Random set of the day: Tri-motorbike
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 1249 Tri-motorbike, released during 1999. It's one of 63 Town sets produced that year. It contains 14 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$1.7.
It's owned by 857 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 $5.10, or eBay.
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Dude should have secured his luggage better, and made sure it was closed more tightly.
His doctorate is in off-roading with a specialization in sic wheelies.
So a Trike.
The guy's apparently a medic, but it looks like he'll soon be the one that needs medical attention when he flips that trike!
Looks like he's about to loose his lunch...which is fitting: he already lost his lunchbox...:)
Also @Miyakan : Yes, or ATV; but the latter has become sorta obsoleted...as has 'trike' actually, as most transport agencies (at least here in North America) all but banned three-wheeled off-roaders (stability issues...both vehicles and drivers I suppose:)); pushing in favor of quads.
@Tupperfan said:
"The guy's apparently a medic, but it looks like he'll soon be the one that needs medical attention when he flips that trike!"
"When", not "if" with that design. Three-wheel vehicles can actually be very stable, but the most stable configuration is to steer with two wheels up front, and have a fixed wheel in the rear. Second most stable is to probably steer with two wheels in the back. It's trying to do hairpin turns with that single wheel in the front that put so many people in the hospital.
These old trike pieces were funny but good. Not necessarily realistic outside of maybe a farm trike, but cool for kids.
This reminds me of some local Tennessean law commercials. The duo of lawyers would hop in whatever new vehicle they could rent and drove/sailed/flew into action, like they're supposed to be first at the scene of the accident.
I can't help but love them.
@sir_vasco:
Where I live, we had a pair of lawyers who paid for a billboard overlooking the local freeway (express lanes, no less), where the image and text were upside-down. The message they were pushing? Distracted driving. About a week later, the text had been flipped so it was right-side-up, which just made the fact that they were standing upside-down look like an error. A while later, they were standing right-side-up as well, which just made it a boring, pointless billboard.
I could never shake the feeling that Lego over-ordered the number of tri-bike parts from the warehouse, and so had to put them in almost literally every set, for about five years there, around the turn of the millennium.
Gotta love those old sets where you could locate on the image every piece in the set. Today, aside from minifig-only polybags, that's purt near impossible.
Small sets are nice for world building. I remember many small sets like this back in the day, both budget firendly and useful like 6522, 6601, 6631, 1632. It's nice to see that Lego continues the tradition with polybags like 30639, 30364, or 30356.
When trikes were all the rage in Town Jr, I just wanted a two-wheeled motorcycle. Was that too much to ask? In 1999, it was.
@TheOtherMike said:
"Dude should have secured his luggage better, and made sure it was closed more tightly."
Given he's about to fly right off if his grip loosens I'd say he should have secured -himself- better first...
I always thought these little trikes were cute. And the driver here being a doctor gives it a level of absurdity we desperately need in Lego.
You mean ‘Motorised Tricycle’ right?
This just in! Local medical professional drives around off-road on a trike in uniform. Says: "At least I'll be qualified to treat my own injuries if I lose control!"
More news at eight
(Fun cute little set. And I love the background of the image!)
Not really an ambulance, but I must add it to my ambulances collection!
I bought this just for the minifig.
@Brickalili said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"Dude should have secured his luggage better, and made sure it was closed more tightly."
Given he's about to fly right off if his grip loosens I'd say he should have secured -himself- better first..."
Or face facts, figure the whole affair is doomed from the start, chuck the box in the trash, and call it an early day.
Lego medics were not very common, nice to see one.
@SaintJ said:
"Lego medics were not very common, nice to see one. "
Not driving like _that_, they weren’t…
They should have called him the Chopper Doc to go with 6324. The name would have had more irony than the cop with neither chopper motorcycle nor helicopter.
Why is there a great big ship in the background?
I really like the painted backgrounds like this with silhouettes of the ship and the crane. They had a lot of fun setting up the shot with the guy on the 3-wheeler, too.