Random set of the day: Strata Scooter
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 6827 Strata Scooter, released in 1987. It's one of 17 Space sets produced that year. It contains 35 pieces and 1 minifig.
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Eeeeeaaaaah I can't make fun of Classic Space. I mean, I could give it a try, but I'm not getting anything good this time. You win this round Huwbot... (=_= )
Fun fact: Yesterday's "Takua and Pewku" is a remake of this set (ya know, since there was no proper Space theme in 2003).
Seeing this set and a few others in a fold-out catalog from 1987 gave me my first glimpses as to what LEGO sets were like right before I was born. In spite of lacking the sophisticated visor-equipped helmets that my Unitron and Blacktron: Future Generation astronauts wore, there was a definite charm to these little monochromatic guys. The set isn't bad, either, with those neon-green radar dishes. The only downside is the all-white part selection, which probably means for most that owned the set back in 1987, it now looks dreadfully yellowed.
For that reason, I am glad that with the introduction of Blacktron, LEGO Space started taking on a darker hue. Futuron spoke otherwise, but in quick succession, we got the original Space Police (black, blue, and trans-neon red), M-TRON (red, black, and trans-neon green), and Blacktron: Future Generation (black, white, and trans-neon green). Ice Planet in 1993 had sets divided between white and blue, with trans-neon orange accents. But white finally became a majority color scheme for Exploriens in 1996. Of course, I was alive and in my LEGO heyday as a kid, so sadly, I too know of the destructive power of UV light on my precious white bricks.
Miss those hinges!
It bothers me that the radar dishes are differently positioned
The barest bit of SNOT on that vehicle. A standard, cute Classic Space vehicle that looks like it could fly if you took the wheels off.
Yay! Always makes me smile when it is a classic space random set of the day.
@Mr__Thrawn said:
"It bothers me that the radar dishes are differently positioned"
Your not alone...
@Mr__Thrawn said:
"It bothers me that the radar dishes are differently positioned"
Your not alone...
One of the late Classic Space sets with the Futuron color scheme - switch Benny with a blue Futuron astronaut (and possibly the trans-green dishes for trans-blue or -red) and you essentially have a Futuron set! The inverted slope mirroring the nose piece at the front always reminded me of an amphibious vehicle.
Cute little scooter go vroom vroom!
I'm not familiar with the set but it looks like you can seperate the cabin for a small flyer. You know, it has these small wings on hinges and all...
Hey, look, it's one of the every pre-TLM Benny sets that _doesn't_ use "traditional Classic Space" colors!
@MCLegoboy:
You know he's got the radars pointed right back at himself, right?
@Lego_Lord_Mayorca:
Well, at least the vote's closed, so you're not going to spark off a wave of revenge-voting...
@Mr__Thrawn:
No, no, they swivel so you can point them in different directions and get a really great radar profile of the front of the scooter.
@LordDunsany:
The Futuron color scheme really got its start in the first half of Classic Space with 6890, Classic Space officially closed out with a lone grey set in 6809, and most of the sets in the last few years had really random color schemes.
This is the result when your moon buggy starts to overeat.
"It's one of 17 [non Star Wars] Space sets produced that year"
Glorious.
That is all.
@Lego_Lord_Mayorca said:
"The set isn't bad, either, with those neon-green radar dishes. The only downside is the all-white part selection, which probably means for most that owned the set back in 1987, it now looks dreadfully yellowed."
Fun (?) fact: we had two of these and while one of them is still white the other one has indeed yellowed considerably...
And those trans-green radar dishes where my favourite as a child (they were also less common than the trans-red ones)
spacething, Spacething, SPACETHING!
@Lego_lord said:
"I'm not familiar with the set but it looks like you can seperate the cabin for a small flyer. You know, it has these small wings on hinges and all..."
Nope
Nice.
@T79 said:
" Fun (?) fact: we had two of these and while one of them is still white the other one has indeed yellowed considerably...
And those trans-green radar dishes where my favourite as a child (they were also less common than the trans-red ones)"
I love those dishes--one of my favorite things about the FX Star Patroller was those dishes in trans-blue. Just beautiful--and one of the first sets to have them in that color.
Classic Space days are the best days.
@Mr__Thrawn said:
"It bothers me that the radar dishes are differently positioned"
They can be moved...
This is nifty. Honestly looks like a kid just threw whatever he/she had that would make the vehicle more awesome without having an actual design in mind beyond car -> 4 wheels.
I love that school of design and I miss it somewhat.
I could never work out if this was a space buggy that was having an identity crisis and wanted to be a space ship, or a space ship with really large landing gear to help land on uneven moon surfaces?
@Darth_TNT said:
"Honestly looks like a kid just threw whatever he/she had that would make the vehicle more awesome without having an actual design in mind beyond car -> 4 wheels."
This is thoroughly accurate, nostalgia always has to work overtime for Classic Space
@Lego_lord:
You could remove the wheels if you wanted to create a small flyer but the set is not designed to have a separable flyer like 6826.
@PurpleDave:
I think an almost pure Futuron color scheme was present even earlier with the vehicle portion of 6927 in 1981. While it is true than the color schemes of Classic Space were varied in its last years, 6750, 6780, 6783 (the 3 Light and Sound Space sets from 1986), 6820, 6808, 6849, 6972, as well as this set all had the coherent Futuron color scheme of white build with black trim, blue glass (where applicable), and trans-red (and occasional trans-green) highlights and thus fit in nicely with the Futuron sets with a few optional modifications (e.g., changing the computer slope pieces in 6849).
^ There was definitely Futuron color before Futuron existed. Trans-green is the give-away that it's not, but other than that, the minifig is the only thing not Futuron here. I always counted 6972 as Futuron and just assumed they were late to adopt the new uniform.
Oh, this is the poor guy from brick experiment channel.
I miss that nose piece. I don't really miss that style of hinges. Their low profile was nice, but mine tended to get loose over time.
Wow! My first LEGO set.
Perhaps my first Space set -- at least, one of the very first. It makes no sense, it doesn't even look that cool, but the nostalgia is overwhelming just seeing this picture.