Random set of the day: Emma's Horse Trailer
Posted by Huwbot,Today's random set is 3186 Emma's Horse Trailer, released during 2012. It's one of 36 Friends sets produced that year. It contains 218 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$24.99/£19.99.
It's owned by 3,879 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 $64.00, or eBay.
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So you are only mentioning the trailer? What about the car, horse, and stables.
Discrimination, people.
It’s all quite… chunky, isn’t it? Maybe the scaling is just a bit off. Could you fit a second mini doll in that 6 wide vehicle? It’s hard to tell; it looks a bit small for two but too large for one.
I’ve had those stickered panels in a used lot, always nice to find out where things came from
@Maxbricks14 said:
"So you are only mentioning the trailer? What about the car, horse, and stables.
Discrimination, people."
I think the less mentioned about the "stable", the better. The car is kinda pushing the limits of Thumper's Rule, too. And that thing's supposed to be a horse? No wonder they're trying to get everyone to fixate on the trailer!
Trailer is nice but the car is atrocious. Gaps everywhere, build is ugly and the color scheme is blinding. Just make up your mind about the color already. Clearly designed by men for little girls...
This was 2012, and Friends had yet to hit its stride. And this set trotted, so 41745 could gallop.
They always give away all the plot in the trailer these days
Ah, yes, OG wave 1 Friends. Back when the series was actually good.
I don't like those stickers. The butterflies and windows feel like they could easily be placed wherever, which really affects the quality of the final build's aesthetics. There's probably many copies out there where the windows are crooked, placed too high on the dome section, butterflies maybe even stuck overtop two pieces at once; there's too many variables. I'm not saying print everything, I'm sure these pieces in medium azure are great without the stickers, but maybe some kind of a guide within the instructions could have helped insure a bit more quality control since they're not just on a 2x2 tile or cover the entire surface of the piece. This is probably a non-issue, but they're stressing me out.
It’s basically a Friends version of 7635. The trailer is practically identical.
@MonsterFighter said:
"It’s basically a Friends version of 7635. The trailer is practically identical. "
Interesting.....as the cars also seem to share a lot of similarities, like two versions of the same exact car model. Makes me wonder: Were there more Friendsified City sets like this?
I figure the trailer is most often used to recapture an escaped horse, considering the stable only consists of a single tiny wall.
2012 Friends is special in that it still had to converge its aesthetics with the other themes a bit. It started out weirdly colorful, bulbous and simplistic (technic was very rare in it). This set is a good example. It was around the time the main cast were updated that the aesthetics started to shift I recall.
I only now notice the tan chest lower lid. Neat part!
@stefwaffles said:
"Could you fit a second mini doll in that 6 wide vehicle? It’s hard to tell; it looks a bit small for two but too large for one."
Yes. Minidolls can sit two abreast in six-wide vehicles; they can overlap in ways that minifigs can't.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @stefwaffles said:
"Could you fit a second mini doll in that 6 wide vehicle? It’s hard to tell; it looks a bit small for two but too large for one."
Yes. Minidolls can sit two abreast in six-wide vehicles; they can overlap in ways that minifigs can't."
*cough https://brickshelf.com/gallery/PurpleDave/Batman/GirlsNightOut/01_front_angle.jpg cough*
Back when Friends set numbers were in the four digit range.
One of the first proper LEGO sets I bought for our daughter after I came out of my dark ages thanks to her. Yes, we got her some Duplo sets before, but those don't count imho.
Its the only set with the pink 6 wide vehicle wedge that I needed for my Cotton Candy Food Truck.
https://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/ToyKiwi/Food-Trucks/20241127_114407.jpg
@AllanSmith said:
"Its the only set with the pink 6 wide vehicle wedge that I needed for my Cotton Candy Food Truck.
https://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/ToyKiwi/Food-Trucks/20241127_114407.jpg"
Too bad they don't make your fender in the same color.