Random set of the day: Chopper Cop
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 6324 Chopper Cop, released during 1998. It's one of 62 Town sets produced that year. It contains 17 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$3.
It's owned by 3,081 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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Get to the choppa!
Lego City Police Department uses lasers
Not a choppa, it's a trike.
Chopper Cop coming in hot with the Copper Chop! HIYAH!
@StyleCounselor said:
"Not a choppa, it's a trike."
There's a reference for every RSotD situation!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUPr0UkgFqo
Hmmm. I had this back in the day. I think I got it in 1999, maybe 2000. It's definitely on the older side for me.
Very black and white. Colour balance is a bit off, though. And all the trans in this set is everything but trans neon green! I suspect it's a spy from the Space Police!
One half of 6664-1 Chopper Cops went rogue.... and gained a wheel.
Can someone explain to me how this is a choppa?
@Randomness said:
"Can someone explain to me how this is a choppa?"
Can it be gotten to? Then it is a choppa.
*chopper sold separately
In my younger days, I was baffled as to where the helicopter was. Eventually, I learned that "chopper" could refer to a certain kind of motorcycle as well, leaving me baffled as to where the chopper was.
"Release the Copper Choppers"
Really stressing no weapons on this one... got his handy flash light to shine away the bad guys
Chop on! Chop off! Chop on, chop off, the Chopper!
I must have dozens of those torsos and the prints of half of them are worn or faded in some way. Firemen from this era seemed to fare better.
Hey, it's Highway Patrolman Bill! Except not really!
...that probably needs some context! But in the UK Lego Adventures magazines, quite often the second short comics of any given issue were 'City' (a.k.a. Town Jr. / City Centre, which seemed to at least sometimes be branded just as City in the UK), and the most common recurring character in them was a police officer called Highway Patrolman Bill.
He actually didn't look like this minifigure; rather he was a mix of different parts, with the torso of https://brickset.com/minifigs/cop036, only with black arms; the head that was just the standard minifigure face with the addition of eyebrows such as on https://brickset.com/minifigs/oct021, and his helmet was the same as on that latter minifigure too. Still, he rode the trike from this set, and whenever the magazine needed an actual photo to represent the character rather than the CGI of the comics, they always turned to this set.
So it's kinda, sort of him. But also not really.
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On a different note, as a kid I had such trikes as these in black, yellow and blue - from 2584, 6459 and 6732, respectively - but never a white one like this set's. That said, I don't exactly feel like I missed out; by my third, I'd kinda got bored of them. I only requested that last one for the Lego Island minifigure, after all!
@ThatBionicleGuy:
Is he, by any chance, related to Fire Marshall Bill?
CHOPPER COP sounds like the name of a 1980s slasher B-movie about a rogue police officer who goes around killing people with an axe.
“He’s here. To protect and SEVER.”
I saw the name of the set while the image was still loading. I was waiting for a police helicopter … but no.
@WemWem:
You’re thinking of Axe Cop. Nope, he’s all real. Probably worth a google.
Its a trike chopper.. a 'Tropper'
@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
" @WemWem said:
"CHOPPER COP sounds like the name of a 1980s slasher B-movie about a rogue police officer who goes around killing people with an axe.
“He’s here. To protect and SEVER.”"
i'd watch the crap out of that VHS tape!"
I ... would not, no.
Yay! I had one. I think. I hated this "new" tricycle design, though. I'm still not a fan of it.
I've had this set for a long time. For years he was my only policeman. That was until I got the 7235 2005 City motorcycle. Now I had two policemen who apparently wore helmets and shades 24/7.
Right now it's three with the 8401 City Minifigure Collection.
One could say I've never been much of a police or firefighting set guy. Consider that an indication on how I feel about the last decades of City.
Well, unless you count Space Police, I've got all three iterations with SPIII near-completed!
I'm not sure how common police trikes are, but in the 90s these were everywhere in lots of sets. I like how this one at least has the clips for accessories on the back at least.
A lorra lotta proper chopper copper
@PurpleDave: "Axe Cop" was a blast (written/created by a six year old, drawn by his waaaay older brother:)), "Wolf Cop" was fun (Canadian Movie, and also worth a Google:)), but nothing, noth-thing will ever replace my "RoboCop"...especially its remake (easy stomach, don't turn over now; easy does it...:D)...
As for 'the set'...is his using a flashlight, or some kinda' "light-gun"...think Blue (Ted Kord) Beetle would have a case?
@TheBrickPal said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"Not a choppa, it's a trike."
