Random set of the day: Gold Hunt
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8630 Gold Hunt, released during 2008. It's one of 8 Agents sets produced that year. It contains 352 pieces and 3 minifigs, and its retail price was US$29.99/£21.49.
It's owned by 2,800 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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All these LEGO criminals need to find a more secure way to transport their contraband, it always seems to end up strewn about whenever they cart it around
Why is it that the thing being stolen is always falling out the back of whatever vehicle the criminals are using? There are of course times where you rush and don't have time to secure everything down, but this is supposed to be a crime organization, it's all they do. You have a guy that's literally got gold for hair and a golden pistol, I think he's going to care if he's missing gold bars that he stole.
EDIT: Oof, I got inb4'd. This is the cost of overthinking and proofreading before posting.
Man, Agents was a such a good theme--arguably the best of the Alpha Team/Agents/Ultra Agents timeline, even if my age does give Alpha Team an unfair boost. I'd be delighted to see a true spiritual successor to these guys. That jet is swooshable.
I was about to make a comment that the gold would be easy to find, since the criminals didn't secure it to their vehicle, but apparently I'm late as usual.
It's a damn good fighter jet, though. I like it.
Yes and HOW is the plane going to catch the robbers speeding vehicle? Fly past and try to land on the road in front of it? Then what?
I can hear the LEGO Agents theme song from the old online Flash game just looking at this set.
This set works perfectly with 8634. You’ve got hero and villain ground vehicles, hero and villain aerial vehicles, as well as a location for the heroes to invade.
This set on its own is still great. That truck is a three seater with working suspension and flip-up guns under the hood, while the jet is extremely swooshable and has two technic competition cannons slung under the wings for blowing the gold out of the trailer.
That jet is awesome.
From recent City sets, I did like the jet : 60208 : Parachute Arrest
The set is called Jet so this is my favorite recent "jet" 80020 : White Dragon Horse Jet
70668 : Jay's Storm Fighter seems like a great Jet too (don't have it)
I wasn't collecting LEGO when those themes were sold, but from pictures, out of Agents/Ultra Agents, the 70170 : UltraCopter vs. AntiMatter looks really sleek but those doors on 8971 : Aerial Defence Unit look awesome too , designs were ahead of their time imo.
City helicopters just don't seem to do side doors nowadays (coast guard had one sliding door years ago but that was on a 10 wide)
If I remember correctly, the wheels shown are not the wheels that came with the set. I think the wheels that came with the set were larger.
I really loved the whole Agents Theme. The sets were great, the characters were great. And there were sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.
It was awesome.
EDIT: Wait, nope. I remember what it was. I was so annoyed with the tiny wheels that I replaced them with larger ones from my collection. That’s what happened.
Shame the ingot piece hadn't been introduced yet when this set came out.
@gorf43 : The jet had a couple of Technic cannons under the wings, so he could just use those to stop them.
@TeriXeri said:
"That jet is awesome.
From recent City sets, I did like the jet : 60208 : Parachute Arrest
The set is called Jet so this is my favorite recent "jet" 80020 : White Dragon Horse Jet
70668 : Jay's Storm Fighter seems like a great Jet too (don't have it)
I wasn't collecting LEGO when those themes were sold, but from pictures, out of Agents/Ultra Agents, the 70170 : UltraCopter vs. AntiMatter looks really sleek but those doors on 8971 : Aerial Defence Unit look awesome too , designs were ahead of their time imo.
City helicopters just don't seem to do side doors nowadays (coast guard had one sliding door years ago but that was on a 10 wide)"
When I was in the Army, the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters flew without doors in the summer... seatbelts were mandatory!
LEGO made so many colours to represent gold. Chromed, inked, pearled and now lacquered. Chrome is the superior one for me of course, but that extra retooling to accommodate it must have been too expensive to maintain.
@Formendacil said:
"Man, Agents was a such a good theme--arguably the best of the Alpha Team/Agents/Ultra Agents timeline, even if my age does give Alpha Team an unfair boost. I'd be delighted to see a true spiritual successor to these guys. That jet is swooshable."
Agreed, even though I loved some Alpha Team sets. The Agents vehicles were the most ‘realistic’ (that jet!) whilst still having outlandish Bond-like villains.
Much superior to that techno babble that Lego like to force into every theme nowadays like Ultra Agents.
@gorf43:
Ah, the decades-old conflict between Army and Air Force. Air Force can cause a lot of offensive damage, but only boots on the ground can hold territory. It’s hard to arrest someone from a fixed-wing aircraft, too.
Yeah, the jet is cool, but that has to be the ugliest truck Lego's ever made.
@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
" @chrisaw : i... don’t think that’s what “techno-babble” means..."
I’m aware, but I couldn’t think of a better term.
Nexo Knights, Ninjago…you get the idea.
@TheOtherMike said:
"Shame the ingot piece hadn't been introduced yet when this set came out.
@gorf43 : The jet had a couple of Technic cannons under the wings, so he could just use those to stop them."
And blow up all the stolen gold?
One of my backlog sets that I picked up back in the day and still haven’t built.
Looking at the background makes my eyes hurt.
@Formendacil said:
"Man, Agents was a such a good theme--arguably the best of the Alpha Team/Agents/Ultra Agents timeline, even if my age does give Alpha Team an unfair boost. I'd be delighted to see a true spiritual successor to these guys. That jet is swooshable."
I think Ultra Agents may be my favorite of the three though. I know that's not the most popular thing to say, but Ultra Agents had a much more Interesting color scheme for the heroes and the villains had such amazing character designs. In Agents, I'd argue the villains are the weakest part of the theme, since they are all just Dr. Inferno's henchmen instead of being their own individual characters.
I love all three themes though, and would pay big money to see LEGO do more themes like this. Too bad the days of fun one-off original themes seem to be long over...
@gorf43 said:
"Yes and HOW is the plane going to catch the robbers speeding vehicle? Fly past and try to land on the road in front of it? Then what?"
Who said anything about catching? That jet is simply going to blow up their truck, and write the gold off as collateral damage, it's insured anyway :)
@Agent00Z said:
"I can hear the LEGO Agents theme song from the old online Flash game just looking at this set. "
Me to
@NotProfessorWhymzi:
Top priority is almost certainly to recover the gold, not turn it into glitter.
@ecleme11:
I’m guessing you’ve never had to file an insurance claim on anything.
@PurpleDave said:
" @NotProfessorWhymzi:
Top priority is almost certainly to recover the gold, not turn it into glitter.
@ecleme11:
I’m guessing you’ve never had to file an insurance claim on anything."
Not the agents problem, their job is to stop the crooks, by any means necessary :)
@ecleme11:
Typically, the insurance claim is paid by the policyholder, by way of jacked up premiums. I met a dealer at a show we did over a decade ago, and he was clearly keeping a wary eye on a few customers (we had a LEGO train/town display, and he was selling hobby train merch across the aisle, so we probably weren’t perceived as much of a threat). I asked if he’d ever had stuff stolen, and he said it had happened on more than a few occasions. When I asked about insuring his wares, he said he did have insurance, but that it would generally cost him more than the payout if he filed a claim, because he’d be moved to a higher risk category that would result in higher premiums that would eat up any payout he received.
A pallet of gold is worth a fortune, so they would absolutely be expected to recover it, and the only way to avoid higher premiums is to drop coverage right after the payout clears. Given how much more gold is stored at Fort Knox, I don’t see that being likely.