You have to be a daredevil to fly up through solid pavement.

I loved this set. I like the use of the anhedral wing piece on both of the (flying) vehicles, the trailer for pulling the plane, and just the general look of the whole set. Although the design of the fuel trailer is a bit weird...

I had this one, good times swooshing

I always loved piece 6152.

@TheOtherMike said:
"I loved this set. I like the use of the anhedral wing piece on both of the (flying) vehicles, the trailer for pulling the plane, and just the general look of the whole set. Although the design of the fuel trailer is a bit weird..."

The tow-trailer is especially weird, because the airplane's landing gear are built so that it is level when the nose wheel is being towed, which means it stoops way forward when it's just on its own. Would have been better if there was a bar piece on the nose wheel that the tow-trailer could just clip onto.

I didn't buy this set because I thought it was to radical, the design and neon colors, etc. Today we have Ninjago sets.. Wow!? I'm certainly out of the game.

I see you sexy beast 6582

I always confuse this with 1687 for some reason

Don't know...is it a good idea to have Daredevil fly...I mean, even w/his 'Radar Sense', and other advanced senses; he's still, ya' know...blind. I mean, yes; someone could talk him though flying the plane, but something as advanced/fast as this craft...

Also, someone tell G.I. Joe their stealth-fighter's been 'jacked'...or is this part of a 'Night Raven' (the mini-fighter that doubles as a third engine)...OOOOrrrr:
Masked Cru-saders
Workingovertime
Fightingcrime
Fightingcrime...
(but then: this would be Miles' craft, wouldn't it:))

Lastly...does anyone else laugh when they hear TLG say they don't sell modern military vehicles, only to see stuff like this...I mean, the last 'airshow' set 60289 ...clearly THAT'S an F-23...

My brother (10 years older than me) saw this in a catalog circa 2000 and decided to order it, but it was sold out. Five-year-old me was absolutely devastated.

Loved this one back in the day

Reminds me of the scene in Firefox where Clint Eastward lands in the arctic. Surely that’s the inspiration?

The most daring devils in town.

I always liked the look of this set--Xtreme Team is a bit down my list of "need/want to gets," but this is a solid set--a very good reminder that in 1998, LEGO was still 100% *capable* of producing excellent sets in the mid-90s Town style, even though actual Town had become reduced to Town Jr.

@ElephantKnight said:
"Mostly black? Check

Neon Green windscreens? Check

White striping? Check

Yup, 100% Blacktronwaitaminute.... what's that red doing there?"

Blacktron sets have trans-red in them. Regular red is just the planet-bound version of trans-red.

I'm still not used to the fact that the pilot, the minifigure I was introduced to as "Daredevil Tom", is actually a woman. I thought as a kid that all lady minifigures wore obvious lipstick, such as in 2537, so I (and, I guess, the UK Lego Adventures comic writers) didn't even consider that she might be a girl until the US names for the characters were mentioned in the comments here on previous sets.

I mean, don't get me wrong, it's very cool that it is the case! It's just a discovery that I'm still getting used to!

(Does that mean that Cosmo (blue-hood explorer) from the Arctic theme is also a girl? Due to sharing the same head with / presumably being the same person as Alexis here?)

In any case, I'm tending to reconcile the different names of the Extreme Team characters in this way: that Alexis, Rex, Dex, whoever elsex, are their real given names, while the Adventures comic names - "Daredevil Tom", "Fearless McCoy" and "Jimmy Brave" - are their stage personas. Since the Extreme Team, at least in said comics, were famous stunt show performers, it makes sense to me that they'd have 'larger than life' stage names to go with that role - and that they wouldn't actually use such names off-stage.

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"I'm still not used to the fact that the pilot, the minifigure I was introduced to as "Daredevil Tom", is actually a woman. I thought as a kid that all lady minifigures wore obvious lipstick, such as in 2537, so I (and, I guess, the UK Lego Adventures comic writers) didn't even consider that she might be a girl until the US names for the characters were mentioned in the comments here on previous sets.

I mean, don't get me wrong, it's very cool that it is the case! It's just a discovery that I'm still getting used to!

(Does that mean that Cosmo (blue-hood explorer) from the Arctic theme is also a girl? Due to sharing the same head with / presumably being the same person as Alexis here?)

In any case, I'm tending to reconcile the different names of the Extreme Team characters in this way: that Alexis, Rex, Dex, whoever elsex, are their real given names, while the Adventures comic names - "Daredevil Tom", "Fearless McCoy" and "Jimmy Brave" - are their stage personas. Since the Extreme Team, at least in said comics, were famous stunt show performers, it makes sense to me that they'd have 'larger than life' stage names to go with that role - and that they wouldn't actually use such names off-stage."

When I discovered this tidbit, I was also quite confused, but I believe Cosmo Cool is still a guy. Nothing on that face says either male or female.

You missed poor Max.

Everyone's talking about the not-a-spy-plane... but what on airspace is that helicopter?!!!!!!!

@ElephantKnight said:
"You missed poor Max."

Yeah, I genuinely forgot his name; I thought they were all -ex names but none of the other ones I could think of felt right. Didn't recall that one of them had an -ax ending instead ^^;;

In my defence, I grew up only knowing the Adventures Magazine names for them so I'm still learning their actual names!

I just looked up the instructions and I learned that it actually has pretty cool inner engine detailing. The canopy also has a unique way of opening by moving down forward