Lego 1000-Piece Creator Fun Tub (4107)

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000076CY6
• Our recommended age: 4 - 6 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #346,253 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

For older kids who are ready to graduate from building with jumbo blocks to more intricate constructing, this tub of small Lego blocks is an appropriate toy. The tub contains 1,000 multi-colored, snap-together pieces for making an endless array of creations. A few special blocks are transparent for using as windows or lights and others feature eyes for building animals or people. If kids need a little help deciding what to make, a color idea booklet offers 210 different suggestions for building everything from animals to letters to boats. Instructions in the booklet are easy to follow--even for kids on the younger end of the recommended age range. This is an open-ended toy that kids will never tire of playing with. --Cristina Vaamonde

Customer Reviews

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307 of 312 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A decent set - Legos are alwasy great, but the set lacks..., January 2, 2003

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suaspontemark (Savannah GA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Lego 1000-Piece Creator Fun Tub (4107) (Toy)

My return foray into Legos was a set that I thought might be close to what I had as a kid - a big conglomerate collection of Legos, none of which were from sets.

This Lego set drew my attention as such. 1000 bricks, and not a lot of cutesy pieces? Alright, that's for me. However, I warn you all that the draw of seeming to get so many pieces is a bit disappointing. Over 300 of them are the tiniest, one 'pip' bricks - these cannot be made into any sort of wall. About 370 are the one x two 'pip' bricks that have some utility, but not as much as many of the larger pieces.

There are no bricks larger than two x four 'pip' bricks, which I always thought were the best pieces because they built good, strong walls. There are only about 30 of these in the set, and no two x eight, like I had as a kid...essential for building a slew of ray guns or tanks over the years.

All in all, a decent set, but over 2/3 of the pieces are tiny and not bound to be as much fun.

Update - another reviewer says I overthought this. Well, when I buy something online, and don't have a good idea of what is in the contents, I would figure that when 2/3 of the pieces have low or no utility as they were so tiny would warrant a decent but not glowing review. Thus ***/*****. It's not a five star product! Come on...

38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tub 4107 versus Tub 4103, March 24, 2004

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"mostly_physics" - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Lego 1000-Piece Creator Fun Tub (4107) (Toy)

I wondered whether, in recommending buying several smaller tubs rather than this larger one, other reviewers were just splitting hairs. Here's some data. Based on the Peeron.com inventories, this tub contains the following BRICKS (we're disregarding plates and sloped pieces):

1 x 1: 311
1 x 2: 376
1 x 3: 18
1 x 4: 22
1 x 6: 8
2 x 2: 142
2 x 3: 20
2 x 4: 29

Tub 4103 (Make & Create: Creator Bucket, or "the smaller 200-piece tub"), on the other hand, contains:

1 x 1: 42 (126)
1 x 2: 58 (174)
1 x 3: 2 (6)
1 x 4: 8 (24)
1 x 6: 2 (2)
2 x 2: 36 (108)
2 x 3: 18 (54)
2 x 4: 16 (48)

The figure in parentheses is what you would get if you bought three 4103 tubs (currently [price] each on Amazon) instead of one 4107 ([price]). Bricks greater than 2 dots in area: 242 in the 3-tub scenario, with 48 2x4 bricks, versus 239 for Tub 4107 with 29 2x4's. So the trade off is about 70 assorted plates and sloped pieces plus all the 1x1's and 1x2's in 4107 for about 20 2x4's and 24 2x3's.

Now, here's what the other reviewers neglect to mention: each 200-piece tub ALSO contains two, count 'em, TWO black hose pieces. Any 4 year old will readily demonstrate the tremendous value of those pieces in building spaceships, "chocolate coating machines", submarines, etc.. Best to go with the three 4103's.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't let box size fool you!, December 28, 2003

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O'Neill (MN, USA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Lego 1000-Piece Creator Fun Tub (4107) (Toy)

Beware! We purchased this "1000-piece" box of LEGOs assuming that it was chock full of pieces. Dismay ensued when we opened the large tub only to find out that the LEGO pieces included barely covered the bottom of the container. Furthermore, the pieces that were included consisted almost entirely of the smallest LEGOs; making any serious construction next to impossible. Now we are searching for a bunch of the larger building blocks to augment this relatively worthless purchase.