Random set of the day: Fire Helicopter
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 30019 Fire Helicopter, released during 2012. It's one of 41 City sets produced that year. It contains 37 pieces and 1 minifig.
It's owned by 1,533 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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Like this guy's gonna be able to do anything if there's a fire. Looks like there's a couple nozzles but it can't possibly hold enough water to actually stop a fire. Or does he try to blow out the fire with the propellers?
The aerial equivalent of those fire chief "cars" we've see in the past few weeks.
I swear, the Lego City fire department is entirely not up to code for safety.
I remember thinking, is this guy really employed by the fire department? Sure, the chopper is red, but the guy seems to be wearing jeans and a red jumper, with no "Lego Fire and Rescue" branding on him, anywhere.
How do we know this guy didn't just steal this helicopter and go for a joy-flight with it?
Ah, I went out of town and missed Bonk.
Metus was a guy who betrayed his tribe to sell info the the Skrall and Bone Hunters. As punishment Mata Nui turned him into a snake.
This looks sketchier than James Bond’s Little Nellie.
@PurpleDave said:
"This looks sketchier than James Bond’s Little Nellie."
yep. But it's slightly better than set 1360 (also known as the Decapitator)
At least the landing gear is brick-built rather than that giant prefab piece.
@Murdoch17:
Jackie Chan always includes outtakes at the end of his movies, and a lot of them naturally involve stunts that didn’t work out quite as planned. One that I remember involved a fight scene around a pinball machine, and he was supposed to drop down below the cabinet when it got shoved up against the wall…but didn’t quite make it in time.
Anyways, the reason I bring this up is the other outtake I remember. They had a helicopter hovering off the side of a building, and the stunt required him to jump from a balcony to the helicopter skid. Of course, you can’t get the helicopter too close, or the blades will flip the building. You can’t jump from too high, or you’ll land on the blades. You can’t jump from too low, or you’ll miss the skid and fall. So inches really matter in this stunt. In the outtake, he leaps from the balcony…and halfway to the skid, his hat just disappears. It’s a continuous shot, and one frame he’s wearing a hat, while the next one he’s not. And that is why they had such a hard time insuring him when he started doing Hollywood movies!
Wait, Lego have made a fire fighting helicopter? Who knew?
Hmmm..."Ice" yesterday, "Fire" today...all we need is an "Earth" and a "Lightning/Electricity", and we'll have an 'old school' "Ninjago" :D
Taxes in Lego City must be really high considering how over-funded the city's fire and police departments are. They should budget more money to schools. At least Heartlake City seems to have a well-funded education system. Does Lego City bus all the kids over to Heartlake City? Maybe Heartlake City has to call Lego City when they need police or there's a fire.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Like this guy's gonna be able to do anything if there's a fire. Looks like there's a couple nozzles but it can't possibly hold enough water to actually stop a fire. Or does he try to blow out the fire with the propellers?"
You’ve got it all wrong; this guy doesn’t go round fighting fires, he’s flown in specially to tell people they’ve been dismissed or sacked from their employment
@Zordboy said:
"I remember thinking, is this guy really employed by the fire department? Sure, the chopper is red, but the guy seems to be wearing jeans and a red jumper, with no "Lego Fire and Rescue" branding on him, anywhere.
How do we know this guy didn't just steal this helicopter and go for a joy-flight with it?"
https://brickset.com/sets/containing-part-4654332
This torso was used by pilots of several city themes: fire/rescue/divers/mail.
It's weird how this set could be from any point from a nearly 10 year long period. City remained quite stagnant for a while.
It doesn't help that it's: a Helicopter. From City. You know, an occurence so frequent Jang had to remind people for a while in his reviews why lego is so heavy on the helicopters: they consistently do well in playtests. Kids apparently are addicted to spinning things in their hands to the point where lego might give them withdrawal if they don't add them.
The same is true for cars. In City bigger sets are often just bigger cars or more cars. I mean seriously, even building focussed sets are often still nearly 50% budgeted on vehicles.
At least the recent baseplate range has led to some truly building-focussed stuff for once.
@Binnekamp:
Well, it’s hard for a kid to engage with a building, as they often just sit there doing nothing.
10 years before 60320: Fire Station , already had similar helicopters :)
One of 6685’s great grandchildren.
@cm5878 said:
"One of 6685’s great grandchildren. "
One of my childhood favorites!
Nice bubble cockpit.
Im glad we have this set, LEGO does not make enough helicopters for fire or crime fighting.