Yeah...this 'thing's' gonna need an "Aerial Recovery"...or "Aquatic", or "Terrestrial": any place this tries to fly really...but then again: maybe it's a ship, and the designer didn't understand "Radar":D

I look at this, and compare to 7067: Jet-Copter Encounter; and maybe it's unfair (the ADU's chopper's a fave of mine:))...but even all its...armor? 7067 looks waaaaaay more "real"...even though it's landing on its own jet-thrusters (which it has, I'm guessing; to give it "stability", more than "speed"...it has no tail rotor after-all...)

Is the trike the thing being recovered, aerially, or is the trike being carried like that in case they need to deploy it? And if they're recovering it, does that mean they're deliberately abandoning raft guy? Weird priorities RESQ but okay

Had this one, awesome swooshing!

I didn't have any Lego Res-Q sets... but I did have a bootleg version of 6451. I could go into what it looked like and why it had some appeal, but it would be a long comment. Suffice to say that the quality was terrible, but it was the only way for me to experience the good old 90s sets being a kid in the 00s. And I liked Res-Q very much.

Other than that I encountered some of the Res-Q sets in the Lego Island 2 game.

The rescuer hanging on for dear life looks like he is in more need of rescuing than the well equipped diver. Guessed the trike was so that they could park the helicopter in a field and drive into town on their lunch break.

@Binnekamp said:
"Between the smaller boat and the larger hovercraft this one always felt like ot was just there. Hovering menacingly.

But hey! A theme crossover with the Xtreme Team!

And whilst everybody rightfully thinks of Blacktron I, I'd like to point out that this is the exact color scheme as the 2001 Alpha Team wave one. Just with a liiitle bit less trans neon green, but otherwise a match! Just look at 6772, 6773 and 6774!"

X-Treme Team and RES-Q always had this weird inter-connection as if they were meant to be two different 'factions' of the same (unnamed) 'meta-theme'. There were many comics and promotional material that showed both interacting (also they were released at the same month).

Maybe they were planned as one theme and then got split into two? Once the split was done, they extended each line's set count, so that their combined total is now quite above average for a single wave, whilst their single set count is a bit small (only counting the main line releases).

On that thought, I wonder if X-Treme Team was meant to feature primarily trans-neon-green windshields as seen on a few sets. It's odd that RES-Q's color scheme is fairly consistent, whilst X-Treme Team's is not.

This is an awesome set. Back in the day I had to choose between this, or 6473 for me. 6451 was also nice but I got 6473. I still love this set and wish I had it but it's ok, I'm happy with what I got.

Love this theme, unfortunately I only have one small set from it.

@ElephantKnight said:
"Aerial Recovery... So does that mean the minifig being rescued is called Aerial?"
What minifig? As I said, they're apparently rescuing a trike.

Almost a Jr., but not quite. Maybe Pre-Teen?

I have fond memories of this one. My recollections are vague but I recall finding it in a closet, initially being intimidated by the size and crying, getting my mom's help building it, then years later rebuilding it in relation to a class project about doing things with those "Flat stanley" type dolls kids mailed out to see what adventures they'd get up to.

Oh, hey. I know I keep saying it, but... this was ANOTHER set I have from last October's lot. Both it and 6451, in fact... neither fully complete, but definitely close enough to not need too many Bricklink purchases to get them to a decent state. I'm not trying to get *everything* for them, I don't feel that things like the net, trike, and extra minifigures are worth the hassle: but for the main models, at least. Just ordered the last two headlight bricks I need for this one a few days ago, in fact, and have a couple more pieces to acquire for the boat - mostly the red antennae - and then I'll have got them as far as I intend to. Once that's done, I plan to eBay the two of them together.

I mean, I do like RES-Q, so that's isn't a slight against the theme. But I mostly got that lot for the partially-complete 5988, my childhood dream set, when I recognised some of its unique parts in the lot photos. The idea is that, by selling on the sets that I'm less interested in, I can recoup what I paid for the purchase and (hopefully) turn out to essentially have got that set for free!

This is a pretty solid helicopter, in any case. Definitely more impressive than the much smaller ones like 6425 that I had as a kid. The rotors are indeed tiny, but that would never have bothered me at that age, not when the rest of the set was as nice as it is.

this was the last set i got before my dark ages!

