Random set of the day: Nighthawk
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8412 Nighthawk, released during 1995. It's one of 9 Technic sets produced that year. It contains 286 pieces, and its retail price was US$29.75.
It's owned by 1,526 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $72.70, or eBay.
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Third TECHNIC set in five days. Four in six if you count Bionicle as Technic.
What the heck is a nighthawk anyway!?!
Are those millimeter measurements in the background? It looks wild.
I loved the flex system in this Technic model. I was ten or so when it came out.
@Murdoch17 said:
"Third TECHNIC set in five days. Four in six if you count Bionicle as Technic.
What the heck is a nighthawk anyway!?!"
Google says it's a type of bird, so I guess that's what LEGO named these aircraft after.
@Murdoch17 said:
"Third TECHNIC set in five days. Four in six if you count Bionicle as Technic.
What the heck is a nighthawk anyway!?!"
Nidhiki came out after Bionicle lost the Technic branding, so I don't think he count. And I've long thought that Nighthawk would make a cool superhero name, sort of like Nightwing.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
"Third TECHNIC set in five days. Four in six if you count Bionicle as Technic.
What the heck is a nighthawk anyway!?!"
Nidhiki came out after Bionicle lost the Technic branding, so I don't think he count. And I've long thought that Nighthawk would make a cool superhero name, sort of like Nightwing."
Credit where credit is do, Nidhiki uses more pin and axle connections than ball and socket, so he keeps the building style of Technic alive at least
Nope...doesn't look a thing like Marvel's *RIPOFF* of Batman...
@Murdoch17:
A “nighthawk” is a person who eats at the counter of an old-timey diner long after the sun has gone down. I thought this was common knowledge.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Are those millimeter measurements in the background? It looks wild."
The wild part is that the measurements are of the model in planar views drawn behind the builds. Thank you for pointing that out, I hadn't noticed it before. Like I said in a previous post not crazy about the blueprint presentation, but now that those layouts are there it's grown on me.
Neat set, but flex system was too delicate--had more than one line break on me.
1995 and 1996 technic was a weird time. It was starting to transition to the newer late 90s style after roughly a decade of stagnation. After being used in 1994 and here in 1995, the use of flex hoses for shaping became an extremely common style for a while starting in 1996.
And then around the turn of the millennium it became fully studless too and the rest is history
To me this is not as iconic as the 8844 but I got it as a gift and I liked how the flex system worked.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Murdoch17:
A “nighthawk” is a person who eats at the counter of an old-timey diner long after the sun has gone down. I thought this was common knowledge."
They’re also people who sneak onto sites of potential archaeological interest to find and steal artefacts
This is the first set I bought for my own money. When I was 11, I twisted my ankle, and as an insurance payout, I got just enough money to afford it ;)
I can't look at that set name without hearing someone saying, in a comedy French accent, "Allo, 'allo,
this is Night'awk".........
This was my third LEGO set I got when I was child. I liked its flex system that moved main rotor blade.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Are those millimeter measurements in the background? It looks wild."
Yes those are suppose to give a 'blue print' Style Look. While the numbers are usually correct, the stuff they are measuring is rarely making sense at all in that context^^
@chris38911 said:
"I can't look at that set name without hearing someone saying, in a comedy French accent, "Allo, 'allo,
this is Night'awk"........."
That show (Allo Allo) is / was a riot. Right up there with "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and "Father Ted" in best British humor
Although just a frame the designers did well to convey the idea and functionality for less than 300 pieces, with not much variety in Technic pieces available then and just before Technic lost it's way at the end of the century.
@Murdoch17 and @chris38911: Yeah 'Allo, allo' was screamingly funny, to this day I still remember how they "simulated" the various languages/dialects: speaking English w/the accent of the language you're "speaking"; thicker the accent, the more you're "speaking" THAT language...hilarious.:D
That plus the variety of characters, storylines, and so on.
I have this set and I adore it.