Set Review - The Castle Bucket

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Set Review - The Castle Bucket

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Set Review - The Castle Bucket

Wait, what?

But LEGO has never made a castle bucket...

Wrong, I say! LEGO has made a castle bucket!

So just what is the castle bucket?

Set #4107

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This set was released in 2002, but it was re-released in 2003 under a yellow label (but had the same inventory). It contains 1000 bricks and sold for $20 USD, that's $0.02 a brick!

"But Anthony, this bucket isn't a 'Castle Bucket', its a creator bucket!"

Ahh, yes, but take a look at the inventory:

4107 @ Peeron
4107 @ Bricklink

So what's so good about this bucket?

1) Old Colors
This bucket contains all old colors of light grey, dark grey, and brown.

2) Castley Colors
This bucket contains casltey colors like Light Grey, Dark Grey, Black, Brown, Tan, Green, White and Blue. Yellow and Red are harder, but not impossible, to be used, too.

3) Castley Pieces
1x1s, 1x2s, 1x3s, 1x4s, 2x2s, 2x4s among others.

4) Quantity!
Check out some of these quantities:

48 Black Brick 1 x 1
38 Black Brick 1 x 2
28 Brown Brick 1 x 2
28 Dark Gray Brick 1 x 2
46 Light Gray Brick 1 x 1
30 Light Gray Brick 1 x 2
28 Tan Brick 1 x 1
30 Tan Brick 1 x 2

And that's just a small sample of the quantities of bricks you can get in the #4107 (Castle) Bucket!

5) Price!
C'mon, it's $0.02 a brick! That's incredibly hard to beat anywhere for this quanity and variety of colors.


Sadly, this bucket has been discontinued from the production line. The current bucket offering does not supply the same variety nor quantity of colors and bricks, new colors aside.

But low, there is hope! Yes, friends, this bucket still exists! As it is a bucket, it was never as 'in demand' as other sets, and can still be found, dust-covered behind other sets, or up on the highest shelf!

Run to your local Brick Monger today and see if you can't get your hands on the last remaining Castle Buckets before they go away forever!

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Well I'll tell ya Tony, that sounds all well and good, but what about all that green, blue, red and yellow! What am I going to do with that?

What, you say? Green for hills? Blue for water/moats? Pish-posh.

Red for medieval houses? Uck!

Yellow for filler in landscaping? Ludicrous. I only use brown, the color of dirt, you ninny.
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Sell them If you find them useless, or this:

Green- landscape!
Blue, yellow, red- Tudor houses- 2x2 doesnt matter when you do them for filling up the landscape, and not for interior.
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Post by Suvied »

Basic bricks can be used to add structure to weaker buildings and have many other uses. Try using yellow for hay bales or piles. Blue is not only good for water but many floors had colored paving stones. Red can be used for autumn brick trees. Green is good for nothing please PM me and I will have you ship those worthless bricks to me.

No basic brick is without value. Although I prefer http://www.brickset.com/search.aspx?query=4105
It can often be found for $7.50 and has more tan, green, brown and black than the other tubs with less of the classic colors.
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Yeah, I picked up three of those blue tubs a while back. They were on sale for about $13 each.

I agree, great source of basic bricks.
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Suvied wrote:No basic brick is without value. Although I prefer http://www.brickset.com/search.aspx?query=4105
Love the 4105 red bucket! Got 10 of them for less than $50. I remember looking at the big 4107 blue tubs. Saw the gray they had... and the brown... thought they were good for castle... but never bought one. Looking back, I wish I had gotten at least one. I don't know what's wrong with me. :?:


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Hmm, the 4107 tub is not bad... The biggest complaint about this tub though, was the large number of 1x1 bricks. Not that useful for landscaping or other supporting structures, but the price per piece is hard to beat. I also prefer the parts selection in 4105 myself...
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Parts: 9/10
Playability: 1/10
Figs/Accessories: 0/10
Design (then): 1/10
Design (now): 1/10 (a bunch of pieces in a bucket, come on!)
Nostalgia: 3/10

Overall Score: 2.5/10 Awful set.

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