Vintage set of the week: Mobile Hydraulic Hoist
Posted by Huwbot,This week's vintage set is 655 Mobile Hydraulic Hoist, released during 1973. It's one of 28 LEGOLAND sets produced that year. It contains 36 pieces.
It's owned by 490 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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But this just uses friction and human intervention. Unless you consider us hydraulics... I mean, is that even inaccurate with how much of our bodies are water? Or are we electric because of our nervous system? But we also consume a type of fuel in order to operate and therefore not a closed system. Nothing about this set makes sense anymore.
@MCLegoboy:
Mobile HOGtraulic Hoist. That better?
That's another vintage set I liked when I was a kid , but didn't have it.
@MCLegoboy: Couldn't a part of us also be considered 'Pneumatic'? I mean: we breathe NOT just to add Oxygen to the Iron in our blood (and Carbon Dioxide out), but also to try to maintain: temperature (internal and external), and keeping the body 'pressurized' (against that of the Atmospheric pressure of the Earth)...just a thought...
As to the set: not bad, and I wish some of those part were; if not in use today, it lease a better equivalency (I'm looking at you hinge-plates...)
Love these old sets.
Another of the Legoland vehicles using the standard articulated lorry base. A bit prone to bending and cracking in the middle on sets like this that didn't have a full body above the base. Only to be used once more in 694-1.
It's a shame we don't see more hydraulic hoists in Lego. Like they have made cherry pickers, but basically no construction hoists (scissor lifts we call them) or airport food trucks with the scissor lift device.
These old sets are great, there's heaps of ideas I'd love to see done in City (although City at the moment is far too futuristic and weird which is a shame).
Minifig scale before minifigs. Love it.
Love those 1x4 plate with gate/grill pieces. When I first started playing with LEGO I loved those parts.
Now is this a hoist or is this a snorkel again? Not sure we ever quite properly sorted out that definition
@Brickchap said:
"It's a shame we don't see more hydraulic hoists in Lego. Like they have made cherry pickers, but basically no construction hoists (scissor lifts we call them) or airport food trucks with the scissor lift device.
These old sets are great, there's heaps of ideas I'd love to see done in City (although City at the moment is far too futuristic and weird which is a shame). "
Don't forget 6671
Gotta love these hing plates, especially when used this way. Always a gamble what would win: The friction of the hinge, or the clutch power connecting them together....
Still a nice little set!
I love how when you look closer on this old basic-looking sets there's almost always at least one super not basic part stuck in the time period. Here it's the lorry base with stand.
The use of fences is inspired though!
55p new. £3.50 when I got it boxed with instructions in 2017. Bargain! Not one of the best Legoland mini-wheels sets though.
I guess it’s difficult to appreciate this set when compared to today’s detailed sets, but back then when I was a little boy, it was pure magic. Not only all the necessary details are there, it’s also highly functional; it has three hinges and two turn tables, which allows for a very rich playing experience. It’s actually quite impressive how much Lego designers managed to accomplish back then with such a limited palette of parts and colors.
I wish I'd gotten more of that hinge piece than the one in 720. Parts-lust aside, this is cute. I like the cage made with fences.
@bigmanjones: I had 6671 as a kid (well, I still have it, but the parts were sorted out into organizers years ago, and I'm not sure I still have the instructions) and loved it. Nostalgia for that set is why I got 3179 (it even has the same logo!) and, a few years later, 60054.
@bigmanjones said:
" @Brickchap said:
"It's a shame we don't see more hydraulic hoists in Lego. Like they have made cherry pickers, but basically no construction hoists (scissor lifts we call them) or airport food trucks with the scissor lift device.
These old sets are great, there's heaps of ideas I'd love to see done in City (although City at the moment is far too futuristic and weird which is a shame). "
Don't forget 6671"
I can still picture 6671 on the shelf of the toy department when I was a kid. My parents never got it for me for whatever reason. I recall many attempts to build my own with my own parts.