Random set of the day: Precinct Cruiser
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 6506 Precinct Cruiser, released in 1989. It's one of 23 Town sets produced that year. It contains 32 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$2.
It's owned by 3710 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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Thing looks like a golf cart.
Perfect for stopping putty theft.
I remember this tiny set being in the catalogs back then. Strange to think, we get so many small poly bags now...we’d have to make the catalogs 100 pages to include them all.
Huwbot is still on the tiny set kick, eh?
That cruiser is heavy on the windshield, light on the cruiser.
This set goes quite well with 620 fire truck from a week ago.
I don't know, I loved this style of vehicle. It has a nostalgic charm to it, you know?
@MCLegoboy said:
"Thing looks like a golf cart.
Perfect for stopping putty theft."
Then he’ll put ‘em behind 5 iron bars.
And they’ll be jail birdies.
Unless they get a par-don.
...i’m so sorry.
Omg! Swooooosh!!!
Daww, he's got a wittle cawr!
At least it's got working doors.
Wow a big wave of nostalgia. This was the first Lego set I picked out and paid for with my own money. The 2x2 and 1x3 plates were covered in teeth marks since I didn't know how to disconnect them any other way.
Very nice! This could very well pass for an electric car.
Precinct Cruiser, perfect for cruising around inside the precinct. Fits on all elevators, plenty of carrying capacity for mail room deliveries, and stores in your desk drawer when not in use. Made by Fisher-Price, and powered by a single lantern battery.
Seriously, I think my minifig-scale MOC of the Dodge Tomahawk motorcycle weighs more than this.
@CarolinaOnMyMind said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Thing looks like a golf cart.
Perfect for stopping putty theft."
Then he’ll put ‘em behind 5 iron bars.
And they’ll be jail birdies.
Unless they get a par-don.
...i’m so sorry.
"
Nah, they will be wedged in jail for a while.
Oh man I LOVED this set! It was such a perfect little LEGO car. I remember I had another police set that had “police” printed on the doors, so I replaced the plain white ones with these.
That cop had a lot of adventures in this thing and the helicopter from the mid-80s police helicopter.
"LEGO Blart: Precinct Cop" was one LEGO Movie spin-off even Kevin James was reluctant to work on. Rumor has it we would've gotten an update of this set as a polybag that would include one free ticket to see the movie. Allegedly, one inexplicably found its way into Lithuania, where an eBay seller made a tidy sale at auction to an anonymous bidder for $2,169.
Oh, FourWide, where art thou?
Thank you Grandma for my first set ever. It started long and joyful way:)))
I miss you ;(
It was my second LEGO set ever. I got it from my mother after surviving a visit to the dentist ;)
Oh, the memories. I still remember my dad asking if it would be possible to add functioning lights to this. I said something along the lines of, "Considering the light And Sound battery box is as big as the car, no."
It occurs to me that this set isn't too far from the design of some polybags nowadays...
I like the new white hub caps instead of red, and miss the back of the boxes where this one had alternative designs for two similar go-carts. I can see they must have struggled with this one.
I was note sure what 'Precinct Cruiser' actually meant, but precinct refers to a part of a city where public vehicles are not allowed, so thats why is looks like a shopping mall electric vehicle.
This reminds me a lot of the LEGO City 30352 Police Car a set that I like quite a bit. The only real difference being the lack of a windscreen.
@ambr said:
"I was note sure what 'Precinct Cruiser' actually meant, but precinct refers to a part of a city where public vehicles are not allowed, so thats why is looks like a shopping mall electric vehicle."
A precinct is the lowest organisational level of the police in the US. Brooklyn-Nine-Nine - as in the comedy programme - is a fictional example. It consists of a defined area and the police station within it. In the UK, the equivalent is called a sub-division or borough. But ‘Sub-Division Cruiser’ and ‘Borough Cruiser’ just don’t sound the same as ‘Precinct Cruiser’ because ‘precinct’ is police-specific whereas ‘sub-division’ and ‘borough’ are not.
The set has the alternative name ‘Policeman and Police Car’ which may have been its name in the UK. I don’t know: I wasn’t into LEGO at the time it was released.
This set would nowadays be sold in a polybag rather than a small box befitting its nature, unfortunate to me.
I remember this being the first set I could build from memory... Not that it was complex, but for a 9 yr old, an achievement!
@Maglide said:
"I remember this being the first set I could build from memory... Not that it was complex, but for a 9 yr old, an achievement!"
Likewise, I remember buying, building, swooshing, rebuilding.
@Lego_Lord_Mayorca said:
""LEGO Blart: Precinct Cop" was one LEGO Movie spin-off even Kevin James was reluctant to work on. Rumor has it we would've gotten an update of this set as a polybag that would include one free ticket to see the movie. Allegedly, one inexplicably found its way into Lithuania, where an eBay seller made a tidy sale at auction to an anonymous bidder for $2,169."
Whoa... This is gross!
Yar, was really hopin’ the “random” set what be for today would be more appropriate for this talk like a pirate day...
I had 6501. Small neat car, but the alt build was to make a little grill for cookouts as well.. I really miss the alt builds they would show in the instructions and on the boxes.
OMG! I had that set together with https://brickset.com/sets/6354-1/Pursuit-Squad
Fun little thing... this brings me back. Thanks for posting it!
@bananaworld:
With zoot suits, flapper dresses, and tri-corn hats.
@TheOtherMike:
Clearly you'd never heard of Rob Hendrix. He's managed to fit a battery _and_ light inside a 1x1 round plate. Granted, he had to core it out a bit, and it won't fit over a stud anymore (though it does fit between four studs), but it still lights up.
@Zander:
That's...not exactly true. Sometimes it is, but usually not. There are several different levels of police enforcement. The lowest of these is private security that has been deputized to have actual police authority. Colleges usually do this with their campus police force. Next is the local police, and then county sheriff. Except in Hawaii, where the sheriff's department has jurisdiction over the whole state, states employ their own police force. Then the federal government has a rather large group of police forces that are usually dedicated to covering a specific topic (DNR, DEA, NPS, Secret Service, etc.) and a couple of more general-purpose groups (FBI and US Marshalls). The military branches all have their own military police forces, and because Native American tribes operate as quasi-independent nations they manage most of the policework that needs to be done on their reservations. In my entire state I think the only police precincts are located in Detroit, because that's more of a big-city thing. Most other cities are small enough that they'll usually only have one police station that covers the whole city, and my state, at least, has state police posts rather than precincts. Precincts are set up in major cities because it can take hours to drive from one side of the city to another, during which time things can go all kinds of sideways.
Precincts are also how voting is divided up. States get carved up into sections based on who represents that area for US House of Representatives, upper and lower houses of state legislature, county government, city government, possibly districted by city council member, sometimes by school district, and periodically by voting initiatives that only apply to limited portions of any of the above, polling places are organized by precinct because there may be candidates who are running for an office that covers your precinct, or a voting initiative that applies to the area where you live, while the person living right across the street from you is represented by different offices, or affected by different initiatives. For most of the US, this is the only "precinct" they are likely to encounter unless they travel a lot.
@ra226:
Your day got superseded by Batman Day. Unfortunately, this is as close as they could get. Somehow there hasn't been a single Batman or DC Superheroes set that has been picked for RSotD.