Random set of the day: Fire ATV
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 4427 Fire ATV, released during 2012. It's one of 41 City sets produced that year. It contains 50 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$5.99/£3.99.
It's owned by 6,948 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 $9.10, or eBay.
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That's a fire ATV? Looks a bit mid to me.
2x6 brick!
I like how the hat, airtanks, and visor all fit together to create the full apparatus.
One of the few sets I got from a Kmart. Just after Christmas 2011. (though it wasn't in the town I lived in at the time, it was one about 15 miles from our house)
One of the best ATVs in my opinion. I recently sold a bunch of fire sets, including this one, to a parent of a young man who is fighting fires out in western Canada. This he said looked the most like what his son was doing with the chainsaw and all and I was happy to oblige. So now it has a special place in my heart, too.
@MeisterDad said:
"One of the best ATVs in my opinion. I recently sold a bunch of fire sets, including this one, to a parent of a young man who is fighting fires out in western Canada. This he said looked the most like what his son was doing with the chainsaw and all and I was happy to oblige. So now it has a special place in my heart, too."
What a nice story! :)
Yes I liked the uniforms because they were realistic and the Forest Fire theme (although clearly based on North America) was also something we can definitely relate to in Australia! I have this set and it's good. A friend had the great fire plane (the best in my opinion), I particularly love the jeep!
Soooo...the City's "budget" affords "quads" to the Fire Dept., but only "trikes" to the E.M.T.s/Paramedics...what do the Police get: Unicycles? Monowheels? A 'Schwinn' w/a handle-basket to put the crooks?:D
Almost picked this up at a LEGO Event for $5. The vehicle's cute, but I really loved the Forest Fire sets because the uniforms looked like the Australian ones. It gave me a bit of national pride.
The Forest Fire subtheme was what brought me out of my dark ages. The fresh take on an old theme really excited me.
that 2x6 brick in the middle makes it look like a 4+ set
@Maxbricks14 I disagree. It is true the 2x6 brick is noticeable, but I wouldn't say this looks like a 4+ set. Indeed it's much better than any of the stuff we get now.
Also, an ATV in a rural forest fire theme makes sense (I don't think the Australian Rural Fire Brigades use ATVs but American/Canadian ones might, and even if they don't it's not implausible) compared to now where every theme needs multiple ATVs.
But what are we firing the ATV out of?
Pretty darn sure that I have this one. Even in 2012, I would always buy multiples of the smallest fire set (and still do, especially with the advent of the new Euro helmet) to have multiples of the turnouts, helmets, and SCBAs, as well as any included tools.
Just recently got this set!
@Ridgeheart said:
"Defeating Fire Man will earn you the Fire Storm-weapon, which is Cut Man's weakness."
Only on the Game Boy. Elsewhere he's weak to Super Arm, and Fire Storm is Bomb Man's weakness instead.
That chainsaw build was absolutely glorious. Too bad it wasn't transparant neon orange...
The ATV and fireman was nice too.
One of the better AND. THERE. ARE. SO, SO MANY!
@MeisterDad:
I was thinking an ATV seemed ridiculous for a fire department, but it makes more sense for fighting wildfires, where they can’t drive regular fire trucks, and there are no hydrants to hook up to anyways. I went to the USAF Museum in Ohio recently, and one of the displays they had set up was about USAF firefighters, who have to fight fires with whatever they can carry on their person. That yellow “fire extinguisher” mounted to the front would actually probably be a drip torch used to start controlled fires so they can burn a fire break that will serve as a barrier to the approaching wildfire. One piece of firefighting equipment they omitted is a bulldozer, which can be used to scrape the ground clean if built up combustibles like dead branches and fallen leaves, or to knock over small trees.
This is actually the only Set from the forest fire line I ever got. I always wanted the 4208 Truck, but unfortunately never got it. Still used that 1x6 bumper with license Plate Arrangement in my own Truck builds multiple times, such an interesting shape...
Third time's the charm? See everyone on the other side! Or, you know, right back here, if this one fails to trigger, too.
Is it me or has today's random pieces, minifigs and sets failed to fire?
@Zordboy said:
"Is it me or has today's random pieces, minifigs and sets failed to fire?"
Fire could quite literally be the problem with all the wildfires in the northern hemisphere.
@Miyakan said:
" @Zordboy said:
"Is it me or has today's random pieces, minifigs and sets failed to fire?"
Fire could quite literally be the problem with all the wildfires in the northern hemisphere."
Oddly enough, lack of fire is the problem. Yellowstone National Park has around 300 naturally-occurring forest fires annually, and most burn themselves out in less than a day, without human intervention (NPS only gets involved if lives or developed areas of the park are in danger). Why are they not a problem in Wyoming when California can’t keep them under control? Because they don’t have decades of built up fuel that results from gross mismanagement. California is also having the same problem as the Gulf Coast, which is people with money developing what are essentially disaster zones, basically putting billions of dollars of homes directly in harm’s way. In California, they build in areas where fires should be occurring on a regular basis. On the Gulf Coast, it’s beachside condos that are right in the path of hurricanes when they make landfall.
There are actually trees, like the bristlecone pine, that produce seeds that can’t germinate unless there has been a wildfire (the pinecones grow with a thick sap that holds them shut, while a sustained fire will soften this sap and allow the petals of the pine one to open and release the seeds contained within). This ensures the next generation of the species won’t be destroyed by wildfire, it allows new seedlings first access to the rich soil that results from a wildfire, and the same seedlings will have an open sky because the tree cover will be mostly gone.
@NotProfessorWhymzi:
It’s definitely not a hat treat…