Random set of the day: Beach House
Posted by Huwbot,Today's random set is 4996 Beach House, released during 2008. It's one of 15 Creator sets produced that year. It contains 522 pieces, and its retail price was US$34.99/£24.99.
It's owned by 9,381 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $94.80, or eBay.
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A beach house is known as a Bach in New Zealand. (Pronounced batch)
There you go, you learned something new.
I miss Creator houses like this.
This one was featured in the online Lego Creator Island game along with other classics like Log Cabin and various other Creator homes. A robot would protect the island from a T Rex that destroyed stuff.
With a very spacious interior. How is it that all the furniture is outside the house?
AKA the Level Builder prefab from LIJ2:TAC
If it's a beach house, I might have expected a tan baseplate.
@MCLegoboy said:
"With a very spacious interior. How is it that all the furniture is outside the house?"
Fancy new kind of convertible house. If the weather's really nice, you just pick up the outer shell, move it over to one side, and now your living room is the patio.
An old childhood favorite, got this for my birthday one year. :-)
Oh I have this one! It's such a cute little house. I kind of liked how they didn't come with interior furniture, you could customise and design the interior to your heart's desire.
One of the first sets in my favourite Creator subtheme. Not sur if it holds up by today's standards, but it's still got some nostalgia value.
This set is the one which brought me out of the dark ages.
I made this the home for my Beach Bandit 6534-1.
This particular set was the very first time I ever noticed brick quality issues. The yellow bricks were rather translucent and off-color compared to the other yellow bricks I had at the time. Always wondered if it was just my copy or a more widespread problem.
The first Creator house I got and it was a favourite of my kids, they've built and rebuild that house and the variants several times. Only, rearranging all those 1x1 tiles is a pain, that was always my job ;-)
Both this and 5891 have a similar alternate model, are there any others with such a small but tall alternative build?
Got this one for Christmas in 2009. This is a near perfect creator house, especially for only $35. One of the best creator houses, but too bad it was made before they added Minifigs and other interior details. This set (also the 5891 Apple Tree House) would have been perfect with those.
I remember seeing this set in the catalog. My Lego City desperately needed a house and I didn't have any. I still don't but I always wanted one. My personal favorite was 4886 though.
The choice of yellow makes it look like someone’s made a giant sandcastle; it’s -literally- a beach house, made of the beach!
Pretty sweet pad. Lovely set, I see nothing wrong with this.
Beautiful set. One of my very favorites; and a very good value for 522 parts at $30. One of the few full houses for stories to begin, with an empty interior and lack of figures to further set the stage, and set it as empty to make your own stories.
Wait this didn't come with any Minifigures? I guess that was more of a thing back in the '00s, but a set like this today would absolutely have at least two.
@Robot99 said:
"An old childhood favorite, got this for my birthday one year. :-)"
You stole my words! The design of the house is very clever and fresh, and it's surprisingly detailed for a Creator house. One of the best uses of a 16x32 baseplate. It'll probably remain my favorite LEGO house of all time.
This is the first 3-in-1 set I got 3 of, so I could have each build.
@Brickchap said:
"I miss Creator houses like this.
This one was featured in the online Lego Creator Island game along with other classics like Log Cabin and various other Creator homes. A robot would protect the island from a T Rex that destroyed stuff."
It's still playable at Mask of Destiny/Biomedia Project along with more than 100 other games.
Nice house. Gives me ideas to build my next town house.
This is one of the sets which brought me back to Lego. I managed to get all of the houses in this theme, hunting for some on eBay. It was annoying they didn't have furniture to start off, but it's something you can fix without spending too much.
This is a great set! The design feels interesting and well-balanced with a roomy, easily accessible interior with walls on all sides. There is a lot of detail outside (where minifigs will usually be anyway), and inside there's enough space for your own interior. The second floor is great too, even featuring a balcony. There's even a small second garden patch on the other side. It gives off the feeling of a full bungalow well. And due to its size it's relatively affordable!
The alt models are great enough that I occasionally build those too. They both do have an interior, and the appartment complex has some nice authentic details due to it. The café has a weird issue in that the interior is mostly inaccessible once built, but that's easily rectified by just using leftover tiles and plates to make the roof removable again. Once you do this you get one of the better café builds of its size.
Overall a real winner!
@MCLegoboy said:
"With a very spacious interior. How is it that all the furniture is outside the house?"
Atleast this one has some furniture. The 2007 Red Roof House ( 4956 ) didn't have any. Still love the 2007 House (i still own it) but thats one of its flaws.
I still kinda wonder why in this era Lego decided to use *trans green* for the flower stems. 4956 also had you build them the same way.
Always liked those 1994 windows.
a true classic, from an era when CREATOR houses were amazing - even without minifigs!
Big enough for minifigs?
@Bornin1980something said:
"Big enough for minifigs?"
My brother had this when we were children. The interior is at a pretty weird scale compared to minifigs, its almost minifig scale but the stairs are undersized and the windows oversized in comparison to minifigs.
@Eightcoins8 said:
" @Bornin1980something said:
"Big enough for minifigs?"
My brother had this when we were children. The interior is at a pretty weird scale compared to minifigs, its almost minifig scale but the stairs are undersized and the windows oversized in comparison to minifigs. "
It is meant to be a beach house, so has large windows for the views and letting light flood in.
@Eightcoins8 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"With a very spacious interior. How is it that all the furniture is outside the house?"
Atleast this one has some furniture. The 2007 Red Roof House ( 4956 ) didn't have any. Still love the 2007 House (i still own it) but thats one of its flaws."
Same thing with 10182 but it's still one of the greatest sets of all time.
One of like, 3 creator houses I have, and easily my favorite. I have fond memories of this.
I bought 5 of these eventually because i love building houses and i needed the roof bricks but all my houses back then were yellow hahaha
@Nokturn said:
"This particular set was the very first time I ever noticed brick quality issues. The yellow bricks were rather translucent and off-color compared to the other yellow bricks I had at the time. Always wondered if it was just my copy or a more widespread problem."
My set was missing the instruction booklet for the primary model and one 2x2 window glass element. It was the first time that I got a set that was missing a part and also the first time I got one missing an instruction booklet, so I guess there were more than one quality issues with it.
The inside of the house is absolutely empty!
@BaconKing said:
"The inside of the house is absolutely empty!"
It's move-in ready, then!
@BaconKing said:
"The inside of the house is absolutely empty!"
Yes this is near peak lego. Affordable and full of useful parts not tiny pieces that don’t do much.
@xurotaryrocket said:
" @BaconKing said:
"The inside of the house is absolutely empty!"
Yes this is near peak lego. Affordable and full of useful parts not tiny pieces that don’t do much.
"
Tiny pieces _are_ the useful ones. That's why they cost more, by volume, than 2x4 bricks.
@xurotaryrocket said:
" @BaconKing said:
"The inside of the house is absolutely empty!"
Yes this is near peak lego. Affordable and full of useful parts not tiny pieces that don’t do much.
"
Peak Lego, looking ok on the outside and totally empty inside. Why waste pieces on silly things like details? Or interior? YUCK
Don't get me wrong, I had this set growing up and loved it. But the rose-colored glasses are practically cataracts at this point, I can't imagine anyone from this comment section reacting the same to TLG putting out a Creator house set these days with no minifigs