It's just like yesterday.

But without the Trans neon green. So it's not as Blacktron.

I got this a used lot a year ago or so. It's not bad. But not great. I didn't really know about it unti I was looking up parts, and discovered this was a set in that lot.

Another dragster with undersized drive wheels.

@AFOLchamp: I miss that tool wheel. As I've said before, one reason I bought my first Friends set (3933) was to get that wheel in purple. Although the current set of tools is pretty nice, too. Without it, 21311 might not have been able to have his chest cross.

I feel like every other set on this site looks exactly like this.

*SIGH*...I've said it before: HOW BIG IS SPEED'S FAMILY...?!?!

@PurpleDave: Unless she's switched to gray, or white...the last being her most powerful form actually...don't really count the other colors (ex: yellow...):)

Is that a spoiler or the deploying of the parachute?

Daredevil… Raven Darkholme?

Is Huwbot going on a Marvel-but-not-Marvel spree?

@brick_r:
Lady Legasus was pretty powerful, and her outfit was yellow...

I feel like an entire dragster for racing some birds is overkill. How fast even are these ravens he’s racing anyway?

@PurpleDave: Ah yes, but to paraphrase: That's so NOT Raven...:D

This dragster will race against any and all ravens!

I got this for my birthday along with a Jurassic Park VHS!

This might have actually been my...second(?) LEGO set. I think. Wow. I just aged myself. Huh.

I have this one back from being a kid. Driver has a blacked out visor AND sunglasses because he is that damn cool....he just cant see anything tho so lucky he only needs to drive a straight line!

@AFOLchamp said:
"I remember getting 6639 as a kid; I don’t particularly care about race cars but I was THRILLED to get all those minifig tools "

I felt the exact same way. Though I also liked the big tires that came with this one.

@Brickalili: Ravens fly at around twenty-five MPH, according to a quick google. So yeah, a dragster is overkill.

When this appeared in the 1995 catalogue, the real hero was the tool rack! In comparison to the older tools - which are still in production today - they looked so realistic! Just compare to the content of 6561 Which came out only one year earlier! You had to build the oil can youself.

A pretty cool model. The colors on it are well done, the engine and wheels are properly disproportionate (not in exact proportion but in spirit) and you get one of the nicest tool racks there are back when they first came out. It's like they are all on display!

I like how it says TURBO in huge letters across the spoiler. I’m just trying to imagine a turbo setup for a top-fuel dragster. It would have to be pretty nuts to have anything like the throttle response on a supercharged engine like they normally use.

@peterlmorris said:
"I like how it says TURBO in huge letters across the spoiler. I’m just trying to imagine a turbo setup for a top-fuel dragster. It would have to be pretty nuts to have anything like the throttle response on a supercharged engine like they normally use. "

You have a point there. LEGOs point is: The target audience doesn't know yet, only that TURBO rules!

@brick_r:
The last person to say that to her got kicked into next Tuesday.

@TheOtherMike:
Besides Raven (who can open inter-dimensional portals to travel as fast as she pleases), the only other ravens I know of look more like woodcarvings mounted to the yard on 31132.

@PurpleDave: Yes, but in fairness, it was probably Robin....whichever version he's suppose to be (the 'TTG' Robin's 'the Worst', make Todd and Damian look 'Good' by comparison; and the sad thing is: 'TTG's Robin is suppose to Greyson...?!?!)

Using those big wheels certainly looks better constructed compared to the questionable wheel construction in set 6526 : Red Line Racer (tires over fragile technic bush pieces)

Especially the older toothed small bush pieces + rubber friction outside + axle friction inside , eventually if it's an older piece, it'll just snap.

@Modeltrainman said:
"This might have actually been my...second(?) LEGO set. I think. Wow. I just aged myself. Huh."

Those of us whose first LEGO sets predated minifigures just read your comment and instantly withered and crumbled into dust.

Pardon, might anyone help me reconstitute myself, preferably into the body of someone maybe thirty years younger? I’d be obliged…

@brick_r:
It’s never really addressed within the show, that I recall. There was an episode where three other Robins show up. (The Best Robin) One is very obviously Carrie Kelley. Another is wearing one of Tim Drake’s later costumes. The third is wearing the original Robin costume and is pretty clearly not Jason Todd. The main Robin looks closest to Tim Drake’s original costume. TTG Wiki lists both the main Robin and the original costume as different versions of Dick Grayson, which is technically feasible because we’ve seen entire alternate teams of the main characters.

Monday is now Dragster day! The simple body work is a great improvement on 1992-1, which looked like the bottom had fallen out of the drivers seat!

Ah, the mid-1990s, when those rear wheels on this dragster actually were exceptionally large on a minifig-scaled vehicle. You'd need twice the diameter to get that same feeling now!

As someone who's sense of LEGO Race peaked in 1996, this is very close to being ideal while being less familiar to me (having been a year earlier, before my acquaintance with the theme close-up in the LEGO Mania Magazine). It's weird to me that this red torso is here when I so completely identify it with the 1996 sets.