Random set of the day: Celebration
Posted by Huwbot,Today's random set is 3159 Celebration, released in 2000. It's one of 11 Scala sets produced that year. It contains 41 pieces, and its retail price was US$5.
It's owned by 64 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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wew
(Scratching my head)
What’s with the cardboard cutout backdrop? There are only about five pieces I recognize as actual Lego pieces instead of foam or clay looking imposters.
Yikes almost would prefer a Clikets set...
For a celebration, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of celebrating going on...
^Maybe it's secretly celebrating being the first Scala set as a RSOTD since 9/19/18, 3151 Emma on the Move (no, not THAT Emma!).
I definitely celebrated when I saw Metroliner as the Random Set of the day lol! Nothing on this set reminds of celebration, early 2000 was so difficult for Lego, almost nothing made sense at that time! This is me giving myself a reason for my dark ages lol
I'm looking at the set, and all I'm seeing is that very cool trans-red wand.
Hardly worse for its theme than the current range of xtra polybags.
I’m celebrating!
What is that folded-up flying carpet thing? Does that boombox have a turntable? Should we begin to wonder what the green and red objects are meant to be? Why is there a pizza on the floor? Which 64 members own this? And why?
SO MANY QUESTIONS
Wow, Lego and Foam? Designers (and approvers) must have been on something. For me though the most interesting thing is the rareness of the Table top. According to Brickset its only appeared in 5 sets..... 3 are only owned by a total of 6 people, this one 64 and one other 237. So is this the rarest piece amoungst members.... 307 people (although for some reason 3 of these sets contain 10 each of this part). So at least 361 exist.
OK guys - looks like it's time for Celebration! ;)
I kinda like it. But it feels it should belong with my Sylvanian Families rather than Lego.
This is one of the worst sets I've ever seen.
The cake is by far the most sought-after piece from this set. The rest is a bit... random. You can see why Lego struggled back then, the sheer number of pieces cast in new colours was eyewatering, especially as many of them only ever appeared in 2-3 sets, in some cases only 1. Sure, the same happens today, but not in the same volume. Back then it was 100s of pieces used like this in every wave. The logistics must have been a nightmare.
Go home Lego... You're drunk!
Is that green thing supposed to be a bush, or is it seaweed with starfish?
Either way, why is the unknown plant at the "celebration?"
^Because the celebration is outdoors
When this is the first thing you see when you wake up in the morning, it's probably best to go back to bed.
Lego34s, the 3 sets that each contain 10 of the tabletop piece are Serious Play sets, which are for adult team-building sessions for corporate offices and whatnot. Many of these sets are very expensive and have large numbers of pieces, but they typically consist of several repeats of the same groups of parts, so that all the corporate teams have the same pieces to work with.
Why...what...how...why? Why is this a thing? This hurts my brain
Time to celebrate! I guess?
Foamburgers!
I have heard of Scala over the years, but never paid much attention to the sets because they appeared to be a diluted, distracted, aberrant form of LEGO that was likely better off forgotten. This RSotD post inspired me to learn more about the line by looking at the 75 or so sets more closely. Oh, how I wish I had not done that. As much as Scala can now serve as a valuable lesson to TLG about what can happen when a brand loses focus, these inventories should be buried so that future generations are not exposed to part x4cx02, which is possibly the creepiest bit of LEGO ever seen. I can’t imagine that it actually appeared in six sets.
I love the red wand, I didn't see the wand in the "parts" part, do we know if that wand has already been updaded ?
@Schmopiesdad did you look at the Scala clothes for the dolls? *
Absolutely awesome or traumatising. It's so hard to tell.
*warning people should never look at the Scala clothes unless they are brave. Very brave.
Looking at this, then at the dolls. then back at this...
So these were meant to go together?!
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