Random set of the day: Dino
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 7219 Dino, released in 2004. It's one of 48 Creator sets produced that year. It contains 34 pieces.
It's owned by 267 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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Zombie Dino
Not a bad looking little dino, all things considered.
Yeah, that's not a bad looking dinosaur, at all ... except for the tail.
What is Huwbot trying to tell us now?
It’s got a blocked nose.
I love these "Designer Sets", because of just how hilarious they are.
Markus Persson must have received this set and said: "I should make a game where everything looks like the abstract floor/surface this dino stands upon"
Seven years later, Minecraft was released
@Slithus_Venom said:
"What is Huwbot trying to tell us now?"
Maybe a dinosaur or Creator binge now?
@Zordboy:
And everything else. This looks like someone got stopped fast-walking to the restroom and reminded that they had a polybag design due, and marketing needed to get started on the package artwork in ten minutes.
I wouldn't want this as a birthday gift. That would be a sad day.
A grey dino in green pyjamas.
The Resident Evil games we’re in full swing at this time, so you could say LEGO took advantage of Zombiemania!
Actually quite cute
I actually really like the color scheme of this and may take inspiration from it for a potential non-animal build. I don't know about any of you, but I've always liked the "white 1x1 round plates for teeth" technique.
@brickengineeringdude said:
"I love these "Designer Sets", because of just how hilarious they are."
It's a shame because they do a great injustice to the full-sized, boxed Designer Sets, which were some of LEGO's best creative-building products before the Creator rebrand and still hold up to this day.
Similar to the other creator polybags this was a free promotional set, possibly to encourage interest in the full-sized designer sets. The green slope tiles are unusual as normally always in blue, so may be useful for building garden shrubs or trees.
I think it’s quite fun. I’d like to see someone from the peanut gallery do better using 34 pieces that were available in 2004.
I consider this a parts pack. The model is nothing fancy but the parts are mega versatile.
When I go on holiday, I always buy 1 small Lego set on location to fiddle with on late summer evenings. This set would be perfect for that.
@ambr:
Maybe sets like this are why Designer went away...
@ericjohn:
Challenge accepted! Just replace anything that's light-bley with green. Instant improvement, even if it's not an AFOL-level design. And I checked the inventory on Bricklink. Every single element in this set that's light-bley was also available in green during _both_ 2003 and 2004, with three exceptions. Two of them were the 1x click hinge bricks, both of which were only released in green in 2003, for 4101 Wild Collection (all they had to do was keep them in production for another year). The third element is the 2x click hinge brick. It was never released in green...but this is also the only set where it appeared in light-bley. So, if they could create it in light-bley for a throwaway polybag, they could create it in green instead.