Vintage set of the week: Police Units
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 445 Police Units, released during 1976. It's one of 28 LEGOLAND sets produced that year. It contains 39 pieces.
It's owned by 522 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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Enforcing the law for the second week in a row.
200,000 POLICE units are ready, with a million more well on the way.
And suddenly I've got an urge to watch some movies with Mahoney and company...or at least Lt. Frank Drebin :)
Also, pretty sure that...trike(?) is a moving violation; but I guess if you're 'enforcing' the law...:)
its the rozzers
the pigs
the po po
the boys in blue (or in this case black)
the feds
the fuzz
the law
so ya better run boy, because they aint giving out free cupcakes
These guys are much smaller and much less posable than last week's cops. And both sets even came out the same year!
Somebody had mentioned this set as an example of bad design last week and now it appears as well lmao (yeah, it was the US version 659 but basically the exact same set)
I so loved this set as a kid! The small figs were so sleek, and the builds so minimal. Huge difference compared to the big figs I was used to. By the standards of the day, this set was great!
Where's the donuts?
@Maxbricks14 said:
"200,000 POLICE units are ready, with a million more well on the way.
"
That's ... good news.
@ao_ka said:
"Somebody had mentioned this set as an example of bad design last week and now it appears as well lmao (yeah, it was the US version 659 but basically the exact same set)"
That was me. This was the second set I ever owned (not the EU version). Hasn't gotten any better in the past week (stupid motorcycle with a tiller and a training wheel). My brother and I got duplicate copies of one of the sets with maxifigs like last week's VSotW, then one set each (cops for me, construction for him) with these miniquins, and finally moved on to the modern age with our first minifig sets (this time cops for him, construction for me).
Tonight's the night that we got the truck...
Got one! Though not quite as mine is 659....
Unfortunately somehow only have one of the wheels of that bike :-(
That sky is the thing of nightmares.
Absolute units!
Even if that is ironically oxymoronic...
So much for the long arm of the law.
I wish I could comment on the quality of the set but I can barely see it due to the quality of the image. Thought the van had some weird conning tower coming out of it but that’s just the background
They're unarmed.
@BaconKing said:
"Where's the donuts?"
Donuts would be torturous in this set... they can't reach them. Nor can the officers get them to their (nonexistent) mouths what with the sub-T-rex arms they have.
I loved this set when I was a kid though!
Even before the dawn of the minifig there was police to make sure no laws were broken. Who makes the laws? The godlike child that governs their existence. Rules are made up on a whim. One moment you are doing fine, the next you are deemed a criminal and the faceless extensions of nonsensical laws are descending upon you to put you in jail. Where you might be forgotten, or freed with the expectation that you will live as normal after everything that has transpired.
Or worse, the starchild is gone and now there is only stasis as nothing is moved anymore as they stand in a glass box.
Either way, the blood-red sky is more than just an omen. It is an expression of the sheer horror they cannot express. For they have no arms to wave for help. Their legs can't move in order to escape. And they have no face.
But they.
Remember.
Everything.
They have no mouth and they must scream.
And none are safe. Lawbreaker, law enforcer. All are equally powerless to the invisible forces that govern their existence.
All of my early cars looked like this! But I used to leave 1 stud free around the front axle, mount the front wheels plate on a 2x2 plate and a 2x2 turntable and then a steerable car! To a point anyway - I was 6...
My first Lego!!
Unfortunately I no longer have it. It went 'missing' while I was in college.
@8lackmagic said:
"That sky is the thing of nightmares."
Real 1984 vibes with this one
I’m gonna need you to get some arms right meow.
Probably my third-ever set. Definitely a product of its time, but I still have it (with box!).
These guys are probably chasing the drag racers from the last 5 days.
The LEGO police force got more efficient when they realized that can put a connector between the unicycles they were using to make a more balanced '2 wheeled vehicle'.
@Ridgeheart said:
"Tell PC McGarry to get himself a mate
And arm themselves with CS gas
They're gonna be out late
We've had Cant Conformism since 1966
And now subversion's in the air in the shape of flying bricks"
I forgot that song. I looked them up. They're still together and putting out music. Amazing.
Very forward thinking to have the faces blurred to hide their identities, and the background blurred to hide their location.