Random set of the day: Road Rescue
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Today's random set is 6431 Road Rescue, released in 1998. It's one of 61 Town sets produced that year. It contains 48 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$4.
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Oh yes let me drill a hole into this cliff so my car falls off
Ah, RES-Q. I thought this was a great entry point to the subtheme, a gorgeous little jeep.
Well, it has doors that work. It has that going for it.
He looks like he needs to be rescued
Usually a name like this would imply some kind of service vehicle assisting with the aftermath of a road accident, but here it seems that the road literally needs to be rescued.
Though admittedly, I don’t think smashing it with a jackhammer is helping much.
@Your_Future_President said:
"Oh yes let me drill a hole into this cliff so my car falls off"
If you look closely there appears to be a road with lane dividing stripes on the cliff. Perhaps he figures its best to do away with the oddly placed road entirely?
I had a few RES-Q sets growing up and the instruction booklet art really never made sense for a lot of them. Lol
Bro jus vibin right at the edge of a super dangerous high elevation road, wearing his hat backwards? It looks like he and his road rescue vehicle are gonna need rescuing after his inevitable fall.
It looks like it was sculpted with a cheese slicer.
But who’s going to rescue HIM?
Some slight juniorisation here, but what a great theme!
Ah, RES-Q. Trying so hard to be be Blacktron. black and yellow colour scheme, triangle logo. and those minifigs certainly look like Blacktron Future Generation off-duty. Solid A- from the Blacktron lord here.
About three months ago, a small turtle wandered onto the roadway and was paved over. The entire road subsequently broke off and fell into a stormy sea with the little turtle still trapped beneath the asphalt among the violent waves. I’m just rescuing him now.
I’m sure he’s fine.
Hmmm...set's called 'Road Rescue', and...he's jackhammering it...good thing he's not a paramedic:
Guy on ground: "Can't feeling my legs..."
'Jack': "Don't worry, have'em off in a moment..."8|
Seriously, never understood the point of 'Res-Q': it's 'Emergency Services'...to the EXTREME!!! (Pictures Monster Truck Ambulances, Nitro Funny-Car Police cars...wait...isn't that 'Lego City Adventures'...)
That moustache though
Cars with no wheel arches are very ugly. It looks like a boat. This is why Lego were going bust in 2000.
Given the large piece of road lying on top of the other large piece of road, I feel like this is less the fault of incliment weather, and more, the aftermath of a Godzilla attack.
This has to be Kip Dynamite, the big brother of Napoleon, at work or something
Is…is he jackhammering away the cliff edge he’s standing on? Is it called road rescue because he’s the one about to need rescuing?
I am more fond of this set than it necessarily warrants--the theme is fantastic, but the smaller sets are nothing special. And, in this particular case, it's not even because I own the set (though I do--my sole childhood Res-Q set), but because it was the first set for a younger brother, which gave it a disproportionate prominence.
It might be almost time that I rebuild mine...
This pizza delivery man has taken new extremes. Anyways, is this a military vehicle?
Well, that's certainly an interesting way to rescue... whatever he is rescuing.
RES-Q basically was some sort of 'sister-theme' to X-Treme Team, so the whole over-the-top attitude of their sets was supposed to make a little bit more sense (at least I guess so...)
They were also supposed as more of a type of emergency management dealing with heavy natural disasters (mostly in coastal regions as the promotional diorama shows).
The set itself is among the more boring of the 6 from the mainline, lacking any obscure rare elements (the truck had the opaque canopy extender, the hovercraft the Technic bumper parts, the base the harbor 'baseplates'), however it was one of the last sets to contain the 9V System light bulb covers! Well at least if you ignore Keetongu from 2005...
By the way, this guy's name is 'Nick O'Tyme' (Mania Magazine 1998, May/June)
EDIT:
Also it might be that both RES-Q and X-Treme are what remained from a planned Arctic line (that was eventually delayed to 2000) as both make use of certain new elements like the buzzsaw and the ice axe. Also 6579 (Arctic) and 6572 (X-Treme Team) are suspiciously close.
The copyright dates on various Arctic sticker sheets date back to 1997/1998, far longer than usual at the time. Also the part IDs for Arctic parts fit more to the 1998 range than 2000 and designers even stated they worked on the sets in 1998.