Strangest Lego Sets Ever?

[Athos]

Came across this today, thought it might be of interest:

May want to avoid the link. It may have virus issues.

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/01/the ... _built.php

Steve

[outcast]

This is hilarious.

The whole premise of Mars Mission seems a little dark for LEGO; its a bunch of grizzled astronauts presented as the good guys are busy raping mars for any crystals they can mine out, when the native population takes objection and attacks. How do the miners respond? They gleefully capture the Martians, strap them Frankenstein-style to tables and send them soaring around their base in pneumatic tubes, for no apparent reason other than perverse pleasure--and you thought Guantanamo was bad. Keep in mind that LEGO astronauts were depicted befriending the Martians only a few years earlier in the Mission to Mars theme.

This was my favourite one. I'm glad I stuck with castle.

[rogue27]

The lack of any Fright Knights set disappoints me. Where else can you find crystal ball-powered batwing helicopters for witches? And why do they need such contraptions when their broom is clipped right to the side of it?

[Ser Loktar]

WTF is with that Classic Space robobase? I figured this was just some prank until I looked at the article.
I suppose some of those items deserved to be ridiculed but was surprised with a few choices, until I read the captions, which were very well written, and the author proved his point well. I didn't know TLG had made a soccer theme and the riot police is just hilarious. I'm loving that someone else had a hard time with the multiple times in market square, it seems like it belongs in the time-losers theme.
Great find Athos, thx much,
Ser Loktar

[Athos]

I didn't have any issues from a Mac, but on my PC now, I'm getting virus warnings from that link.

Steve

[Traveler]

This guy reminds me of Stewie Griffin.

[castlebuilder100]

Haha thanks for posting.

[knight howdy]

yup got a virus in it.
avast directly removed me from the site....

[Sir Kohran]

I tried the link and got a load of crap about virus scanning, and then a Trojan horse

Happy to see the Time Cruisers at 1 though The 'giant praying mantis' was creepy (pardon the pun). As classic as 1592 is, you have to laugh at how equally weird the presented situation is. And that police unit with the football hooligan looks like something straight out of the Thatcher years

[BrianofBrick06]

I never even heard of the caslte/town set displayed on that site. The figures seem to be a runoff of the lion knights and I definitely would have tried to capture a set or two had I known of its existence back in the day. Otherwise, I was surprised the listing of strange sets did not have many more bionicle products. Nothing is more strange, in my humble opinion, than the bionicle sets...

[Baites]

Didn't get a chance to read the entire article before been moved off the site for suspected viruses. I only made it through the introduction. But from other's replies, it sounds like it was an entertaining article.

An interesting side note. I was using a work computer that day and since then, that particular computer has been down, waiting for IT to address some problems with the power-saver mode locking up.

[Sir Dano]

I'll quote the article here, for those getting virus warnings:

The 10 Most Awesomely Bizarre LEGO Sets Ever Built
Posted at 5:01 AM Jan 26, 2009
By Kevin J. Guhl

Ah, Denmark. Home of fine cheeses, homicidally depressed princes, and LEGO. While the first two are nice to have,it's really LEGO that will be remembered as the Danes' finest achievement--the little plastic bricks are children's favorites throughout the world, and cursed by parents who unwittingly step on them in bare feet in more than 500 different languages. LEGOs let children build anything they can imagine...but as it turns out, it was some of those Danish LEGO engineers who has the most screwed-up imaginations of all. Behold these ten bizarre playsets, and see for yourself. (And watch where you step.)

10) Police Headquarters 0585-1
This is a set from LEGO's awkward years, when they hadn't quite invented the mini-figure design that we know and love today. Instead, there were faceless, armless figures that were much less cute and much more nightmarish. They weren't at scale with the buildings, didn't fit in the cars, would get their heads lopped off if they tried to fly the helicopter... This was more like a police station created by David Lynch that then by a happy group of toymakers up in Denmark.

