One of my first sets! I can’t remember my first, but this is the oldest one I remember, so I mark it as my first!

@HuskyDynamics said:
"Additionally, 31064 is the closest I'm aware of that's been done by LEGO themselves. It's not a direct replica obviously, but I think it gets enough of the general idea across to count."

I'm not enough of an aviation buff to know if that "belly flop" design is based on a real seaplane. The only one I can say for sure is based on a legit seaplane is the one from the opening of Raiders, and then mostly only because we actually see it fly in the movie. If that other set has no basis in real-world aviation, then it's quite possible that it was cribbed from Tale Spin. Even if it is, that doesn't rule out the possibility, especially given the yellow color. Personally, I'd rather see a set based on a more challenging Disney design: the Thunderquack! As yet, nobody seems to have posted a design to Rebrickable. Nobody posted the Ratcatcher, either.

@Worrissey said:
"charming little set, but not the guy driving that thing

commuting to work in a freakn plane
his carbon footprint must be nuts"
Maybe he's going to climate conferences. That would make it okay.

Probably not though. He'd be the only passenger on a luxury Learjet if he were doing that.

So yeah, this guy's just an ogre.

Have this one. I remember there being so many set ads in the back of the instructions. I poured over those for hours as a kid.

I see that stickered roof every now and then in the part bins.

@PurpleDave: Ah, the Thunderquack...my second favorite thing in Darkwing Duck...third if you count 'the quotes' ("I am the Terror that flaps in the night, I am the Lego brick you step on, on the way to the bathroom, I am DARKWING DUCK!!!":D), forth if you count DW himself...sorry, got side-quacked(;)). But I always loved 'the Ratcatcher'; DW's motorcycle, and one time, snowmobile...and we still need a Darkwing Minifigure...:)

As for the set; have it; on the bookcase across the room...always wonder seeing the photo for it (as posted above): if the plane is on 'water'...what's the guy walking on...:|(:D)

I've always loved those wind socks.

@gearwheel said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"I'm not enough of an aviation buff to know if that "belly flop" design is based on a real seaplane."

It may not be based on a specific model of seaplane, but it is absolutely based on a very common configuration. Small seaplanes, like this RSotD, usually have a couple of pontoon floats instead of landing wheels, and are also called floatplanes. Big seaplanes (pretty much anything that can carry more than a handful of people or significant amounts of cargo) *always* have the main fuselage also be a big boat hull, and they often have a couple stabilizer pontoons sticking down from the wings to make sure that they don't roll over too much from waves. They are also called flying boats.

Seaplanes of both types actually date back to the dawn of aviation, since back then runways didn't exist yet, and even long flat straight roads weren't common, but lakes could be counted on to be big and flat. In fact, transoceanic air travel happened first with flying boats, since those could land and be refueled anywhere that boats full of fuel could access."

The TV series Tales of the Golden Monkey featured a flying boat cargo seaplane.

This one I got as a gift from my wife because it reminded her of our honeymoon, where we went in a yellow seaplane! Very special memory and gift

@Rimefang said:
" @gearwheel said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"I'm not enough of an aviation buff to know if that "belly flop" design is based on a real seaplane."

It may not be based on a specific model of seaplane, but it is absolutely based on a very common configuration. Small seaplanes, like this RSotD, usually have a couple of pontoon floats instead of landing wheels, and are also called floatplanes. Big seaplanes (pretty much anything that can carry more than a handful of people or significant amounts of cargo) *always* have the main fuselage also be a big boat hull, and they often have a couple stabilizer pontoons sticking down from the wings to make sure that they don't roll over too much from waves. They are also called flying boats.

Seaplanes of both types actually date back to the dawn of aviation, since back then runways didn't exist yet, and even long flat straight roads weren't common, but lakes could be counted on to be big and flat. In fact, transoceanic air travel happened first with flying boats, since those could land and be refueled anywhere that boats full of fuel could access."

The TV series Tales of the Golden Monkey featured a flying boat cargo seaplane. "

...and don't forget the 'Sea Duck' cargo seaplane from the Disney animated TV show TailSpin!

It was a surprise set from a used lot that I got. I still have it built. Not the side build though, I used the red cones.

@Murdoch17 said:
"...and don't forget the 'Sea Duck' cargo seaplane from the Disney animated TV show TailSpin!"

This part of the discussion was about whether the Sea Duck was a style of plane that exists in real life. So, it was the start of that conversation thread, and it's also not a physical plane. Tales of the Gold Monkey was a single-season, live-action series that was probably inspired by Raiders of the Lost Ark, and featured what is apparently one of the three models of plane that were composited into the fictional Sea Duck:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_G-21_Goose

The other two planes are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_C-82_Packet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina

I can't unsee some 6687 inspiration here....

