Random set of the day: Tower Takedown
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 5883 Tower Takedown, released during 2012. It's one of 7 Dino sets produced that year. It contains 136 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$19.99/£17.99.
It's owned by 4,420 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 $42.00, or eBay.
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Both Dino sets with a Pteranodon just two days apart?
So what's the story behind Dino? Are they researchers, or hunters?
Also, alternating double Dino!
The description is great.
"Lure the hungry Pteranodon dinosaur to the lakeside tower with a smelly fish!"
Two 2012 Dino sets in the same week, how about that? Both Pterosaur ones, too. Unlike the previous one, I do have this one; it was my first LEGO Pterosaur.
@MCLegoboy said:
"So what's the story behind Dino? Are they researchers, or hunters?"
I always kind of pictured them being a Dinosaur containment team; like the people you go to when the dinosaurs break out of containment.
@Norikins said:
"The description is great.
"Lure the hungry Pteranodon dinosaur to the lakeside tower with a smelly fish!""
I'm sold!! Jurassic World missed a trick there for sure! XD
Huwbot's on a Dino kick at the moment.
I thought this set was another highlight of the Dino line. Great play value, lots of interesting and (at the time) new pieces, and you got a freaking Pteranodon as well. It goes really well as a companion piece to the seaplane from last week.
Another Dino. Also, that guy’s gonna need some help. Fending off a Pteranodon all by yourself could prove mighty difficult.
Dino was so peak.
This same set would be $39.99 in the Jurassic World line.
@Euroseb11 said:
" @Norikins said:
"The description is great.
"Lure the hungry Pteranodon dinosaur to the lakeside tower with a smelly fish!""
I'm sold!! Jurassic World missed a trick there for sure! XD"
Well, they also ignored time honored principles of safely confining predatory animals, so…
@BabuBrick said:
"Two 2012 Dino sets in the same week, how about that? Both Pterosaur ones, too. Unlike the previous one, I do have this one; it was my first LEGO Pterosaur.
@MCLegoboy said:
"So what's the story behind Dino? Are they researchers, or hunters?"
I always kind of pictured them being a Dinosaur containment team; like the people you go to when the dinosaurs break out of containment."
Sure. Yeah. "Break out" of containment. For sure nobody would actually throw the doors open and let loose an entire stable of dinosaurs, because that would be a crime against humanity that required swift and aggressive punishment.
@PurpleDave said:
" @BabuBrick said:
"Two 2012 Dino sets in the same week, how about that? Both Pterosaur ones, too. Unlike the previous one, I do have this one; it was my first LEGO Pterosaur.
@MCLegoboy said:
"So what's the story behind Dino? Are they researchers, or hunters?"
I always kind of pictured them being a Dinosaur containment team; like the people you go to when the dinosaurs break out of containment."
Sure. Yeah. "Break out" of containment. For sure nobody would actually throw the doors open and let loose an entire stable of dinosaurs…."
Oh no, yeah, definitely not. ;)
Guess they didn’t do very well at intercepting it two days ago. Good they’ve got a back up plan!
@SearchlightRG said: "Well, they also ignored time honored principles of safely confining predatory animals, so…"
They also kept forgetting to install human-sized escape hatches in the walls and fences containing their giant super-predators, just in case of emergency.
None of those four movies would've happened if Ingen had read the first page of a workplace health and safety manual.
@Brickalili said:
"Guess they didn’t do very well at intercepting it two days ago. Good they’ve got a back up plan!"
I was wondering, "which one came first?" until I looked at the two pterasaurs. They have different coloring.
@MCLegoboy said:
"So what's the story behind Dino? Are they researchers, or hunters?
Also, alternating double Dino!"
They are researching to determine the best way(s) to hunt them.
I had this one and the small ATV set. For an in-house attempt at getting the Jurassic Park money, this theme was really good.
I like this one but sadly never got it. It's affordable, it's a structure, and it has a small vehicle. And of course the pterosaur!
76963 Baby Dinosaur Rescue Centre is the current iteration of Pteranodon set , not as cheap compared to the previous one 76943 Pteranodon Chase , but 4+ "tax" and extra moulds still make it more reasonable compared to something like 76957 Velociraptor Escape tbh.
I personally prefer sets like 31058 Mighty Dinosaurs and 31151 T. rex over Jurassic World.
Ahhh, the only set from the line I managed to get.
@MCLegoboy said:
"So what's the story behind Dino? Are they researchers, or hunters?
Also, alternating double Dino!"
