Random set of the day: AIR Patrol Jet
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 4619 AIR Patrol Jet, released during 2002. It's one of 14 Jack Stone sets produced that year. It contains 63 pieces and 2 minifigs, and its retail price was US$30/£24.99.
It's owned by 436 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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That's quite the thing to behold. It looks like it's trying to be some other company's toy with the printed windows, but then you notice the chrome engines...
Ew.
Chunky
"That looks terrible."
Reads further:"It's one of 14 Jack Stone sets..."
"That's why."
Literal Airbus
The printed windows are purely for show. They’re flying by AWACS. I would not recommend trying this at home. Once, about a decade ago, we were doing a weekend show, and I was driving home Saturday night when the sky just opened up, like someone had knocked the valve off with a hammer. The rain was so heavy that all I could see outside my car was a bit of the lane lines on either side of me. So I drove by GPS. I could see when the road was going to curve so I was prepared to adjust course, and I could see when my exit was coming up. And nobody else was on the road at that time. Even so, I was driving at a snail’s pace, just in case I was wrong about that last part.
I find parts of this plane in bulk bins all the time. They are pretty hard to miss. Yet, I still lack a complete one.
Back in the early 2000s, this was the first plane larger than 4-wide. It is a predecessor for the 8-wide jumbo jets debuting in 2006 City with bottom fuselage segments connected by technic pins. Of course, the later planes were less juniorized with brick built walls in between the top and bottom pieces.
These Jack Stone airplane parts, sans the chassis, and large wing plates which was exclusive to this set, have actually been reused many times, proving suprisingly versatile. The engines and turbines of course have become common, and also used separately for fans, rotors, and net shooters. The canopy pieces have been recolored in transparent to make cockpits and glass tunnels.
This actually is a pretty important set in LEGO history.
@Norikins :
And yet it has air intakes where the wings connect to the fuselage, and whole engines slung underneath those wings.
With that launch angle it seems to indicate a VTOL-capable craft, but that's probably giving too much credit to Jack and his pals
I hate Jack Stone with all my forces. It was almost the ONLY theme available here back in the early 2000s. Always wished to get Star Wars, Harry Potter, Sports and Racers sets back then, but they were so hard to find (and most of the times only the big sets could be find). Had to accept the Jack Stone sets most of the times as the only option to continue my collection...
But when I saw that jet on the back of the instructions of the JS sets, I genuinely liked it and wished a lot to get one. Ironically, I never found it.
Ouch.
Only 63 pieces?? What does the inside look like?
Thats bad, thats really bad...
@MeisterDad: Why on earth would you want a complete one?
@Collector_Nonas: If you look at the instructions, you'll see that it's pretty sparse inside, as you would expect.
@Galaxy12_Import:
Catapult. That or My Dad threw it.
@Collector_Nonas:
Looks about the right size for My Dad to use as a coffin during daytime.
More of an 'Error Patrol Jet' really...Only thing I kinda' like is the tail section tail/wing set-up (sans the jet), beyond that...yesh...
I'm sure we've had a version of this before.
This is the plane where Jack Stone responds to a twister by flying in the jet towards it and then capturing the tornado in one of the jet's engines.
I'd love to hear the physics behind that.
What's the... Uh... Umbrella on top for?
@Iceranger22: I suspect it suppose to be an AWACS/RADAR set up...second worst version I've seen ('First' being Cypher's plane in F&F 8)
@Iceranger22 said:
"What's the... Uh... Umbrella on top for?"
That’s a radome for an AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) radar, used by militaries as an airborne radar. It’s used to search for aircraft while avoiding ground clutter and getting a better look “over the horizon”.
The interesting thing here is that even though this set doesn’t look like a military set, it absolutely is one. AWACS has only military operators, to my knowledge. So they slipped one past the LEGO censors in producing a model of a contemporary military vehicle - albeit one so heavily disguised as to be barely recognizable!
@jschwarz said:
" @Iceranger22 said:
"What's the... Uh... Umbrella on top for?"
That’s a radome for an AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) radar, used by militaries as an airborne radar. It’s used to search for aircraft while avoiding ground clutter and getting a better look “over the horizon”.
The interesting thing here is that even though this set doesn’t look like a military set, it absolutely is one. AWACS has only military operators, to my knowledge. So they slipped one past the LEGO censors in producing a model of a contemporary military vehicle - albeit one so heavily disguised as to be barely recognizable!"
Ha! I didn't even recognize the dish there.
However, In Jack Stone's defense, according to the instructions, he used the AWACS to detect a hurricane ... and then used up one of the fans to suck it all up. Yup. That's Jack Stone everybody.
That cockpit has a smiley face
It’s kind of the mutant offspring of a Boeing E3 Sentry and a BAe Nimrod AEW Mk 3.
Even weirder, the horizontal stabilizers are canted so far upwards as be a butterfly tail, yet there is still a vertical stabilizer.
@Zordboy:
I’m pretty sure the physics involves prodigious, gutter-crawling, forgot-where-your-pants-are, flammable-breath, breathalyzer-says-you-should-be-dead quantities of moonshine.
