I got couple of parts and figures from a used lot. I'm still trying to figure out a way to use them.

@xboxtravis7992 said:
"Other AFOL's "Why do all the guys who grew up in the 2000's talk non stop about Bionicle and nothing else Lego did in that era?"

Everything else Lego did in that era: "

Touché, Gen Z.

@Zordboy said:
"Oh.

Oh no."

(Baymax leaves the chat)

Also, 8th straight set with fewer than 100 pieces (21, 87, 68, 29, 41, 90, 52, and 43)

Wonderful.

One of the worst themes ever. Garage, pure garage.

@Harmonious_Building:
By the time this was released, anyone on the Jack Stone team had probably run out. This makes me think of how one of my ancestors on my mom's side of the family grew up so poor during the Great Depression that they would eat lard sandwiches. Two slices of bread, scoop of plain lard in between. Technically it meets the definition of "food", but...

Still, I'd rather have this than any bionicle set

@CarolinaOnMyMind said:
" @xboxtravis7992 said:
"Other AFOL's "Why do all the guys who grew up in the 2000's talk non stop about Bionicle and nothing else Lego did in that era?"

Everything else Lego did in that era: "

Touché, Gen Z.

"

This is where I get really dorky and say "achsully" :P But the dark period of Lego's 2000's era almost perfectly lines up with the childhood generation boundary between Millennials and Gen Z. I am just old enough to be a Millennial by the definition, but only a few years younger than I is the start of Gen Z who would have been the target audience of Jack Stone when it launched.

Hoo boy. Among my most forgotten sets, and for GOOD REASON.

Four bucks. I guess that's how I ended up with it. Cheap relatives. The 72XX fire trucks I got later were MUCH, MUCH better. I pretty much left 7239 as-is (which is a great set that lasted ages); but I turned 7213 into a massive airport fire truck using the cab and chassis.

I couldn’t decide whether to call you Millennial or Gen Z. I went the younger route, but I guess you’re really a Genzennial.

Could you tell a difference to https://brickset.com/sets/60247-1/Forest-Fire ?

@LegoDavid said:
" @paulrothwell said:
"Still, I'd rather have this than any bionicle set"

Uhm... may I ask why? "

Yes you may.
I find bionicle unutterably awful and I'll tell you for why.
When I got back into lego c2010 I started a bricklink shop and I bought used Lego in massive quantities.
I still have cold sweats thinking about how much time I spent trying to work out who's mask is this, what shield/weapon is this from etc.
And then it never sold!
Nah you can keep bionicle, I'll take anything with wheels everytime.

Ick

@paulrothwell:
There's an incredibly simple reason for that. It's the exact same reason most Bricklink sellers don't want to deal in Technic parts, either. What it basically comes down to is the fact that you don't cater to Bionicle shoppers. They come to your store, and the selection is meager, the good parts have been picked over, and they may not even be able to meet your store minimum without having to heavily pad their order with non-Bionicle parts. Then they have to pay shipping on top of that for whatever tiny amount of parts they came there searching for. Give them a store that has a huge inventory of Bionicle parts, and even if the prices they charge are double the market rate, they'll shop there for the convenience, and because when it comes time to pay the invoices, it's actually cheaper anyways.

If you want to sell that stuff, you're probably going to have to sell it as an unsorted bulk lot. You could even see if you can track down some of the stores that deal in those parts and ask them if they'd be interested in making an offer as is. Accept that you're going to have to sell it well below market rate, but if you don't have to put any effort into sorting the parts and listing them, consider that a fair tradeoff.

@CarolinaOnMyMind said:
"I couldn’t decide whether to call you Millennial or Gen Z. I went the younger route, but I guess you’re really a Genzennial. "

Haha, that's fair :D

@PurpleDave said:
" @paulrothwell:
There's an incredibly simple reason for that. It's the exact same reason most Bricklink sellers don't want to deal in Technic parts, either. What it basically comes down to is the fact that you don't cater to Bionicle shoppers. They come to your store, and the selection is meager, the good parts have been picked over, and they may not even be able to meet your store minimum without having to heavily pad their order with non-Bionicle parts. Then they have to pay shipping on top of that for whatever tiny amount of parts they came there searching for. Give them a store that has a huge inventory of Bionicle parts, and even if the prices they charge are double the market rate, they'll shop there for the convenience, and because when it comes time to pay the invoices, it's actually cheaper anyways.

If you want to sell that stuff, you're probably going to have to sell it as an unsorted bulk lot. You could even see if you can track down some of the stores that deal in those parts and ask them if they'd be interested in making an offer as is. Accept that you're going to have to sell it well below market rate, but if you don't have to put any effort into sorting the parts and listing them, consider that a fair tradeoff."

Yeah I do that since most of my Bricklink purchases are for Bionicle stuff currently. If I want System bricks, I can just go to the modern Lego aisle in Wal-Mart so there really is no incentive to buy on Bricklink used; but when I am hunting for Bionicle parts I know I have to look in very specific places to find them since its a retired theme. Its kind of odd how Bricklink stores have divided between System, Technic and Bionicle part themes with very little crossover between them; but it is catering to a specific audience.

@xboxtravis7992 said:
"Other AFOL's "Why do all the guys who grew up in the 2000's talk non stop about Bionicle and nothing else Lego did in that era?"

Everything else Lego did in that era: "

HEY! HEY! Lego Racers sets were awesome!

I had a few Bionicle sets; and later Hero Factory and Knights Kingdom. They really didn't interest me, as there was no incentive to rebuild. Basically, they were action figures one could rearrange to their liking. And I had GI Joe, Rescue Heroes, Lanard, Chap Mei, and Power Rangers. So uh, I was pretty well covered in the action figure category.

But, on a shelf they actually look cool. Unlike Jack Stone sets which are horrible save a few parts here and there (like the printed windows of the gas station).

@cody6268:
There was tons of rebuild possibility. One thing that Bionicle did much better than System was organic shapes, because the ball and socket joints that were so fundamental to the set designs allow much more range of motion than you can easily recreate with System elements from that same era. Just the stuff I've personally built with Bionicle parts include a whole range of Star Wars characters from all six movies, several TMNT characters, a group of oriental dragons, a giant dragonfly, and a ferret. At Brickworld Expos, they prove to be as popular as the System MOCs I display.

@LusiferSam said:
"One of the worst themes ever. Garage, pure garage."

Yeah, I guess it's "garage" considering this is a car.