https://brickset.com/minifigs/col136 for RMotD, this for RPotD; Huwbot's feeling competitive!

Distant cousin of Mop & Glo.

It's interesting how 25 years later we're back to racing again,after Speed Champions and this time with official Formula 1 IP. See you all in 2050 for the next Lego racing series. (P.s is it me or was Speed Racer IP theme short-lived? Sets like 8161 make me think we didn't have anything like this since then. I'm sure I'm wrong though..)

@Kynareth said:
" @Miyakan said:
"It comes with a dark gray Duplo ball which also comes in 7418 Scorpion Palace.
One of the minifigures has a scorpion on it's torso https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=twn009&T=S&O={%22iconly%22:0}

Coincidence! I think not!"

It also appears in the original Raiders of the Lost Ark temple. This set is 25 years old and belongs in a museum. Coincidence? I think not!"

The ball in that one is Dark Bluish Gray, not Dark Gray. And it doesn't have any scorpions in it at all. You might as well throw in all the Lego education sets with red balls at that point.

Kinda' looks like they stole Ant-Man's car and duplicated it...also; how is this a 'race'? I mean; if there's a start and finish, ok, but otherwise it's a demolition derby...with extra steps:)

This is before the machines revolted.

@MCLegoboy said:
"Interesting; on page 27 of the instructions, it appears that there was a piece of perforated card stock with the scores 0-9 on them, and they slide in and out via gutter plates.
BrickLink confirms this: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=72826
Would have never known."

I always see those tiny card stock numbers in the bulk at my local Bricks and Minifigs but never knew what they were from. Now I know. (And in case you are wondering: No. Bricks and Minifigs does not have locations in Poland. This post shows my location as Poland because I am currently traveling, but I live in the US)

I never knew that this set existed. It’s very weird. Is the color scheme of the one on the left supposed to pay homage to M-Tron? Perhaps I have never seen this set (or theme for that matter) because I have been taught not to see race.)

@Euroseb11 said:
"It's interesting how 25 years later we're back to racing again,after Speed Champions and this time with official Formula 1 IP. See you all in 2050 for the next Lego racing series. (P.s is it me or was Speed Racer IP theme short-lived? Sets like 8161 make me think we didn't have anything like this since then. I'm sure I'm wrong though..) "

There have been plenty of racing cars over the past 25 years.

Oh, some 2k sets are really hard to look at. I had 6519 and 6602 from this theme as a gift. Immediately went to parts bin. Great as a parts pack, not so much as a set.

I got this new off eBay in 2006, but it had one slight issue... one of the four strings with end studs (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=x127c10pb01&idColor=11T=C&C=11) was shorter than the others. I made it work by adjusting where on the claw it attached, but it made the claw a bit lopsided.

Wow, the first attempt at Rocket League, maybe they could relaunch updated sets.

Typical Town scenery. That's what makes the theme so realistic!

I almost got this set once. I didn't know a lot about the Race theme and wouldn't have recognised it if you'd referred to it by that name - because the two comics featuring these characters in Lego Adventures magazine called the theme Stunt Rally after the accompanying video game instead, so I only knew it by that name - but I recognised the characters from said comic. I wasn't sure what to make of the set itself, but at the time I was interested in getting minifigures of all the named characters from that magazine so the presence of Wrench and Lucky was the most interesting thing to me.

That, and I found this set going cheap in a Toys R Us shop in *2005*, so there was a bit of nostalgia at play, too, because I always liked finding older sets unexpectedly...!

They also had an almost-equally-old 8008 Technic Stormtrooper at the time. That one was more tempting to me than this one was (I didn't have any of the SW Technic sets, but my friend had a few of them and they really impressed me); except the box had been torn open, and my parents didn't want me to take a chance with buying that one so that I wouldn't find myself disappointed if it had pieces missing. Curious as this Race set was, I couldn't justify to myself choosing it over the Stormtrooper, even if the Stormtrooper was now off-limits to me...

so I didn't buy any Lego that day and got Hasbro's Revenge of the Sith action figure of Padmé instead, since I was also collecting some of those figures on the side.

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Regarding this set, it didn't feature in any of the Stunt Rally story media that I was aware of. The characters always used their default cars in the Adventures comics (6617 for Lucky, 6602-2 for Wrench, and 6714 for Barney; Chip was never in those comics), and even in the game where there were options of a few different vehicles, these 'giant claw' creations didn't show up. Race never got much of a feature that I recall in World Club / Mania magazine either, so this was a weird example of a set that even Lego story media didn't seem to know what to do with and so didn't acknowledge it; I only recall ever seeing it in the catalogues and nowhere else.

This challenge dreamed up by some sort of beetle-themed supervillain I assume

@CCC oh yeah i know, i just meant as a big theme set, didn't mean the countless individual City or polybag sets than have gone on over the years.

I have this fun set from when my sons were really young. The ball is gone now though. Fun minifigs.

@Euroseb11 said:
"It's interesting how 25 years later we're back to racing again,after Speed Champions and this time with official Formula 1 IP. See you all in 2050 for the next Lego racing series. (P.s is it me or was Speed Racer IP theme short-lived? Sets like 8161 make me think we didn't have anything like this since then. I'm sure I'm wrong though..) "
That's an interesting way of saying that over that past 25 years Lego has slowly buried the creativity of original in-house designs in favor of pursuing unimaginative, corporate synergy and licenses. No need for subtlety here folks.

@B_Space_Man said:
"This is before the machines revolted. "

This is WHY the machines revolted.

@Formendacil said:
" @B_Space_Man said:
"This is before the machines revolted. "

This is WHY the machines revolted."

Someone recently ran an experiment where they made a fake company, staffed entirely by fake AI "employees", and sat back to see what would happen. They didn't do so well. In cases where they had to locate a specific "coworker" to complete some task, their most frequent solution was to pick another AI at random and rename it instead of actually finding the one they were looking for.

So, basically, when the evil robot overlords take over, they'll need human minders to keep them on task, guide them around, and explain what to do.

@Dash_Justice said:
" @Euroseb11 said:
"It's interesting how 25 years later we're back to racing again,after Speed Champions and this time with official Formula 1 IP. See you all in 2050 for the next Lego racing series. (P.s is it me or was Speed Racer IP theme short-lived? Sets like 8161 make me think we didn't have anything like this since then. I'm sure I'm wrong though..) "
That's an interesting way of saying that over that past 25 years Lego has slowly buried the creativity of original in-house designs in favor of pursuing unimaginative, corporate synergy and licenses. No need for subtlety here folks.
"

Erm..sorry..what!? I think you're way off beam here, nothing i said was even hinting in the slightest of any corporate self-sabotage or fecklessness whatsoever, nor was i ever implying that. I was mere pointing out how racing (as a theme!) is ever enduring popularity as it comes back every so often as a major theme or subtheme. I wasn't disregarding the past 25 years of Lego at all whatsoever and fail to see how you saw so much into my comment so inaccurately.