Random set of the day: Highway Transport
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 6753 Highway Transport, released in 2009. It's one of 20 Creator sets produced that year. It contains 1294 pieces, and its retail price was US$89.99/£69.99.
It's owned by 2033 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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There's been quite a few 2009 sets recently. I find that very interesting. That's the joy of true randomness. Sometimes you get points bouncing everywhere and sometimes you find brief patterns, like the string of 9s in Pi, getting a bag of M&Ms where three quarters of the bag are one color, or how frequent Clikits had been earlier this year.
Needs to be at minifigure scale and come with minifigures, then I would be interested.
@Nathan20041
You’re looking for 60060-1 released in 2014
Awesome set. A great parts pack, good alternative models, the truck has working steering and you can still get cars of the same scale to work with it. Timeless man.
I think this popped up as RSOTD not long ago too
We're just 38 days away from potentially getting Toy Story 3, Prince of Persia, Hero Factory, and CMF as RSOTD.
....Oh, it’s compatible with next year’s speed champions too!
Ooh I remeber staring at this in catalogs in the good ol’ days. I think I still have that very same catalog
It's been on my wanted list for a long time. Just recently got it for a decent (or reasonable) price; haven't built it yet though (possibly because it came without instructions, but mostly because no time). These 'early' Creator 3:1 sets are awesome!
Ten years later this model still manages to "outshine" the Technic model 42098 just recently released.
They don't make Creator sets like this anymore. :( It's a shame, this is very proper stuff.
6753 is actually the biggest Creator set ever that's not a box/bucket of just random basic bricks.
@Spartan_Ghost What do you find odd about it?
As I wrote in my review at the time:
This is probably one of the best Lego sets I've bought since my dark ages.
It's got everything you want from a Lego set; good looking models, great to play, good selection of parts.
https://brickset.com/reviews/33504
@BanjodeFairmont Woah woah... You're going to bash the only decent Technic set of the year? ;)
I like this one, but I wouldn't say it beats the newer one except in number of possible loadable cars...
Funny that the city version of this has been RSoTD not too long ago...
@Luthercpa Thanks
Remember this set--and it being too expensive for me. At the time it was released, it was more, or less, the higher end in terms of LEGO sets. Now $90 is not even the mid-end of LEGO sets.
The truck is excellent, and so are its cars. What do they represent--a Ferrari (red car) and Ford GT (blue/white).
Cool.
I have two of this set.
Matching with, the same year, it has the Fire Rescue truck, 6752.
And for additional cars, in 10 studs wide, there are:
- the green Street Speeder, 6743, also from 2009
- the Blue Roadster, 6913, from 2012
- the orange Sunset Speeder, 31017, from 2014
- the Green Cruiser, 31056, from 2017
Nice set!
Biggest set I own, the transport Ferry from 2008 is the next largest.
I remember getting this on Christmas... I was so excited. Second-largest Creator set, with two awesome alt-builds. Yes, more cars would have been nice, but considering what we usually get from Lego, two cars is pretty good. One of my favorite childhood sets.
This was our first Creator set; we found it secondhand and it definitely helped us get back into newer Lego.