Random set of the day: Brick Street Getaway
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8211 Brick Street Getaway, released in 2010. It's one of 18 Racers sets produced that year. It contains 552 pieces, and its retail price was US$39.99/£29.99.
It's owned by 320 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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Is it just me, or are these smaller Racers street-scape sets actually really cool? I regret not buying more of them.
@Zordboy:
I bought several of them, but always only for parts. I don't recall ever building a single vehicle out of these sets. The worst one was I bought a copy of 8186 right after it came out because it had 2x red 1x1 bricks w/ studs on opposite sides, which I needed to make a 6-wide red hotrod. That was the first set that came with any, and nobody was buying it to part out on Bricklink. So, yeah, I paid $35 each to get those parts. I don't recall ever doing anything quite so Extreme before or since.
This looks like a great set with so much play value. I'll not regret cloning couple of them vehicles.
This is LITERALLY the first time I have heard of the name Tiny Turbos.
I love these sets! Especially that tow truck! But that safe looks way oversize.
Kind of funny that a tow truck, monster truck, and pickup truck would go to rob a bank together. I can't imagine the turning radius is too good on that tow truck for a getaway.
I don't remember this set and when I saw the image without reading the headline first I thought new sets with the new City Road System were being revealed...
Now we know what inspired that scene in Fast Five...
I really, really wanted these fold-out racetracks back in the day. Never got any though :(
@chrisaw:
You know, they _did_ start developing that film in early 2010...
@thomsedavi said:
"I don't remember this set and when I saw the image without reading the headline first I thought new sets with the new City Road System were being revealed..."
To be fair, they used this same large piece in the $15 sets in 09-10.
The Tiny Turbos were already a lot of fun on their own, but the fact that we also got those playsets with them gives them even more play value. I kind of still want to get my hands on some of those Racers playsets, they look like so much fun to mess around with.
More interesting than LEGO City police!
I gotta say there is something amusing about locking a car up in jail
Do these sets encourage or discourage a life of crime :)
Its funny, the sets designed for the adult market, like the detective office and the new police station, the crimes committed deal with cookies and donuts. Yet the sets primarily designed for children's play actually have a bank robbery, stealing the safe, and a police chase!
These tiny cars were cool, but the sticker plague still haunts me to this day.
On seeing the image I thought that this was a really cool mini-fig City set that I had missed during my dark ages, and the price looked really fantastic too. Sadly, racer scale, so doesn't really feel like Lego and on opening image vehicles look very chunky like any clone set, and the price doesn't look so great now either. I do like the garage jail with the wanted poster, very cars!
This is so cool, but I hope you like stickers because this set has A LOT!
@Merlict said:
"I gotta say there is something amusing about locking a car up in jail"
It's a car impound
Bruh those road plates were AWESOME! You could curl them up into a little box to hold all the other cars and parts to carry them around, and I adored it. Only problem was they didn't always sit on the ground quite right.
I picked this set up for $35 USD on the local classifieds last year primarily for two reasons 1) Tiny Turbos combined two of my favorite childhood toys: Lego and Hot Wheels and 2) It was a good PPP ratio and included some useful parts.
Not only do you get 5 cars, but you also get the bank window pieces, bars and doors for the jail, lion head pieces, printed money tiles, string and a winch, and a green recycle bin. Plus the road piece was actually useful in that it could be connected to others from the same line.
Sometimes I wonder what happened to bring about the end of Tiny Turbos. It went from having 10+ sets a year to just 4 sets and a polybag in 2011, its final year. The Racers theme itself died entirely in 2012. Did sales really drop off that much? I don't think that it would have been cancelled in anticipation of Speed Champions, as that line didn't emerge until 2015. We may never know...
@Dash_Justice:
I'm curious why Bricklink includes 40200 under the Tiny Turbos subtheme but Brickset does not. The 2013 polybag looks identical in design to those released in previous years which did get the TT tag.