Freestyle
- Sets
- 67
- Since
- 1995
- Newest set
- 1999
Freestyle sold bricks rather than a single model. The theme covers 67 tubs, buckets and cases released from 1995 to 1999.
67 sets
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About Freestyle
Open-ended by design
The point of a Freestyle set was to give children a varied supply of bricks and let them decide what to make. Contents were a mix of basic bricks, plates and a few special elements, often with suggestions for things to build, but no single intended result. The set names show this focus on the container: Freestyle Multibox (4162-1) with 606 pieces, XL Freestyle Bucket (4128-1) with 657, or Large Freestyle Playcase (4153-1) with 698. The containers were meant to stay in use, doubling as storage for a growing collection once the bricks had been tipped out.
The biggest boxes
Big Box Play Scape (4258-1) from 1998 is the largest set in the theme at 1,010 pieces. The same year brought two anniversary tubs: 25th Anniversary Silver Tub (3028-1) with 845 pieces and 35th Anniversary Tub (3761-1) with 842. From 1996 come Freestyle with Storage Case (2146-1), 819 pieces, and Freestyle Large Monster Bucket (1796-1), 653 pieces. The spread between the eight largest sets is narrow, from just over 600 to just over 1,000 pieces, so any of them makes a solid base collection.
Still useful today
Freestyle tubs were often the backbone of a family brick collection, and many have long since been mixed with everything else. If you want to know what a particular box originally held, its parts list tells you. In the same spirit as the original sets, the “What can I build?” tool on Bricoria takes the bricks you already own and suggests complete models you could make from them, across all themes. An old Freestyle tub might turn out to hold most of a small house or spaceship.
FAQ
- Do Freestyle sets have building instructions?
- They were intended for free building. Ideas for models were often included, but there was no single main model.
- What is the largest Freestyle set?
- Big Box Play Scape (4258-1) from 1998, with 1,010 pieces.
- How many Freestyle sets exist?
- 67 sets, released between 1995 and 1999.