Random set of the day: Bungee Chopper
Posted by Huwbot,Today's random set is 2854 Bungee Chopper, released in 1998. It's one of 27 Technic sets produced that year. It contains 72 pieces, and its retail price was US$7.
It's owned by 585 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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Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
That is a stylish colorful car! I feel bad for those 585 people who have to have that in their collection! :O
What an odd little set.
Ah, I remember when bungee-powered pull-back cars were all the rage in Technic. I had the "ordinary" bungee dragsters in red and yellow. I played with those to death; the white bungee cords are permanently deformed.
But by the time I saw the Cyber Slam bungee choppers (there is a teal one identical to this one), I was already burned out. Besides, the other Cyber Slam sets looked far more interesting.
I had this as a kid. The drive train was shaky and the bungee cord quickly lost its spring because I wound it up too tight, but I have to applaud the Technic design team for trying out a brick-built pullback motor instead of going immediately to the sealed units that have been used ever since.
Given how many times I dealt with broken bands and/or elements in the Klutz Crazy Contraptions book; and a windup motor build utilizing a band; I'm curious just how prone this is to failure.
It's a good thing that you don't have to stick with this design after the rubber band wears off. There are enough wheels to build a tiny little hotrod, with some extra pieces of course.
I miss that old bright purple color. It was used a bit in the old Bionicle waves, Slizers, and other turn of the millennium era sets.
Unrelated to the post but I just saw my minifigs tracker decrease by 500. This is a problem from a while ago, I don't know what causes it.
I got one of those bungee cord pieces in a mixed lot of technic parts back when I was much younger, could never figure out what it was supposed to be used for. Even though it was tied onto the reel part, I wasn't even sure if it was actually part of the Lego or if it had just got in the box by mistake... I think, in the end, I decided on the latter and threw it away.
I guess this belatedly answers that question, though xD;
...what?
I have to be honest, the only thing that comes to mind for me when I see this is
Yuck!