Random set of the day: Snow Scooter
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Today's random set is 6626 Snow Scooter, released in 2000. It's one of 45 Town sets produced that year. It contains 20 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$2.
It's owned by 618 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 wonder how well you could move along the ice and snow via chainsaw power...
Doesn't seem too terribly efficient, but you won't know if you don't try!
Never seen this set before,
Interesting face, seems suspicious.
I had this one plus a few others in the theme. I remember buying my first few sets on New Year's Eve 1999. Although technically year 2000 sets they had been put out early. But the box had ©2000 on of course. Oh the excitement of buying something so futuristic. Year 2000. A new millennium. The Future....the actual future.
Now... that's almost a quarter of a century ago. That's unbelievably scary.
I feel old.
For when you need to cut two holes in the ice (one right in the center of the other), really, really fast.
The first Arctic line.
Good times. The sets were a teensy-bit juniorised, but again, Town was absolutely awful, at this point around the turn of the millennium, and Town subthemes like Divers or Res-Q or Arctic were a breath of cold air.
Nothing unique or rare in this polybag, although it had a twin boxed version in 6577 that included the OG Arctic logo as a sticker. I'd rather have that one.
Imagine the sound that a snowmobile combined with a chainsaw would make. I cringe to even contemplate it.
I loved this Artic line. I also loved the fact the Lego Club Magazine had a glimpse of the early prototypes (made during a non-juniorised period) and they looked fantastic, including an early penguin mould!
Thought it read Snow Speeder at first and thought, ‘that doesn’t look that Star Wars to me’!
@TheWackyWookiee said:
"Thought it read Snow Speeder at first and thought, ‘that doesn’t look that Star Wars to me’!"
Well, it sort of looks like a weird speederbike, but not at all like a snowspeeder.
I had the DK LEGO Arctic book as a kid, but none of the Arctic sets. Been meaning to rectify that for several years now. That book gave a pretty good introduction to the theme.
I've always considered chainsaws as small tracks kinda weird.
My four brothers had this set. I didn't. I was kinda jealous.
When I had this kit back in the day, I always wondered why Lego would make such an absurdly specialized piece for the front of the snowmobile. I found it impossible to use in any build. I've since learned that it's actually a Classic Space part made for space scooters. That doesn't make it much better - it's still absurdly specialized and incredibly hard to use for anything other than its original purpose. I think this is actually the most creative use of that part in any set: it's still a tiny single seat vehicle, but at least it's trying to achieve a real-world shape instead of just being any old thing.
This would have been the perfect time to use a classic neon orange chainsaw! Missed opportunity...
@iwybs said:
"When I had this kit back in the day, I always wondered why Lego would make such an absurdly specialized piece for the front of the snowmobile. I found it impossible to use in any build. I've since learned that it's actually a Classic Space part made for space scooters. That doesn't make it much better - it's still absurdly specialized and incredibly hard to use for anything other than its original purpose. I think this is actually the most creative use of that part in any set: it's still a tiny single seat vehicle, but at least it's trying to achieve a real-world shape instead of just being any old thing."
Back in the day that piece was the most SNOT friendly brick there was!
Lego Racers 2!
I love this theme. Brings back fond memories.
This must've been a terribly dull wave to design for; so juniorised!
Back then, it wasn't even considered town (though cat absolutely implies so) as town was completely juniorised. You know, the 1997 marketing strategy tragedy...
Arctic was a really fun theme and responsible for the first minifigure scale polar bear, minifigure parkas, and lots of Space theme style parts and builds. Arctic was a nice thematic exploration for Lego.
A more practical snow scooter with four skis appeared in the Polar base 6575 . The nose cone is interesting, last appeared in shark scout 61115 in 1995. Although most models didn't use the sideways studs, so could have just placed a slope on two headlight bricks.
How unfinished this set looks. Those exposed studs on the sides! Can't imagine this set being released in 2021.
@iwybs: I love that piece! The fact that I've been a Lego Space fan since the days of Futuron might have something to do with that.
@ElephantKnight: Even though there weren't many pieces that could be used for Blacktron builds?
Random fact: the minifigure character's name was also Scooter.
So it's Scooter on a scooter.
I think my favourite thing about the Arctic line was the hood pieces; they're fantastic, one of my favourite minifigure headgear items to date, still. And even for its simplified designs, I still found it an appealing theme on the whole... although admittedly, only got one set myself, 6579
I have this minifig and love it (great torso print and the only fig with a green artic hood)
But I don't have this set...
...so I have no idea where my minifig came from ?!?!?!?
Look, it's the grandfather set of 951810 from 2018
Of course this one is the "original" (oldest) : 1731
I can't believe no one else mentioned 1710!
@Brickalili :
What the heck, man? Do you want the poor guy to melt right through the ice? This isn't a sci-fi theme! The only way you get trans-neon orange treads is to heat the metal up enough to make it glow!
@ambr :
Nothing practical about a snow scooter when the only means of propulsion is gravity and a steep downhill slope.
@Minifig_Jez :
Maybe the only minifig, but that minifig comes in other sets. The post right above yours even mentions an ice boat with the same minifig. All told, that figure comes in five sets. Besides this one (6626-2, bagged), there's 6577 (the regular boxed version), 6579 (mentioned above), 6520, and 6575 (also mentioned above). Bricklink also notes that the minifig came in 6570, but it appears that set was never released.
@560heliport said:
"I can't believe no one else mentioned 1710 !"
Honestly didn't know that existed, but yes, that'd be the true original instead of 1731 then, even comes much closer in details to the point of the ice saw clipped to the side, and being from Town theme.
6834 is 1 year older but I don't count it as it's larger.
@TeriXeri said:
" @560heliport said:
"I can't believe no one else mentioned 1710 !"
Honestly didn't know that existed, but yes, that'd be the true original instead of 1731 then, even comes much closer in details to the point of the ice saw clipped to the side, and being from Town theme.
6834 is 1 year older but I don't count it as it's larger."
alos, it's a different theme
This is actually my very first LEGO set ever! What a coincidence
I’m a snow scooter. Scooting snow in your direction.
I’m a snow scooter. Come and play with my combustion engine.