Random set of the day: Mini Dump Truck
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 6470 Mini Dump Truck, released during 2000. It's one of 45 Town sets produced that year. It contains 24 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$2.99.
It's owned by 2,515 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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I don't know about you, but I'd be happy to have a dump truck that big
Oooo this is one of my childhood sets! I don't know how long it actually lasted though. I just know I was always fascinated with the bucket and the beams, but I never could find a good way to use them. Still haven't. XD
First two words: make sense.
Last word: you had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
I mean, it's bigger than most Town vehicles from my childhood, but can that really be called a truck?
Also, it's Jedi Bob!
One of the first three Town sets I was given, along with 6474 and 6326. Interestingly enough, it is a playable vehicle in LEGO Racers 2 (5778), and the guy from 6474 is an NPC you race against.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Oooo this is one of my childhood sets! I don't know how long it actually lasted though. I just know I was always fascinated with the bucket and the beams, but I never could find a good way to use them. Still haven't. XD"
When I was a wee lad, I built the set per the instructions, then I detached the 1x2 bricks with pins, put the steering wheel in the bucket (with the worker sat behind it), and "walked" it around as a mech!
This guy was always one of my favorite minifigs
It would've been great if the turn of the millennium had been a really wonderful, triumphant period for Lego City.
Unfortunately ... it wasn't.
Is it just me, or is that the Jedi Bob face?
I had two of these growing up.
Those two black plates in the set came in handy when building Blacktron. And that modified tile. Those liftarm things? not so much. Never used them in a MOC.
@Randomness said:
"Is it just me, or is that the Jedi Bob face?"
You're late to the party.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Randomness said:
"Is it just me, or is that the Jedi Bob face?"
You're late to the party."
Ope, sorry. Really need to read each previous one thoroughly before posting.
That minifigure's head is still being used as of 2020 (10270, although I could be wrong). Feel old yet?
@Randomness:
I had an edge on that one. I had _just_ looked up Jedi Bob to answer a comment on the recycling truck review, and this had posted by the time I finished.
@RaiderOfTheLostBrick:
2000-2003, according to Bricklink. 3351, 6000, this, 7315, and retired with Jedi Bob in 7163. The head you're thinking of first appeared in 2018, and appeared most recently in 60386 this year. It has a more symmetrical look, while Jedi Bob has a lopsided grin.
The only question is if this is how Jedi Bob started out before joining the order, or if this is how he’s hiding out post-Order 66
@Brickalili:
Since his last appearance was actually as Jedi Bob in the Gunship from 2002, I’d guess he never made it off Geonosis alive.
Lego Racers 2 established this character's name as "Foreman Stu".
@Bricknave said:
"One of the first three Town sets I was given, along with 6474 and 6326. Interestingly enough, it is a playable vehicle in LEGO Racers 2 (5778), and the guy from 6474 is an NPC you race against."
Replace 6326 with 6471 and that would be true for me. I remember when 6474 was RSOTD, I was maybe the fifth person in the comments to say it was my first set...
I remember wanting this as a birthday present (couldn't really ask for big sets), but what I got instead was weird other building branded toy... At least it was construction themed I guess...
@PurpleDave said:
" @RaiderOfTheLostBrick:
2000-2003, according to Bricklink. 3351, 6000, this, 7315, and retired with Jedi Bob in 7163. The head you're thinking of first appeared in 2018, and appeared most recently in 60386 this year. It has a more symmetrical look, while Jedi Bob has a lopsided grin."
I stand corrected. They look pretty similar though.
Huwbot has read my mind today. Just yesterday I was wanting to know what part that bucket is, and this turns up today making it easy to find. Still available on PAB, too.
I had this one as a young one. The tipping function is surprisingly satisfying as it works on shifting the weight just a little bit and at this size the weight of the bucket itself doesn't matter. You literally just tip it over.
Of course the chassis is a town jr one so the build takes less than a minute.
Technically this is the 'sequel' of town jr called City Center. There wasn't much difference beside the slightly updated minifigs and the use of ratchet hinges that firmly made it a 2000 theme.
The wheels on mine have since become horribly greasy, which is an issue I have with wheels from then to sets from 2004. I have to store them in seperate bags. Let's hope the issue won't happen with newer sets as times moves on...
