Random set of the day: Ferrari F1 Racers
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8123 Ferrari F1 Racers, released during 2009. It's one of 24 Racers sets produced that year. It contains 139 pieces, and its retail price was US$14.99/£9.79.
It's owned by 1,066 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 $47.50, or eBay.
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It's not a Racers set without an obscene amount of stickers! Looking through the instructions, I counted 43. :skull:
Licensed Racers! Nothing super rare of course, but fun nonetheless. Not as fun as Nequik though…
Even the collectable bling bag F1 cars are larger than these cars!
Another fold up little set. I would like to see one of the bases in person some day.
I liked how the roads on these could fold up into a little box
"Fernando is faster than you Felipe, do you understand?"
(ok ok wrong year I know, but even still. Ferrari lolol)
also, must be the water
Lego’s most confusing line. I could even see what they were going for with Galidor more than this.
Collect them all and connect the roads.
Weird stuff
My brothers and I used to have a bunch of tiny turbos. As previous commenters mentioned, the roads for these sets would fold up into portable boxes. They would include extra pins just for that purpose. The lids were cool too since they had molded cars on them. I remember us bringing them when my mother had appointments at the doctor's or hair salon. They had instructions for the connections as well as how to combine certain cars. Although the combined cars I believe were only from the single car sets. My brothers had the desert, ice, warehouse heist, and garage road packs(the garage being boxed). We never did get any of those air plunger sets though.
@MCLegoboy said:
"It's not a Racers set without an obscene amount of stickers! Looking through the instructions, I counted 43. :skull:"
And how many of those went on 1x1 tiles or cheese slopes? I am so glad that when they want to decorate those pieces now, they almost always choose prints. The only ones in recent years they've done that I'm aware of are 75382, 75872, and 76188.
Cars that are actually this tiny is the inevitable route the constant need to make them lighter will take them down
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Even the collectable bling bag F1 cars are larger than these cars!"
Certainly the drivers are bigger now.
That plastic looks pretty cheap. I've never seen one of these flappy roady boxy things in real life, so I could be mistaken. Other than the Technic pin-holes, are there other connection-points? Is it compatible with System? Could I link these things up to the newer road-plates, and more importantly, should I?
@Crux said:
"That plastic looks pretty cheap. I've never seen one of these flappy roady boxy things in real life, so I could be mistaken. Other than the Technic pin-holes, are there other connection-points? Is it compatible with System? Could I link these things up to the newer road-plates, and more importantly, should I?"
Those are meant to be fold-up and re-used as storage, that's why they needed to be made out of polypropylene (PP) or similar rather than the common ABS to make the film hinges work.
Besides the pin holes they do of cause connect to a lid, which formed the actual packaging together with the large foldable road.
While I never got any of these, I liked the idea a lot. Nice way of pulling of that micro playset idea and somehow a little bit reminiscent of Slizers...
@Crux said:
"That plastic looks pretty cheap. I've never seen one of these flappy roady boxy things in real life, so I could be mistaken. Other than the Technic pin-holes, are there other connection-points? Is it compatible with System? Could I link these things up to the newer road-plates, and more importantly, should I?"
Ive had a different one of these. 8126 . The technic holes are the only proper connection point, though the short flaps have ridges to keep plates in place (that one uses those). The plastic already honestly felt pretty cheap even as a child. Though the details were printed on the weird road thing, not stickers - everything else is a sticker though. Definitely not compatible to the modern roadplates. Its a pretty weird proprietary piece, mainly meant to make you able to fold the set into a box for transport.
@MCLegoboy said:
"It's not a Racers set without an obscene amount of stickers! Looking through the instructions, I counted 43. :skull:"
This also has the worst of the worst. 1x1 tile stickers.
F1 cars always come up so nicely in the small scale.
@Eightcoins8 said:
" @Crux said:
"That plastic looks pretty cheap. I've never seen one of these flappy roady boxy things in real life, so I could be mistaken. Other than the Technic pin-holes, are there other connection-points? Is it compatible with System? Could I link these things up to the newer road-plates, and more importantly, should I?"
Ive had a different one of these. 8126 . The technic holes are the only proper connection point, though the short flaps have ridges to keep plates in place (that one uses those). The plastic already honestly felt pretty cheap even as a child. Though the details were printed on the weird road thing, not stickers - everything else is a sticker though. Definitely not compatible to the modern roadplates. Its a pretty weird proprietary piece, mainly meant to make you able to fold the set into a box for transport."
They were pretty hard wearing though. I bought one second hand for my son in about 2012 and he used it for years for play and to transport some lego when visiting family. It is a bit scratched from play but not split or broken and still folds up perfectly well.
If you could turn the box inside out so that the connection points could be used to join two together to create some sort of Borg cube then that could be interesting, but would probably break the plastic bends doing this.
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Even the collectable bling bag F1 cars are larger than these cars!"
To say the true... they are not. https://iili.io/FZ5ed4s.md.jpg
Beside I think that this old design still have a say compared to the one of the recent collectable F1.
This set is quite awful anyway, I've the 8153 that is much more decent.
@MCLegoboy said:
"It's not a Racers set without an obscene amount of stickers! Looking through the instructions, I counted 43. :skull:"
To be fair, most of these are also stickers in the real life.
Of this line of roadplate-box Racer sets, this is the blandest. The two vehicles are nearly identical, the road is featureless and the sidebuilds are sparse. The other ones were much better and gave a better sense of an environment
@Eightcoins8 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"It's not a Racers set without an obscene amount of stickers! Looking through the instructions, I counted 43. :skull:"
This also has the worst of the worst. 1x1 tile stickers."
as much as I hate 1x1 stickers, I'll still take them over STAMPs.
Brad Pitt 'microfigure' sold seperately...:)
Upon reading some of the later comments I realized I missed something from the theme. I forgot about the 1x1 stickers that Racers had! Blue Bullet 8193 was particularly painful for me as a kid since it has half a dozen stickered 1x1 cheese slopes. It would be quite a few years until I had access to the newer brick separators. Most of my stickers have peeled or been removed at this point since I loved using the few medium blue elements from that set.
@brick_r said:
"Brad Pitt 'microfigure' sold seperately...:)"
Nah, he’s there. He’s just invisible.