Pretty nice Space/Town set really near the beginning of juniorisation. I really do miss those simple hinge pieces for the roof.

Is that second image another part of the set? It looks too different to me to be an alternate build.

@MCLegoboy in United States, 15 Apr 2021 21:05
[Insert "90s LEGO was so juniorized!" Complaint Comment Here]

It was terribly junionized. That particular theme, I got the "big" set as a present. The "light & sound" rocket was a joke. My complaint comes from the money wasted by my relative and my fake smile.

Huwbot's definitely on a late 90s kick, right now.

'99 Spaceport had some nice sets, but it was horribly juniorised. It's just that around this time in Lego's history, things were very hit and miss.

And those darn three-wheeled bikes. My gosh. Those things were in almost every set released, I swear to goodness.

@Robot99 said:
"Is that second image another part of the set? It looks too different to me to be an alternate build."

Yes, it was a fuel pump or something similar

https://brickset.com/sets/6459-1

Here's the set inventory for this. Everyone do me a favor and pretend I just spent the last 135 minutes compiling it, 'kay?

@Galaxy12_Import:
Headache's gone, and belly's full. It was nice to be reminded why my hiatus is almost old enough to vote. I think I'll stick to doing fifteen shows per year, once this pandemic thing is over.

I'm 1 of 1066! :]

Me too!

You can figure that this was late 90's at first glance.

You mean Space Fuel Truck? Looks quite futuristic to me.

Minimalist background.

@Robot99 said:
"Is that second image another part of the set? It looks too different to me to be an alternate build."

The bottom-right corners say 1/2 and 2/2. I believe the images are of the instructions, not of the box.

Can the minifigure fit inside the cab?

@windjammer said:
"Can the minifigure fit inside the cab?"

It can. The '99 Spaceport run was indeed the most simple of the city/town space sets, but it didn't have (along with diving, Res-Q and Xtreme) the level of juniorisation of the main town line.
Keep that in mind when judging late 90's sets.

A yellow tricycle in a dessert, must be a mirage! Whats with the control panel on the BBQ, and is the mini-fig standing ready with some more fuel to really toast it?

Space fuel is apparently independent from Octan fuel.

@CarolinaOnMyMind :
Wikipedia notes two other modern pentacycle designs. One, from 2002, is just a tricycle with two guide wheels to keep it centered on a defunct monorail track. The other, from 2012, sounds like it was an art project, as it was set up like a tricycle as well, but with a trailing third axle, and a total length of 48 feet! The vintage style you mentioned could accurately be described as a unicycle with training wheels.

@Reinier said:
"Having to enter and exit the truck through the roof is a lot of fun the first couple of times. But after that it's just a hassle."

Would it be easier or more difficult than entering through the windows Dukes-of-Hazard style?

@paulvdb said: "Would it be easier or more difficult than entering through the windows Dukes-of-Hazard style?"

Well, he'd have to detach both his arms to actually fit through the gap in the side of the cab.

And once he's inside the vehicle, and removed his arms to get there, how will be reattach them?

@PurpleDave said:
" https://brickset.com/sets/6459-1

Here's the set inventory for this. Everyone do me a favor and pretend I just spent the last 135 minutes compiling it, 'Kay?"
I got a kick out of seeing that part 3959 in that partlist is called "Butt" ;-)

And as for
"The other, from 2012, sounds like it was an art project, as it was set up like a tricycle as well, but with a trailing third axle, and a total length of 48 feet!"

Sounds like something Jeremy Clarkson would have built for a Top Gear challenge.
I mean, how hard can it be? :-))

Oh hey! I remember this set!

This one was a surprise, actually. It was maybe a couple of years after we'd moved half way across the country, and I'd just got into the actual Themed Lego scene - before that, all I'd know were the basic boxes of bricks - so for my birthday that year we took the trip for a few days back to where we'd used to live, so that we could visit Legoland, since it was very nearby. On that trip, we stopped in to visit some old friends as well, and they sprung this set (which I hadn't even known existed at that point!) on me as a birthday present ^^

The truck's design certainly wasn't bad, considering the era it was stuck in the middle of; and I was really fascinated by the firefighter's breathing apparatus, which was a piece I hadn't encountered before.

Nonetheless, this set WAS a bit eclipsed, in my estimation, by 5956... which I bought just two days later at Legoland, after having had my sights determinedly set on it for a while xD

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And yeah, as noted above, these was the instruction cover images, not the box art. While the box art was still set in a desert - presumably the space port's desert training site, which was also seen in a couple of other set backgrounds - it was at least not quite as basic as the backgrounds here. Bricklink has a picture of the actual box: https://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/ON/0/6459-1.png

Ooh one of my first actual Lego sets, not Duplo. Pretty fun little set, especially to drive around your city and crash and have the fire brigade put it out. Loads of fun :D Didn't have any aircraft/rockets so that was about all i did with it, still very fun :D

@Zordboy said:
" @paulvdb said: "Would it be easier or more difficult than entering through the windows Dukes-of-Hazard style?"

Well, he'd have to detach both his arms to actually fit through the gap in the side of the cab.

And once he's inside the vehicle, and removed his arms to get there, how will be reattach them?"

If Bender can do it...

I wondered at the time why Lego suddenly decided their customers didn't want sets with any details. "They're headed to bankruptcy," I muttered grimly.

They should have hired me. A high-schooler consultant would have been a lot cheaper than the billions of kroner they lost learning this the hard way.

@AustinPowers
But I mean a three-axled tricycle? Can you imagine the turning radius on that? There are entire towns that could probably fit inside of that and never even be aware that they just got encircled by this thing (I mean, I suppose someone driving into town could tell them, but who would actually believe that story)?