Vintage set of the week: Road repair crew
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 214 Road repair crew, released during 1977. It's one of 8 Building Set with People sets produced that year. It contains 68 pieces.
It's owned by 243 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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Crew? Two figures? A barrier? That sign print? A loader vehicle?
Kaz, I'm having Deja Vu here
I'd love to see them bring back the maxifig hand mold. It could be so useful with some of the recent socket joint pieces.
Times must have been much simpler to just have two guys do all the repairs for a road. Gotta hammer those rocks down finer for the scoop to transport them to the gravel road.
Okay, this is downright adorable.
Except for the weird axe, serial-killer vibe from the guy on the right, there.
Interesting that this style of road signs later appeared in System sets, where they fit the scale perfectly. In the case of this set, however, the road signs seem downright small compared to the tractor and figs. I did not realize that the signs were introduced here first.
This will be a hard assignment for the road repair crew. The road is completely gone!
Even as a kid, those figs always freaked me out!
While moving, don't lean over in this tractor either to the right or to the left if you want to keep your shoulders.
Too cute. Love this.
Two people? I don’t see two people. I see one person and one instance of the elusive Tractaur of modern Greek mythology (half-man, half-tractor).
Road crew...where? I see two Police Officers, pulling 'double-duty' for a town/city too cheap to hire a 'city works' department...:)
But why are they getting police officers to do the roadworks?
They're just kids playing, see how they only have one arm segment while adults usually get two? ;-)
@jschwarz said:
"Interesting that this style of road signs later appeared in System sets, where they fit the scale perfectly. In the case of this set, however, the road signs seem downright small compared to the tractor and figs. I did not realize that the signs were introduced here first. "
1973: 940
So not specifically released for these maxifigs, minifigs or their armless predecessors.
@rick77:
The heck? There were twelve sets released in 1973, and one in 1974 (none in 1975), and all thirteen of these sets have hybrid kindergarten drawings for box art?
@Brickalili said:
"But why are they getting police officers to do the roadworks?"
Undercover cops... not quite mastered the undercover part of their jobs.
Never knew those big tyres pre-dated Technic.
@sjr60 said:
" @Brickalili said:
"But why are they getting police officers to do the roadworks?"
Undercover cops... not quite mastered the undercover part of their jobs."
"I don't get it, I've put my hat and coat on, that means I'm under covers! Why are they still mad at me?"
@Brickalili said:
"But why are they getting police officers to do the roadworks?"
According to the catalogue on Brickset police officers wear black not blue!
Doctor, what's that growth on my hand?
- Well, you played so much with Lego it starts sprouting from your body!
They happy. They fix
@UProbeck:
71000-6.
They could have always borrowed a road crew from the next set along 215-1. Similar levels of health and safety equipment!
@Ridgeheart:
I haven’t had any proper Mixel joints grow loose or break, so…
My country could use a few of these... ;)
These look like Chinese Communist Party members' road crew.
And yeah what's up with the short arms? Maybe they had to design it that way in order for whoever drives can keep their arms inside the cab area and not rub up against the big back wheels.
@magnumsalyer:
Mine could, too. My governor got elected on a promise to “fix the damn roads,” but her only solution was to Jack the state gas tax through the roof. When people objected to that, she stopped trying until she was able to secure a federal bailout that allowed her to launch a rash of road construction projects right before she was up for re-election. Now it’s two months later, all of those projects have been more or less completed, and no sign of the next round on roads that needed it even worse than the ones that just got repaired.
@PurpleDave said:
" @magnumsalyer:
Mine could, too. My governor got elected on a promise to “fix the damn roads,” but her only solution was to Jack the state gas tax through the roof. When people objected to that, she stopped trying until she was able to secure a federal bailout that allowed her to launch a rash of road construction projects right before she was up for re-election. Now it’s two months later, all of those projects have been more or less completed, and no sign of the next round on roads that needed it even worse than the ones that just got repaired."
Yep, sadly that sounds about like par for the course for the US these days