Random set of the day: Glory Glider

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Glory Glider

Glory Glider

©1990 LEGO Group

Today's random set is 1560 Glory Glider, released during 1990. It's one of 27 Town sets produced that year. It contains 22 pieces and 1 minifig.

It's owned by 901 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $11.30, or eBay.


25 comments on this article

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By in United States,

No guts, no glory, and this dude's about to glory his guts all over the runway.

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By in New Zealand,

This could easily take all the spaceships and aircraft on the sidebar.

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By in United States,

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the gliding of the brick
It is floating through the air with ease despite being so thick
This is a parody of which a landing I pray stick
This brick is gliding on!

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By in United States,

@MCLegoboy said:
"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the gliding of the brick
It is floating through the air with ease despite being so thick
This is a parody of which a landing I pray stick
This brick is gliding on!"


Glory, glory, Kellogg's promo!
From the olden days of FOMO!
You had to keep eating
To get this small set of wings
This brick is gliding on!

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By in United States,

Heavenly glory?!
'Cause he doesn't look like he's long for the mortal plane.

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By in United States,

Just recently pulled this one out of a bulk lot. Cute little set - and one of only 2 sets ever that included those notched wing pieces in yellow.

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By in Netherlands,

A blacktron plane? WTF

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By in Canada,

A glider with a propeller?
I only saw it in hang-glider

(edit: found some models)

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By in Turkey,

Not overly fond of it but it's a classic, can't say anything bad about it.

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By in Germany,

Glorious Swooshability

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By in Australia,

These little sets were cute, though, weren't they?

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By in Netherlands,

Nice, reminds me of 6529

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By in Sweden,

Nice rephrasing for lube

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By in United States,

^ I think all four of these Kellogg's sets were riffs on already existing sets.

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By in United States,

One of my first sets when I was 5! I still remember getting it out of the cereal box! I ended up getting all 4 in the set eventually.

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By in United Kingdom,

Looks like City's attempt at the first Wright brothers plane with panic expression as the controls don't do anything, while all the time not realizing that he is sinking into the plate.

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By in United Kingdom,

There’s something very satisfying about how snugly the minifig’s head fits between those angles in the wedge plates

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By in Netherlands,

Ah, one of these four again. Reminder that they had combiner builds.

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By in United States,

I got this and the boat. Would love another cereal promotion like this, even though I don't really eat cereal much any more.

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By in United States,

The torso print featured in this one and 1563 (among other sets), and its color variant featured in 1561 and 1562 (again, among other sets) is one of my favorite nostalgic torso prints.

@transamman6585 said:
"One of my first sets when I was 5! I still remember getting it out of the cereal box! I ended up getting all 4 in the set eventually."

I was twice that age in 1990, and I got all four, too. Had a lot of fun with those little sets. But if I'm remembering correctly (which, granted, may not be the case, it's been thirty-six years), they didn't come in the box itself, you had to mail in bar codes.

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By in United States,

Between my parents and my grandparents buying Kellogg's cereal so I could have the UPC codes to mail in, I ended up with at least two complete sets of theses promo sets.

So much yellow.

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By in United States,

@TheOtherMike said:
"The torso print featured in this one and 1563 (among other sets), and its color variant featured in 1561 and 1562 (again, among other sets) is one of my favorite nostalgic torso prints.

@transamman6585 said:
"One of my first sets when I was 5! I still remember getting it out of the cereal box! I ended up getting all 4 in the set eventually."

I was twice that age in 1990, and I got all four, too. Had a lot of fun with those little sets. But if I'm remembering correctly (which, granted, may not be the case, it's been thirty-six years), they didn't come in the box itself, you had to mail in bar codes."


Sounds likely. That’s too expensive a toy to put in every cereal box.

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By in United States,

@StyleCounselor said:
"Heavenly glory?!
'Cause he doesn't look like he's long for the mortal plane."


He won't be long for the mortal plane, but he'll be long on the mortal plain.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the gliding of the brick
It is floating through the air with ease despite being so thick
This is a parody of which a landing I pray stick
This brick is gliding on!"


Glory, glory, Kellogg's promo!
From the olden days of FOMO!
You had to keep eating
To get this small set of wings
This brick is gliding on!"


I have seen him in the fires of the wreckage he has done
They have builded him in altar in the columbarium
I still see his downward arcing in the setting of the sun
His soul is gliding on!

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I remember these sets well. My family ate so many boxes of Froot Loops so I could mail in the box-tops and get this collection. I hated Froot Loops. There were boxes left over I couldn't choke down. My dad wound up eating them.

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By in United States,

He should be careful where he glory glides. If he crashes, he might make a glory hole.

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By in United States,

@PurpleDave said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"The torso print featured in this one and 1563 (among other sets), and its color variant featured in 1561 and 1562 (again, among other sets) is one of my favorite nostalgic torso prints.

@transamman6585 said:
"One of my first sets when I was 5! I still remember getting it out of the cereal box! I ended up getting all 4 in the set eventually."

I was twice that age in 1990, and I got all four, too. Had a lot of fun with those little sets. But if I'm remembering correctly (which, granted, may not be the case, it's been thirty-six years), they didn't come in the box itself, you had to mail in bar codes."


Sounds likely. That’s too expensive a toy to put in every cereal box."


I will corroborate; these were a mail-in promo.

They were also my first bit of tiptoeing out of my dark ages back into the world of the brick after some years away, though it would be about another decade before the early Star Wars sets fully pulled me back across the line.

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