There's a reference for every RSotD situation!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUPr0UkgFqo "
Slick!
@Binnekamp said:
"I've had this set for a long time. For years he was my only policeman. That was until I got the 7235 2005 City motorcycle. Now I had two policemen who apparently wore helmets and shades 24/7.
Right now it's three with the 8401 City Minifigure Collection.
One could say I've never been much of a police or firefighting set guy. Consider that an indication on how I feel about the last decades of City.
Well, unless you count Space Police, I've got all three iterations with SPIII near-completed!
I'm not sure how common police trikes are, but in the 90s these were everywhere in lots of sets. I like how this one at least has the clips for accessories on the back at least."
We could with sets like 8401 these days
Me and my brother bought several of those.
With that futuristic stunner feels more Men In Black, just need an alien now. Compared to the usual police kart not really much of a build with the single piece tricycle frame.
It's cool and all, but I much prefer Inferno Cop over Choppa Cop!
That’s a risky google right there.
These 3 wheel ATVs were essentially death traps in real life, and eventually banned because of the risk of rollover. The little Lego model is stable enough, but they could kill an adult or child rider and probably not the best P.R. for Lego to have been making them.
@Rimefang said:
"These 3 wheel ATVs were essentially death traps in real life, and eventually banned because of the risk of rollover. The little Lego model is stable enough, but they could kill an adult or child rider and probably not the best P.R. for Lego to have been making them."
Absolutely! Any sharp maneuver or downslope turn would cause the rider to face plant with the trike crushing on top. Likewise, any quick acceleration, bump, or upslope would result in a back flip crushing the rider. Many people died and many attorneys got rich.
The 4-wheeled versions are also very dangerous. But, exponentially better than the death trikes.
@WemWem said:
"CHOPPER COP sounds like the name of a 1980s slasher B-movie about a rogue police officer who goes around killing people with an axe.
“He’s here. To protect and SEVER.”"
There actually is a similar movie to what you are describing called ROTOR. Only difference is that the cop is a robot and it is a rip-off of both Robocop and Terminator.
There is also Maniac Cop that fits the description.
lol, so they DID actually use that piece for something other than star wars speeder bikes!
@ahughwilliams said:
"lol, so they DID actually use that piece for something other than star wars speeder bikes!"
This set practically introduced the Trike pieces. It was also the main reason I got it, because in late 1997 when it first became available, it seemed like an interesting an fresh thing. It just was a shock that it replaced the much more versatile classic motorbike entirely and then got used so abundandly afterwards.
The very first Speeder Bikes were intended to use the Trike piece as well (seen in concept models), but they finally decided for a blockier brick-build version in 7128.
Those trans-green windows in 1998 Police sets were both interesting and weird...
@brick_r:
5 and 29, according to Wikipedia. And it looks like he has some sort of portable floodlight, like you’d find mounted over a garage door.
@TheEpicLuke said:
" @WemWem said:
"CHOPPER COP sounds like the name of a 1980s slasher B-movie about a rogue police officer who goes around killing people with an axe.
“He’s here. To protect and SEVER.”"
There actually is a similar movie to what you are describing called ROTOR. Only difference is that the cop is a robot and it is a rip-off of both Robocop and Terminator.
There is also Maniac Cop that fits the description."
Hahahaha I've seen ROTOR! It's absolutely terrible! And I'm familiar with Maniac Cop though I haven't seen it.
This is why CHOPPER COP would be right at home in the 1980s - tons of cops-gone-bad material already.
I have this one. It... well, I didn't know what to think about it in 1998. It was kind of exciting to have a widely available "motorcycle," and as I'd missed out on 1992's Space Police, I was excited about the trans-green visor. But I had 6625, and I didn't really like green police or trikes more than what had come before. The word I needed, but didn't have, was "juniorisation."
I did like the flashlight. Although the tap piece was around in the 90s, it was less ubiquitous--at least in my collection--than it is now. I mostly thought of it as the top of a fire extinguisher or as, you know, a tap.
25 years later (wow... the silver anniversary of this set!), I'm impressed at what a long run this trike had--as recent as sets in 2016, according to Bricklink.
@PurpleDave: Right, right...when...Dark Horse? I think, published 'Axe Cop', then Fox picked it up within like 2-ish years for a Saturday Night 'Not-Adult Swim' block: Animation Dominion HD...which, yes; they always abbreviated w/its initials...loved their commercial 'bumpers' though ('Boat Knight' and such).:)