Random set of the day: Ultimate Princesses
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 7578 Ultimate Princesses, released during 2006. It's one of 3 Belville sets produced that year. It contains 149 pieces and 2 minifigs, and its retail price was US$49.99/£29.99.
It's owned by 173 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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I guess Huwbot denied my request for more Bionicle and went with the extreme opposite.
Well played...
Ooh purple wheels, and a trans pink window. And not a Disney princess in sight.
This SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SOMEDAY!
It's the ULTIMATE PRINCESS SHOWDOWN!!!
It's uh... Look, we haven't sold many tickets yet, so...
Please come. It'll be interesting, I promise.
The ULTIMATE princesses. You literally cannot get more princess-y than these princesses. They define the genre.
A prequel to Disney if ever there was.
Fun fact: this set was one of the first to use a gold dish piece
Reaaallllly stretching the definition of minifigs, here...
Ultimate Princesses, huh? Unless that book transforms into some sort of weapon that's capable of mass carnage, I will be raising my eyebrow quite high. But it's got a frog in it, so it can't be all bad. Almost entirely, sure, but not all.
Princess Peach can't compete with the Ultimate Princess!
Nope, sorry; Wonder Woman IS the Ultimate Princess...
For anyone who dressed up as a princess and had tea parties with your stuffed animals as a kid, what was that like? I need firsthand sources to justify this hobby before I spend $15 on a dress on Amazon and have semi-weekly tea parties with my brother’s plushies as an 18-year-old adult with no friends.
Disney presents: Marvel's Ultimate Princesses
Is this the Ultimate Princess because half a dozen normal princesses combined into one gigantic skyscraper-sized super-princess?
RADICAL
@Zordboy:
Well, we all know Disney owns Princesses, and they also own Marvel. Marvel’s “Ultimate” universe was the edgy, dark version that they marketed in the wake of characters like Cable and Stryfe.
You know, I really miss those flower sprue and stalk pieces. Feel like they are quite iconic.
Lego would go on to do way more princess so in no way are these the ultimate ones
Asimov: Sir, I think we found them. There's a group of brightly coloured ninjas heading towards the obviously dangerous jungle.
Garmadon: Hmm. Zoom in, a little closer. Closer. Close- clo- no, closer. Closer. Yes! Right in on my stupid brother's dirty beard. What's he saying? Something about a princess, the... omelette, omelette princess. Sounds like a delicious set. Delicious, yet quite possibly dangerous.
Asimov: He's talking about an Ultimate Ultimate Princess. 7578.
Garmadon: That's what I said. Ultimate, Omelette Princess.
Asimov: Sir! Where are you going?
Garmadon: This is pure warrior stuff. Alone in the field, tracking ninjas, finding out exactly what Luh-Lloyd meant when he said, “I wish you weren't my father.” So I guess I'm going to the jungle.
Ultimate? Is that below or above Xtreme?
In any case, very 90s...
It obviously sucks to be a Horse Princess, as you have to pull your own carriage while the other princesses just watch.
@brick_r said:
"Nope, sorry; Wonder Woman IS the Ultimate Princess..."
You forgot She-Ra, Princess of Power!
:-)
Y'know, I don't really miss that book piece. For one thing, the newer one can double as a laptop.
@560heliport: Stretching the definition of "ultimate," too.
@ Zordboy: "And I'll form... the head."
@NotProfessorWhymzi: "The champion stood, the rest saw their better.
My Dad in a blood-stained sweater."
I would love to see ultimate princesses playing ultimate frisbee..
Whew-ee, I've dated a few of those in my day.
I see this as a failed attempt to plagiarise Barbie.
9 year old me would have loved this.
However I was 31 when this was released and just on the edge of a very small dark age….
If no other princesses will do the job, _then_ we will launch the Ultimate Princesses. But not before that!
Late stage Belville was weird. It felt like lego should have moved away from stuff that pre-reform of the company, yet it stuck around for a couple of years after 2004.
If it wasn't for the weird CGI boxart these looked rather classic Belville (ca 2000 or something).
And great, now I have The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny in my head. Thanks XD
"This is the ultimate showdown.
Of ultimate destiny
Good guys bad guys and explosions
As far as the eye can see
There's only one who will survive, I wonder who it will be?
This is the ultimate showdown.
Of ultimate destiny"
@ao_ka said:
"Disney presents: Marvel's Ultimate Princesses"
...In association with 20th Century Fox, Special Effects by Lucasfilm, animated short by Pixar...
Do we have more than one figure? Yes.
Convertible carriage: they be so princeessy they don’t need no canopy.
Conclusion: ultimate princesses.
Is that a name of the horse?....
@jkb said:
"Ultimate? Is that below or above Xtreme?
In any case, very 90s..."
As I recall, Ultimate is when it's edgy and dark, and X-Treme is when it involves snapping into a Slim Jim.
@Murdoch17:
Lucasfilm doesn't do special effects. You're thinking of Industrial Light & Magic.
Didn't realise there was an UP set by 2006 already (or is that what kingalbino meant by a Disney prequel?)
@PurpleDave said:
" @jkb said:
"Ultimate? Is that below or above Xtreme?
In any case, very 90s..."
As I recall, Ultimate is when it's edgy and dark, and X-Treme is when it involves snapping into a Slim Jim."
X-Treme is also when you're a tie-in to a canceled Sonic game.
@PurpleDave said:
" @jkb said:
"Ultimate? Is that below or above Xtreme?
In any case, very 90s..."
As I recall, Ultimate is when it's edgy and dark, and X-Treme is when it involves snapping into a Slim Jim.
@Murdoch17:
Lucasfilm doesn't do special effects. You're thinking of Industrial Light & Magic."
eh, close enough. I don't think Disney owns ILM, though?
@Murdoch17:
They actually do. ILM, Skywalker Sound, and THX were companies that Lucas founded to produce the original SW trilogy. ILM specifically was founded because there was no existing SFX house that could handle what he wanted to do with Ep4. THX was sold off in 2002, but ILM and Skywalker Sound were both still under the Lucasfilm umbrella, so Disney picked them up in 2012.
@Ridgeheart said:
"* valid substitutions for 'X-Treme' include 'Bodacious', 'Gnarly', '2DAMAXXX', 'Cowabunga', 'Radical', 'Badical' plus any and all other names taken from Super Mario World's Star Road."
You forgot "tubular." Or was that in Star Road? Haven't played SMW.
@Ridgeheart said:
" @jkb said:
"Ultimate? Is that below or above Xtreme?
In any case, very 90s..."
'Ultimate' is the truncated reboot featuring more swearing, more confused hormones and a younger, hotter cast of characters, mostly cobbled together by gently running Photoshop's trace-function over a selection of Hollywood's hottest.
'X-Treme*' still features the same old cast of characters, but now they're wearing sunglasses on their heads and/or baseball-caps (backwards), they now travel exclusively by skateboard, and they definitely run the risk of being drawn to death by Rob Liefeld.
* valid substitutions for 'X-Treme' include 'Bodacious', 'Gnarly', '2DAMAXXX', 'Cowabunga', 'Radical', 'Badical' plus any and all other names taken from Super Mario World's Star Road."
far out!
@AustinPowers: Hmmm...no, I think Diana could still take Adora...buuuut, if them teamed up, they could rip the roots outta' Disney's 'Princesses'. :D
Looks like Princess Aurora, before LEGO made Disney
Closest modern version would be 43173 : Aurora's Royal Carriage which is surprisingly the only one.
However, Cinderella Carriages appear far more often, even more frequent compared to Landspeeders or X-Wings (those are disney now too :) )
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