Random minifig of the day: cty1452

I have to agree with @CapnRex101 in his review of 40526, this is a great minifig

Ah man I meant to buy this set back in the day!

@TheOtherMike said:
"I have to agree with @CapnRex101 in his review of 40526, this is a great minifig"

I got the parts to make 10x my own tweak of that scooter, so when we have water features on club layouts, I can throw them in it to reference the Lime protests out in California. Kinda wish I'd waited until they came out with the pink base, since that would read better on the water.

Not another Ironman after all. Missed opportunity Huwbot.

@TheOtherMike said:
"I have to agree with @CapnRex101 in his review of 40526, this is a great minifig"

No doubt. Printed legs are very cool.

@MeisterDad: I'm sure the set's still available...I've been meaning to get it myself...

The figure/character looks like it would be a good 'add' to a City-setting.

@brick_r: The database says Lego stopped selling it at the end of last year. It also says it was a Lego exclusive, so @MeisterDad, I guess you'll have to find it on the secondary market.

Finally, more parts to use as a painter minifig!

Hm…swap out the blue for green and give me a cap with messy mid-length blonde hair, and this could easily be converted to window washer Lloyd Garmadon from the first episode of Crystalized.

What is an Electric Scooter Attendant? I thought people just rented these with an app and then left them lying around somewhere. Or is she running around putting them back on the charging dock? Seems she'd need a truck to do that efficiently. Why not Mechanic if she's fixing them when they break down? Wait, is she the one pulling them out of PurpleDave's fountains?

@TheOtherMike: Well that's weird; Lego Canada has it listed as "Sold Out" but not "Retired Product", which in my mind makes me think it's still available just needing to to be restocked...no?

@BrickBoriqueno:
Not fountains. Large lakes, bays, seas, or oceans. If you’re gonna do it, you gotta do it right.

Locally, there’s a company who seeds Detroit (and really only Detroit) with dockless scooters. They have a green light at the top of the handlebar post if they’re charged, a red light if they’re depleted, and no light if they don’t get collected in a timely manner and the charge gets low enough that it shuts down to avoid killing the battery. Someone then has to drive around and collect them to take back to a central charging/repair location, and seed freshly charged/repaired scooters around for people to use.

The alternative, seen here, is to seed the city with charging docks, and you only have to collect them for repair. Neither solution is perfect. With docks, you need to set up an overabundance of them so riders almost never pull up to a dock that’s at full capacity (especially if you expect them to dock the scooter to shut off billing), which means dealing with potentially thousands of property-owners around the city to get permission to install these docks. But driving around to collect every dead scooter uses a ton of power on an ongoing basis, all so someone can use “green” transportation. Both bear the risk of a scooter being abandoned somewhere and running down its reserve charge to the point they shut off and make them harder to locate (or being thrown in the bay, or being hacked to make them free to operate, or sold for scrap, or…). Docks also kinda limit your start and stop points, since nobody wants to walk a mile to get a scooter that you drive a mile to get a mile away from your eventual destination. Dockless scooters are randomly located, so you won’t even know where to find one before you open the app, unless one is sitting right in front of you. Where I work, they had a week where someone was riding these in to work, but either bumming a ride off a coworker to get home, getting picked up, or simply walking, so by the end of the week we had five scooters on the property. They did get moved outside of the security gate by the end of the week, but that’s the peril of letting people stop them everywhere.

I feel like I'd get a slap if I tried calling her "peach lips" but honestly ma'am I'm just being accurate to your descriptor!

@brick_r said:
" @TheOtherMike: Well that's weird; Lego Canada has it listed as "Sold Out" but not "Retired Product", which in my mind makes me think it's still available just needing to to be restocked...no? "

A few month ago the last set were discounted at lego, that was the end of it.

@PurpleDave you forget the part where the customers just ditch their ride somewhere on the footpath.
Luckily my city wasn't profitable so no more tripping over these nuisances.

looks more like a zookeeper to me.

Go Team Venture!

@BrickBoriqueno said: The set she comes from has one of the docks that @PurpleDave described, so she presumably maintains that in addition to the scooters themselves.

@watcher21:
I kinda touched on it, when I mentioned how we ended up with one week’s worth of these in a cluster located inside of our security fence. Obviously, that’s not someplace they should have ended up, since the service workers can’t simply drive up and collect them. It’s definitely not as bad as what LA went through, which is what led to many being thrown in the bay out of frustration. Lime deployed scooters with no warning, and had no LA presence for city officials where city officials could address grievances and impose restrictions, ultimately resulting in a trial phase that shut Lime out altogether, and apparently now involving a complex geofencing system where some scooters will shut off when they cross an unmarked line, others will slow down until they leave the zone, and still others will levy fines if you end your ride within the Descooterized Zone, depending on which brand you’re riding. So, communities have started fighting back against this unregulated business model. In Detroit, they don’t seem to be a problem (at least not where I’ve seen), because there’s only one brand, and they don’t have enough seeded to become a problem in most areas. If they are, there’s probably an empty lot nearby where a house burned down, and you can just chuck them in the weeds.

@TheOtherMike:
She may have to exasperatedly explain how city ordinances have impacted their ride-ability. Lime has apparently deployed staff to explain the geofencing in LA, as there’s no signage, the rules change regularly, and riders don’t even know there are ordnances (or what an ordnance is, or how to spell it…).

@PurpleDave: So what you're saying is her alternate expression should have been a super exasperated, burned out, teeth gritting expression to reflect her hours hauling scooters from bays and recently torched abandoned lots, probably for minimum wage, and that she needed a cell phone tile with printing that captures the regular hassling she receives from City employees to remove unwanted scooters.

@BrickBoriqueno No she should have one of bliss or napping, no retrieving bikes just lazy around till one needs some maintenance.
This set features a FIXED Charging Dock.
The huge mess come from no rules, just ditch your ride when happy we will pick up to recharge when needed.

@BrickBoriqueno:
Bird scooters are white with a black/white post. Lime scooters are white with a black post and a little green (but not exactly _lime_ green) box under the handlebars. And Jump scooters are black with a red post. I don’t know who she works for, but they apparently don’t operate in LA. She might very well go through the day singing Broadway show tunes, for all we know.

White uniform... prominent pockets?

First thing I thought was that she'd make a fine Rebel at Hoth Base!

@Formendacil said:
"White uniform... prominent pockets?

First thing I thought was that she'd make a fine Rebel at Hoth Base!"

Too bad for the huge plug logo on the reverse of the torso, otherwise it would be a fantastic rebel outfit!