Random set of the day: Monster Pod
Posted by Huwbot,Today's random set is 4338 Monster Pod , released in 2005. It's one of 36 Creator sets produced that year. It contains 49 pieces, and its retail price was US$3.5.
It's owned by 934 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 loved these little X pod sets.
Mixels great-great-grandparent?
I loved the Robo Pod for these! A great little concept, canisters + creator for a set you could reassemble on the go and restore once built. I get why they don't really do canisters anymore (so much plastic!) but I'm seeing a resurgence of them with those minifig pods that showed up last year!
Yikes! After staring at that eye for a while I feel like I need to hand him my wallet.
...He is master of all...
Now that's a blast from the past, me and my siblings had 3 of these things years and years ago, this one is the one I had, personally. I was always a big fan of those pods, they're so goofy
If you are buying these on the second hand market, and the seller says they are a complete set, make sure that means complete with pod pieces, not just complete polybag. This is especially true for the red one, since the Kaneda's Bike model by the Arvo Brothers uses four or six of the red pod pieces, pushing the price way up.
Wow second day in a row featuring a set I own! I need to dig it up & see if that purple pod would look ok as a Stark arc reactor in an expanded Malibu Mansion MOC.
I have the initial wave of X-Pods sat on my desk right now.
I also used to play X-Pod Play Off with them and recently found out that this second wave of sets are compatible with the game (have instructions, unique abilities, etc). All the files can be found here: https://korewanetadesu.com/pages/lego/xpod.html
I loved the X-Pods, me and my siblings had the first four but sadly not the rest.
Still tempted to get the missing sets.
I had robo pod and wild pod, and I always liked how you could use the pod itself in your models
I know the X-Pods, but I do not know this one. It wasn't in the stores in the Netherlands. Not that I know. ;)
Nobody can ever believe how many exclusive and/or rare dark purple parts they were able to include in such a small set...
These dark purple bricks will make a fine addition to my collection.
Lego at its best.
i myself have the auto and aero pods from 2003 and 2006.....
I don't have any of the exclusive Nuremberg variants, but I do have a complete set of all 13 basic X-Pods (including the black Robots Pod), the carry strap, and a few extras of some of the pods. This is one that I pointedly got at least one extra for, and I later wished I'd gotten more. Oddly enough, it was more for the Lime 1x1 plate than any of the dark-purple parts. That little thing didn't come in another set for nine years, and two years before that I built a minifig-scale Acer from Cars 2 and just about used up my entire supply. Now they're in a ton of sets. Still wish I'd bought more Monster Pods, though...
BTW, for safe transport of these things, I found that if you feed a 6L axle through the bottom before you fill the pod, you can push it into the lid when you twist that on and it will keep the pod from accidentally opening and spilling the contents wherever. There's just enough give in the plastic that you can twist the lid off and pop it free from the axle even while it's inserted through both the top and bottom lids to the pod.