Random set of the day: Snap's Cruiser
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 6733 Snap's Cruiser, released during 2002. It's one of 10 Island Xtreme Stunts sets produced that year. It contains 19 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$4/£1.99.
It's owned by 882 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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This guy thinks he's so cool with that smug look on his face, but ain't nobody ever looked cool wearing anything like he is: https://brickset.com/minifigs/ixs001/xtreme-stunts-snap-lockitt
I picked up a few Xtreme Stunt sets. I thought they looked great as toys, but I didn’t have any kids at the time.
So they were just parts packs.
Oh, Snap! Lockit this dude!
@MCLegoboy said:
"This guy thinks he's so cool with that smug look on his face, but ain't nobody ever looked cool wearing anything like he is: https://brickset.com/minifigs/ixs001/xtreme-stunts-snap-lockitt "
Oof. I wish I could unsee that.
"I need your clothes, your boots and your waterscooter" - Terminator 2 (meme)
Always thought this hair + sunglasses looked like Arnold, even moreso in the 2003 Police sets : 7032: Police 4WD and Undercover Van
@MCLegoboy said:
"This guy thinks he's so cool with that smug look on his face, but ain't nobody ever looked cool wearing anything like he is: https://brickset.com/minifigs/ixs001/xtreme-stunts-snap-lockitt"
I have no idea what you’re talking about, that’s the coolest man alive
I had a few copies of this set, and for the life of me I can’t remember why.
I think the Beach Lookout from this theme was the first Lego set I ever encountered. I remember watching my older brothers building it, and being all, "A toy you can build YOURSELF!?" X-D
Even Thanos would stand up in this.
Slow down Snap!
@MCLegoboy
“Snap” — the sound he makes when he puts that speedo on.
Dude! Snap Lockett was the coolest dude in my lego city! Still is!
Came out in my second dark age.
I see I didn't miss anything.
Came out in my second dark age.
I see I didn't miss anything.
Here come's Snap boy watch him scootin, watch him go...
Any early 2000's kind is going to remember this from the iconic LEGO Island games... It is actually quite funny how this theme was actually straight up based on the 1997 game, which didn't have any tie-in sets at the time, and released at the same time as the LEGO Island 2 game.
I really wish LEGO still made more original videogames and not just spamming the same formula with whatever license they currently have in their hands, like they have done ever since 2005. Sure, LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga was a classic, but boy, the formula got old so quickly.
I really thought it said Snape's Cruiser for a minute there and wondered why potions was being taught via jetski...
I really liked Extreme Island when it first came out. The sets were a little juniorised, but compared to whatever else was passing for Town, I thought Extreme Island was more than passable. Everything's relative. I never played any of the corresponding video games, and I have no idea of the story, but I liked how colour and interesting the sets were. I thought they were fun and interesting.
I don't have this one, which surprises me, because I've got most of the others.
I found this set recently in a job lot. Love these little pocket money sets, But this is a little too basic, even for me, and I grew up with classic town and space! Figure is cool though, anyone who can pull off speedos and a tropical shirt is the man in my book!
I only had one set from Island Xtreme Stunts, the one with Snap and Brickster, but I loved it. There was something cool about this theme that just wasn't there later in City theme.
Snap Thong Outfit (his best years)
Seems to have taken off so more space cruiser.
@Brickalili said:
"I really thought it said Snape's Cruiser for a minute there and wondered why potions was being taught via jetski..."
I had the same thought!!!
I'm actually fairly nostalgic towards the late 90s/early 00s, but rubbish like this really doesn't help my case...
I'm afraid to admit I have not one, but two of these... for some reason
@PurpleDave said:
"I had a few copies of this set, and for the life of me I can’t remember why."
Me too. I still have few. Probably because they were on sale for one euro (I think) at the time.
I used to have this set, just because as a kid I was interested in collecting the minifigures of named characters from Lego's original themes, preferably without spending a lot on them, and this was the cheapest way to get Snap. Naturally, my efforts were doomed to fail with Island Extreme Stunts because the Infomaniac - one of the more prominent characters in the game - was only in the theme's most expensive set, 6740, which was rather beyond my budget at the time (and of course, as a kid, I didn't know about Bricklink...)
I still wonder why it took Lego so long to decide to make a physical line based on one of their most well-loved video games. I guess someone figured that the gaming audience and physical-toys audience were so far removed that what appealed to one wouldn't possibly interest the other. Lego Island (5731) and Lego Island 2 (5774) both passed with no set representation beyond a promotional polybag of the Infomaniac 2181, and it was only the third game, Island Xtreme Stunts (14556), that finally bought physical sets with it.
In any case, certainly not the best Lego jet-ski ever - although the colours are a point in its favour, at least! Orange and black is one of my favourite combinations.
Can we count the 19 bricks?
Looks similar to this: 952008
Without looking anything up, and without knowing if Brickset counts the minifig as four parts or not at all, I can identify 16pcs, falling three short. I see three yellow inverted slopes, two blacks plates, two orange slopes and two orange panels, a red jumper, a grey clip, black handlebars, and a 4pc minifig (leg assembly, torso assembly, head, and hair, as they would be counted for official LEGO piece counts).
After looking up the parts, I was wrong about the size of he black wing plate, thinking there was also a 2x4 black plate (there’s not). So that leaves four parts. There are two yellow 2x2 round plates and two trans-orange 1x1 cones that form a pair of buoys, only one of which is peeking out at the bottom of the image. So, no, physically impossible to identify every element from this image alone, as three parts aren’t visible at all.
I am very fond of the Lego Island wave because it came with the first half pipe and the first Lego skateboards ever! (Besides the Fabuland ones of course). As for Mr Snap--- definitely one cool guy!
@LegoDavid said:
"Any early 2000's kind is going to remember this from the iconic LEGO Island games... It is actually quite funny how this theme was actually straight up based on the 1997 game, which didn't have any tie-in sets at the time, and released at the same time as the LEGO Island 2 game.
I really wish LEGO still made more original videogames and not just spamming the same formula with whatever license they currently have in their hands, like they have done ever since 2005. Sure, LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga was a classic, but boy, the formula got old so quickly. "
Technically there was 2181 in 1997 and various in game buildings and vehicles are either direct adaptations of 1995/1996 Town sets or heavily inspired by them.
There even exists (or technically not? Now I'm confused...) set 6500 which might have been planned to go along with the orignal fall 1996 release of Island 1. As the game was delayed and Town shifted towards the 1997 juniorized designs, the time seemed not to be right to release this set, so it got cancelled (unfortunately).
On a side note, I always thought Lego Island to be the very first Lego video game, however there exists another one: "LEGO Fun to Build" from 1995.
Fun fact: pepper is voiced by John Morris who also voices Andy from toy story.
I had this set. And in my Lego universe, Snap Lockit is the beach bum who smokes weed.
Turn that orange into yellow, you've got yourself an inverse Blacktron OG colour scheme. and Snap Lockit himself kinda has a Blacktron vibe going, with all that yellow and black and white