This was my largest set as a kid. Liked it very much, played with it as it would be Airwolf.

@myth said:
"Lots of black and yellow, somebody will be happy…"

Batman’s capable of rescuing himself, thankyouverymuch.

@brick_r:
Nah. It just needs a flatbed tow-truck, since it’s clearly never getting off the ground any other way.

This is a cool set from one of the few good themes of 1998.

Must have been one heck of a ramp stunt to get that motorbike so far out to sea!

Have it, love it. It was a Christmas present either that year or the following year.

@MCLegoboy said:
"Well thank God that the trike is being saved! The lives lost from the torrential flooding are meaningless, we must preserve the historical feat of manufacturing that is this motor vehicle."

"Her carbs are flooded! Give me 200cc of starter fluid and power up that jump starter, 14.4 volts, stat!"

My sister had this set--in itself, a notable fact, since her LEGO interest was quite a bit smaller than any of her brother's and there are maybe only a half dozen sets I really associate with her.

This is one of them, and while the helicopter really was awesome--and far and away the biggest in our family--my most vivid memory is of the Xtreme Team minifig. Rex, according to the Canadian edition of the LEGO Mania Magazine, anyway, was never called that with this set because... his face misprinted. Everything sat too high, so he looked taller, big-chinned, and rather dimwitted.

"Moose," we called him.

And I just realized this near perfect Blacktron set was RSofD on my birthday. How fitting.

@PurpleDave: Well...shyeah, of course Batman can save himself; w/all those "back-up planes", and "back-up plans TO the back-up plans"...I mean, he can also save Supes, Wondey...or would that be 'sink'...I'll have to go back and read "JLA: Tower of Babel"...or watch "Justice League: Doom":)

To your other point: the more-and-more I look at this, the less n' less not I'm convince: THIS IS A BOAT...OR A SHIP...can't figure the scale as "boat vs. ship"...More of a "Can't-a-meran" actually.:D

This brings back a lot of memories. I was probably about 6 years old or so when I got it, not too long after I had graduated from Duplo to System sets, and if I remember correctly it was the first "larger" set I ever owned. I can't remember if it was a gift or if I was able to buy it with money I had saved up from my allowance, but either way I know getting it was a big deal for me. Loved those Res-Q sets and this was my favorite of them. Now at almost 30 years old, I still have the original set, and I rebuilt it a few years ago to display with the rest of my "nostalgia" collection.

The set that brought me out of my Dark Age, November 1998.

The shape of the helicopter always reminds me of some of the bizarre choppers found on Saturday Morning Television in the 70’s. Helicopters as drawn by people who had never seen one. Mixed with a dash of “helicopter camper of the future” from Popular Mechanics. This thing just screams “Lassie’s Rescue Rangers” a thankfully brief Filmation abomination.

@brick_r:
Now that is a messy discussion. Turns out there is no formal definition of boat Vs ship. Some go strictly by length, except there are different opinions on which length is the cutoff (and it always seems to be expressed in a nice round number of feet).

The US Navy has three informal distinctions. One is how they steer, where boats lean to the inside of a turn, and ships lean to the outside. Another is that ships have permanent crews and captains. And the third is that “a ship can carry a boat, but a boat can’t carry a ship.” Of course, all three of these fail when you consider the D-Day invasion used “landing ships”, while submarines are exclusively referred to as boats. Technically, they have a fourth informal definition, which classifies any brown-water vessels as boats, while blue-water or green-water vessels then refer to one or another of the other three distinctions to determine if they’re boats or ships.

And on the Great Lakes, the largest class of vessels, called “lakers”, are over 1000’ long, are built to nearly fill the largest upper lock (flat bottom, flat sides, blunt ends, and not a lot of room left for water when they enter the lock), can’t fit any of the lower locks, and consequently are incapable of reaching the ocean. “Salties”, on the other hand, max out at around 700’, can go through both sets of locks, do regularly traverse the oceans, and _can’t_ carry a full cargo once they’re in the Great Lakes because they have a fixed keel that would hit the bottom. Lakers are always boats, and salties are always ships.