Wish I still had my Aquazone sub

7.25?! That's $14-ish dollars today? I'd pay that. Super cool little set.

With every new wave of sets released, these sets just keep on looking better and better.

This is one of the only first-generation Aquazone sets I never bought. A tragedy.

Another one of those sets one can cobble together from other parts and claim an ownership. In my opinion without at least an accompanying manual, that’s a no-go.

And this one’s pretty easy as most of the parts are specific to this theme or time period.

40515-1 .... Daddy's home.

Sooo.... interesting thing about this set. I got this back in 97, maybe 98, making if one of my oldest sets. But the interesting thing is this:

My Thresher had a grey hook. Not the trans neon green as pictured. And if I recall, so did my older brother's copy of the set. Of course, I lost the hook eons ago, so I don't have proof anymore, but I swear upon my Blacktron collection my copy had a grey hooked Thresher. I have not seen evidence of this happening anywhere on the internet, it is only in my memories, and perhaps that of my two older brothers. Perhaps @Formendacil can shed some light?

A bit of a shame, cause the Trans neon green hook is so much more Blacktron.

Chrome blades! Chrome harpoons! Chrome … crystals!

@MCLegoboy said:
"Unacceptable, LEGO has left us high and dry from making that pun ourselves. We'll have to dive into the depths of our vocabularies to make up this loss. We're not fin-ished, nor dis-armed, but it cuts deep."
According to the lore, this theme had two factions: the Aquanauts (of which the minifigure box art top right is one) and the Aquasharks (the minifigure bottom left of the box art for example).

If you say the reverse of what you mean about the latter rhetorically, you’re being aquasarcastic or simply aquasarc.

Bricky Shark (do do, do do, dat do)
Bricky Shark...Ok, 'nuff of that :)

Auqazone='Dark Age' with me, but that ok; I can appreciate it for the parts...although, I don't have any squids yet...may one day have to visit that beach in the UK, where parts are still washing up from a shipping accident from years ago...including, ironically 'sea-stuff', like squids...:)

"It's just a small accessory set, the name doesn't need to be the best"

The name:

@ElephantKnight said:
"Sooo.... interesting thing about this set. I got this back in 97, maybe 98, making if one of my oldest sets. But the interesting thing is this:

My Thresher had a grey hook. Not the trans neon green as pictured. And if I recall, so did my older brother's copy of the set. Of course, I lost the hook eons ago, so I don't have proof anymore, but I swear upon my Blacktron collection my copy had a grey hooked Thresher. I have not seen evidence of this happening anywhere on the internet, it is only in my memories, and perhaps that of my two older brothers. Perhaps @Formendacil can shed some light?

A bit of a shame, cause the Trans neon green hook is so much more Blacktron."

I don't remember which set, but my first Aquashark that should have had a trans neon green hook had a grey hook. This was in 1996. Later ones had trans neon green.

Once (10 years or so ago) I bought several Divers sets (the subtheme from Town) from ebay and the same seller also had this for €2 or something like that. I didn't buy it, thinking these looked way different from those other divers, wouldn't fit in etc. Needless to say, I have regretted that decision since, especially after finding some other Aquazone sets! Fortunately the pieces later did show up in a bulk lot so it's ok now but still, it stings a little bit ;-)

Underwater knife fight!

I like you could just buy all the minifig accesories like this. Of course you don't get a sub build. But they knew you buy those for what they are, not some extra included with them. I'd say times have changed, but the inclusion of the 'Ice Planet Babe' minifig in only the two largest Ice Planet 2002 sets years before this says otherwise.

The pieces in this set look quite useful for deep sea builds!

@ElephantKnight said:
"Sooo.... interesting thing about this set. I got this back in 97, maybe 98, making if one of my oldest sets. But the interesting thing is this:

My Thresher had a grey hook. Not the trans neon green as pictured. And if I recall, so did my older brother's copy of the set. Of course, I lost the hook eons ago, so I don't have proof anymore, but I swear upon my Blacktron collection my copy had a grey hooked Thresher. I have not seen evidence of this happening anywhere on the internet, it is only in my memories, and perhaps that of my two older brothers. Perhaps @Formendacil can shed some light?

A bit of a shame, cause the Trans neon green hook is so much more Blacktron."

You did--and so did our Dark Ages Brother. Both you and he had two Threshers: he had Aquacessories and 6190; you had Aquacessories and 6135: you each had a proper trans-neon-hooked Thresher and you each had a grey-hooked Thresher--both your faulty ones came with Aquacessories (these were sold in Western Canada, in case anyone is tracking that).

A couple years later, one of our younger brothers got Aquacessories, but HIS copy had the neon hook.

I never had a Thresher as a kid--unless you could the "Hydronaut" version: 6100, but while he DID have the neon hook, I never did count him as a Thresher. For that reason alone, I'd have enjoyed an Aquacessories. And given that it took me till the Stingray sets to get a hydrolator crystal and that I had to borrow my Divers sharks and octopi, I'd have liked this set for other reasons. And it took until this past December to get my first red bush-bottom.

Best. Set. Name. EVER!

An underwater portmanteu-pun. Punderwater.

I will likely be branded a heretic, but the whole grey to 'bley' thing happened during my dark ages, and I think I've just come to accept bley as being fine, just fine. Old grey, I've unfortunately come to associate with yellowed pieces that I've thoroughly abused as a child with markers, glue, scissors, teeth, brute force and sometimes fire. So long story short, this shark just looks a bit off to me (and that's on me).

That said, mixing old and new greys for the sake of texture in a rocky diorama is still *chef's kiss*. The chromed pieces though - well, the chrome did tend to flake and wear off. That, I don't think was entirely on me.

I remember I came across the empty box for this one in a donated Lego lot that I was sorting for a charity that I volunteered with for a while. None of the parts of this were present though, just the empty box.

