Random set of the day: Zero Hurricane and Red Blizzard
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 4593 Zero Hurricane and Red Blizzard, released during 2002. It's one of 27 Racers sets produced that year. It contains 70 pieces and 2 minifigs, and its retail price was US$6.99/£4.99.
It's owned by 1,064 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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Those are some interesting images being conjured with those names.
If only there were Zero Hurricanes man.
And Red Blizzard sounds like either a very delicious treat of soft serve and red velvet cake, or a Biblical Plague, please let it be the first.
@MCLegoboy said: "Those are some interesting images being conjured with those names. If only there were Zero Hurricanes man. And Red Blizzard sounds like either a very delicious treat of soft serve and red velvet cake, or a Biblical Plague, please let it be the first."
Wait until you get to the Purple Cyclone, or Five-Sixths Monsoon.
They're more impressive than the Beige Fog, or Quarter Mild-Breeze.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Those are some interesting images being conjured with those names.
If only there were Zero Hurricanes man.
And Red Blizzard sounds like either a very delicious treat of soft serve and red velvet cake, or a Biblical Plague, please let it be the first."
"When He broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come." And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from Earth, and that men would slay one another; and a great sword was given to him."
You've heard of the fog of war? What about a blinding blizzard? Thus, the Red Blizzard must be the Second Horseman of the Apocalypse!
I loved those little driver figures.
@MCLegoboy: Red Blizzard sounds like a superhero to me, like Red Tornado.
All of the eight pieces in this set.
It looks so much like a promo set! Only, these wouldn't have any motor.
@MCLegoboy:
A DQ Blizzard that tastes like red food coloring. Um…what biblical plagues do we have to choose from again? And are they limited to Egypt again? I mean, I might be cool with them having three days of darkness if it keeps me from having to drink a desert that tastes like red food coloring.
I don't understand why lego doesn't use these compact pull back motors today in Speed Champions or City sets. They can be perfectly hidden in the cars, considering everything is larger now. Maybe it's the cost?
A classic from my childhood! I got this set back in 2003, one of the few non-Jack Stone sets in my collection back then. Loved that set so much, it was fun to play with it. But unfortunatelly I lost some of its parts as time passed...
And then this year I found an used one for sale! Complete, with a nice price and great condition. Now I own that set again, and it is still fun as it was almost 20 years ago.
These names are more extreme than the actual X-Treme line
Unlike today, you can tell that the designers were having the time of their life designing those sets and naming them.
How many British folks are thinking "Mmm... I really want to eat a Milky Way right now"?
Another set I used to bring to school. Still have it as well! The dark red part used in Red Blizzard's cockpit was my first part in that colour.
Ah, Drome Racers. Who needs licensed cars when you can have the craziest, flashiest and fastest things on two, four or more wheels duking it out in a gigantic arena with the terrain shifting at the push of a button by one person in a chair?
The theme even broke the boundaries between system sets with small drivers, sets with full minifigs and even technic!
In this one you can see how the design team managed to make each car distinct despite the similar type for the race and in spite of the still limited options for parts.
These were the first full selection of curved parts and the newer wedge plates. But they weren't the end-all-be-all, as shown in the Zero Hurricane.
Ah, the set in which adventurers villain Senor Palomar abandoned his life of crime to become a racing driver instead... didn't work out for him, apparently, because he changed careers again the following year to become a professional basketball player...
While his competitor was a former member of the Extreme Team (Max, a.k.a. Fearless McCoy), who went on to become captain of the first Lego Arctic expedition (under the name of Ross Ranger), before competing in the Drome.
These minifigures certainly get around pretty varied careers...
@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"Ah, the set in which adventurers villain Senor Palomar abandoned his life of crime to become a racing driver instead... didn't work out for him, apparently, because he changed careers again the following year to become a professional basketball player...
While his competitor was a former member of the Extreme Team (Max, a.k.a. Fearless McCoy), who went on to become captain of the first Lego Arctic expedition (under the name of Ross Ranger), before competing in the Drome.
These minifigures certainly get around pretty varied careers..."
I just now realized that Senor Palomar wears mainly white with black here too, just like he did in the Adventurers theme. Now just with flame decoration!
So I just browsed the instructions, and the included comic is super wholesome. The two race each other and (with pictograms instead of words) call each other slow. But when they race they both finish at the same time and together complement each other's speed. Then the terrain shifts, they let their cars be worked on and drive out in a dual pull back motor... thing with both in tandem driving together.
Man, these two are such bros
@LegoBoi69 said:
"Anyone else just put random stuff down for the points?"
If you talking about saying you own something, when you don't, just to inflate your perceived wealth / parts catalog ...then no, nobody does that. If you're not saying that, I have no idea what you're trying to say.
@Lego_lord:
Pullback motors are for 4-wide, and SC is 8-wide. You'd need to figure out a way to extend the axles two studs in either direction, which would put waaaaaaay too much flex in them.