Random set of the day: Space Dozer
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 6847 Space Dozer, released in 1985. It's one of 15 Space sets produced that year. It contains 49 pieces and 1 minifig.
It's owned by 1888 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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Love this one! Have it put together with tank threads right now!
Never saw this as a kid, got it after emerging from the dark. Like most mid-80's space sets, it's a mish-mash of lots of different parts...and like most mid-80's space sets, it works for me!
I own this set too, although it hasn't been together since the '80s. I used to use the grey canopy for a rear tailgate door for my space MOC's when I was a kid.
Ooo, look at all of those 1x1 plates. That's a clear early attempt at part inflation!
The tyres are so good! They last forever.
Never seen the use of a (non transparent) windscreen as a shovel. In fact I didn't even recognize the part and had to look it up in the part list. There I found out that there are only four non transpartent colors of this part. Namely Black, blue, light grey (this set is the only one) and yellow.
I have it on display along with the 6805 Astro Dasher and the 6882 Walking Astro Grappler.
This gets me right in the feels.
Nostalgia turned up to 11.
Confession time: I've never liked those balloon tires that just go right onto an axle!
^ not even on this one? https://brickset.com/sets/6826-1/Crater-Crawler
I have a lot of the old classic space sets but I've never even seen this one before.
Ah, some Classic Space goodness for a Wednesday morning, I agree that he tyres look too low slung for the body to pass over the rocky terrain but . . . . . . its Clasic Space so all is forgiven, I'm off to look at it some more, sigh wistfully and consider getting the set out of storage.
^ They only stay on the site for one day, otherwise the whole homepage would be filled with random sets.
@Brick Dangerous - you can see the past random sets by clicking on the "Random Set" tag: https://brickset.com/news/category-Random-set
I loved this set as a kid. It was fun to get other random pieces (leftover or not) and push them around or collect them in the bucket.
This is one of the old greats!
This was the very beginning of NPU
I had one 30 years ago but it disappear after I leave my parent's home... with all other Lego sets. Little sad to see it now.