After 18 years, I finally have my White Whale! (6575)
Posted Aug 31, 2018, 1:16 PM UTC
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Nice man. My favorite set was 6520
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I had this! I liked it a lot. In retrospect, the trailer kind of sucked - just a box made of a few big pre-fab parts - but the vehicle still has a great look and feel. The rubber treads were a lot of fun.
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I think I have that set somewhere tucked away in a box...scattered among the rest of my pieces of sets. Glad you found your white whale though, its a great feeling of accomplishment, mine is LEGO Technic 42009 Mobile Crane MK II .
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Mine is 75955! I just can’t find it anywhere and I’ve waited sooo long!!!!!
No I joke it is 6195, I remember wanting it so bad, it still looks so awesome and makes me feel so nostalgic about it! As a result all the newer underwater sets don’t interest me, they’re just missing something... probably nostalgia.
I did end up getting both 6889 and 6949 for my birthday which were also awesome, but I so wanted the underwater base.
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Oh, man this was one of my favorites I remember it being much larger though. I did alot of modifications to it. Turned it into an ice planet imperial outpost
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Man I miss those old classic octagonal canopy things in trans colors. I got such a powerful sense of nostalgia looking at an old M-tron set that had those. (Including an old Blacktron spaceship my cousin used to have back in the day)
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I bought this when it was regularly available because I wanted to use the parts for a space base. I never did change it to a space base, but it has amazing parts. I would have never thought that this was someone's favorite that was hard to get. I remember when eBay became a thing, and I was able to get all my Blacktron II sets again, I was super happy that I scooped those up 20 years ago, cause they cost an arm and a leg now. That is one of the great things about Lego, there is something for everyone.
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Congrats! I currently have this on display. My favorite thing about it is that it's basically a modular base the way each of the 4 compartments was built consistently and you could rearrange them in different ways, including all 4 in a 64-stud-long row. No connection points like Technic pins and such but it didn't matter at the time, of course.
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This is the only set I was missing of this theme. I really liked the realistic exploration aspect of it compared to other themes
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I was 6 when this came out but was too afraid to ask my parents for it because of the price. Looking back it wouldn’t have been unreasonable at all but I was raised to not ask for stuff. Think I’m going to rebuy the other arctic vehicles from 2000 that way I can make MOCs with the loose parts in “the bin” FeelsAmazingMan