Random set of the day: Off-Roader
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8066 Off-Roader, released during 2011. It's one of 11 Technic sets produced that year. It contains 141 pieces, and its retail price was US$19.99/£15.99.
It's owned by 2,842 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 $30.60, or eBay.
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I quite like this.
A bit different to the boring cars we always see in Technic.
It's gone so far off the road, it's now exploring the great void, so vast, white, and empty...
@MCLegoboy said:
"It's gone so far off the road, it's now exploring the great void, so vast, white, and empty..."
Oh hey I think I saw that on Top Gear! Granted they were driving a Hilux rather than a Jeep, but it still counts as white abyss offroading!
If I'm not mistaken, this was the first LEGO set I owned with suspension.
@MCLegoboy said:
"It's gone so far off the road, it's now exploring the great void, so vast, white, and empty..."
I know where it's not, and that's the universe.
Epic
@MCLegoboy said:
"It's gone so far off the road, it's now exploring the great void, so vast, white, and empty..."
Roads? Where it’s gone it doesn’t need roads
Looks really small for 20$
In itself looks like a nice little car. But even right now I wouldn't see this sell for €20. I mean, just this year we got 42164, which apart from a B-model seems to trump this set in every way, yet only costs €16. Technic used to be good value.....but clearly not always.
Nice update to 8820, which itself was a smaller reinterpretation of 8845.
It's nice enough. I wonder if the headlights are attached with half an L of an axle.
The price seems fine next to my 8046 Helicopter from the year prior. The helicopter was 16 euro, this was 15 euro. Bear in mind that the heli wasvery hollow and spread out.
@Binnekamp said:
"It's nice enough. I wonder if the headlights are attached with half an L of an axle."
Designers would not get away with that now, or the half a connector at the side of the seat that makes it look unfinished.
@PurpleDave said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"It's gone so far off the road, it's now exploring the great void, so vast, white, and empty..."
I know where it's not, and that's the universe."
Anyone want to play Dungeons and Dragons for the next ten quadrillion years? (RIP Gary Gygax.)
This set has a very compact and effective design. Incorporating steering and suspension with so few parts is a work of art. It is a bit flimsy, though.
It was my first set with the 3L cardan joint. Until this year, I believe, 4L joints were still being used, and they were very ineffective in this new technic style by then. (But someone can correct me if I am wrong.)