Adult Fixie-skidders of LEGO

The last car set I built was 30+ years ago and that was the 8865 Test Car and I loved that. I just got an itch to do another one (mostly down to this thread) and I liked the look of 8448 because its outer shell didn't seem to hide away all the technical gubbins underneath. I was also thinking about the 8880 but got lucky on this bid.

(twice)

I'm afraid I got a bit bored a few weeks ago and with my daughters went for 10270 twice.

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Have fun!

I raise you:

Briliant ! Haha !

#OrkneyLibraryLego

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31047

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Minor but apparently crowd-pleasing substitutions from the parts bin

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Further development

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jul/14/charity-founder-left-in-tears-after-theft-of-lego-bricks-for-sick-children

I don't know how the illegal LEGO market works, but as I understand it, it's more lucrative to break sets up and sell them on BrickLink or other marketplace sites, so I imagine that, while it's a lot of work to break up and sort 18,000 sets, there may be little chance these will be recovered. Still, you never know, so perhaps police are able to find a lead before the breaking-up happens.

Anyone recognise what set this wreck used to be?
Something star wars, I guess.

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This?

Republic Cruiser 7665 from Episode 1 (missing the front half!)

https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-republic-cruiser-set-7665

On second thoughts, definitely that.

Awesome! Thanks a lot.
I think we have most of the rest of the bits amongst all the other wrecked crafts.

Here are the instructions:

https://www.lego.com/biassets/bi/4518040.pdf
https://www.lego.com/biassets/bi/4533285.pdf

Cool. Thanks.
We’ll have to leave reconstruction to another day as these guys have gone into free-building mode.

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Looks as if you had 7660, too:

https://brickset.com/sets/7660-1/Naboo-N-1-Starfighter-with-Vulture-Droid

Yep, i did identify that one.
It’s all my younger brother’s old stuff.

Not a bad period for LEGO Star Wars.

As an update I think Lego offered to replace all the stolen sets.

Edit yes they have:

https://www.brickfanatics.com/the-lego-group-to-replace-stolen-fairy-bricks-sets/

Nice to see some good news when it is generally a bit thin on the ground.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/san-antonio/news/2020/05/20/san-antonio-zoo-adding-lego-sculptures-to--drive-thru--experience-

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