Random set of the day: Mini Tow Truck
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 6423 Mini Tow Truck, released during 2000. It's one of 45 Town sets produced that year. It contains 35 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$5.
It's owned by 1,221 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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If this is what my insurance sent to come pick me up, I'd just as well consider the car totaled and begin walking.
Great. It’s useful for towing small objects that a minifig could just carry in one hand.
Say what you will about it, but that coupling plate hanging off the hook means it'll have an easier time keeping the car attached than the Lego tow trucks that just have the hook.
I like how the art just seems to depict the driver as a clumsy idiot who’s accidentally knocked his own equipment off the back of the truck.
@TheOtherMike:
Coupling plate? No, that’s just some random bit of scrap that he’s towing!
I need to wash my eyes now.. just.. what a low point for LEGO.
I loved this set as a kid! I know there's hate of juniorization above and below this comment, but I loved that it had a rare green chassis, and it was fun to play with - it really did work well as a versatile tow truck (and unlike some modern LEGO tow trucks, it wasn't too oversized for the roads of the time).
Allow me to provide the hate of juniorization to go below the previous comment!
Yeah. So. That rare green chassis was all one part. It should have been so rare they never made it. Ugh.
Honestly looks like quite a downgrade from 1989's 6660-1
You know, sometimes I defend the Town Junior line, because occasionally you got some sets that were pretty fun or had interesting pieces (or at least had some decent play value).
This?
This is not going to be one of those times.
*insert that tiresome argument here*
Wait, this isn’t Eurobricks.
juniorised!
Well I, for one, think it’s adorable.
Who’s a cute little tow truck? You are! That’s right.
Hmmm...thinking it looks more like a 'Stubbed Toe' Truck, given its size...no?
For all those poor crashed golf carts and shopping trolleys
Such a bitter end for the Town theme, the end of 90's. I still think town had so much to offer but I guess with ever growing world, Town also needed to grow into City, 4 studs to 6 studs and etc.
@tees: At least this one didn't have suspension raising it too high off the ground to tow anything other than 6641.
I remember this set well. Brought it to school one time!
I remember having to choose between this set and 4920 Rapid Rider. All these years later I'm still glad I chose the Rock Raiders set.
It took me an embarrasingly long time to realize these are supposed to be the Octan colors. Because Octan is usually white with a double stripe of green and red... yeah. Not the clearest, and now it just looks randomly colored.
@NotProfessorWhymzi The plate it carries is actully shown in the instructions to be used for towing. Because ALL town vehicles back then had those one piece chassis bricks it would slot under the front wheels every time.
So all Town jr and City Center road vehicle sets.
And I don't even own this set to know that. They all had one of like three chasses.
LEGO in 1997: Quick success >> teaching creativity and patience
LEGO in 2022: ^^
@jkb said:
"LEGO in 1997: Quick success >> teaching creativity and patience
LEGO in 2022: ^^"
What does '^^' mean?
@Binnekamp said:
" @jkb said:
"LEGO in 1997: Quick success >> teaching creativity and patience
LEGO in 2022: ^^"
What does '^^' mean?"
"As above"
Mini Tow Truck?
Why can it only tow Mini’s ?
What about other makes of car?
The first set i got as a child *_*
@Minifig_Jez:
The unrelenting brutality of physics.
@Balthazar_Brannigan said:
"I loved this set as a kid! I know there's hate of juniorization above and below this comment, but I loved that it had a rare green chassis, and it was fun to play with - it really did work well as a versatile tow truck (and unlike some modern LEGO tow trucks, it wasn't too oversized for the roads of the time)."
This is probably what the appeal was with the Town Jr. sets of the era ... a Lego set for younger builders at a price that probably was within allowance budgets – save $5-10 over a few weeks and it's yours – and had play value, especially if you played with it with some of the other vehicles in other sets.
For many of us though, out of the ashes of Town Jr. came the phoenix that was the City sets.
Looks like it hooked the wrong part of the car and ripped it off...
I think I had this. No doubt an impulse buy with my staff discount at Woolies.
No idea what happened to it if I did.
If I had been about 9 years old in 2000 and treated to some of the 1996 Town range at the age of 5, I would be MEGA DISAPPOINTED with this.
I mean, and it's not visible from this image, there are no headlights on the truck. Not even one of those printed bricks that some people don't mind on the junior era sets.
Glad I was Lego's target market a dozen years earlier!