9) Record and Play 4095-1
What is this thing? Megablocks if I know. It apparently records and plays something, yet also needlessly looks like a giant praying mantis. Maybe it records the screams of terror that came from the children who played with it.

8 ) Speedboat Rescue
This set was bizarre, but in the coolest of ways. It had a steel-jawed villain straight out of a Bond movie who took glee in suspending female secret agents from a giant buoy. When her male counterpart showed up in a speedboat to rescue her, the villain could take off in a jetski hidden in the buoy. But the coolest aspect is the minions tasked by the villain to try and chomp the damsel in distress - remote-control sharks. The world would be a far more interesting place if they actually existed.

7) Puck Passer 3540-1
A robotic hockey player who whacks the puck with a giant stick protruding right out of his crotch. What more can I say that you're not already chuckling at?

6) Four Animal Friends 3110-1
LEGO has always been ahead of the times, as displayed in this set in which a dog and a cat go on a romantic picnic far away from the cruel society that would frown upon their inter-species love. The set comes complete with their genetically-aberrant demonspawn in tow. Four Animal "Friends with Benefits" is more like it.

5) MB-01 Eagle Command Base 7690-1
The whole premise of Mars Mission seems a little dark for LEGO; it's a bunch of grizzled astronauts presented as the good guys are busy raping Mars for any crystals they can mine out, when the native population takes objection and attacks. How do the miners respond? They gleefully capture the Martians, strap them Frankenstein-style to tables and send them soaring around their base in pneumatic tubes, for no apparent reason other than perverse pleasure--and you thought Guantanamo was bad. Keep in mind that LEGO astronauts were depicted befriending the Martians only a few years earlier in the Mission to Mars theme.

4) Police Unit 3314-1
LEGO had a cool idea to create a series of soccer sets, especially for those ridiculous countries outside of the U.S. that get confused and call their beloved sport football. What was unexpected was that the company would release a set dedicated to those hooligans who get out of control at matches and have to be subdued by riot police.

3) Town Square - Castle Scene 1592-1
In what might be the only documented case of a dimensional rift in LEGOLAND, medieval warriors walk the streets of a modern town as their castle merges with the shops around it. Or maybe it's the LEGO version of a Renaissance Faire. Or maybe everyone at LEGO got ridiculously drunk on the day this set was designed, and threw in pieces haphazardly. Whatever the explanation is, if you have this set from 1980, you're lucky, since it's uber-rare and costly.

2) Robot Command Center 6951-1
Imagine you're a LEGO astronaut, excited as you've just graduated the Space Academy and are about to embark into the final frontier! Then you get assigned to this monstrosity. What in plastic Megablocks is this thing? Is it a command center from which to guide all robots? Is it a base for astronauts that some engineer with a sense of hilarity made to look like the most awkward robot ever? As you sit in the Robot Command Center's bulbous head while it hovers around on tiny feet and waves around its useless arms, try not to ask yourself why you didn't join up with Mega Blocks instead.

1) Hypno Cruiser 1853-1
It would have been easy to just list every set in LEGO's Time Cruisers/Twisters series and be done with it, as this Hypno Cruiser is a prime example of what this insane series was all about. The idea was that it looked like everything had been assembled by time travelers from parts they collected from throughout human history. But what it really looked like was LEGO's designers had dumped out what was left in their parts bins and cobbled together whatever sets they could out of the mess. The end result was officially-released LEGO sets that emulated the craptastic charm of whatever original creations we tried to make.

[Papy.G]

Lions shields in 1592 should have been on the next sets, these are far more realistic than the ones we got in the eighties.
For its castle, the design is a little lame, but still very nice for parts, for those who love Yellow castles, or to expand yelow tudor buildings (in, say, a big Black Falcon's MOC).

One more not listed as castle set, on this site.
In the sets section should be a non-medieval castle sets subsection, with this set, the basic construction set with soldier, and the town castle, and many others I never heard of.