Random set of the day: Carbon Star
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8661 Carbon Star, released in 2006. It's one of 23 Racers sets produced that year. It contains 44 pieces, and its retail price was US$4/£2.99.
It's owned by 1143 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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2 Racers set in a row.
Huwbot must be reading Eurobricks where Racers have been discussed a bit lately.
As for the set itself, not very interesting at all, microscale, doesn't have a racer feature like a pullback motor, and the "6" sticker is over multiple parts.
Sticker over multiple parts?!?
That's unlegal!
^and unpossible too.
^like me failing English.
StAMPs (Stickers Across Multiple Parts) used to be a common feature in lego sets. I think the best term is inadvisable, as disassembly of the set almost always results in the loss or damage of the stickers.
Stickers... the worst thing since...
Since Clikets. Wait. Which was first? ;-)
Racers in itself is a very diverse theme. I just checked the other sets and there were Technic sets, RC sets, model sets, pullback sets, miniscale sets and lots of ferrari sets with minifigures. There are some memorable sets among them that I wish I had in my collection. These little guys are just the icing on the cake.
Racers is my 3rd favourite theme of all time. Very underrated. It deserves more attention than it gets nowadays. I have fallen in love so hard with those sets that I set the goal of collecting at least most of the sets from the theme.
^And it's the 3 most owned of the sets on my list, after City and Creator. Speed Champions (the spiritual successor to this theme) is already at 4.
I like Racers, but these tiny cars were my least favorites. They are underwhelming (unless you own many of them) and come with a lot of microscopic stickers. The weird containers were unpractical IMO, too.
I love the Tiny Turbos, have a whole collection of them (still missing a few, but I do have a bunch). However, as much as I love the Tiny Turbos, I HATE the stickers!! I have all my sets in a little display, but all the stickers are peeling off, cracked, or curling up with age. These sets really should have had printed parts.
If anyone is missing the theme you are welcome to visit Flickr pages of builders like myself who have taken up bricks to keep the scale alive. No stickers there, it's a promise! .)
Here's a good starting point: https://www.flickr.com/groups/1008122@N25
While this is not spectacular on it's own by any means, a mass of these cars is pretty nice.
Ah, the good old days of Tiny Turbo's. While this particular one isn't that impressive there were some great little models in the theme.
This must be one of the last sets with StAMP, LEGO have stopped doing that a long time ago (because of feedback from fans).
^ 8214 had some really bad ones, and that was 2010. So no.
This was a cool little set.
I love tiny turbos.
Forget classic space, town, castle and whatnot. Tiny turbos were my childhood. For little me, these were a fusion of my two favourite toys, Lego and Hot Wheels. Still love MOCing these. You don't need many parts and even basic ones look great.
As much as I enjoy car builds at this scale, the Tiny Turbos were pretty truly terrible, looking back at them.
I won't deny that 8-11 year old me thought they were awesome though.
I loved Tiny Turbos as a kid. So collectable!
Racers were a blast when I was young. They should do another theme like this.
I used to love Tiny Turbos! In hindsight, they're probably what really got me into Lego. I loved Hot wheels cars and Tiny turbos were basically those, but Lego.