Random set of the day: Secret Space Voyager
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 6862 Secret Space Voyager, released during 1991. It's one of 13 Space sets produced that year. It contains 254 pieces.
It's owned by 633 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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Shouldn’t that be “Muper Model”?
M-Tron was seriously the best and still is my favorite Space. The magnets were so cool! I never had this one, but I had enough of the little ones and Blacktron to come up build ships that were close enough.
Did Homer Simpson design this set...
https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a1edfced5820d0fa07/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/the-homer-inline4.jpg
This seems to be unique as a heavily armed and armored M Tron vehicle focused on combat more than anything peaceful like the other M Tron sets.
So I guess we're all in on the secret then.
But don't tell anyone outside of Brickset, okay?
This thing had to have had the biggest wheels ever seen on a deployable rover.
I had every M-tron set (this was the peak of my Lego habit) but sadly I never even knew about this set until adulthood. Before the internet you had to rely on Lego Maniac magazine and I must have just never heard of this one. I also lost the instructions to my 6989 very quickly and never built that again until I was 35. Kids these days will never understand the agony of losing instructions before the internet was a thing...
Particle Ionizer was the last set I bought before my “dark ages.” I love M-Tron, and wish I’d bought more.
It’s just so beautiful!
Vehicles that can split are some the best, and this was even cooler being a super model made out of 3 sets.
In more modern times 70315 : Clay's Rumble Blade and 70322 : Axl's Tower Carrier were some cool vehicles that could split , and have "space wheels" as well of various sizes.
Nexo Knight was so far the only theme to use the bigger space wheels in a metallic color as well.
Here is what Bricklink has to say about this set:
This set itself does not exist. Rather, the set number is applied to a book of instructions for a set built by combining parts from sets 6877, 6896, and 6923. This set can only be built by using parts shown as alternates in the inventory of 6923, meaning the later alternate version of that set.
Never had any M-Tron because I was in my first dark ages (had 2 or 1.5!) but I really like the Core Magnetizer (and the magnets).
Two space set sin a row! Whoop whoop!
@GSR_MataNui : Yes, our cups truly runneth over:)
Also: How is this "thing" a 'Secret'??? It's bright red, flies, has ginormous wheels...Unless 'secret' is M-Troness for 'Sore Thumb':)
The 4th spaceship in the last seven days... I can see where this is going.
@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"The 4th spaceship in the last seven days... I can see where this is going."
Galidor!
Technically this ist Just an Instruction booklet rather than a 'real set'. It's interesting though these combiner models got their own Set number. I Wonder why these were limited to Space...
Hot mess!
Castle is my favorite theme, but M-Tron is my favorite sub-theme by a large margin.
@brick_r:
It is "secret" in that it is not an official set but rather one that can be made from the parts of 3 official M-Tron sets as stated above by HOBBES.
I always felt this set was a good idea in concept but that the whole ended up being less than the sum of its parts, especially since 6923 is such an excellent set on its own.
My dark ages ended just before M-Tron came out. My younger brother had a tiny M-Tron set, but that's the only exposure I had to the theme. A shame because I really liked the magnet gimmick.
@Huw, where did the part count come from in the database?
One of the “sets” I will never expect to own (that list is long!): the book costs hundreds now. It was free, back in the day, but you had to send away for it. I don’t remember if you had to have proof of purchase of the other sets to get it.
I didn't collect M-Tron, colors didn't appeal to me. Thanfully I was obsessive about having at least one set from each theme, so I got 6833. Nothing as fancy as this one but I had a M-Tron set in the end.
From the Delta Quadrant?
@Atuin There are still the ideas books like 697-2 and 260-1
And castle and city sets are easier to "merge" than spaceships.
@Norikins said:
"This seems to be unique as a heavily armed and armored M Tron vehicle focused on combat more than anything peaceful like the other M Tron sets."
Ok, but you can't tell me those things on the wings of 6923 are just "thrusters"... M:Tron was such a great theme, though. Good, solid run of Space sub-themes in there. I had a black light clock (it was the early 90's, didn't everyone have one of those?) and I used to set up all my M:Tron sets on display in front of it.
@Atuin said:
"Technically this ist Just an Instruction booklet rather than a 'real set'. It's interesting though these combiner models got their own Set number. I Wonder why these were limited to Space..."
No, not really. 6862 is ONLY the instruction. 6861-2 is also only the instruction, but it was included in 4741. 1593 was a real set, but contained all parts from 6880 and 6929.
Not entirely convinced this is supposed to be flying, none of the usual wings or rockets, are we sure it’s not just a terrestrial rover getting some serious air after going over a ramp?
So, like a way oversized 6854 Alien Fossilizer.
I have the component sets and technically own this one, just not the instructions. It also turned out my Particle Ionizer was the older version, so I had to borrow some parts when I built it as the new version has a different rotor assembly.
It was a funky thing for sure. The rover is 3/5th the size of the entire vehicle! Moreover, the rover has a clamp that goes all the way around it. This will leave a weird empty shape behind when it's deployed, so it doesn't look great without it either...
That said: we need more combiners! It's just so much fun to be able to use extra instructions when you collect specific sets. It's one of the fun parts of collecting bionicle sets!
@Binnekamp said:
"I technically own this one, just not the instructions. It also turned out my Particle Ionizer was the older version, so I had to borrow some parts as the new version has a different rotor assembly.
It was a funky thing for sure. The rover is 3/5th the size of the entire vehicle! Moreover, the rover has a clamp that goes all the way around it. This will leave a weird empty shape behind when it's deployed, so it doesn't look great without it either..."
