I feel like those black technic beams on the top do something…..

I imagine that the cockpit is blaring music that goes with anything.

@PurpleDave
@BulbaNerd4000
Interesting. I was gonna guess projectile triggers. The non-military type of remote triggered projectiles, of course.

Looks like a modified Dassault Mirage III to me.

The love child of a Red Arrows Hawk and a Saab Viggen

It kind of looks like a General Dynamics F-16D (except for the air intakes) with the ride control vanes off a Rockwell B-1B.

I remember being in a Lego store and a kid came in and wanted a jet but this set had just been retired.

Poor kid left disappointed.

Oh. I guess Huwbot must be a Revenge of the Sixth fan.

Anyway, I owned the mini version of this, and that wasn’t a bad one back in the day.

Whenever somebody says sonic boom i think of that questionable TV show

Boom! shake-shake-shake the room...

This set looks surprisingly better simply by putting one of these on the front https://brickset.com/parts/256926/antenna-1x1x8

My Top 25 Creator sets list:
https://brickset.com/sets/list-36217

What's hapenned with cockpit part?

@MusiMus said:
"My Top 25 Creator sets list:
https://brickset.com/sets/list-36217"

The sad thing is that the latest set of this list was released in 2015...

@MusiMus said:
"My Top 25 Creator sets list:
https://brickset.com/sets/list-36217 "

Great list but you missed out 4958 Monster Dinosaur, which was one of the greatest remote controlled walking sets of all time together with completely different alternative builds. I would also add 31012 family house as this was the pinnacle of modern design with the light brick, and 5891 apple tree house which was just fun to build.

Nice display piece from the creator master himself, Jamie. Now, if he’d only work on the next modular...

Great set, too bad Creator doesn't make those larger jets etc that can still fit a minifig anymore.

Seems like a nice set for angled plates as well.

Creator 3-in-1 sets are still my favorite theme , and 2021 sets are great for sure, but I miss the large houses or vehicles like this (and I literally missed them as I was away from LEGO 2001-2016)

@thatsaltyninja said:
" @bananaworld said:
"
@Wavelength said:
"Are we ever going to get over that osprey?"
Some tiresome people never will get over that Osprey. They have quickly forgotten the perfect storm of a kneejerk reaction to bad publicity and a bizarrely-missed technical issue. They're probably the same people who complain about a more inclusive society being "politically-correct" and "woke" because LEGO wouldn't reproduce a military vehicle. Yawn.

Full disclosure: the initial announcement of the Osprey left me weak at the knees with desire for that beautiful craft. (The cancellation was disappointing, but quickly passed because it's made of LEGO and other bits of LEGO can be used to recreate that LEGO object. It's, like, magic, or something.)"

I’m afraid I’m one of those people, but in all honesty I just wanted to see a Lego Osprey. Unfortunately for now people who do want to build it have to wait for the parts to appear in new sets like the rotor blades and panels. I don’t complain about society or anything, I just really like the Osprey as an aircraft in real life and seeing it cancelled in Lego form is just downright disappointing. It’s really a question of “why”. Why was it allowed through developers? Why was it decided to be cancled 10 days from release? If it was a gearing issue, why wasn’t it fixed or caught? So many questions but not enough answers sadly."

The official set is still technically out there...you just have to pay a very steep price for it.

I don't have much to say on this set, honestly. It's not really my area of interest / expertise, but it looks like a neat model nonetheless ^^

I know Creator sets aren't really made for minifigures; but were those seats in the cockpit an appropriate size for them to occupy? It looks to me like they should fit; though I'm also notoriously bad at judging the size of a Lego set based on official renders alone xD

@LegoDavid said:
"Why was the Ofsprey cancelled, again, if LEGO has no problem releasing sets like this? I guess that may be due to the fact that the Ofsprey was licensed, while this set was not?

Hopefully LEGO learns from this mistake and realizes that not everything needs to be licensed... they could just do their own colorful version inspired by a real-world vehicle, and nobody will complain.
Unfortunately, we all know LEGO has a hard time learning anything from their mistakes..."

