Random set of the day: Stunt Flyer
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 1070 Stunt Flyer, released during 1999. It's one of 63 Town sets produced that year. It contains 20 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$3.
It's owned by 253 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 $6.60, or eBay.
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Not even stunt people would be crazy enough to try this. This is old fashioned daredevil stuff that your uncle tries out in the backyard after jumping off the roof onto a trampoline. This image is just what it feels like for the first second before reality kicks back in.
I really dislike the random tiny Town sets Lego used to make. I'm glad they don't do them anymore.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Not even stunt people would be crazy enough to try this. This is old fashioned daredevil stuff that your uncle tries out in the backyard after jumping off the roof onto a trampoline. This image is just what it feels like for the first second before reality kicks back in."
Prodigious amounts of booze, possibly even 200 proof, were clearly involved in the design and testing of this "plane".
@PurpleDave: "Plane"...no, "Simple", yes...and there's additional wager on the pilot and crew under that descriptor...:D
It's crazy how many of these tiny sets they tried to pass off as Extreme Team with clearly non-Extreme Team minifigures.
There is your Leonardo da Vinci flying machine, town folks. Have a good flight!
This looks like one of the Red Bull flying contraptions.
Look! No hands!
I love small sets like these. They made Lego more accessible to kids with pocket money, and in some cases they had decent builds, minifigs and parts. This one... does not, but it does give you something to swoosh.
It's not going to win adult collectors over, but think of this as a magazine gift in terms of size and it makes more sense. It just came in a cute little box instead!
I definitely have one of these but I don’t remember how I got it. I think it was being given out free like the toy in a happy meal when you got a kid’s meal in Legoland
That is definitely a stunt - at least the guy wears a helmet...
It was quite weird to see a plain torso minifig around those years (except the occasional ghost or Santa).
Strange this re-release wave tended to rebrand everything to X-Treme or RES-Q - though the original 1997 version was weird in itself. Instead of the regular bright blue packaging, these 8 mini boxes (all in the same number range) came in orange boxes resembling the Castle packaging more than Town. I wonder what this was all about...
Great little promotional set, it has very useful pieces, and a minifigure also.
@phi13 said:
"It's crazy how many of these tiny sets they tried to pass off as Extreme Team with clearly non-Extreme Team minifigures."
Interestingly, this was a re-release of an older set, 2884, that initially *hadn't* had Extreme Team branding; it was simply added to this version of it for whatever reason. I wonder if maybe the Extreme Team theme was selling reasonably well they were trying to clear out little sets that they had left over by slapping that branding onto them in the hopes that it cause them to sell better?
Honestly though I'm just wild guessing, I don't know xD;
For myself, I had two of the other version of this set, mostly just because it was one of a few that came free with tins of cookies here in the UK - the tins themselves were Lego-themed too, with the box art of several Town Jr. sets all over them - and I got a duplicate of this one while trying to get the other two that I didn't have.
Not that the other two were that interesting, being just tiny cars that didn't even have their own minifigures; but hey, free Lego was free Lego!
@ThatBionicleGuy said:
" @phi13 said:
"It's crazy how many of these tiny sets they tried to pass off as Extreme Team with clearly non-Extreme Team minifigures."
Interestingly, this was a re-release of an older set, 2884, that initially *hadn't* had Extreme Team branding; it was simply added to this version of it for whatever reason. I wonder if maybe the Extreme Team theme was selling reasonably well they were trying to clear out little sets that they had left over by slapping that branding onto them in the hopes that it cause them to sell better?
Honestly though I'm just wild guessing, I don't know xD;
For myself, I had two of the other version of this set, mostly just because it was one of a few that came free with tins of cookies here in the UK - the tins themselves were Lego-themed too, with the box art of several Town Jr. sets all over them - and I got a duplicate of this one while trying to get the other two that I didn't have.
Not that the other two were that interesting, being just tiny cars that didn't even have their own minifigures; but hey, free Lego was free Lego!"
Interesting theory... There were those Kabaya sets in 1999 that were branded X-Treme Team as well, despite having little to do with it parts and color wise.
What kind of stunts can this flyer do?
@BaconKing said:
"What kind of stunts can this flyer do?"
Falling with style
@BaconKing said:
"What kind of stunts can this flyer do?"
Ask Launchpad McQuack.
@Arnoldos: In fairness. no brains either...:)
No propulsion, no controls, no aerodynamics, no back landing gear.
It's going to be an extreme stunt, all right. Too extreme. I don't recommend watching.