Brickshelf user RasRasRas has the first pictures of an upcoming large special set, 4999 Vestas Windmill. The motorized model towers over two feet and includes a nice setup of the base with minifigs and a small van. Take another look and you’ll see that the set includes green BURPs, oh my.
Nannan posted this entry on Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 3:29 pm.
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July 14th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
This looks awesome! Alternative energy AND lego, together at last! Where will this be available?
July 14th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Oh my! Tabletown’s energy crisis just got solved at a stroke!
Dr. S.
July 14th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Just had a ton of these installed nearby, A great addition for the growing energy needs of Market street.
July 14th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Totally awesome! It’s cool to see environmentalist sets from LEGO. Though, as is typical for minifig-scale sets, it is waaay too small–those things are huge!
July 14th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
coolio!
July 14th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
A little ironic when considering lego is a product of oil and you spin the blades with a battery but, still a nice token move.
July 14th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
^ LOL! Indeed. Agreed that this is still very cool, though.
July 14th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
>> Alternative energy AND lego, together at last!
Not ‘at last’.
In 2003 there was the incredible set with the solar battery among others:
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?S=9684-1.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
And no one cares about all the poor birds and animals who will have their environment upset because of all these new windmills?
;)
July 14th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
That’s funny, on my way over to the compy I had a construction idea for a LEGO (farm type) windmill on the mind; and what’s the first thing to greet me on TBB?
Neat looking set.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
why is it called a burp?
July 14th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Big Ugly Rock Piece.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
one thing that i never woulda seen coming is a lego wind farm. what happened to playability? what the heck would you do with a giant 2-foot lego windmill!?!
i guess that’s what that’s van’s for, for you to play with. *snicker*
July 14th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
This is awesome. Those green BURPs are interesting too.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
FTW.
July 15th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Way cool, and here I was hoping the TLC would go with a ECO-LEGO City. And yet there it is. Cool news.
July 15th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Oh. My. Gosh.
Thats ace, I want one!
July 15th, 2008 at 4:41 am
I work in a power engineering research group at a University and I’m trying to convince my boss we need a few of these to set up on stands during our open days to attract students over! Then I can just steal them afterwards…
July 15th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Nice! This set is definitely on my “must have” list for this year. Has anyone heard if this is a ‘promo only’ set or will it be sold through S@H?
July 15th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Any idea how much it costs?
Looks sweet for the light bley angled plates at the least.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
You know i bet i could modify this to were it runs off a solar panel instead of batteries. And put the solar panels on top of the house to make it look even more eco friendly.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
i bet you could run it off solar, for a properly green future.
July 15th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
That’s the thing, why don’t they make a real lego li’l generator which powers a couple lights on the house or something when you spin it. Plus it would be fun to combine it with other power functions for all sorts of li’l green lego experiments. Who knows perhaps somebody could come up with a li’l battery/spring powered lego hybrid. That my friends would be the greeniest.
July 15th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
The world can be saved!
July 15th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
[...] (via) [...]
July 15th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
[...] limited-edition set. At over two feet tall and with motorized functions, this picture found on Brothers Brick shows a set that would look perfect in a modern, green-minded LEGOLAND setup. And it seems to [...]
July 16th, 2008 at 6:58 am
[...] brothersbrick via gizmodo [...]
July 16th, 2008 at 7:52 am
This is cool, if the price is good and available in the U.S. I might get this.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:17 am
I don’t think those are BURPs. I think that’s just a baseplate with some raised (heavily) features.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:58 am
No one will be able to buy this set anyways, so it doesn’t matter. LEGO makes awesome promos and never sells they to the public.
However the house is way too damn small, way too small. There is no way the two minifigures and dog will fit in there.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:01 am
Those are BURPs because of the shape, but also because the motor has to me hidden in there for this to work.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Promo only, for internal Vestas use. Picture leaked from Czech factory, should have been secret.
http://ing.dk/artikel/89745
An FLL winner made a turbine that was sensitive to wind, perhaps Lego could make an NXT version, but unlikely to be commercial.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:46 am
Sorry everyone, but the Windmill is made exclusively for Vestas and will not be available for public release.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:37 am
@Jan: Thank you very much for the official word from LEGO, Jan. That’s too bad, but I hope that the City team hears about the excitement among fans about this type of set, and considers developing something like this for the future. :-)
July 17th, 2008 at 8:09 am
OMG This is 999999999x better than new death star
July 19th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
[...] Vestasの風車LEGOが出るみたい。欲しいなー。佐野のアウトレットで売らないかな。 [...]
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:05 am
[...] Vía: The Brothers brick [...]
July 24th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
[...] Florea (Olog) swoops on the Vestas Windmill leak and enters the Picking up the Pieces Contest with his own apocalypse version of the windmill, [...]
July 24th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
[...] Malheureusement vous ne pourrez pas compter sur elle pour recharger votre maison en comptant sur le petit courant d’air qui traverse votre salon. Mais vous pourrez toujours vous en servir comme ventilateur. [Brothers Brick] [...]
July 25th, 2008 at 3:02 am
@Bryan:
The medium old technic motors actually generate a current when the axle is turned, so a working wind-turbine (of sorts) would be possible :wink:
July 27th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
hehehehe “Hasta La Vestas!” That makes it for me. =)
July 29th, 2008 at 11:19 am
hi
i like this set 4999 vestas windmill
when this beautiful set is available?
i am interest purchase this set.. do i can buy anywere?
August 7th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
It can’t be too hard…it is a stick with a rotating rectangular block on the top. Use your imagination, some gray pieces, and some thought and you too can build your very own LEGO wind turbine…
August 14th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
whats ironic is it doesnt matter what lego is made of, nor what this turbine is powered by. the reason LEGO is using a Vestas turbine is because LEGO is a Danish manufacturer, and so is Vestas. The politics involved are nothing more then that. theyve been teamed up for years now showing wind turbines at lego exibits for a while only difference is before the LEGO models had REAL Vestas miniature turbines.. now LEGO has a model..
i will be buying one for sure :) (i work for Vestas)
August 15th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Cool patio chairs: made with vehicle fender arches and 1×1 headlight bricks. Nice set!! We’ve got wind turbines here on Maui… but, I don’t think they are Vestas. The Kaheawa Wind Power website indicates they are from GE: quantity 20, 1.5 Megawatt each, providing about 9% of energy for Maui.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:54 am
@George –am interested to see what the Vestas internal pricing of this product is, if you are willing to share
August 26th, 2008 at 12:40 am
As far as I have been able to find out Andy, all sales are done through Lego and not Vestas so no discount for Vestas emplyees (very sad). I can’t even find out a price or when or where it is going on sale.
September 9th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Hi everybody.
I can inform you guys that Vestas gave those wind mills to all its emplyees as a summer gift. Didn’t cost a thing. I work at Vestas here in Ringkøbing Denmark and i just got mine yesterday.
It looks pretty nice. As i can see alot of the emplyees are trying to sell the windmills for alot of money on diffent sites. So it could be possible to get your hands on one if you really want to.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Another note about them.
There only made 25.000 of them.
The reason they ordered them to us Vestas workers was so that we could get an assignment. That was to find a Vestas Ambassador and give this set to.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Hi…. also just got mine today! So if anybody wants to buy leave a message! :)
September 10th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I’m going to lock comments on this post before it turns into a Buy/Sell/Trade forum for Vestas employees to profit from LEGO fans.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
[...] Brothers Brick, a Lego blog, reports that the Danish toymaker will be releasing a wind turbine set, which of course is not really wind-powered, but motorized. Batteries not [...]
December 16th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
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