Echoing what others have, love those chrome energy crystals. Finally got my first one of them a couple of months ago, when I was able to pick up 6107 - also my first Stingrays set after having had my eyes on that subtheme for more than two decades! - from a used Lego store while I was visiting my girlfriend in America.

I do love how the divers look like they're about to go nuts on that octopus with their pointy implements.

Octopi are smart, so I can only surmise that the divers are getting revenge on some dirty deed the tentacled mollusc executed earlier.

@bookmum said:
"Squid.
Shark.
Shiny Silver Pieces.
What an awesome set."

You neglected to mention the trans-neon hook (of course several people made up for that).

First time I got to use the 'hover you have it feature' ;)

@Rare_White_Ape said:
"I do love how the divers look like they're about to go nuts on that octopus with their pointy implements.

Octopi are smart, so I can only surmise that the divers are getting revenge on some dirty deed the tentacled mollusc executed earlier."

Nah. The shark is about to bite the Aquashark. The Aquashark does not notice and is about to attack the short bush before it attacks him. The octopus is in the process of attacking the large bush. And the large bush is deploying its thorny appendages in self-defense.
And the Aquanaut?
The aquanaut is just sitting back and enjoying the show. The sick man!

My money's on the shark btw.

For the lore:
Both minifigs are the leaders of their respective faction:
Jock Clouseau (an obvious reference to Jacques-Yves Cousteau) is the Aquanaut leader. His rather comical bio in Mania Magazine mentions him running an underwater-themed fast food restaurant and often engaging in octopus wrestling (although he seems kind of bad at it).

Thresher is the leader of the Aquasharks (newly introduced in 1996), he is named after a species of shark, whose fins slightly resemble Thresher's hook hand. He seems to be somewhat fond of racing using his 6135 Spy Shark. Also the Aquasharks are former Aquanauts who went rogue and began to steal the Hydrolator crystals from their former comrades.

I really liked getting all the bush pieces and crystals in this set. It's just a bit weird that it's aminifig pack with technically just 2 minifigs - the only other set of this box size and type that came close was the Western cavalry set from 1997 with just 3 figures. Somehow the numbers went down over the years, although minifig detail and accessories/animal companions got more as an exchange.

Anyways minifig count went back up to 5 with the last 2 sets in the 'series': Rock Raiders and Ninja.

@Atuin said:
"For the lore:Thresher is the leader of the Aquasharks (newly introduced in 1996), he is named after a species of shark, whose fins slightly resemble Thresher's hook hand."

That hook-hand being *TRANS-NEON GREEN*. Which is awesome, but I do seem to remember the thin MABS element being more rigid fragile than the regular old hook, which has more 'give'.

If you come across those MABS hooks, cherish them, for they are a precious commodity.

@Ridgeheart said:
" @Atuin said:
"For the lore:Thresher is the leader of the Aquasharks (newly introduced in 1996), he is named after a species of shark, whose fins slightly resemble Thresher's hook hand."

That hook-hand being *TRANS-NEON GREEN*. Which is awesome, but I do seem to remember the thin MABS element being more rigid fragile than the regular old hook, which has more 'give'.

If you come across those MABS hooks, cherish them, for they are a precious commodity."

Interesting--obviously, the trans-neon hooks aren't ABS, but I'd never considered if they'd be more or less fragile than the light grey (or dark grey) ones of contemporary eras. In my family (a sample size of probably about 80 hooks), the only ones I know that have broken have been dark grey--but that may just be a propensity of one brother to pose Baron von Barron with too many different objects vs. Redbeard, Thresher, or Ogel.

@MeisterDad: I agree, just because you have the parts elsewhere in your collection, doesn't mean you can count it as an owned set. I bought the printed pieces and some other parts for 6894 and 6932 from Bricklink, but finished them off with parts borrowed from the part of my collection that I don't still keep in boxes, so I didn't list them among my owned sets. (I'm also not sure if the fact that I downloaded the instructions would count as owning them or not. I have them in a sense, but I don't have the actual booklets.)

@brick_r: I'm reminded of when I first saw 31088 and started singing to myself, "Lego shark, doot do doot do.."

@Thunbear: The Thresher is wielding harpoons, not knives.

@Ridgeheart: For one thing, I hate the term "bley." It's been almost twenty years since the change , there's seldom a need to distinguish anymore (you get a pass because you were actually talking about the differences), and it sounds like an expression of disgust to me anyway. Secondly, which one I prefer depends on what kind of model. The old grays work better for more organic models like this set's shark, the new grays work better for metal stuff like most star Wars sets. Either one can work for stone, just depends on how much metal content you think of the stone as having.

@Formendacil said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
" @Atuin said:
"For the lore:Thresher is the leader of the Aquasharks (newly introduced in 1996), he is named after a species of shark, whose fins slightly resemble Thresher's hook hand."

That hook-hand being *TRANS-NEON GREEN*. Which is awesome, but I do seem to remember the thin MABS element being more rigid fragile than the regular old hook, which has more 'give'.

If you come across those MABS hooks, cherish them, for they are a precious commodity."

Interesting--obviously, the trans-neon hooks aren't ABS, but I'd never considered if they'd be more or less fragile than the light grey (or dark grey) ones of contemporary eras. In my family (a sample size of probably about 80 hooks), the only ones I know that have broken have been dark grey--but that may just be a propensity of one brother to pose Baron von Barron with too many different objects vs. Redbeard, Thresher, or Ogel."

Actually I only ever had one hook hand break (out of 25 total) and it was not one of the clear ones but an (opaque) dark grey one from Baron von Barron/Sam Sanister (from a 2000 set). All my Thresher, Scavenger Sam (Aquaraiders dude) and Ogel hooks are still pretty fine today.