@PurpleDave said:
" @Randomness : The head you're thinking of first appeared in 2018, and appeared most recently in 60386 this year. It has a more symmetrical look, while Jedi Bob has a lopsided grin."
The Jedi Bob face also lacks the white dots in the eyes (it not being from the 2nd half of the 2000s when that became a common practice) and the printing is actually old dark grey vs dark bluish grey.
I had/have this one. The tense depends a bit on if you think it's ever going to be rebuilt... and I'd say that odds are against it, despite it dating to the nostalgic era of my collection (before the Great Take-Apart of 2004).
It wouldn't be HARD to put it back together--I don't think there's a single piece here I couldn't find completely unused. I just can't contemplate a reason to do it.
@PurpleDave said:
" @RaiderOfTheLostBrick:
2000-2003, according to Bricklink. 3351, 6000, this, 7315, and retired with Jedi Bob in 7163. The head you're thinking of first appeared in 2018, and appeared most recently in 60386 this year. It has a more symmetrical look, while Jedi Bob has a lopsided grin."
It’s interesting how that one face has effectively been remastered twice, since 2018 and from 2004 to 2013, such as in 7239, 60017, 10210, 5770, 10219 and 10216. I remember that face fondly, clearly LEGO also like it a lot.
This was one of the first set of our kids . I remember seeing that base piece part 30277 . I didn't like it at all , that part should have been 6 parts.
@Zordboy said:
"It would've been great if the turn of the millennium had been a really wonderful, triumphant period for Lego City.
Unfortunately ... it wasn't."
It might have been had the apparent vision of Lego at the time – quick, simple sets designed to get children ages 5-8 playing with the built product quickly – had caught on.
Sadly, Lego may have forgotten that the AFOL's who were demanding more realism and more challenging sets were really starting to emerge at this time.
I mean, how would you feel if you demanded a challenging Lego set to build, one with intricate detail and such, for Christmas ... and all you got was this or a similar Town Jr. set? (Reminds me of the "Law & Order" episode where the criminal of the week liked building complicated model car kits and he held suppressed anger toward his father who had bought him as a "gift" a simple snap-together kit for children and beginning modelers, rather than the expensive model he wanted.)
@Snifflegully:
That actually looks a lot closer to the Jedi Bob head than what they're currently using.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Snifflegully:
That actually looks a lot closer to the Jedi Bob head than what they're currently using."
Yep, until you said that head was only used until 2003, I thought they were the same head for many years. But I notice now the subtle white dots in the eyes and the longer sideburns of the 2004 one.
Operator looks a tad too 'happy', considering how many 'minis' he's just 'dumped'...What?...Didn't you know 'Soylent Bricks' are made from people'...(too dark?)
@Briguy52748 said:
" @Zordboy said:
"It would've been great if the turn of the millennium had been a really wonderful, triumphant period for Lego City.
Unfortunately ... it wasn't."
It might have been had the apparent vision of Lego at the time – quick, simple sets designed to get children ages 5-8 playing with the built product quickly – had caught on.
Sadly, Lego may have forgotten that the AFOL's who were demanding more realism and more challenging sets were really starting to emerge at this time.
I mean, how would you feel if you demanded a challenging Lego set to build, one with intricate detail and such, for Christmas ... and all you got was this or a similar Town Jr. set? (Reminds me of the "Law & Order" episode where the criminal of the week liked building complicated model car kits and he held suppressed anger toward his father who had bought him as a "gift" a simple snap-together kit for children and beginning modelers, rather than the expensive model he wanted.)"
I'm pretty confident that this set was targeted at kids, not adults.
One of the first minifigs I had as a kiddo
@Briguy52748 said: "Sadly, Lego may have forgotten that the AFOL's who were demanding more realism and more challenging sets were really starting to emerge at this time."
I don't even think that had anything to do with the AFOLs of the time. Kids wanted builds that were moderately-challenging.
If you just wanted a model car, there were entire aisles of them in the toy shop that you could buy. That's just not what the experience is (or, should be) with a Lego set. And over the turn of the millennium, Lego completely forgot that.
@Zordboy:
I don't think it was the complexity they were after. As a kid, I wanted models that were better than what I could design myself, not worse.