Random set of the day: Forklift and Truck
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 674 Forklift and Truck, released during 1978. It's one of 36 Town sets produced that year. It contains 55 pieces and 1 minifig.
It's owned by 484 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at Brick Owl, BrickLink or eBay.
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1978? Explains why it feels like VSotW with a dash of minifig.
For a weird moment, I thought a VSotW had posted somehow, then I saw the minifig.
I wonder what cheat that red brick holds. Studs x2, minikit detector, invincibility? We may never know…
The opening scene of Heat would not be as exciting if they hijacked a truck like this.
If they released this set today it would be like $40
Ukraine branding but with the colours flipped.
I love the drone truck. Way ahead of its time.
One man to be delivery driver, manual handler -and- forklift operator? Well that’s just wildly inefficient! And look at the red he’s wearing, I’m not sure he even actually works in this yellow-and-blue themed company!
@PistolLink said:
"I wonder what cheat that red brick holds. Studs x2, minikit detector, invincibility? We may never know…"
Poo studs.
@Good_Username said:
"If they released this set today it would be like $40"
If they released this set today, I doubt children would be interested in it. It is very much of its era.
That truck is an autonomous vehicle. 1978 was more advanced than we thought.
They could have built the same mini-fig open cab with doors design on the truck, as both vehicles use the same plate on wheels. Although the newer forklift design has the wheels attached to the older black brick with no wheel arches, while the older truck has the newer wheels attached to the 'space' grey plate with curved 'space' grey arch.
I lovely set, and very hard to find a boxed set, my thinking is back in 1978 when the very first wave of minifig sets where released those that didn't sell well didn't have production continued, meaning some like 643 603 620 and others whilst great in my opinion are rarer.
Loads of us wanted this set at the time to get our hands on that fork lift element.
For gamers, the red brick removes all facial expressions and skin tones from minifigs, reverting to their original yellow smiley face.
People mock the scale of models and minifigures from this era, but for those of us who were there in 1978, the combination of Mini Figures, Road Plates, new vehicle parts, new size doors and windows etc. This truly was the golden era of Lego and then in 1981 (UK) the addition of 12V trains was the icing on the cake.
@PistolLink said:
"I wonder what cheat that red brick holds. Studs x2, minikit detector, invincibility? We may never know…"
it depends which game your talking about for the star wars ones it could be:dark side or minikit detector, for lcu it could be: collect sat nav studs, for harry potter it could be: collect ghost studs, and i havent played enough indiana jones yet to say stuff about it
sadly yes :( it would be $40
i am interested in this i want this forklift piece also are we ABSOLUTELY SURE that "forklift" is spelled with a "k" and not "ck"
@Brickalili said:
"One man to be delivery driver, manual handler -and- forklift operator? Well that’s just wildly inefficient! And look at the red he’s wearing, I’m not sure he even actually works in this yellow-and-blue themed company!"
Happens more often that you’d think. The boatbuilder I worked for would get deliveries of marine-grade plywood direct to his shop. They were palletized for efficient transport, but that makes it difficult to unload by hand. So the flatbed trailer has an offroad forklift that somehow gets hoisted up and strapped into place for transport, but then can be lowered to the ground for unloading pallets of freight. And there’s only one guy, so he has to drive the truck, also drive the forklift, and handle any loose freight that the forklift can’t manage.
@LegoStevieG said:
"People mock the scale of models and minifigures from this era, but for those of us who were there in 1978, the combination of Mini Figures, Road Plates, new vehicle parts, new size doors and windows etc. This truly was the golden era of Lego and then in 1981 (UK) the addition of 12V trains was the icing on the cake. "
I was there in 1978. If it didn’t have lasers, swords, or motorcycles, I wasn’t interested.
@Karst86 said:
" @PistolLink said:
"I wonder what cheat that red brick holds. Studs x2, minikit detector, invincibility? We may never know…"
Poo studs."
Super Gonk.
I've been playing hours as a kid with the spring forklift part, using it as a catapult and trying to throw bricks as far as possible with it. It was very funny, the spring was quite strong on this one .
@Karst86 said:
" @PistolLink said:
"I wonder what cheat that red brick holds. Studs x2, minikit detector, invincibility? We may never know…"
Poo studs."
Baguette lightsabers...
I would love to see the back of the 674 box, I bet there’s a great 8 wheeler build possible out of all the parts. In fact it would be great to have a proper “catalogue” of box rears but I guess that depends on one being located for each set - might not be easy to find them for early Town stuff.
@cm5878 said:
"I would love to see the back of the 674 box, I bet there’s a great 8 wheeler build possible out of all the parts. In fact it would be great to have a proper “catalogue” of box rears but I guess that depends on one being located for each set - might not be easy to find them for early Town stuff. "
backoftheboxbuilds.com
@560heliport said:
" @cm5878 said:
"I would love to see the back of the 674 box, I bet there’s a great 8 wheeler build possible out of all the parts. In fact it would be great to have a proper “catalogue” of box rears but I guess that depends on one being located for each set - might not be easy to find them for early Town stuff. "
backoftheboxbuilds.com"
Oh wow, never knew that existed. Thanks!
Still a shame they stopped doing those alternate builds on the box. Always great for some inspiration!
@WizardOfOss said:
" @560heliport said:
" @cm5878 said:
"I would love to see the back of the 674 box, I bet there’s a great 8 wheeler build possible out of all the parts. In fact it would be great to have a proper “catalogue” of box rears but I guess that depends on one being located for each set - might not be easy to find them for early Town stuff. "
backoftheboxbuilds.com"
Oh wow, never knew that existed. Thanks!
Still a shame they stopped doing those alternate builds on the box. Always great for some inspiration!"
Apparently, people were complaining that there weren't instructions for the depicted models.
Almost a Blacktron forklift; I have a few of those parts for that very purpose!
@oldfan said:
"Almost a Blacktron forklift; I have a few of those parts for that very purpose!"
Except for, y'know, all the blue, and the fact that the windshield is trans-clear, not trans-yellow, and the red parts are opaque, not trans.
I love these transitional sets - I find it fascinating to see the clear overall designs (and scale!) from the 1973-77 period, but with a few changed parts to make it sorta-kinda look a little more consistent with the then-new minifigures.