Random set of the day: Open-Top Jeep
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 2880 Open-Top Jeep, released during 1997. It's one of 47 Town sets produced that year. It contains 29 pieces.
It's owned by 735 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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Open back, too! Careful using the accelerator!
Sad face emoji.
Late 90s were rough.
Think they snuck a clause into their Mopar contract for Speed Champions to legalize this trademark violation? I mean, if I were a Jeep lawyer, I’d sue them just for how ugly it is.
Use today's Random Part of the Day to give this a roof
The speed lines trailing from the back of the car imply that it’s moving along the road quite quickly. But, uh… no-one’s driving it?
Did someone forget to use the handbrake? Or is this some kind of ghost car?
@Monopoly:
Car-tapult, for road crash safety testing.
@PurpleDave said:
"Think they snuck a clause into their Mopar contract for Speed Champions to legalize this trademark violation? I mean, if I were a Jeep lawyer, I’d sue them just for how ugly it is."
Definition: a small, sturdy motor vehicle with four-wheel drive, especially one used by the military.
Though this would be better suited for Mario Kart than supposely offroading.
Driving on left. Must be a British jeep.
But yo, check out that front end ground clearance, and with a radiator grille in front of the tires? No speed bumps please. Or any bumps.
You think it's ugly until you put a minifig in it. That's when the quality of the design really shines through.
@Isabella_and_Lego_Liker:
You mean the Willys MB or the Ford GPW? Neither is the source for the term “jeep”, which has unknown origins dating back to WWI. Eugene the Jeep (Popeye’s pet, name trademarked in 1936) is one potential source for the term being used to refer to pre-WWII civilian vehicles, and they in turn are likely why the US military vehicles were informally referred to by the same name. The name was trademarked immediately after WWII, and hasn’t been used to refer to any post-WWII US military vehicles that I’ve ever heard.
@peterlmorris said: "Sad face emoji.
Late 90s were rough. "
I have to say? I disagree.
I LOVED these little sets. There was a wide range of them, and they were wonderful for adding scenery to your Lego city. There was a little helicopter and little cars like this one (including a little parking booth, which I adored). One of my favourite sets that year was the little Paradisa-themed garden barbecue (it was my first kitten piece, and I absolutely adored it for that).
Plus -- unlike the modern range of polybags that are so hard to find, here in Australia -- in the late 90s, these little sets were easily available. I bought them from K-mart.
One of my very first sets! It was bundled in a value pack with 4274, 6585, 6836, and 6572. BrickLink calls it "4274-2".
How is this a jeep?
Jeep? This is TM set?
The name is probably one of those that didn't appear in any catalogs but was chosen by Huw or his daughter or something. Like the legendary 'My Dad'
@Zordboy I second that: 90s boxed sets were the best! They were even available long after the fact. I saw one of 6800 Cyber Scout pop up at a flea market this april. Still sealed! That's not even too uncommon either! Compare that to today's polybags.
I had this one! It came free with a can of cookies or something lol
Open top and also open back by the looks of it
@PurpleDave: I've also heard that the word came from GP, for General Purpose.
@Binnekamp: Bricklink, Rebrickable, and Peeron all list this as "Open-Top Jeep, although Lugnet lists it as "White Sports Car."
At the time I got a few of these as parts pack. I used them to create random MOCs for my town and space port. Very useful set, to me anyways...
At the time I got a few of these as parts pack. I used them to create random MOCs for my town and space port. Very useful set, to me anyways...
@PurpleDave said:
" @Isabella_and_Lego_Liker:
You mean the Willys MB or the Ford GPW? Neither is the source for the term “jeep”, which has unknown origins dating back to WWI. Eugene the Jeep (Popeye’s pet, name trademarked in 1936) is one potential source for the term being used to refer to pre-WWII civilian vehicles, and they in turn are likely why the US military vehicles were informally referred to by the same name. The name was trademarked immediately after WWII, and hasn’t been used to refer to any post-WWII US military vehicles that I’ve ever heard."
"Jeep" came from the phonetic pronunciation of the acronym "GP", which stands for "General Purpose".
The large steering wheel, too low windscreen reminds me of a kids Tike car.
@Binnekamp:
Today’s polybags haven’t been around sealed long after the fact because they’re too new to have been around that long. Give it time, and they’ll show up in the same flea markets, still sealed.
@TheIronBadger:
The claim is that it came from “GP”, but etymological evidence doesn’t back this up. Given the wide range of things that have been called a “jeep” before WWII, including untested recruits, it seems that “jeep” originally meant “thing that needs a nickname”.
It'll be good when it's finished!
It is
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@BrickInTheEye: Yeah, all you need to do is put the minifig in! ...Wait.
@peterlmorris said:
"Sad face emoji.
Late 90s were rough. "
Agreed. We’d rejoice when the City sets began about 6-7 years later.
At least kids who had an allowance and saved for this set maybe liked this set (and the Town Jr. range).
I’ve come to understand JEEP was an acronym for Just Enough Essential Parts. Which kind of makes sense for this LEGO set as well.
Less of a "Jeep"...more like a 'gyp'...
Oh hey, I had this one. Was one of four sets that could be got with biscuits (a.k.a. cookies) here in the UK; the biscuits themselves were fairly standard, but they came in a Town-Jr-themed tin and each tin also included one sets. The sets were this one, 2849, 2884 and 2886. Eventually I got all four of them; although my first one, the helicopter, actually came from a different source.
The two without minifigures, naturally, had much less appeal to me than their fellows; but hey, free Lego was free Lego!
I've still got one of those tins around too, in fact. Don't use it for keeping biscuits in anymore, though.
@Monopoly said:
"The speed lines trailing from the back of the car imply that it’s moving along the road quite quickly. But, uh… no-one’s driving it?
Did someone forget to use the handbrake? Or is this some kind of ghost car?"
Considering the lack of a proper seat and nothing behind that, didn't the driver just fall out of the back when he put the pedal to the ....euh, plastic?
All jokes aside, not exactly a great set (understatement....), but I do like the red stripe on the side, simple but effective.
Intentionally fig-scale vehicles sold without figs always confuse me. Although I will admit, as a kid, that I wouldn't have completely minded getting a few extra vehicles for the hordes of figs who had none.
But this would have been a very small step above none.
@WizardOfOss:
Danger stripe, warning hapless victims away…
@Formendacil:
There have been plenty other vehicles the size of minifigs that were sold without minifigs. This isn’t unique in that regard.
@PurpleDave said:
"There have been plenty other vehicles the size of minifigs that were sold without minifigs. This isn’t unique in that regard."
It need not be unique to confuse me. I am easily confounded.
I always thought this was a callback to the little car in 6369