Random set of the day: Fireman's Car
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 30001 Fireman's Car, released during 2009. It's one of 34 City sets produced that year. It contains 39 pieces and 1 minifig.
It's owned by 1,392 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 $5.90, or eBay.
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Car? Looks like an up-graded mobility scooter to me!
Ah yes, the Mustard fire extinguisher. as opposed to the Ketchup one they normally use.
Were there ever any Firefighter Smart Cars?
Which reminds me, when's the last time you even saw a Smart Car? Was it 2009?
Impractically small, but still kind of cute.
Do RPotD and RMotD add up to more volume than RSotD?
@MCLegoboy:
We've got a truck driver at work who uncouples from a 53' trailer, parks his rig, and climbs into a Smart Car to drive home. That was a surreal moment, when I realized that's whose car I kept seeing in the parking lot.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Were there ever any Firefighter Smart Cars?
Which reminds me, when's the last time you even saw a Smart Car? Was it 2009?"
I saw one a week or two ago
For a second, I thought he was spitting on the car because of the glare.
That guy looks psychotic
you can buy lots of these sets for a cheap price, that's if you want an army of firefighters.
When the firetruck is too full but you really want to go to the fire.
@Miyakan said:
"Ah yes, the Mustard fire extinguisher. as opposed to the Ketchup one they normally use."
Ketchup? come man, we aren't Americans.
@Maxbricks14 said:
" @Miyakan said:
"Ah yes, the Mustard fire extinguisher. as opposed to the Ketchup one they normally use."
Ketchup? come man, we aren't Americans."
The fact that mustard is offered increases the chances that it is American. Here it is a 60% chance of mustard not even being available. So I stand by my Ketchup comment.
@Fatsochillyfries said:
"That guy looks psychotic"
"He's psychotic!"
"That's irrelevant"
[Insert infrared image]
I would be perfectly ok if City continued Town's tradition of 4-wide cars. These little guys are so cute.
@Miyakan said:
"Ah yes, the Mustard fire extinguisher. as opposed to the Ketchup one they normally use."
According to the fire extinguisher colour code, yellow indicates a "wet chemical" fire extinguisher, suitable for "combustible cooking media".
So, if you did have some mustard, and it caught fire, you could use the mustard fire extinguisher to put it out.
(yes I know this is stretching the truth a bit, don't @ me)
I love me some polybag go-karts!
@Fatsochillyfries said:
"That guy looks psychotic"
Fun fact: This face debuted as the face of Harry Osborn (played by James Franco) in the Sami Raimi Spider-Man trilogy. Specifically 4856 Dc Ock's Hideout and 4857 Doc Ock's Fusion Lab. It in turn was based on Norman Osborn's face (played by William Dafoe) in the 2002 Spider-Man sets.
So the psychotic-ness might be on-point...?
@Miyakan said:
"Ah yes, the Mustard fire extinguisher. as opposed to the Ketchup one they normally use."
Wet Chemical as opposed to Water. Though normally they're just a stripe, not the whole extinguisher...
@Miyakan said:
"Ah yes, the Mustard fire extinguisher. as opposed to the Ketchup one they normally use."
Isn't this yellow extinguisher far more common in Lego sets though?
@EvilTwin:
There’s no color-coding in the US. Generally, they’re all red, though Class D extinguishers do sometimes come in yellow. Labeling is done this way:
A (for Ash) in a triangle, used for basic combustibles like wood and paper.
B (for Barrel) in a square, used for flammable liquids/gasses like oil
C (for Current) in a circle, used for electrical fires
D (for Dynamite) in a star, used for flammable metal like francium
K (for Kitchen) in a hexagon, used for kitchen fires
Additionally, pictograms show examples of the sort of thing that the extinguisher is rated for. Bonus is, colorblind people can figure it out without having to wait for someone else to identify the color-coding.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Were there ever any Firefighter Smart Cars?
Which reminds me, when's the last time you even saw a Smart Car? Was it 2009?"
Yesterday or day before.
I know of someone who has a 'Trump / Pence' sticker on their Smart Car, which strikes me as a bit funny.
never seen this set before but I must have it
@kdu2814 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Were there ever any Firefighter Smart Cars?
Which reminds me, when's the last time you even saw a Smart Car? Was it 2009?"
Yesterday or day before.
I know of someone who has a 'Trump / Pence' sticker on their Smart Car, which strikes me as a bit funny."
I don’t know how many times I’ve seen an oversized gas guzzler with a Biden sticker on the bumper, but this is Metro Detroit…
The steering wheel looks a bit tall.
@EvilTwin said:
" @Miyakan said:
"Ah yes, the Mustard fire extinguisher. as opposed to the Ketchup one they normally use."
According to the fire extinguisher colour code, yellow indicates a "wet chemical" fire extinguisher, suitable for "combustible cooking media".
So, if you did have some mustard, and it caught fire, you could use the mustard fire extinguisher to put it out.
(yes I know this is stretching the truth a bit, don't @ me)"
So the yellow one in 6397 makes sense?
@MCLegoboy said:
"Were there ever any Firefighter Smart Cars?
Which reminds me, when's the last time you even saw a Smart Car? Was it 2009?"
Last week on I-75 Southbound from Perrysburg, Ohio. In the fast lane too.
@Rimefang said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Were there ever any Firefighter Smart Cars?
Which reminds me, when's the last time you even saw a Smart Car? Was it 2009?"
Last week on I-75 Southbound from Perrysburg, Ohio. In the fast lane too."
All the construction is north of there, right? Because I did a show in Toledo a month ago, and the “fast” lane was staying on the surface roads at one point. And on the way home after the show, that was the only lane because it looked like two semis tried to occupy the same space and nobody won. They had all of NB closed off at that point.
I'm just imagining a 47 story building that this guy gets sent to deal with, can he stop the inferno with just a fire extinguisher and a smile? Tune in next week to find out!
@MrGurt said:
"I'm just imagining a 47 story building that this guy gets sent to deal with, can he stop the inferno with just a fire extinguisher and a smile? Tune in next week to find out!"
In that tiny little back massager? He's not even going to make it there before the ash is cool to the touch.