Technically, you don't own this, because the cat is for the instructions.
Are you sure about the particle Ionizer version? Because when I built the SSV, I had the new version and had to bricklink the parts from the older one to complete it.
@Brickalili this isn't terrestrial; the wheels belong to the attached rover, which is resting on a beam. You don't see it on the photo. The wheels don't even touch the ground.
Not Classic Space
Wauw! Decent one. I should have needed this as a kid.
@MeisterDad: You did have to send proof of purchase from one of the sets. I remember having to keep the parts for 6877 in a bag because, at the time, I still kept most of my sets in their boxes, and the box now had a hole where I'd cut out the UPC.
The distinctive trans yellow green canopy is the best part of this set, and great for mocs as plenty of space inside. Just unsure about the back roof as looks very fragile as only connected at the front in the 3D view. The weight of the buggy must have put some strain on the two bricks holding it underneath as well as potential to fall out sideways when spaceship turning although I see there are some magnets to prevent this.
@jkb said:
" @Binnekamp said:
"I technically own this one, just not the instructions. It also turned out my Particle Ionizer was the older version, so I had to borrow some parts as the new version has a different rotor assembly.
It was a funky thing for sure. The rover is 3/5th the size of the entire vehicle! Moreover, the rover has a clamp that goes all the way around it. This will leave a weird empty shape behind when it's deployed, so it doesn't look great without it either..."
Technically, you don't own this, because the cat is for the instructions.
Are you sure about the particle Ionizer version? Because when I built the SSV, I had the new version and had to bricklink the parts from the older one to complete it.
@Brickalili this isn't terrestrial; the wheels belong to the attached rover, which is resting on a beam. You don't see it on the photo. The wheels don't even touch the ground."
I meant that I technically own the parts for the model (I also own the missing parts). As for the version, I looked up which version came first a long time ago and thought I had confirmed it with the photo image of the instructions. As it turns out I misrembembered which came first.
The first version was the one needed for this set. Mine is apparently the second version. Sorry for the mix-up.
As it turns out I was asked the exact same thing in 2017 according to this Bricklist from MGDawson: https://brickset.com/sets/list-17492
So apparently I researched this before (I confirmed it seperately again today). Thank you for crediting me, @MGDawson!
If it's a secret, then why do we know about it?
Somebody is a very bad secret-keeper.... unless they're telling us this secret to let us in on the secret that it's no secret that we can view the model without having to do so in secret.
(I wonder how many of you I lost at some point in that last statement... but don't tell me, it's a secret!)
Glorious. A giant mess of everything that you just loved slapping onto your builds as a kid. Everything gets better with more wings, more neon, more wheels. And then this happened. And now you know that there is in fact a limit, but if you go passed that you end up at awesome again.
Instruction links on its page aren’t for this set. Lol
@Binnekamp said:
" @jkb said:
" @Binnekamp said:
"I technically own this one, just not the instructions. It also turned out my Particle Ionizer was the older version, so I had to borrow some parts as the new version has a different rotor assembly.
It was a funky thing for sure. The rover is 3/5th the size of the entire vehicle! Moreover, the rover has a clamp that goes all the way around it. This will leave a weird empty shape behind when it's deployed, so it doesn't look great without it either..."
Technically, you don't own this, because the cat is for the instructions.
Are you sure about the particle Ionizer version? Because when I built the SSV, I had the new version and had to bricklink the parts from the older one to complete it.
@Brickalili this isn't terrestrial; the wheels belong to the attached rover, which is resting on a beam. You don't see it on the photo. The wheels don't even touch the ground."
I meant that I technically own the parts for the model (I also own the missing parts). As for the version, I looked up which version came first a long time ago and thought I had confirmed it with the photo image of the instructions. As it turns out I misrembembered which came first.
The first version was the one needed for this set. Mine is apparently the second version. Sorry for the mix-up.
As it turns out I was asked the exact same thing in 2017 according to this Bricklist from MGDawson: https://brickset.com/sets/list-17492
So apparently I researched this before (I confirmed it seperately again today). Thank you for crediting me, @MGDawson!"
Indeed, this list priceless! Thanks!
This and ice planet are my favorite sub-themes of all time. I have all of the M:tron sets (including this one) displayed and every time I walk by I smile.
The Secret Space Voyager is not actually rated for flight. This is a Dukes of Hazzard-style jump off the rim of a moon crater. It is also not actually rated for Dukes of Hazzard-style jumps but M-Tron never did attract the best and brightest.
@CopperTablet:
And that’s the reason not reason Blacktron kept trying to take stuff away from them. It was so they wouldn’t hurt themselves.
@Brickalili said:
"Not entirely convinced this is supposed to be flying, none of the usual wings or rockets, are we sure it’s not just a terrestrial rover getting some serious air after going over a ramp?"
In Space you don't need wings. But in a Secret Space, who knows?
Anyway, I "own" this set because I have dedicated copies of the three sets, but not the original instructions. Does it mean I own it or not?
@biffuz said:
" @Brickalili said:
"Not entirely convinced this is supposed to be flying, none of the usual wings or rockets, are we sure it’s not just a terrestrial rover getting some serious air after going over a ramp?"
In Space you don't need wings. But in a Secret Space, who knows?
Anyway, I "own" this set because I have dedicated copies of the three sets, but not the original instructions. Does it mean I own it or not?"
You quantum own it.
Blacktron did it better.