2004 / 4 Juniors

In 2004 LEGO released 18 4 Juniors sets across 5 subthemes. The largest 4 Juniors set from 2004 was 7075 Captain Redbeard's Pirate Ship with a piece count of 131 and a retail price of $39.99. The current estimated value of all these 4 Juniors sets from this year is about $1,459.31 which represents a 574.9% growth.

4 Juniors, also known as 4 Plus was a theme introduced in 2003 by LEGO that targeted children of four years old or more. It was a successor to the Jack Stone theme and used regular LEGO bricks but came with a different kind of minifigure that was larger then the standard minifigures. The sets tended to have a small number of larger pieces, in order to be easy to put together. The 4 Juniors theme consisted of Pirates, City and Spider-Man subthemes.

2004 LEGO Sets

2004 was a shakeup year at LEGO, coming off of 2003 with record losses. Some significant events include the release of the QUATRO System for very young children, and most notably the replacement of many long-standing LEGO colors including gray, dark gray, brown and violet and the introduction of some new colors like light nougat which ultimately became the skin tone for many minifigures. In 2004, The LEGO Group created a partnership with Ferrari and a number of LEGO Ferrari sets were released that year based on Ferrari’s Formula 1 racing cars. New themes released in 2004 included Maersk, Knight's Kingdom II and Ferrari under the Racers theme. LEGO discontinued the Adventurers Orient Expedition, the original Spider-Man theme, LEGO World City and Gravity Games.