, polybag version of 4099-1 Robobots (with the exact same color scheme). Huh. I had no idea this existed until I saw it very recently at an AFOL bazaar, but I think that's mostly because I never saw polybags for sale in my country back in the day when LEGO monobrand stores were exotic and LEGO didn't have an official retail presence at all.

Since we're mocking the names of themes and subthemes, why is Creator Expert so called? There's nothing "Creator" about any Creator Expert set except the fact that the parts list is on the box, which itself is a holdover from the old Creator line and now Classic (and, funnily enough, not in Designer Sets or the current Creator 3-in-1). There's not even a picture of a potential secondary build (I'm not asking for instructions, because presumably an expert would be able to reverse engineer it to some degree), or the slightest suggestion that the parts could be rebuilt (something a lot of older fans seem to forget). And any time someone does show off a MOC they made with a Creator Expert set, it's heralded as a crowning achievement because it's so unexpected.

This looks like a bag of overproduced left over pieces.

It was possible to make a better robot with less pieces and at least one robot that can move its legs forward.