Second day in a row where the RPotD, RMotD, and RSotD were all ones I didn't own. Although this set was on my Wanted list before today, unlike yesterday's, which I only added after it made RSotD..

@Randomness said:
" @Zordboy said:
"There were so few Dino Attack sets that I feel like, surely, Huwbot's gone through them all, by this point."
Nope, 7475 is still yet to be randomed."

And for Dino 2010 they just need 7294 So only 20% still to go.

@Zordboy said:
"There were so few Dino Attack sets that I feel like, surely, Huwbot's gone through them all, by this point."

We kinda just went over this a couple weeks ago.

Also, less cockpit gap than 75577

My dad asked me, what would I do with this big expensive Lego helicopter, just let it sit on the shelf and gather dust?

I didn't have a good answer to that.

He didn't get me the helicopter. He was right. It is such a cool heli though. Rad rambo testosterone addled teenage boys, dinosaur helicopter gun shoot shoot shoot, oh yeah.

I remember having the ball turret and stickered 4x12 bow piece in my collection, i dont remember where I got it from. All I know is that I 100% dont have it, as I was like 3 years old when this came out.

Awesome set!
I’ve been looking to buy one for a while, but they are hard to find in Australia - particularly at a decent price!
This chopper isn’t as refined as the awesome choppers (with better colour schemes) in the Agents & Ultra Agents themes (both of which I own) that came out at a similar time / a few years later, but it’s certainly better armed! And comes with a great dinosaur!
The Agents chopper in particularly has one of the coolest functions on any LEGO set - the twin spinning blades that don’t crash into each other! I find myself playing with & enjoying it regularly.

Now, this looks like a proper way to deal with a T-Rex.

@Emmafofemma said:
"I was literally telling a friend earlier about this theme. All the fire and weapons and mutant dinosaurs, the font… so 2000s lol. "
As someone who was born in 2004, I’m not fully sure what qualifies as “so 2000s,” lol. I can make an estimated guess but I’d love further history.

@Trigger_ said:
"I don’t like real guns all that much but I don’t see any harm in fictional firearms, no less laser ones (I assume that’s what the green pieces are). The inconsistency between US and Europe/UK versions is odd, for sure, but I just wish both got Dino Attack tbh. People often complain about LEGO refusing to adapt violent licenses/topics, shouldn’t we be glad that they went as far as they did with this one while still staying family-friendly? That’s part of why people love Bionicle so much."

The problem was that ANIMALS (even if mutated o es) can be harmed.

Do we have any close ups of the machine gun the minifig is holding? Looks like it could be a nice Lewis gun design.

Is this the most violent Lego box art ever?

Like I said in the four-tracked one's article (forgot the name and on mobile it's annoying to scroll all the way up to search or use a new tab just for that) I briefly possessed almost all Dino Attack/Dino 2010 sets with the small ones up to the 4WD being the international version and the two largest being the US version.

This thing is MASSIVE. It's up there with 7707 Striking Venom, 7709 Sentai Fortress and 7905 Building Crane in terms of over the top gigantism and impractically stretched out footprints. The rotors alone wouldn't have fit in some of my cabinets. The body is humungous, and the back tail rotor housing alone is as impressive as it looks.

The interior was disappointing. I'm a sucker for big vehicles with big interiors, but the majority of it is inaccessible, a tail or nose, or a cockpit. The rest is the small middle area and that's it.

There were a lot of lasers and guns, but this actually dissapointed. The batteries on the side look tacked on, the turret on the bottom is just a competition cannon and the hand-held gun is just that. The ball-joint one on the nose looks lacking in power. However, the back turret is great, if a bit primitive. The guns move side to side in tandem because they're on a plate sandwiched between turntables. It feels like a proper tail gunner emplacement.
Finally, those gattling guns are super well scaled and look suitably powerful.

The dinos... are not great. The 2x4 brick shaped parts on their backs are the only indication they're lego beside the ratchet joints that are still in use today. Notably these are closer to Galidor in that the ratchet is not a seperate part (debuted the previous year in Knights Kingdom II and Designer). But the finish on these is nowhere near the quality of Galidor, funnily enough. The T-Rex head barely opened its mouth btw.

Overall... it's super 2000s. And super american. I might actually prefer the one with a cage. Because that might make the scale of the helicopter do more.

Especially nowadays gunships and attack helicopters are nothing new. It has been done better or at least more economically later. But I'm not sure they ever went this big again!

Reading comments on this set...while listening to Edwin Starr's 'WAR'. Interesting combination XD

@Binnekamp said:
"This thing is MASSIVE. It's up there with 7707 Striking Venom, 7709 Sentai Fortress and 7905 Building Crane in terms of over the top gigantism and impractically stretched out footprints. The rotors alone wouldn't have fit in some of my cabinets. The body is humungous, and the back tail rotor housing alone is as impressive as it looks."

I don't have this but I had 7707 and you are right. "Had" being the key word, I dismantled it not due to lack of space but obscene amount of land it covers. I can fit 6 Exo mechs in the same space, if not more.

@KingTyrannos said:
"Unfortunately, the rockets fall off easily, but that’s the only issue I have with the set. "

Many would consider rockets that just fall off randomly to be a fatal design flaw for any military aircraft.

@lemish34:
I would think Oceania got the pacifistic Dino 2010 variants, since Denmark seems to think you’re all part of Europe.