Dino Strike Team are hunters. However, their goal is to use tranquilizers, cages, and nets to safely capture the dinosaurs that are loose in the jungle bordering a major city before the dinosaurs can attack the city. They're not out to kill the dinosaurs... this time, at least.
It's essentially a much lower stakes version of Dino Attack. The dinosaurs are normal (unlike Dino Attack's superpowered mutant monsters); they are still in the jungle and haven't reached the city yet (unlike Dino Attack's post-apocalyptic city ruins); and the hunters are making sure to non-lethally capture them to protect both the humans and the dinosaurs (unlike Dino Attack's goal to exterminate the dinosaurs to save humanity). Incidentally, this makes Dino more akin to Dino 2010, where the scant storyline describes the dinosaurs escaping into the jungle and the heroes recapturing them with cages.
According to the LEGO Club Magazine comic "Earth's Greatest Threat!", Alien Commander Hypaxxus-8 (the main villain of the previous year's Alien Conquest) had a backup plan to unleash dinosaurs upon major Earth cities if his conquest failed. The online game "Dino Outbreak" shows the dinosaurs emerging from a time portal (presumably one built by the aliens) and escaping into the jungle, leaving it up to the heroes to round them up in cages and send them back through the portal.
@PurpleDave said:
" @BabuBrick said:
"Two 2012 Dino sets in the same week, how about that? Both Pterosaur ones, too. Unlike the previous one, I do have this one; it was my first LEGO Pterosaur.
@MCLegoboy said:
"So what's the story behind Dino? Are they researchers, or hunters?"
I always kind of pictured them being a Dinosaur containment team; like the people you go to when the dinosaurs break out of containment."
Sure. Yeah. "Break out" of containment. For sure nobody would actually throw the doors open and let loose an entire stable of dinosaurs, because that would be a crime against humanity that required swift and aggressive punishment."
In the video game that accompanied this theme on Lego.com, the player had to release the dinosaurs into the wild before chasing them down.
@SJPLego wrote:
"According to the LEGO Club Magazine comic "Earth's Greatest Threat!", Alien Commander Hypaxxus-8 (the main villain of the previous year's Alien Conquest) had a backup plan to unleash dinosaurs upon major Earth cities if his conquest failed. The online game "Dino Outbreak" shows the dinosaurs emerging from a time portal (presumably one built by the aliens) and escaping into the jungle, leaving it up to the heroes to round them up in cages and send them back through the portal."
It is such a pity that Lego never continued that storyline. I miss the time when Lego created short-running non-licensed themes with their own homegrown storylines. Dino, Atlantis, and Alien Conquest were such fun little themes.
Also, I appreciate that the dino hunters use humane methods to trap their quarries. It's nice to see Lego demonstrating (relatively) humane treatment of animals in a theme targeted at boys.
Speaking of which, maybe we need a Jurassic Park-inspired subtheme in Lego Friends...
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Dino was so peak."
To my infinite regret I was never able to get any of these. But! I did a recolour of 5885 in Jurassic World colours about a year ago and that captured the magic.
I have most of the Dino sets, but not this one.
@Harmonious_Building said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"Dino was so peak."
To my infinite regret I was never able to get any of these. But! I did a recolour of 5885 in Jurassic World colours about a year ago and that captured the magic. "
Ooh, that’s cool.
@BrickAnomie said:
"
Speaking of which, maybe we need a Jurassic Park-inspired subtheme in Lego Friends..."
Friends sent the characters to space in a recent year, right? They’ve already dipped their toes in sci-fi so why not dinosaurs next
@BrickAnomie said:"Speaking of which, maybe we need a Jurassic Park-inspired subtheme in Lego Friends..."
Ooh, now I want to see dinosaurs that hew to the usual Friends animal aesthetic.
@Brickalili said:
" @BrickAnomie said:
"
Speaking of which, maybe we need a Jurassic Park-inspired subtheme in Lego Friends..."
Friends sent the characters to space in a recent year, right? They’ve already dipped their toes in sci-fi so why not dinosaurs next"
My point exactly.
@BrickAnomie said: "Speaking of which, maybe we need a Jurassic Park-inspired subtheme in Lego Friends..."
I'm still waiting for the Friends to get mecha.
Every other Lego character has ones, why not the Friends?
Is this the same pterasaur mold used for jurassic world? they look mighty similar...
@TheOtherMike said:
" @BrickAnomie said:"Speaking of which, maybe we need a Jurassic Park-inspired subtheme in Lego Friends..."
Ooh, now I want to see dinosaurs that hew to the usual Friends animal aesthetic."
The "Spidey and his amazing friends" dino-fied heroes sort of fill that void, or they are the closest thus far...