Random set of the day: Ferris Wheel
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 4957 Ferris Wheel, released in 2007. It's one of 22 Creator sets produced that year. It contains 1063 pieces, and its retail price was US$69.99/£48.95.
It's owned by 1388 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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I had no idea there was a previous ferris wheel. Makes me feel better for kitbashing the 2008 carousel.
One the one hand, I wish I had purchased more than one of this set because the piece and model value appears good. On the other hand, it seems to have serious issues with proportions and the completed model looks unfinished. Even so, for what it is, I still like it.
So how can we shrink the Clikits characters to get them on this?
Is this the only set to use that basic Microscale design for figures?
Kinda weird how the gondolas are minifig scale but the surrounding landscape isn't.
Before Creator had minifigures...
Looks like an Elite Ferris Wheel to me
Awesome PPP!
This set was great and incredible value. $70 for 1000+ pieces including a motor and a baseplate!!!
This was also the set that introduced me to MOCing. It was sat next to the grand carousel but needed a minifig scaled entrance stand. I made it with pieces from the Brick wall.
How timely! This set just came up today, complete and in good condition, in a local classified ad. I had never heard of it before. Unfortunately, someone beat me to it.
If people in this set are only the size of a 1x1 round brick with a stud on top just how massive is this ferris wheel? Feels like we're talking London Eye proportions at this point
What an insane PPP! So cheap!
Micro people with giant gondolas.
I had this and liked it a lot, but as others have said the scale was always a bit weird. It was also not very sturdy: the spokes were only held on with clips, and if they came undone it was very easy for the outer shape to deform from perfectly circular (or vice versa... bumping the outer circumference could deform it easily, and possibly pop a spoke off). It was really innovatively built, though, and it was a great forerunner of (fancier and thankfully sturdier) things to come!
50£ !!!! Bargain
@OneIsLit said:
"How timely! This set just came up today, complete and in good condition, in a local classified ad. I had never heard of it before. Unfortunately, someone beat me to it. "
Kijiji? I saw it too!
Excuse me? 70$ for 1063 pieces? That looks like an amazing value to me!
$70 for a 1000 piece set that includes the PF M motor and AA battery box? That's a steal! Today, I am betting it would be $150 or more; especially with the new, pricey Powered Up! system and components; even with the new "dumb" battery box/hub.
Great value for money, but aesthetically I much prefer the newer one that I have.
Great set. This was quite a tricky build to create the wheels using technic beams stuck into a lamppost, which was quite fragile until you had done everything 8 times and then it somehow managed to stand upright. One of the few sets where you were given 16, 32 of the same blue piece or plate making a great resource for mocs. The medium motor struggled to turn the wheel, so I replaced with an XL and worked fine. Also in every gondola replaced the yellow 2 brick, with 16 yellow seats so that my mini-figures could sit inside.
@Isabella_and_Lego_Liker said:
"So how can we shrink the Clikits characters to get them on this?"
Why would you want to do that?
Not bad for back in the day standards. Also have baseplates.
@Rockstaar9 said:
" @Isabella_and_Lego_Liker said:
"So how can we shrink the Clikits characters to get them on this?"
Why would you want to do that?"
It's a joke.