What is this atrocity that befouls my eyes!! Don’t tell me it’s another hodgepodge time cruisers set!! Ack. We had another one of these calamities less than a week ago! Now that’s some bad luck right there.

‘Twas indeed a dark day for lego...

Oh hey, more Time Cruisers. Weird.
Again, I'm not overly impressed by the theme, but I was only two at the time, I never interacted with it, however I do really appreciate the function to make those propellers spin.

I truly wonder what I would have thought of this theme as a kid. I was pretty solidly in my dark age by this point so never knew it existed until I emerged and discovered Brickset. It’s been one theme I’ve never felt the urge to collect even a little bit.

Time Cruisers again? Truly a cursed week.

I always loved the idea of time travel as a kid (and still do), but even back then these sets did not appeal to me a great deal. I bought a couple of these sets as a kid, but only out of curiosity. Most of my money went to space, pirates, and castle.

I agree that Time Cruisers, as a theme, was probably a bit too zany and wacky for its own good (it was so the mid-90s, though, wasn't it?). I never much cared for them, as a kid, and the only ones I ended up with were gifts from family members.

Having said that, yeah, the mechanism to spin the propellers on top was actually pretty cool.

I never liked the look of the head piece on this figure. I put these heads on the figures I sold second hand.

@LEgo.lord ... the wide, white-eyes and actual nose on the face were just so out-of-place and strange during the 90s, when Lego had still only just started giving minifigs moustaches and glasses.

I have this set, though I’ve made a lot of tweaks to it. The propellers don’t spin consistently unless the skid plates are pressed up quite tight against the wheels, but a couple of little bushes sort it out nicely.

In my headcanon this guy is a distant descendant of that guy with the nose from the old Western theme :p

First, I LOVE the random set of the day feature. It either reminds me of old sets I've loved, or educates me of crazy things I might have missed. Today falls into the later.

This was my dark days of lego (high school thru college when I wasn't keeping up with sets). I had no idea this theme even existed until recently. Was this Lego's attempt at designing/selling the type of crazy models builders make from random parts? I do love the mechanism to turn the propellers.

I have an army of Timmy minifigures because of the sheer volume of sets with him and how many were always on deep discount sales.

In all honesty Time Cruisers was a complete and utter shambolic mess. But the most frustrating thing about it all is that right now a time-travelling historical line is something that Lego could really do with.

Back in the 90s there were still multiple non-licenced themes in action at the same time, so the point of Time Cruisers was to act as a bridge between the various historic, contemporary and futuristic themes at the same time, to have a single group of characters that can fit into any theme, any setting all together.

A good idea!

Except the execution was rubbish. The sets were all weird, ugly things, with none of the stylised designs that you could hope for in Castle, Pirates, Space or the like. Nasty little formless messes, although, admittedly the moving parts were something at least. But even this set, one of the better-designed is ruined by the utterly horrible colour schemes that permeated both good-guy and bad-guy sets.

But worst of all is the utter pointlessness of the whole thing. Literally any vehicle could be a time machine, and Lego being Lego meant that a kid could stick a couple of translucent or futuristic-looking parts on a car, plane, spaceship or pirate ship and instantly turn it into their own custom time machine, without needing to be sold one in stores.

Honestly though, a time travel theme would be fantastic today. There's no historic theme on shelves whatsoever, the closest being Harry Potter and a select few Ninjago sets. The most recent iterations of Castle and Pirates have hardly been big sellers on there own, so why not combine them together to make a unified time travel theme where you only need one Pirate set, one Castle set, one Roman set, one Victorian set, one Space set, one Viking set? The time machine vehicles shouldn't be the focus, like it was in Time Cruisers, the destinations should be.

How far through this theme is Huwbot now? There's only 9 sets, a couple of while are sets with a couple of different set numbers. Could it be the first theme to be completely featured?

@Wavelength there are also the Time Twisters sets
Isn't Rocket Racer the name of a character from the Lego Racers videogame?

bit of a soft spot for this set, one of the first I could reassemble off by heart. no idea why this particular set hooked child me so much XD