Mustache of the seas? :{P

Too late. The Queen is gone.

WHERE WERE YOU?

Ah, reminds me of "Honeymoon Suite"...:
WAAAAVE Savers, when they're ridin' cross the wake
WAAAAVE Savers, savin' WHAT for Heaven sake...
What for Heaven sake...

5-D Chinese checkers here with the name.

This set is an exploration of existentialism.

"Juniorized era" or not, I loved looking at the RES-Q sets in the catalogue as a kid. Especially 6473

I know for a fact I had at least one of the smaller sets. I came across one of the torsos when exploring my old LEGO stashes post-Gray Age. Can't for the life of me remember which one, though. A couple of the set images seem like contenders, but none of them outright say "Me!"

@TheBrickPal said:
"This set may be the Wave Saver, but what do the waves need saving from?"

Brittania. She rules the waves...with an iron fist. They must be saved from her totalitarian dictatorship

@TheBrickPal said:
"This set may be the Wave Saver, but what do the waves need saving from?"

Who's saving the wave saver?

ResQ was a weird case of being a pretty normal town theme... in the final stretch of the 90s.
And it was also at the height of the 'xtreme' era. In this case it being 'Res-Q'. It's contemporary was 'X-treme Team'. But these were perfectly good sets!

This set popped up everywhere. I remember encountering it and a few others as late as 2005 in a Blokker store over here. I went home with a lovely 6901 Space Plane that day. Considering the THREE versions of this little set alone, I'd say it must have either been very successful or super overproduced. Maybe both, considering it was the late 90s when this came out.

Apparently this was a polybag version. Oh, and that printed slope only appears in these three sets and a service pack!

Don't let this simple set fool you, Res-Q was a great theme with sets like 6451, 6462, 6473.

@Ridgeheart said:
" @EvilTwin said:
"I saved some waves once. I caught them in a jar and took them home with me. When i looked in the jar it was just water. I guess the wave escaped somewhere. I should probably have just left it in its natural habitat anyway"

Username does not check out. It's YOU we ought to be saving the waves from, you dastard."

As it is the cruel goddess Umberlee whose domain is the ocean, the waves are what mortals need saving from!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some faithful of Umberlee to be extorted by, as I must soon travel across the seas.

...Okay. According to this fancy meter here, any further and I'll pass beyond safe levels of public nerdiness.

...in the UK Adventures magazine, this guy (named Pilot Thompson in the comic) is the only one of the RES-Q team to *not* ride one of these jetskis. In the story, he's piloting the 6462 to evacuate workers from an oil rig that's in danger of imminent destruction from a huge tidal wave: and when there's not quite enough room on the helicopter for all of them as well as the team, his teammates have to take these jetskis to outrun the wave instead.

Fittingly, given the month, that was the October issue of that magazine (1999): that's one of the few issues I can remember off the top of my head because of it being a) my birthday month of the first year that I was seriously into Lego and b) also my first introduction to Rock Raiders, my favourite childhood theme and the main focus of that issue, the team of whom I would get from 4930 for that same birthday. Suffice it to say it was a significant one for me!

Also fittingly, I just bought a copy of that magazine issue off eBay, for nostalgia's sake. If we just get a Rock Raiders RSotD sometime this month, too, that'll complete the reference...!

@Binnekamp said:
"ResQ was a weird case of being a pretty normal town theme... in the final stretch of the 90s.
And it was also at the height of the 'xtreme' era. In this case it being 'Res-Q'. It's contemporary was 'X-treme Team'. But these were perfectly good sets!

This set popped up everywhere. I remember encountering it and a few others as late as 2005 in a Blokker store over here. I went home with a lovely 6901 Space Plane that day. Considering the THREE versions of this little set alone, I'd say it must have either been very successful or super overproduced. Maybe both, considering it was the late 90s when this came out.

Apparently this was a polybag version. Oh, and that printed slope only appears in these three sets and a service pack!"

Now if you had found a 6901 Mobile Lab still on the shelf in 2005, that would have been quite something.

The reuse of set numbers always felt a bit strange, but particularly during this era when 6901-2 was also 6902 and the instructions featured both.

This set was responsible for my emergence from the Dark Ages.

Standing in the checkout line at a grocery store, a few boxes were on a shelf in the aisle. Picked one up just for fun, and later discovered a tiny image of a Naboo Fighter on the included booklet. That was the first moment I learned of the new SW license. Game on.

@MCLegoboy said:
"Collection Complete!
https://brickset.com/article/39551
https://brickset.com/article/44157
https://brickset.com/article/100727"

Hats off to you for noticing this, and giving us the new Holy Trinity of 1990s LEGO.

Small Blacktron 1 boat, piloted by a Blacktron 2. Tell me I'm wrong. RES-Q was good.

What are you thinking?!?

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"...in the UK Adventures magazine, this guy (named Pilot Thompson in the comic) "

They will always be called Dave Quaver to me