@WizardOfOss said:
"I can't unsee some 6687 inspiration here...."

He has that air pony trained really well, to get it to rear up like that.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
"...and don't forget the 'Sea Duck' cargo seaplane from the Disney animated TV show TailSpin!"

This part of the discussion was about whether the Sea Duck was a style of plane that exists in real life. So, it was the start of that conversation thread, and it's also not a physical plane. Tales of the Gold Monkey was a single-season, live-action series that was probably inspired by Raiders of the Lost Ark, and featured what is apparently one of the three models of plane that were composited into the fictional Sea Duck:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_G-21_Goose

The other two planes are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_C-82_Packet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina "

As one of the few nerds whose interests crossover between Aircraft, Tales of the Gold Monkey and Archer, Archer Season 9 "Danger Island" (which awesomely rips TOTGM) caused a deep dive when it aired. A few corrections;
- According to the creator, the Sea Duck is an amalgam of a Grumman HU-16 Albatross and the aforementioned Fairchild C-82 Packet.
- I'm PERSONALLY inclined to believe that somewhere in the back of the designers or animators' brains was an image of a Blohm and Voss BV-138 Sea Dragon, a WW2 era German Seaplane that, despite being a trimotor (with the third motor mounted directly ABOVE the main wing), is the only known seaplane manufactured with a twin tail boom. EDIT - Having reread this sentence it's also interesting that one is the SEA Dragon (while the other is SEA Duck)
- I'm inclined to agree with @HuskyDynamics - 31064 is closer in design to the Sea Duck than to any real-life aircraft.
- I'm also inclined to agree with @PurpleDave that Tales of the Gold Monkey was 'inspired' by Raiders of the Lost Ark. Despite Bellisario claiming TOTGM was inspired by "Only Angels have Wings", if you've seen it, you'll be hard pressed discounting the Raiders influence - particularly when Raiders was released 12 months prior to TOTGM (compared to OAHW's 1939 release!)

@HuskyDynamics said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @LuvsLEGO_Cool_J said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Why yes, I do see it!"

I was gonna do that joke.

I have wondered if someone has recreated the Sea Duck out of LEGO, Baloo’s plane from Disney’s TV series Talespin. "

There are at least five different designs, from microscale to minifig, on Rebrickable."

Additionally, 31064 is the closest I'm aware of that's been done by LEGO themselves. It's not a direct replica obviously, but I think it gets enough of the general idea across to count."

I added small pontoons to the outside wings of my 6356 Med Star Rescue Plane and had lots of TaleSpin inspired adventures as a kid. But 31064 is definitely the closest LEGO ever got to an official Conwing L-16.

@magni_nominis_umbra said:
"- According to the creator, the Sea Duck is an amalgam of a Grumman HU-16 Albatross and the aforementioned Fairchild C-82 Packet. )"

If you've got a source you can cite for that, you should consider correcting the TaleSpin article on Wikipedia (which means probably having to also chase down any TaleSpin wikis and transferring the correction over). But looking at the three planes that were cited there, I can actually see how someone could argue that the Sea Duck draws from those, especially since one of them is named after a type of waterfowl.

Also, I'm just going to assume that Cheryl's "eye socket" quote from Danger Island was an original addition by the Archer writers, and not something they got from TotGM. If there's not a corresponding character in that show, though, I'm wondering if Crackers might have been inspired by Jean-Claude from Bruce Campbell's Jack of All Trades series (if you haven't heard of it, it only had 14 eps over two seasons, and I only found out about it because I stumbled across the DVD box set at Walmart).

Ayyy my brother had this set

I can't believe I just remembered 5935 Island Hopper seaplane from Adventurers Dino Island!

Idk why but this set is just so 2010 City to me. Must be because it was very well advertised and because it was something not seen much of before with City. Weirdly the most salient memory I have of the set is seeing it in a small supermarket abroad and being amazed that they sold lego at a place like that.

It's a nice little set, complete with a little alcove to store a suitcase :)

@Rimefang said:
"I can't believe I just remembered 5935 Island Hopper seaplane from Adventurers Dino Island!"

I have that one, 3178, and 31064. Can you tell I like seaplanes?

I was just yesterday piecing this set together from a large used lot. Mostly complete, a half dozen parts missing maybe. Looks to be a cute little model. Comprised mostly of Blacktron secondary colours of Yellow and White. The minifig is a lost cause.