Random set of the day: Green LEGO Car
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 4300 Green LEGO Car, released during 2003. It's one of 20 Racers sets produced that year. It contains 21 pieces and 1 minifig.
It's owned by 255 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 $3.30, or eBay.
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Argh! Look at that psychopath!
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Argh! Look at that psychopath! "
He has merged with the car!
Those body pieces are really disturbing! I’m not sure to many people race with just a baseball cap though.
All the other ones haven’t been LEGO?
@Miyakan said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"Argh! Look at that psychopath! "
He has merged with the car!"
So is it called the psychomobile? or the wheeled weirdo? nope it's just called green Lego car.
I have that set. I mean, I had the parts (from various used part lots) and built it... so I consider as owned.
That small pull-back cars era was peak Lego Racers, 4299 is awesome.
"Don't worry son there's no monster"
This set:
That is the face of someone who sat in front of one of those swirling black and white spirals while a team of mad scientists surgically fused him into a vehicle chassis. Now all he can say is
I don’t know where I am.
I don’t know who I am.
All I know is I must drive green car.
So I guess we’re using the motorcycle definition of “body color”, where “body” may be nothing more than a gas tank the size of an underfed Thanksgiving turkey..
@Miyakan: Soooo...Lego's version of this guy, gotcha:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j18e_ID-DpA
Hmmm..."Turbo Green" :D
Whoa... Until today I never realized this set included a second head to build a female version of the driver - and it's a fairly uncommon head too: Princess Storm from Knights' Kingdom I!
EDIT:
I never tried it, but those Drome Racers torsos might look kinda interesting on Star Wars Microfighters.
"Car" sounds like quite the exaggeration.
Looks more like a Go-cart to me.
@Miyakan said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"Argh! Look at that psychopath! "
He has merged with the car!"
Transformer! Robots with this guy!
Well, it sure is green. Sort of. And sure is a car. Sort of. And it even has a driver! Sort of.
My face when I drive to get the sets I ordered:
So this is clear retaliation to my comment yesterday...
@ao_ka said:
"That small pull-back cars era was peak Lego Racers, 4299 is awesome."
I agree, and I believe there is still so much potential in those pull-back motors. They can be used in Speed Champions sets, for example. I had one and even used it in a 4 stud vehicle.
This has a second head shared with Princess Storm from yesterday's castle.
Oh, somebody beat me to it!
Well, did you know that 4301 also has a female head and hairpiece as a secondary option?
@Rabrickzel said:
"I imagine these racers are patients in Asylum and person who runs that Asylum hosts illegal races with patients. Nesquik bunny is another of these patients there, he thinks he's actual Nesquik bunny and wears that costume 24/7."
If you had that print as your face, you would never take off the Nesquik mask either.
@MandoEli37 said:
"Those body pieces are really disturbing! I’m not sure to many people race with just a baseball cap though."
While I always liked those body pieces (and I agree with @Atuin that they'd be fun to use in a Microfighter; in fact I've suggested it before), I agree with you that this guy needs better headgear.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @MandoEli37 said:
"Those body pieces are really disturbing! I’m not sure to many people race with just a baseball cap though."
While I always liked those body pieces (and I agree with @Atuin that they'd be fun to use in a Microfighter; in fact I've suggested it before), I agree with you that this guy needs better headgear."
But it's a "Mini U.S. Cap" according to the database. USA! USA! USA!
Actually, that piques my curiosity: do folks in Europe, etc. refer to this type of "baseball" hat as an "American cap"?
Is he holding the steering wheel or not?
This is not a Minifigure!
2003 was firmly in the middle of my Dark Ages. This set is a good example of why.
@ForestMenOfEndor said:
"Actually, that piques my curiosity: do folks in Europe, etc. refer to this type of "baseball" hat as an "American cap"?"
That’s “‘Murican cap”.
In the part inventory, it says it contains a woman's black ponytail hair piece, but it's clearly not in the set!
@el_garfio said:
"This is not a Minifigure!"
That is indeed a theme with Huwbot recently.
@Binnekamp said:
"This has a second head shared with Princess Storm from yesterday's castle.
Oh, somebody beat me to it!
Well, did you know that 4301 also has a female head and hairpiece as a secondary option?"
I'm just puzzled why today's set includes an alternate black hairpiece, presumably to go with the lady head - even though the hair Storm's head has printed on it is red. Meanwhile the other set you mention supplies a hairpiece that *is* red, and doesn't necessarily need to be since Lucky's head in that set doesn't have printed hair and so would work with a hairpiece of any colour.
I wonder if at some point in production they switched which female head went in each set, and forgot to switch the hairpieces to match...?