Random set of the day: Motion Madness
Posted by Huwbot,Today's random set is 4090 Motion Madness, released during 2003. It's one of 38 Creator sets produced that year. It contains 243 pieces, and its retail price was US$14.99/£12.99.
It's owned by 781 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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You'd go mad too if you had gears growing out of your back!
Followed shortly by Motion Sickness
freaky looking bird.
The scarab from yesterdays RSOTD grew up and become a weird freaky looking bird. He would then lose his wing from that yellow bionicle hook that cut it off.
@MCLegoboy said:
"You'd go mad too if you had gears growing out of your back!"
You’d have gear ache :~P
The blue and yellow color scheme is really nice. The beak reminds me of something but I can't quite put my finger on it.
I didn't check back on yesterday's article till after commenting closed, but someone there asked if Jake Rains was Johnny Thunder's son. No, but one of his decedents named Josh Thunder did appear in the 2011-2012-ish Dino theme!
@GSR_MataNui said:
"The beak reminds me of something but I can't quite put my finger on it."
Pingu Noot Noot
Those Inventor sets were among my set dreams when I was a kid
Pretty sure I just got this set today when I opened up a monster bulk lot that was mailed to me in 4 moving boxes. I paid almost as much for the shipping as the sets but after going through some of it today it was well worth it. Got almost the whole catalogue from 1999 to 2004, it seems.
Would’ve been cooler in my opinion if they called it Motion Maddness.
Madness indeed, it does look fun though.
That yellow Bionicle Gali hook is such a nice recolor! It is interesting how they just threw it in there for no apparent reason, but I surely don't complain!
Madness? With his pupils protruding from his eyeballs? Id say so
Inventor sets need to come back.
Ah, I'll never say no to the daily dose of madness.
This was one of the first sets that got me interested in engineering.
Didn’t they have an online game for this one? You had to operate conveyer belt in just the right way to get eggs to birds and monkeys to typewriters…
Looks like a bird from a coocoo-clock escaped...probably whilst flying over its nest...:)
Ah, the subtheme of designer (or was it creator?) Of moving models. This one flaps its wings as it glides down from a red string. You can also build models that climb it, flap when rolling on the ground, and various other kinetic movement builds.
The others in this line used specialized transparant clear blocks with gearing or motors or wind-up springs inside, but fortunately this one doesn't.
Sets like these stand between tecnic and system and are sorely missing from today's highly segmentized theme output where it's either vehicles in technic or 3-in-1 models of objects, vehicles, locations or animals in Creator.
We need wacky sets like this again!
This set, 4093 and 4094 were some of my favorite sets as a kid! I must have been around 6 when I got them, which was a really formative time to be able to combine all these moving mechanical ideas into my own creations.
Gears in its back? Released in 2003?
Is this a Bionicle?!
@LegoDavid said:
"That yellow Bionicle Gali hook is such a nice recolor! It is interesting how they just threw it in there for no apparent reason, but I surely don't complain!"
It was also in the Muaka/Kane-ra and Manas sets.
@GSR_MataNui:
Does it remind you of a rocket ship?
Never seen this before, it looks pretty weird but I absolutely love the idea!
@Brickalili said:
"Didn’t they have an online game for this one? You had to operate conveyer belt in just the right way to get eggs to birds and monkeys to typewriters…"
Yeah, I remember a game like that too, I used to think it was named "Buzz" but actually, based on the conveyor belts, it's called "Beltz." However, that game appears to be about sorting bricks with the conveyors, no eggs in sight. So there could have been another game like Beltz but weirder? Has it been lost to time?