@PurpleDave said: " @Zordboy:
I’m pretty sure the physics involves prodigious, gutter-crawling, forgot-where-your-pants-are, flammable-breath, breathalyzer-says-you-should-be-dead quantities of moonshine."
This was the early 90s, so I figure, this was a typical Tuesday night for many people.
Say what you will about Jack Stone, but honestly, you gotta give credit to the line for using a bunch of those amazing Chrome turbine pieces so commonly.
@Zordboy said:
" @PurpleDave said: " @Zordboy:
I’m pretty sure the physics involves prodigious, gutter-crawling, forgot-where-your-pants-are, flammable-breath, breathalyzer-says-you-should-be-dead quantities of moonshine."
This was the early 90s, so I figure, this was a typical Tuesday night for many people."
Out by ten years, this is early 2000s. Perhaps they’d left their moonshine ageing for that long!
I like jake stone figures but not the sets
I like the planes smiley face.
He's* so happy, so innocent....
*Or she. Are planes generally female like ships are?
@MutoidMan: They have so much dihedral that i seriously doubt they'd actually work as horizontal stabilizers.
@bookmum: Yes, they are. Most vehicles are female, except of course in Cars and similar universes.
Manufacturing this had to be expensive.
@TheOtherMike In a bulk bin, any complete set is a bonus. They are rare!
Oh dear.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Zordboy:
I’m pretty sure the physics involves prodigious, gutter-crawling, forgot-where-your-pants-are, flammable-breath, breathalyzer-says-you-should-be-dead quantities of moonshine."
Let's hope Jack Stone isn't the type to enjoy his moonshine while trying to relight the natural gas-powered still with a match.
If that's the case, not only will be be breathing fire, he will be on fire!
A few days ago my 7075 arrived its not the best ship nor it is the worst. And to be honest I actually quite like it!
@Brickalili:
As a distilled spirit, I don’t think moonshine actually continues to age after bottling. And as moonshine, I don’t think it’s generally given much time to age before being bottled, either.
There’s an episode of M*A*S*H that touches on this, where Hawkeye convinces Margaret to let him out a bottle of booze in a time capsule by noting how old it will be once the time capsule is opened. It’s considered an error because the bottle in question would have been aged in a barrel, but wouldn’t really continue to change once sealed in a glass bottle. Wine does because it’s not distilled, but for distilled spirits, age is usually more indicative of how rare it is, as only a small quantity will be held back for years compared to the bulk of production that’s shipped to distributors right away. Some years will turn out better than others, and it’s those specific years that will become highly sought by connoisseurs.
With 4620, a nice set for kids.
My daughter has really appreciate to play with these sets.
Each one has a cardboard which allow to build a runaway.
@PurpleDave said:
"The printed windows are purely for show. They’re flying by AWACS. I would not recommend trying this at home. Once, about a decade ago, we were doing a weekend show, and I was driving home Saturday night when the sky just opened up, like someone had knocked the valve off with a hammer. The rain was so heavy that all I could see outside my car was a bit of the lane lines on either side of me. So I drove by GPS. I could see when the road was going to curve so I was prepared to adjust course, and I could see when my exit was coming up. And nobody else was on the road at that time. Even so, I was driving at a snail’s pace, just in case I was wrong about that last part."
I've had to do this before when driving through the country at night and a thick fog layer came in out of nowhere. My GPS was the only way I could anticipate the curves up ahead.
@Richard_FS:
Sucks, doesn’t it? I mean, the alternative is just pulling off to the side and waiting it out (fortunately, intense rain is from a cold front, and usually blows through pretty quickly). I had to do that once, too, a couple years ago. It was the middle of the afternoon, with rush hour traffic, and it rained so hard I couldn’t see the front of my car. _Nobody_ was trying to drive in that, fortunately (if they did, they probably would have run into someone). I was on a freeway that was sunk into the ground between the two halves of the service drive, and so much rain had come down that when it started to clear up I noticed that the storm drains on the freeway were shooting spouts of water 20-30 feet in the air. I saw a couple motorcyclists that day, but they’d pulled aside under an overpass as soon as it started raining, so I think they managed to stay relatively dry.
I absolutely love this set. Wanted so badly as a kid and then my brother and I were both gifted one for Christmas.
When I started rebuilding my Lego sets, this was one of the first I assembled just for the pure nostalgia.
Here, we see the doomed 4619 in its last moments in an aerodynamic stall caused by an excessive angle of attack. The prominent leading-edge root extensions on the craft allowed Jack an alpha of around 45°, which he promptly exceeded because he's a stupid asshole. There were no survivors: they identified Jack's charred body in the wreckage from his stupid orange jumpsuit.
@MutoidMan said:
"Even weirder, the horizontal stabilizers are canted so far upwards as be a butterfly tail, yet there is still a vertical stabilizer."
Is a V-tail with an added vert. stabilizer *and an additional engine* even feasible?
@Drzhivago138:
Why not? The F-117a isn’t capable of flying, and it’s only a constant stream of micro adjustments performed by the computer that allows it to stay airborne.
@TheOtherMike
I’m not sure it’s the dihedral as much as the size of the control surfaces. Compared to actual v-tails, the control surfaces look far too small to be effective.
@Drzhivago138
One would think that sort of arrangement would experience far too many issues with turbulent airflow to be feasible.