Random set of the day: Helicopter
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 1630 Helicopter, released in 1990. It's one of 28 Town sets produced that year. It contains 27 pieces.
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Really weird in that this is minifig scale, and designed to seat a minifig, but does not contain a minifig. I thought only the clone brands found at 99 cent stores did that.
Ghost Helicopter! I'll be honest, there's probably nowhere safe to run.
Another of those 'made from leftovers from other sets' sets by the look of things.
No minifigure. But on the other hand, most toothpaste doesn't even come with a helicopter in the first place.
Despite being a completely different building system and a completely different vehicle at first glance this looked identical to yesterday's
I think the pilot was looking at ocean, tilted to far and fell off. MAN OVERBOARD! And the helicopter is taking a bath next.
Wear you seatbelts kids, especially when piloting a helicopter with no cockpit.
The pilot got knocked off the seat by the wind from the dangerously low rotors
I remember buying this set when I lived in America for a few months in '91. I loved this helicopter, it was one of my favourite sets as a kid. Simple, but just really cool.
These days, when I have an abundance of Lego helicopters flying around my Lego city, this guy sits on a flatbed train carriage as cargo, and looks really good.
@GSR_MataNui said:
"Despite being a completely different building system and a completely different vehicle at first glance this looked identical to yesterday's"
While better done than yesterdays, it has a lot in common. Both are kinda obscure promotional sets; and both somewhat oddly designed.
Clearly this was flying through the Bermuda Triangle, and the pilot just vanished into thin air.
I think Huwbot might be in a 'vehicles with a mind of their own' phase this weekend.
@PurpleDave : That's weird, normally w/the B.T. the pilot AND the aircraft vanish...but maybe he got put in a "Jordan" :D
Up until I had gotten a second one, this was owned by my 6644 Road Rebel (my first minifig, therefore my SigFig), usually parked near Pier Police. Now, as a pair, they are rent-able sight-seeing/training craft down by the beach.
Its not alone, there is 6628 tow truck and another nineties set, this time a boat 1632 that do not have a figure
Both this and yesterday's set have no driver/pilot.
In 1990 lego helicopters came with 0 pilots.
In 2021 lego drones came with 1 pilot.
Kids, that’s inflation*
*Adults, it’s not
The great thing about old sets like this is that anything I would have built would not look out of place at all. I could have designed this when I was seven - and I don't mean that as a criticism of this set.
A small gift from my grandmother 30 years ago (!)
That's...a very unsafe way to fly.
Set 6515 is VERY similar to this one, just that it has a slightly different color AND a minifigure...
Can't fault City sets from 1990, a year that gave us some of the very best of this theme ever, in the form of 6396 and 6399.
@madforLEGO said:
"Its not alone, there is 6628 tow truck and another nineties set, this time a boat 1632 that do not have a figure"
There's also a couple of later 90s sets 2880 and 2886 that follow that trend too. Though just as this was apparently a freebie with toothpaste, those two were freebies with biscuits. You got a metal tin covered with Town Jr. set pictures, containing a lot of biscuits and one of four tiny boxed Lego sets. Only those two were minifigureless designs, though.
I've still got one of those tins around, honestly, though not the sets anymore... (or the biscuits, naturally!)
@Jack_Sassy:
On the contrary, the pilot has clearly reduced that the safest place to be is nowhere near that helicopter.
This set could have been designed pretty much identically at least as late as 1998, if not 2002, and as early as... some time earlier?
There's not much to say about it--the lack of a pilot fig is a detriment in a fig-scale set--but it is very evocative of the era.
The promotional sets through Kellogg's from that year included minifigures. I got the plane and the boat, but I don't recall if they were in the cereal box or if they were mail-aways (I think they were in the box).
Where is the driver you may ask? Well I don’t know there about 6 other sets that year that did not have a driver.
@ElephantKnight said:
"I think the pilot was looking at ocean, tilted to far and fell off. MAN OVERBOARD! And the helicopter is taking a bath next.
Wear you seatbelts kids, especially when piloting a helicopter with no cockpit."
Bruh... Thanks for reminding me. I almost forgot to wear my seatbelt when I was flying my helicopter today!
@cody6268 said:
"Really weird in that this is minifig scale, and designed to seat a minifig, but does not contain a minifig. I thought only the clone brands found at 99 cent stores did that. "
Creator: “First Time?”
Must have been fun, flying those helicopters without any protection. Maybe the pilot wanted to turn on the overhead radio, forgetting that there's no roof.
You know what the weirdest thing about helicopter is...besides lack of pilot. Lego put out a nearly identical helicopter, IN THE SAME YEAR. WITH A PILOT...makes one wonder: how do these corporate decisions get made...?