LEGO Creator Expert

LEGO Creator: Expert is a sub-theme of Creator introduced in late 2012 with the introduction of Horizon Express Set 10233. These sets feature large, detailed, buildings and vehicles aimed at, as the name suggests, experienced LEGO fans. In 2020, LEGO announced the Expert theme was ending in favor of sets marked 18+. Creator, a continuing theme that started in 2001, is focused on the creative construction of System parts as opposed to playability functions of minifigures as in most other themes. As such, Creator sets are typically based on buildings (such as houses and apartments), vehicles (such as cars and airplanes), and/or creatures (such as dinosaurs and spiders). They at one point released small sets contained in plastic pods, similar to the way BIONICLE and Hero Factory used to be packaged, but most are in regular boxes. The Creator sets didn’t include Minifigures until 2011, although many of the older sets are minifigure-scaled. The Creator vehicles are said to have replaced the Model Team theme, which was discontinued for the final time in 1999, 2 years before Expert was introduced.