Random set of the day: Ice Planet Scooter
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 1711 Ice Planet Scooter, released in 1994. It's one of 10 Space sets produced that year. It contains 19 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$2.
It's owned by 1384 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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I'd rather have a razor scooter any day!
Beautiful Visors. Icy red
Give huwbot a nudge, he is fixated on small vehicle sets.
@Isabella_and_Lego_Liker said:
"Give huwbot a nudge, he is fixated on small vehicle sets."
On the contrary, give me more! This is but the next step in the evolution of Huwbot memes. Take joy in his dankness.
Ice Planet always had such a cool color scheme (of course, so did Space themes in general.) All the transparent reddish-orange parts really popped against the whites and blacks and small patches of blue.
It's funny how people criticize modern LEGO for being "too violent" with things like the ghosts in Hidden Side or products based on Overwatch having lots of guns when the plot of this theme was testing rockets and nuclear weapons in a remote location so that both corrupt police forces and intergalactic crime syndicates couldn't discover the technology and use it for genocide.
While building a space port, I've realized that big sets really do look good but unless you have small sets like these to populate the area, whole thing looks like a ghost town.
Strong contender for first lego set I ever got. I remember always having the pieces from it but never really assembling the set itself
Someone give Huwbot a thump, he seems to be stuck. It happens every few weeks or so.
@GSR_MataNui said:
"It's funny how people criticize modern LEGO for being "too violent" with things like the ghosts in Hidden Side or products based on Overwatch having lots of guns when the plot of this theme was testing rockets and nuclear weapons in a remote location so that both corrupt police forces and intergalactic crime syndicates couldn't discover the technology and use it for genocide."
Was that the plot? They've got a lot of giant rockets, sure, but those rockets always have sputnik-esque arrays on them. They're not testing nukes, they're launching satellites. Unless this is one of those regional differences like Dino Attack having guns for the US and traps for the UK...
The streak of small vehicles continues!
I had this one as my second Lego set, back when I was a kid.
It is a simple yet adorable little space vehicle.
Bought it few years ago again.
This can't be a coincidence, but I'm not complaining. Ice Planet :)
Sure is a weird car
The visor - the computer, all the goodness.
Recently had a barn find of almost the whole Ice Planet 2002 series but this little fella was missing.
What a daredevil this minifig is. Standing up while riding the ice planet scooter
Ice Planet 2002 has probably the best color scheme out of all the Space themes. The blue, white and Trans-Neon Orange look so good together!
Ice Planet one of my favorite Space themes right up there with the recent Insectoids set of the day.
Ice Planet was sadly before my time - I was three when the sets were released, soooo no-one with any common sense would have been giving them to me! - and I never got any of the sets after the fact either; but all the same, it's by far my favourite of the Classic Space themes. There's just something so... *aestheticy* about the whole concept, that I love.
@Brickalili "Was that the plot? They've got a lot of giant rockets, sure, but those rockets always have sputnik-esque arrays on them. They're not testing nukes, they're launching satellites. Unless this is one of those regional differences like Dino Attack having guns for the US and traps for the UK... "
I'm pretty sure they used the term "weapons" a few times, and what kind of rocket based weapon is going to be so valuable you travel to that remote of location to build it. And I'm positive they talked about other factions trying to steal the technology and them being super paranoid about it, so if it was *only* satellites that'd be a pretty petty theft.
Man I miss these visors and laser chainsaws!
@GSR_MataNui said:
"I'm pretty sure they used the term "weapons" a few times, and what kind of rocket based weapon is going to be so valuable you travel to that remote of location to build it. And I'm positive they talked about other factions trying to steal the technology and them being super paranoid about it, so if it was *only* satellites that'd be a pretty petty theft."
It's never actually stated if Ice Planet satellites were for spying or weapons, but they could launch their rockets toward other planets for sure.
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But Blacktron and later Spyrius for sure wanted to steal the technology from them.
@Lego_lord said:
"While building a space port, I've realized that big sets really do look good but unless you have small sets like these to populate the area, whole thing looks like a ghost town."
Exactly. I've had a Blacktron II-style base that I started working on almost four years ago. Currently it consists of a small radar station, a buggy repair area 3 landing pads, and the raised baseplate from the Alpha Centauri Outpost. But it still looks neat since I have a few old sets and custom builds to fill it out.
Used as an alternative vehicle in the back of 6973! Useful.
Yeah, Ice Planet! Last Space theme for me before I entered my dark ages--fortunately they only lasted a couple years!
I was a KFOL during Ice Planet 2002 (not during the actual year 2002, though). It is a fantastic theme and white, blue, and neon-orange will always be a fantastic color scheme.
I do have to wonder why Lego thought to add the 2002 to the theme. Did they really think that in eight years, interstellar travel would be possible? It may reference 2001: A Space Odyssey, but the IPs are fairly different in terms of sci-fi tropes.
Ice Planet 2002 being set of the day on 20-02-2020.
Huwbot knows it's numbers.
Excessive use of ice/chainsaws for peaceful Lego so obviously had to buy many sets during my “girlfriend rolls eyes” age ( didn’t marry that one).