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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford writes:
> > > Or this 8-wheeled fire truck with 6 steering wheels:
> > > http://www.marzdistribution.com/insideMarz/moreinfo.cfm?ID=LEGO-8454
> >
> > This is a disaster.
> >
> > Frankly, I don't even see a fire truck in that picture. If you removed the
> > label and asked people to identify it, I'll bet you wouldn't get 'fire
> > truck' as your first answer more than 1/2 the time.
>
> It looks a lot like an airport crash truck (a kind of fire truck) to me.
Yes, or ARFF's as they are affectionately known. But I should have
qualified my proposal by saying, "if you asked the general public." Larry,
you are far too knowledgeable when it comes to transportation, vehicles etc.
to not see the vague resemblance to reality in this model. You're
overqualified for a poll such as this. :)
The main problem is that design wise it probably wasn't the most suitable to
be rendered in Technic. It *might* have come out better if done with Model
Team specs in mind.
I agree that it's supposed to be an airport crash truck, but take a look at
some of these:
http://www.airportfire.com
or this thread, where this thing has already been mentioned:
http://news.lugnet.com/technic/?n=8756
> Right down to the low slung body and fat all terrain wheels. The sickening
> lime green color is all the latest rage in crash truck colors, apparently....
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/2065/deptinfo/crash/crash.html
> (shows that ugly color but not the 8 wheel design)
My guess is that this one my just be a bad pic of a yellow crash truck. I
know that if I took the same pic with my digital camera I could easily make
a yellow truck appear lime green. :)
But notice the FLAT panels and solid looking design of that truck? Not
really represented in any way by the LEGO model. Sorry.
> http://www.oshkoshtruck.com/htm/air-muni/striker45001.cfm (this could be our
> model... 8 wheels, stylised shape, dark blue transparent color windscreen, etc)
Quite possibly. It has the same cab design. But again, what's with the
Super Car chassis parts on the LEGO version? The real ones are almost
painfully flat on their sides. Am I just being too picky? But before you
answer... look at the backhoe again. *Somebody* at LEGO can design
authentic looking models. Why didn't that person or persons work on the
fire truck. Sorry to sound so bitter, but I've been hoping for a large
scale LEGO fire truck for a while now. This just doesn't cut it in my opinion.
I must admit I saw an ambulance (real one) in this lime color of green
today. I have never seen one before... and hope never to again. If this is
a fad, let it pass quickly. The lime green color does not stand out against
other traffic nearly as well as fire engine red, yellow or ambulance white.
I think LEGO should have stuck with at least a traditional color when trying
out a new design like this.
> But as a model, this crash truck... it's nowhere near as good a model as the
> backhoe, I'd opine. That one's magnificent. So ya, I agree.
It's hardly in the same league. That was why I wondered how it came to be
released at the same time as the backhoe. Surely this didn't come from the
same design department.
Allan B.
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