@Brickchap:
You can always pull up the instructions on LEGO.com, and scroll through them until you get to the part where the gun is built.

Great looking helicopter. The Russian Hind has always been the pinnacle of attack 'copter design in my book, and this set does a good job capturing the vibe. And I've always loved the tan/dark red color scheme of this theme, it just works for me.

In terms of LEGO scale (think: how big are City buildings and vehicles?), this is indeed massive, but it's probably close the scale of what the "real" 'copter would be if built to minifigure scale. LEGO helicopters always look a little silly when they are downsized too much, so it's nice to have a few that try to recreate proper scale every so often.

Damn, that actually looks like one of the best Lego helicopters I’ve seen! Hind-inspired I guess. Looks like a great set!

@Ridgeheart said:
" @Randomness said:
" @iwybs said:
"It is such a cool heli though. Rad rambo testosterone addled teenage boys, dinosaur helicopter gun shoot shoot shoot, oh yeah."

Shoot shoot shoot bullet bullet gun!"

It's weird, but I don't remember that at all. I'm pretty sure this "Hunty-Shooty Testosto-Force Thunder-Lizard Murder-Squad Super Assault Patrol Posse" theme came out with all of its aggression and rampant insecurity-issues removed in Europe. The sets were a lot more relaxed, I think the dinosaurs and their captors mostly engaged in racing, spirited debate, chess-matches, cook-offs, soccer, and maybe some underground freestyle rap-battles instead of just shooting and chewing eachother's faces off.

I think Mutant Lizard went on to win Eurovision that year. Heady days man, the days of wine and roses."

And the best comment award, in the Brickset category, goes to...

Viper, from Dino Attack: "I used to be a Dino Hunter like you.... until I took a laser eye-beam to the knee."
Owen Grady, from Jurassic World: "Wait - your dinosaurs had LASER eye Beams? What kind of monstrous mutants has Dr. Wu been making this time!?!"

I thought our last Dino Attack set was pretty recent, but it's past the first page of recent articles now

@Murdoch17 said:
"Viper, from Dino Attack: "I used to be a Dino Hunter like you.... until I took a laser eye-beam to the knee."
Owen Grady, from Jurassic World: "Wait - your dinosaurs had LASER eye Beams? What kind of monstrous mutants has Dr. Wu been making this time!?!""

Hey! Commenting has ended on the train page, so I couldn't reply there, but I just wanted to say thanks for all of your insight on the Legoredo Express train game. Even if I can't find the game as a whole, having the names and general storyline is huge!

@Train_of_Thought_Creations said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
"Viper, from Dino Attack: "I used to be a Dino Hunter like you.... until I took a laser eye-beam to the knee."
Owen Grady, from Jurassic World: "Wait - your dinosaurs had LASER eye Beams? What kind of monstrous mutants has Dr. Wu been making this time!?!""

Hey! Commenting has ended on the train page, so I couldn't reply there, but I just wanted to say thanks for all of your insight on the Legoredo Express train game. Even if I can't find the game as a whole, having the names and general storyline is huge!"

No problem, Glad I could help!

Easily one of my favourite sets ever!!
It came to me just out of my dark age; I remember building the hee-low and smiling the WHOLE time.
Now...my Typhoon never hunted dinos but if you listen carefully--stirring-up from my modest Lego-room--you can hear the still-built set's rotors warming up as it finishes pre-flight checks and prepares to lift. If you can built it--or even your own variation of it--get the instructions and do so. This is Hall of Fame 'Play Well' right here!!
Thank you @huwbot for dusting this off to allow those still unaware a chance to want something they never knew they needed--and for me to feel again all the greatness that I felt back in '05.
Oh Yea: Hands down best Dinos of all time!! *rarr*

@oldfan:?It’s definitely easy to underestimate the size of real aircraft, especially military ones. Boeing’s X-32 looks positively dainty compared to the F-35 that beat it for the JSF contract, but at 45’ long, 36’ wingspan, and 18’ parked height, it’s only 6’ shorter, while also 1’ longer and 4’ taller. It just _looks_ small.?? @Murdoch17:?I dunno, but apparently they’re going to have a cakewalk depopulating Europe…

@GSR_MataNui:
Last Dino Attack was December 30 last year. Last Dino 2010 was April 24, 17 days ago.

@lordofdragonss said:
" @Trigger_ said:
"I don’t like real guns all that much but I don’t see any harm in fictional firearms, no less laser ones (I assume that’s what the green pieces are). The inconsistency between US and Europe/UK versions is odd, for sure, but I just wish both got Dino Attack tbh. People often complain about LEGO refusing to adapt violent licenses/topics, shouldn’t we be glad that they went as far as they did with this one while still staying family-friendly? That’s part of why people love Bionicle so much."

The problem was that ANIMALS (even if mutated o es) can be harmed."
I also oppose real harm to animals (to the point that I’m vegan) but there are no dinosaurs still alive anymore so I don’t take issue with that element. Most people didn’t find Atlantis or Aqua Raiders problematic and those were about fighting animals that aren’t extinct, albeit oversized versions of them. Granted, the obvious tranquilizer projectiles used in later dinosaur themes were probably a better choice, but the guns builds in these sets are still pretty cool IMO.

Mil Mi-24 at home

I like the parallelism between the names, even if it results from the incorrect usr of "T-Rex."