Random set of the day: Holiday Jet (LEGO Air Version)
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 4032 Holiday Jet (LEGO Air Version), released during 2003. It's one of 28 World City sets produced that year. It contains 151 pieces and 3 minifigs.
It's owned by 250 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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And here we go again.
How many of these are left?
No matter how many times this one comes up, I’m equally happy to see it, and sad that we don’t get airline promo sets anymore.
13 copies of the same plane...
8 times as Random Set of the Day...
Only 5 remain everyone, we can do it.
@MCLegoboy said:
"13 copies of the same plane...
8 times as Random Set of the Day...
Only 5 remain everyone, we can do it."
When we get the last one, we party!
@KoolKreeper489 said:
"How many of these are left?"
I swear that we've gotten through most of them, by now.
Wait, LEGO operated its own airline?
Time Cruisers kid attempting to alter reality by going back in time to convince airline executives to not charge for checked bags.
The sheer obscurity of this set and it's many alterations makes me fear I need to buy one of them someday...
I hope the plane hits that creepy looking kid.
@PDelahanty:
When we get the last one, I fully expect to see a spray of red on that cover art. And no kid on the tarmac.
The winglets are pretty cool, but their inclusion makes the wingspan a little too wide for the scale, IMO.
While the modern Playmobile-scale sets look just fine on display, I still prefer the 4-wide scale and the runway plates that they can use for their overall playability. And my kids absolutely love them!
@Harmonious_Building said:
"Time Cruisers kid attempting to alter reality by going back in time to convince airline executives to not charge for checked bags. "
Timmy must've used the 6491: Rocket Racer to end up in World City, his time machine broke down, and later grew up to become the Rocket Racer himself in City 60298: Rocket Stunt Bike instead of the original timecruiser/LEGO racer timeline which had themes mixed together (meme)
“I’m sorry folks, due to unruly citizens who refuse to leave the tarmac we’re being redirected to World City.”
I knew this looked familiar, but I think it’s been a little while.
@cody6268
LEGO did build and originally own Billund Airport.
At first glance I thought maybe the kid was running away from his Mom but now I see the Mom is not leaning forward in pursuit as if in a run; rather they seem to be strolling toward the landing plane to board it.
Safety Schmafety.
Eight of thirteen variants of the same set in such a short time is improbable, unless the algorithm ends up following something like that of the birthday distribution. I wonder how a random draw without replacement might approximate that.
Aaaaaaggggg! The RSOTD has overtaken me in the number of planes. Actually I have 7 out of 13 variants. The remaining ones are too expensive. At the end, we are paying for a sheet of stickers. The set itself should not cost more that 25-30€
@lluisgib said:
"Aaaaaaggggg! The RSOTD has overtaken me in the number of planes. Actually I have 7 out of 13 variants. The remaining ones are too expensive. At the end, we are paying for a sheet of stickers. The set itself should not cost more that 25-30€"
Speaking as someone who owns those sets, could you please tell us what are the differences between all those different variants? They all look pretty much the same to me.
@LegoDavid said:
" @lluisgib said:
"Aaaaaaggggg! The RSOTD has overtaken me in the number of planes. Actually I have 7 out of 13 variants. The remaining ones are too expensive. At the end, we are paying for a sheet of stickers. The set itself should not cost more that 25-30€"
Speaking as someone who owns those sets, could you please tell us what are the differences between all those different variants? They all look pretty much the same to me."
The set is exactly the same. One single design, one single box. In the rear side there is a plastic envelope attached with 2 sticker sheets, belonging to the airline. They are 2 because with one sticker sheet you can not complete the model. It's a bit weekend because you get double of some of the stickers (e.g. the tail stickers) but only one set of others
No more differences
@MCLegoboy said:
"13 copies of the same plane...
8 times as Random Set of the Day...
Only 5 remain everyone, we can do it."
But will we? Everyday the chances get slimmer as we get closer to to increasing the quantity of rsotd choices beyond the point every set gets selected.
…
As the Earth dies and burns, Huwbot dutifully reveals the final rsotd to any empty planet. A lone comment appears beneath.
…
Timmmehh!
These types of built airplanes were the most beautiful ones, in my opinion.
Today the planes look like Playmobile - built with huge form parts.
And once again Timmy is about to get sucked into the jet engine.
You again?
I love these planes, as someone who was 6 years old when the first minifig scale aircraft 6368 was announced, these left a massive impression with all the angular parts that at the time were brand new. I had quite a fleet by the start of the 1990s with the plane from 6392 joining my 6368, then 6356 and 6375 squeezing onto the runway too.
This one is lovely though, regardless of the branding. I was lucky enough to pick up a Swiss Air version last year in exceptional condition, it had clearly been built only once then immediately dismantled and put back in the box (probably before the flight on which it was purchased had landed!)
It's a nice build with (to my eighties child eyes anyway) some clever geometry on the wings and some rare old dark grey pieces. I presume they must be really quite rare in any livery.
Only fault to my mind is the Stickers Across Multiple Parts. I was surprised Lego were still doing this as late as the World City era. I wonder how many sets in the database suffer from this problem and when the most recent one was released?
@Arnoldos said:
"And once again Timmy is about to get sucked into the jet engine."
I suspect that the woman walking his direction is on her way to save him. Playmobil used to have those light blue suit cases for medics, if I remember well.
We all need t-shirts of this set.
How about a tag for '4-wide plane'?
Imagine if Lego offered airline exclusive sets today. A bunch of us would be looking to book flights on a dozen different airlines just to collect them. “I just flew from SFO to Vancouver to get the Air Canada version. Then I’m flying to Tokyo to get the ANA version. I fly back to SFO on JAL.”
@Kynareth:
It’s a lot more complicated than that, and it’s already too late. With over 500 new sets being released annually, the pool is growing by over 150 sets each year, rather than shrinking. But the pool only grows every January 1st, and gradually decreases over the rest of the year. This is because inclusion is based on the year of release, not the date, so on 1/1/22, every eligible set released in 2012 will be added to the pool all at the same time, whether they were released on 1/1/2012 or 12/1/2012. Plus there are several sets that are excluded from the list, due to not meeting the parameters @Huw set.
@Arnoldos:
And yet he never does. Clearly there’s a pile of crashes planes just out of frame, as all these brave pilots spot the little boy too late to pull up and make another attempt at landing. Meanwhile, the control towers is wondering why planes keep crashing because there’s no one left to inform them of the hazard running down the runway.
@PurpleDave, yes, I know it’s complicated, but I didn’t feel the need to bore people with the maths. For extra pedant points you’re free to point out why it would be unrealistic to expect Huwbot to be consuming resources at the time at which all rsotd permutations have been exhausted.
I wanted one of these so bad back in the day..I was doing quite a bit of business and personal travel at the time but sadly the opportunity never arose on any flight I took...I did, however, manage to get one of the other World City airline promo sets 7214 a nice little cargo seaplane. BTW, no stickers in 7214 , only printed pieces!
@PDelahanty said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"13 copies of the same plane...
8 times as Random Set of the Day...
Only 5 remain everyone, we can do it."
When we get the last one, we party!"
Non-AFOLs might think we’re nuts. Mind you, they probably think that already :~P
Poor Timmy. When he gets trapped in a time loop, the ending always involves being pureed in a jet engine.
@AllenSmith:
Gonna need another Timmy!
Gonna need another Timmy!
Gonna need another Timmy!
Gonna need another Timmy!
Gonna need another Timmy!
Gonna need another Timmy!
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