Random set of the day: Hover Sub
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 3552 Hover Sub, released in 1998. It's one of 12 Znap sets produced that year. It contains 126 pieces, and its retail price was US$20.
It's owned by 183 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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Oh Znap.
@legolover777 I agree, but that aircraft build (whatever it is) looks strikingly similar to a small husky VTOL I made a month or two ago.
That seems like a contradiction in terms there Lego.
Hmm... odd.
ZZZNNNNAAAAAPPPP!!!!!!
It doesn't even look like Lego.
Very strange.
How many others of you only found out about this theme when scrolling to the bottom of the list of all themes?
Ah yes, when Lego was the off-brand of K'nex... And we say the 90s were a golden age...
Even Lepin is like Naa. But, The instructions are pretty creative though And what I would give for that beautiful 9v black battery box.
@BovineBrick said:
"Ah yes, when Lego was the off-brand of K'nex... And we say the 90s were a golden age..."
Uh, we DO.
Up to 1997. That's most of the decade. And ZNAP! doesn't show up until 1998, which was the year we definitively knew the Golden Age of Lego System was over. Coincidence, I wonder?
Let's just pretend this never happened and go on with our days...
After 1997, some very weird sets and themes appeared.
So it's a submarine ... with dual helicopter rotors ... ?
Right. Okay. Sure. Why not?
No wonder Lego almost tanked
Znap is better than K’nex.
They all look the same - I could've sworn I've seen this one here already...
Guessing the bottom build is a chainsaw.
Oh no, I bet Znap is the new Clickets
LEGO will always be my jam (I don't think I've ever used that phrase before now...), but I loved K'nex growing up, too, and I still build with it occasionally. I never got any Znap sets, but I don't like it for the same reason I didn't like when K'nex tried to be compatible with bricks. Just stick to what you do best!
I rate my days according to RSOTD, and today is not gonna go well I'm guessing.
Was this the beginning of Technic studless beams?
I must confess I bought some of those Znap sets back then…
@Lego_Lord_Mayorca said:
" @BovineBrick said:
"Ah yes, when Lego was the off-brand of K'nex... And we say the 90s were a golden age..."
Uh, we DO.
Up to 1997. That's most of the decade. And ZNAP! doesn't show up until 1998, which was the year we definitively knew the Golden Age of Lego System was over. Coincidence, I wonder? "
The evils of ZNAP are completely and utterly countered by the fact that Adventurers also came out that same year. That single achievement alone makes 1998 the single greatest Lego year.
I think Znap is a very underappreciated theme. It's got a lot of really interesting parts that have a lot of untapped MOCing potential. I'll definitely be purchasing some Znap pieces in the future and see what I can do with them.
How ironic, I was vacuuming in the basement yesterday and came across a Bin with some very old lego sets and manuals starting from the early 90s which included two manuals of this set. I recall getting a few Znap sets on clearance and being underwhelmed with it, to the point I kept separate from the rest of my lego. Natural I stopped vacuuming long enough to update my Brickset collection online to include this new found treasure. Have to say was kind of cool finding my old technic, and various other sets.
I keep waiting for the day Lego releases a 90s rock fan minifig wearing the Znap logo on a concert T-shirt. The name sounds much more like a fictional rock band than a Lego theme.
I sell the odd Znap piece in my BO store so clearly some people are still using it.
For some strange reason I saw the picture and the Airwolf theme popped into my head.
^ oooh... A UCS Airwolf would be awesome!
This is fine except for one thing, the logo in the bottom right
This one was great for getting cheap 9V motors at the time. I forgot to add a couple to my "owned" list.
How about this:
With any of the ZNAP sets there is no reason to complain about absence of B model instructions. Or even C, D, E, ...
I liked Znap a lot better than K'nex and I still think it has its good qualities. It was fun for building big and fast, and it's only a pity that they didn't lean into that a bit harder and make more huge sets available. It feels like a concept that was only halfway exploited by TLG themselves.
What the heck, I had never even heard of these.
I think LEGO was trying to jump on K'Nex's bandwagon, and failed miserably.
I tried to be open-minded when I bought my first K'Nex set to mess with. Really, ever since LEGO closed the US plant; the only thing I really liked was that K'Nex at the time was made here. Fiddly, time-consuming, and lots of way too tiny connectors. I think the only K'Nex thing I even have out is a roughly HO scale Grave Digger that came in a set when they had the Monster Jam license. And even that falls apart constantly; due to their take on the classic "brick" having exactly no clutch power. Heck, I haven't even seen a K'Nex set at my Walmart in ages. Their popularity must have wained quite a bit.