Alpha Team Watches

[mgman]

Does anybody recall the watches inspired by Lego sets?

Well, I have a question.

Does this version of the Alpha Team watch exist (IE, was it ever sold anywhere)?

Notice how the boxed set shows minifig Charge as opposed to Dash. Also, the set on the lower left shows minifig Charge again, but also a blue ring, as opposed to green. Finally, the upper left set, despite featuring minifig Dash, has a yellow ring.

Because I know that this was most likely sold places:

Which has Dash and green ring.

Edited August 27, 2011 by mgman

[Lyichir]

Does anybody recall the watches inspired by Lego sets?

Well, I have a question.

Does this version of the Alpha Team watch exist (IE, was it ever sold anywhere)?

[snip]

Notice how the boxed set shows minifig Charge as opposed to Dash. Also, the set on the lower left shows minifig Charge again, but also a blue ring, as opposed to green. Finally, the upper left set, despite featuring minifig Dash, has a yellow ring.

Because I know that this was most likely sold places:

[snip]

Which has Dash and green ring.

I can confirm at least that this set, if it was ever released, included both the blue and green rings. Look at the pictures again: in each, one ring is on the watch and the other is set aside. I don't know for sure which minifig was included or whether it was ever really released (although two people claim to have it on Brickset; make of that what you will).

Edited August 28, 2011 by Lyichir

[mgman]

I can confirm at least that this set, if it was ever released, included both the blue and green rings. Look at the pictures again: in each, one ring is on the watch and the other is set aside. I don't know for sure which minifig was included or whether it was ever really released (although two people claim to have it on Brickset; make of that what you will).

Yeah, I caught that, too. Actually, the upper left one has a blue ring (on the watch) and a distinctly yellow (instead of green) spare ring; heck, even the watch strap's pieces are yellow (as opposed to green). I'd guess that there must be an Alpha team watch set released, but it's definitely unclear as to whether more than one type of set was released. The brickset link shows the set contains Dash (and the regular features: blue ring and green ring). Brickipedia, brickset, etc. seem to show no information on this. I tried contacting LEGO about this, even though they discontinued the series they must have some information in archives or something, but no response from them yet.

Also, were sets exclusively released in countries outside North America (like Asian and European countries, including Japan, China, UK, etc)? Now I'm trying to find a site from those regions that catalogue LEGO sets.

Also, the credibility of the statistics on brickset, such as how many having the set, is not ver strong. I'm not a user there, so maybe it might change, but you can't check which users indicated that they have a set. Also, there's no stopping a user from going around and falsely claiming that they own a set.