Random set of the day: High Flyers
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 4098 High Flyers, released in 2003. It's one of 38 Creator sets produced that year. It contains 197 pieces, and its retail price was US$10/£9.99.
It's owned by 1000 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
Help me come to life! If you like the set I've chosen for you today, please pledge your support for me on LEGO Ideas so I have a chance of becoming an official LEGO set!
50 likes
24 comments on this article
It's nice to know that 99 year olds are allowed to have their pilot's license, but at 100...
LICENSE REVOKED!
That helicopter looks... wrong
These don't look like ambitious Harvard graduates at all!
Kinda bummed I missed out on a sealed copy of this set for cheap the other day. But it's no big loss — if I really wanted it I would've got it early on.
https://www.maskofdestiny.com/news/bzzzbeep/
That's what I did with my copy of this. Yeah...um...look down. The white stuff at the bottom.
There are two phases of Lego - pre cheese slope and post cheese slope. Older sets look so different when they aren't slathered in cheese slope.
@guachi said:
"There are two phases of Lego - pre cheese slope and post cheese slope. Older sets look so different when they aren't slathered in cheese slope."
Cheese slope: the cowbell of LEGO bricks.
@guachi:
Before the introduction of the double-cheese, I designed a 6-wide roadster that used 42 cheese slopes. After the double-cheese came out, I think I was able to swap out 12 cheeses for six double-cheeses. The cheese wedge is probably the most important part for fine detail work.
Of course, the MOC where I probably use more than anything I’ve ever built, or ever will again, is my Flash trail. Over 55’ of trans-red motion blur for DC’s Flash, with the entire top edge covered in cheese wedges. I have no idea how many I used in total, but it’s definitely over 2000.
Nice parts, bad ideas...
LEGO Creator back in the day: 34 in 1
LEGO Creator today: 3 in 1.
Pathetic...
34 creations…but if those are the best 3 in the photo, the other 31 must be complete crap!
So... are these military vehicles by any chance?
Don't fly while high!
There are instructions for 10 models, I can see this $10 purchase more useful then a $20 creator brick bucket for toddlers to create variations of planes, sea planes and helicopters either at a simple micro scale or more complicated once their confidence grows. To create your own different designs beyond the 10 models would be a struggle though, and there should be a large prize if you can create all 34 especially if you are 6 or 99!
@LegoDavid : 2003 Creator sneers at modern Creator's paltry 3 models. "Back in my day, we had instructions for more than ten times as many, and that's how we liked it!"
@PDelahanty said:
"34 creations…but if those are the best 3 in the photo, the other 31 must be complete crap!"
This is actually a screenshot of the instruction manual rather than the box art. The box art models are a touch more ambitious.
@Mr__Thrawn said:
"That helicopter looks... wrong"
FAA would have a heart attack!
it's just a box...
with a propeller...
@TheOtherMike
but if the models were absolute trash...
It would not be Lego if there were not some way to work in a helicopter to the set.
@LegoDavid:
I’m sure a lot of those 34 models were pretty pathetic. There’s a reason the only thing I built with this set was snow.
Wow I had this set way back in the day. I forgot all about it until just now.
I would suggest looking at the Alternate Models tab of this set to discover that this set has an excellent collection of parts which allow you to make far better models than those shown in the instructions.
@MCLegoboy said:
"It's nice to know that 99 year olds are allowed to have their pilot's license, but at 100...
LICENSE REVOKED!"
My life goal is turning 100 and then buying such a set. Thug4life.
@NotProfessorWhymzi:
Years ago, someone I knew tried to convince me that Star Trek was better than Star Wars (this was either right before, or right after, the prequels were released). The irony is definitely not lost on me. I'd still point out that Voyager spent at least half a season in a section of galaxy where a bunch of space-faring, oxygen-breathing races couldn't find enough most-common-element-in-the-universe to burn to make a single cup of water. And then later on they got a character who was raised as an emotionless computer, but only wore catsuits and high heels. Still not sure that balances out Disney Wars, though...
@Paski:
If you're going to rebel, go for broke. Make sure you buy a copy that was packaged for a different region. And if it has a punch tab, open it from the other end.
Not sure if they can fly high. More like Dropped Crashers.