Random set of the day: Giant Model Set
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8277 Giant Model Set, released in 1997. It's one of 15 Technic sets produced that year. It contains 554 pieces, and its retail price was US$40.
It's owned by 754 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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Ive just had enough of these darn clickits!...oh wait...
Don't you hate it when your clickits have studs?
Woah... Feels more appropriate to marvel at this masterpiece then to make a Clickits-related joke...
Absolute unit
I love how no matter the actual random set, Clikets get brought into the conversation.
No but for reals, I love that giant robot.
Well, this time it's wasn't a Galidor set as someone had thought about...
"I will fall off my chair laughing if today's set is Clikits or Galidor. Swear to goodness, I will."
- By Zordboy in Australia, 20 Jan 2019 14:58
Hey, Huwbot is clicking in the right direction...
@Zordboy
Consider yourself an important political figure! You’ve been quoted!
The times when 554 parts were enough for a "Giant Model", this set has barely one seventh of the number of parts from past year's Rough Terrain Crane. Funny.
This was a great set. The gimmick was that all models were built around the same central "core" (made of the grey parts you can see) which had a few basic mechanisms in it, which were then expanded upon in different ways for each model using the yellow pieces.
The yellow parts were easily removable from the core by pulling out the blue pins (which I believe were introduced with this model but I could be wrong).
Oh and it included this tiny wheeled vehicle, which also stayed the same for every model, which could be stored in each one in some manner, which was kinda neat.
My brother got this when he was a kid and I was a smaller kid. With a minifig in the chair in the head, it was basically Town Hall for our little Lego city. But even as a little kid I could tell that it couldn't do much besides turn the head, and the arm linkages were very fragile and hard to use. Would you believe that in that whole set there are only four or five gears? I don't remember ever consciously formulating this thought as a kid, but my utter disinterest in Technic as a kid is probably due entirely to this kit.
I mean to be fair yes that is a pretty giant Giant Robot
I mean to be fair yes that is a pretty giant Giant Robot
Anyone else think that head looks like a dog?
Omg! Huwbot, is that you?
Finally a set that is not clickits!
I clicked "view 5 random sets" five times = 25 random sets. I didn't get any Clickits! Only one Belville set. Amazing.
@TransNeonOrangeSpaceman
I just clicked it once and got two Duplos and a Disney Princess. I also got Adventures and Back To The Future, though, so that makes up for it.
@TransNeonOrangeSpaceman:
I clicked the random set button 7 times, and in the first 2 tries got a Jack a Stone set, and a Galidor set. After that, I got one Belville set, and a Scala set. No Clikits though! Fascintating to see the sets that come up!
Funny to see how another example of how old Technic sets used Technic bricks and quite a bit of System, instead of the regular beams used in nowadays Technic sets.
I’m just keeping my eye on Huwbot to see if any more Clikits sets come up! If they do, now we can be sure that Huwbot is a Clikit-loving robot who does not like regular LEGO pieces! Just kidding...
@Koolbrix2018: On the other hand, it's funny to me to see people call the studless beams "regular beams" when they used to be special elements used in rare places only. Of course it's totally correct to call them that, nowadays. :) I've embraced the new building method and own quite a few of the new technic sets myself, but part of me will always long for new traditional style studded beam sets.
Dang, I missed the Clikits set! Anyway, this is... cool, I guess.
Also, @TransNeonOrangeSpaceman Does that still exist? Where?
[EDIT]: Nevermind, found it. I genuinely thought they had done away with it.
Is that bottom model a car with a fanged head? Man this thing is huge and weird and I love it!
Giant robotic Pikachu
@Nick:
Yes, I also prefer studded beams to what I called ‘regular beams’, I just called them regular because that’s all they use now in a Technic sets. Yeah, I do wish the ‘original’ Technic style would come back....
This was the first set to include color 104 Bright Violet, Lego's first 'real' purple, later commonly used in Cyberslam and also a few Bionicle, Harry Potter and Star Wars sets.