The Typhoon Turbo Sub set (8060) is a LEGO Atlantis set which came out in 2010. It comes with 2 minifigs and 197 pieces. This set does include a few decals and there're no mistakes in the instructions and no missing pieces.

Minifigures:

• Diver: The diver comes with his basic 2010 atlantis uniform. The torso and the face are double-sided and the face has a beard and brown eyebrows. The legs are printed too.
• Shark Warrior: The shark warrior is the same I've seen in the Wreck Raider set (8057). He has a headpiece which is made out of rubber and some nice markings on the torso and on the legs. He has a cool trident and a yellow treasure key with a turtle which comes with an extra bag.

Typhoon Turbo Sub:

The Typhoon Turbo Sub has a very neat design and very awesome play features. The cockpit can be opened, and you can see the small controls and the diver can fit in. The antenna looks really awesome, and we get lights on each side. The propellers can be turned around, and we get a propeller on the back which also turns. There's also a flick-missile on each side and on the bottom we get a LEGO Technic piece which is the handle of this model and which can be used for the cool feature:

You push the handle forwards and the engine flips up, and you can see a bigger flick-missile on the one side and a little arm on the other side.

Positive:

Minifigures
Great pieces which you can use for brickfilms or MOCs
Nice starter set
Price
Play features

Negative:

Stickers

All in all, it's a great set to get, and I would highly recommend you to get this model. You can find this set on eBay and BrickLink for sure. Here is the link where you can check out the full gallery I made for this set on my website: www.klokriecher.de

Videos I made of this set:

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Review

Speed Build

Having gotten this as a Christmas gift, I won't complain about the price. Even if I had bought it, it's in there fairly close to a good price range.

You get an uncommon shark warrior and atlantean diver along with a yellow keyring.

It's kind of funny, because as you're building this set, you realize it's also designed to be held in the hands. That same design allows for the sub to be set down and displayed without falling over to it's side. As a result, the body of the sub does feel a bit thin. The build of the sub also allows for being able to flip the engines on either side to reveal a claw arm and missle launcher. There are also to small flick weapons on this vehicle.

The cockpit was a bit tricky, the diver can't properly be seated without removing his diving fins. Plus too the ever present and annoying stickers to be dealt with.

Still, with all of the Atlantean themed vehicles, it's a base red with a lime or neon green highlights. Not quite christmas colors due to the shade of green, but it's an attractive and distinctive color scheme with fishing through the parts bucket later for what goes to which themes.

I like this set because when you move the undercarriage the subs engines turn over. I also like it because the cockpit cover is a great green colour.

It came with a yellow key, a shark warrior and an atlantis diver.

Deep beneth the surface is atlantis but to get thier you need a sub!!

I think this set is a 10/10 set because its big,cheap,and cool!!

Pros:

• Sharkman
• Sub
• Diver
• Big missile
• Treasure key
• It flips into attack mode
• Flick fire missiles
• Big

Cons:

• Claw
• No harpoon
• Could of had a creature with it other than sharkman

I recently purchased this set for $24 US and was rather impressed when I built it.

First let me state that for $25 this set is rather small and could be much bigger for its price, so I'd highly recommend buying it if you can find it for under $25 (say around $20). The sub is very aesthetically pleasing, even though it is bright red, a color much overused in many sets. I'll break this review into 2 parts for everyone.

Minifigures

1x Atlantis Diver - standard diver, the same as the one from set 8056, Monster Crab Clash. All Atlantis divers wear identical uniforms, from their helmets to their suits so this one is in no way unique. As for a figure overall, the Atlantis divers look great. They have the perfect blend of dark grey and bright green and have a very interesting helmet with a new visor (luckily for the diver, this one does not fold up) and this particular diver also has a double sided face. The head for this figure is currently unique to the atlantis series, so that's a good reason to get one if you like the design. The new helmet is dark grey with two airtanks on the back. There are also two slots on the sides for lights or custom modifications if you're using them for your own creations. The figure naturally has lime-green flippers as well. Unfortunately, the diver has no tools or weapons other than his sub.

1x Atlantis Shark Warrior - another Atlantis-only figure. This figure is also available in another set, 8057, Wreck Raider but alone is a figure I'd be glad to have plenty of. The Shark Warrior has a modified head made from some non-flexible rubber but is still pretty sturdy, I don't think it will break easily. The warrior's head has a small, round slot through which you can insert small bars (the size that fits in standard clips/hands) so they can just as easily hold their tridents in their mouths. Speaking of the trident, it is a very nicely sculpted weapon and is pearl-gold color. The tridents aren't to long like previous helberds/polearms, so they are easily held and posed by figures; the tips are also made from a softer rubber (in comparison to the hilt), so they are semi-flexible and can be bent without breaking. There is also a Key peice, which is a small disk with a design on it (it is much smaller than it looks. The head is also very detailed and has markings on the snout similar to those of the Guardian of the Deep shark from 8058.

Pros

• Both well designed and very cool loking

Cons

• Both easily obtainable in cheaper sets

Typhoon Turbo Sub

The obvious highlight of the set, the sub as I've mentioned is a standard red, a much overused color, though very well suited to the theme. As for the design of the sub, the main hull is very thin and much smaller than it looks. As with recent sets, this one has incorporated the use of SNOT to make the body seem bigger, especially on the front and sides. The bulk of the sub is used to house the mechanism used to flip the winhs, but I won't spoil the fun to tell you how. Let me just say that the wings are very sturdy and don't flip when you don't want them to; they snap firmly into place. Unfortunately, while in the forward position (as shown in the picture) the wings tend to wobble a bit.

Each wing has a small flick-fire torpedo launcher, but unlike shown on the box, the heads of the torpedoes do not fully slide into the missile peice and do NOT have a cylinder separating the body of the missile from the tip.

When flipped, each wing has an alternate function, which by now most already know of. One wing has a technic launcher, a great peice for any use, as it fires very well in comparison to flick fire missiles. The other wing has a claw arm, but as others have complained, the claw is to short to grab anything but the main part of the claw can be rotated so that the claw can bend outward rather than upward in which case it actually can grab the atlantis key included with the set.

The sub doesn't have too many sickers like previous sets in other series like Mars Mission. This set only has 6 stickers (yay) but all 6 of them are moderately to extremely difficult to apply (boo). The large stickers on the wings are incredibly hard to apply correctly as they BARELY fit. The radar screen on the control panel is also hard to apply as it is very small and will probably end up crooked.

The front turbines look very cool and house immense propellors. The rear turbine is smaller (it would look better if it was slightly larger) and sticks too far out of the housing. It simply doesn't look right, especially since the propellor is only on one side. I would rather have 2 3-bladed propellors (one on each side) than this one.

The rest of the exterior is well detailed but the interior is rather lacking with just a small radar; no controls of any kind.

Pros

• Well designed
• Cool propellors on the front
• Flipping wings
• Well armed (technic launcher
• Not too many stickers
• uses SNOT well
• Great balance of Technic and bricks
• Most flaws easily fixable with your own peices

Cons

• Red is slightly overused
• Back propellor is awkward
• Flick fire missiles are just as bad as before
• Claw arm too short
• Wings wobble
• A bit overpriced
• Stickers hard to apply
• Build is too quick for such a high price

Final Verdict

As a final verdict to this set, I'd say I'm impressed so I give it THUMBS UP as well as an overall rating of about 8-8.5, if you can find it cheaper then it is more of an 8.6-9 but not a 10/10, it has flaws-a-plenty but they can all be easily fixed with some of your own parts.