2010 and 2020 had different moral codes

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"I don't have much to say on this set, honestly. It's not really my area of interest / expertise, but it looks like a neat model nonetheless ^^

I know Creator sets aren't really made for minifigures; but were those seats in the cockpit an appropriate size for them to occupy? It looks to me like they should fit; though I'm also notoriously bad at judging the size of a Lego set based on official renders alone xD"

I can attest from personal (children) experience that the cockpit - in 31039 at least, and this one looks similar - will and does accept a wide variety of minifigures :-D

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"I know Creator sets aren't really made for minifigures; but were those seats in the cockpit an appropriate size for them to occupy? It looks to me like they should fit; though I'm also notoriously bad at judging the size of a Lego set based on official renders alone xD"

Many modern 3-in-1 sets actually do have a 2x2 area for figs to sit in even if the set doesn't come with a figure, for example 31100 or 31115

@twentythree said:
" @SW__0608 said:
"This would go great next to 31039 "

It does! I have both and love displaying them together."

Same!
2 great seats that I picked up cheap second-hand, and are amongst my son’s favourites to build and play with! Look great on display too!

@ambr said:
" @MusiMus said:
"My Top 25 Creator sets list:
https://brickset.com/sets/list-36217 "

Great list but you missed out 4958 Monster Dinosaur, which was one of the greatest remote controlled walking sets of all time together with completely different alternative builds. I would also add 31012 family house as this was the pinnacle of modern design with the light brick, and 5891 apple tree house which was just fun to build."

Great pick-ups on the 3 sets missing from that list! I concur!

2 red Light Bricks included, didn't even see that initially, that's a nice addition for sure.

@CarolinaOnMyMind
@PurpleDave

Now that I look at the set images, it seems there are light bricks in the thrusters, so I’m guessing they trigger those

@fluffy39126 said:
"Whenever somebody says sonic boom i think of that questionable TV show"
It was almost the death of the blue hedgehog

When LEGO said they were canceling the Osprey, I pointed straight to sets like these. A fighter jet in a demonstration team livery is no different than a general-purpose rotorcraft in a search-and-rescue livery. I feel the difference, however, is that LEGO specifically used the term "Osprey" while in this case, it was just "Sonic Boom".

Creator seems to day away from the gimmicks LEGO does today, and this is no exception. One of the best sets released in my lifetime. Had the opportunity to get a cheap one on Walmart clearance, but didn't.

Remember 30020, the polybag version? That was pretty cool too.

@cody6268 said:
"When LEGO said they were canceling the Osprey, I pointed straight to sets like these. A fighter jet in a demonstration team livery is no different than a general-purpose rotorcraft in a search-and-rescue livery. I feel the difference, however, is that LEGO specifically used the term "Osprey" while in this case, it was just "Sonic Boom"."

Ehh, no... don't forget the other important part (that everyone else seems to conveniently forget too): The Osprey was officially licensed.
That would've meant Lego working with a company that is (among other things) a defence contractor, and which would've likely received some licensing fees from the sales of the set. Not the case for this set here, or any others that people like to point to.

Oh, and "general-purpose" seems a bit generous for an aircraft that is so far only in military service and has not attracted any civilian buyers.

@twentythree said:
" @SW__0608 said:
"This would go great next to 31039 "

It does! I have both and love displaying them together."

The 31011 and 4403 are also great together.

The 4953 is smaller

Some tiresome people never will get over getting over that Osprey. They have quickly forgotten the frustrating hypocrisy of LEGO making a kneejerk reaction to almost no bad publicity and a bizarrely-missed technical issue. They're probably the same people who make weird macro level complaints about modern day real world issues on an online LEGO fan site such as being "politically-correct" and "woke" because they are frustrated with having to have read poignant comments by other real people in a randomized set post of the day. Yawn.

@Rob42:
They’ve released at least one Boeing set (10177) in recent years, so that’s not specifically the issue with the Osprey. If the Osprey has attracted any civilian customers by now, it might not have been cancelled. My guess is that, because it was developed primarily for the US military, that still wouldn’t have been enough, and that it would need to have been developed for non-military first, and later adopted by one or more militaries.

@mdonahue7 said:
"I'm "triggered." That is a military machine disguised as a rescue vehicle. Ridiculous that the Osprey was cancelled."

People are never going to stop bitching about that, are they.

Stay classy, San Diego.