Random set of the day: Nitro Burner
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8471 Nitro Burner, released in 2002. It's one of 27 Racers sets produced that year. It contains 119 pieces, and its retail price was US$20/£14.99.
It's owned by 341 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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At first I thought the front tires were just connected by those hoses and I thought “how would that work...?”
That spoiler/handle is so disproportionately tall...
The over the top extreme names of Racers sets always gets to me. It's simultaneously laughable and awesome!
What a weird looking bionicle.
Yeah, I have this set. The B model is easily the better looking model. I do not like pull back motor sets but I made an exeption for this set.
I have this set, its pull back motor is very strong.
Now this set just looks ridiculous!
And I love it.
With that head it looks like it’s related to the roboriders somehow
@ThunBear I agree, this is a weird looking Bionicle indeed :-)
Those were dark days when Lego thought it had to put Bionicle parts in everything to amortize the tooling costs over more sets ... Sets like this were the result. Bionicle parts were in Race, Castle, Alpha Team, and everywhere else they didn't belong, and they always looked terrible to me as a kid, even though I liked the Bionicle action figures. But the worst was yet to come: Bionicle parts in (gasp) System-scale Bionicle sets! Oh! The horror! The horror!
Oh yeah the System Bionicle sets looked goofy with all the Bionicle parts slapped over the bricks. It was highlighted further by Bionicle always having such beautiful comics, art and other places that showed stunning locations; then the artists had to try and shoehorn the System sets into that world.
The 2005 Hordika comics had it the worst. Look at how bad the Tower of Toa looked when shoved into the moody atmosphere of Metru Nui in those comics.