Random set of the day: Go-Kart
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 1760 Go-Kart, released during 1995. It's one of 21 Town sets produced that year. It contains 21 pieces and 1 minifig.
It's owned by 1,845 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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The wheels themselves make up nearly half of the piece count, and with the minifigure added to them, that is half.
I'm sure this cost less than $5 back in the day, right?
I didn't even now they had go-karts in the year 1760.
The other version of this set, 1762 , is called Hot Wheels. One of the more unconventional HotWheels cars, but perhaps a must for collectors.
That’s a pretty robust family car, for the era.
Remember this set when someone tries to say older sets are so much better
@Randomness All but 4 of the pieces are visible in the photo!
@Graupensuppe How do you think the Industrial Revolution started? Out of the mines, and into the carts.
@empire0 To be fair, this set lives up to its name.
Vroom! Vroom!
Can't count the amount of copycats of this set I've made over the years just messing around with parts
Every single piece in this set is specialized, except the 2x6 red plate. As a set it's not much, but it's a gold mine when you look at the parts.
The most interesting part in this 'set' is the torso.
Top Gear's Stig the early years.
I love these proto-UCS sets.
@bookmum said:
"Top Gear's Stig the early years."
Some say he’s made of plastic, and can only drink Octan unleaded…
@Lego_lord said:
"Every single piece in this set is specialized, except the 2x6 red plate. As a set it's not much, but it's a gold mine when you look at the parts."
2x2 black slope, 1x1 Grey cylinder, 1x2 handle with bar are far from being 'specialized'. Only the wheels and steering wheel deserve that moniker. If this was a magazine foil pack today (like 952108 ) I wouldn't pick it up even at a discount.
Technically less pieces, but slight changes can make all the difference: 886
With a bit of rearranging you have a retro space buggy 886, just need to find an oxygen tank.
I have personal experience with this set...'s boxed version. You see, I once found one MISB from a flea market. It was in new condition so I decided to sell it. In other cases I might have opened it and kept it, but this one couldn't be less interesting to me.
It took quite a few years until I managed to sell it. It turns out boxed sets like these are sometimes harder to sell because nobody cares about the box on something like this, and the box doesn't fit through a mailbox, meaning higher shipping costs for the buyer. I eventually found someone who asked me to flatten the box and ship it that way.
All that... for this tiny set. Never again!
It's so stupidly small and yet, somehow, very dear to me!
@empire0 said:
"Remember this set when someone tries to say older sets are so much better"
They are.
@Lego_lord:
@thor96:
@CCC:
I remember a time back on LUGNET, when someone asked what people considered to be a “specialized part”, and someone responded with, “Anything that’s not a 2x4 brick.”
A bit bland as a stnad alone set, but I still remember it as part of the first wave of square shaped mini-box sets that came out in Germany in 1995.
The others were 1736, 1761, 1954 and oddly 1733 (which was a 1994 release elsewhere). Each set representing one of the (minifig-based) System lines: Town, Castle, Space, Pirates and Paradisa. Aquazone was missing since it was too new to get an impulse set I guess (these sets usually came out a year after the main line was released back then).
They were not shown in the German catalogue, but were shown in the UK and Czech catalogues. I wonder where the previous waves (like 1730-1732) were available in Europe. As far as I know, the boxed versions were never available in NA, where they got the polybag versions instead.
@Randomness said:
"The wheels themselves make up nearly half of the piece count, and with the minifigure added to them, that is half."
More than half; four wheels (just the white hubs, the actual wheels), four tires, and five minifigure elements (hip/leg assembly, torso assembly, head, helmet, visor) total 13 parts. All the remaining parts - two wheel holders / axle plates / whatever-you-want-to-call them, a 2x2 slope brick, a steering wheel, a 2x6 plate, two 1x1 cylinder bricks, and the 1x2 thing with bar total just eight pieces.
I didn't have any Astronauts in white flight suits, Rebels in orange flight suits, or Classics in blue flight suits when I was a kid, but I had several of these Octan mechanics in blue suits, and I put them behind the wheel of just about every airplane, fighter jet, or spaceship I could build. So for me, these guys are the ORIGINAL spacemen, bar none. Now excuse me while I go ponder how many of them to buy on Bricklink....
Some forgot the task and had to ask their kid to do the design!
@iwybs said:
"I didn't have any Astronauts in white flight suits, Rebels in orange flight suits, or Classics in blue flight suits when I was a kid, but I had several of these Octan mechanics in blue suits, and I put them behind the wheel of just about every airplane, fighter jet, or spaceship I could build. So for me, these guys are the ORIGINAL spacemen, bar none. Now excuse me while I go ponder how many of them to buy on Bricklink...."
Were the pilots and astronauts named "Oil" each time?
Nah, they all had different names and none of them was Oil. I just kind of ignored the Oil logo.
Used this black visor to make my completely black Minifigure. Black head, torso, legs, hands and visor. Still have it on my desk.
Truly one of the sets of all time!
Never had this but this is like an in-between the design of 6609 : Race Car and 6400 : Go-Kart
Based on the figure, the 6400 : Go-Kart eventually won, as the minifig is on "team 1"
Honorable mention for 6611 : Fire Chief's Car , has a chair and lights !
Commenting on this as I missed the Island racer RSOTD. Island racer was such an awesome set! I had the privilege of opening one from box last year. It was glorious!