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Monday, March 9, 2015
LEGO classic Town Mobile Command Unit from 1986! set 6676
Check out this little set and compare it to its modern-day analogues such the 2014 and 2011 versions!
In Germany (where I am from), this set bore the name 'Radar-Kontrolle'. Quickly checking my old LEGO catalogues from back then, it had the additional description "...mit Absperrgerät und Polizisten". This translates into English as "Radar control with barriers and police officers".
Therefore, as a child, I always deducted/imagined that the little brick with lever and trans-green 1x1 round plate is supposed to represent a speed enforcement radar device, sending the speed measurements via the lever antenna to the control van's dish antenna (also with a trans-green round plate), and with the computer and the map, the officers can check where the signal/transgression came from.
These semi-mobile non-invasive (as in: not road-surface-integrated) radar devices are quite common in the countries of Central Europe. On Switzerland's wonderful autobahns, speed check areas are even highlighted with a traffic sign saying "Radar": http://bit.ly/1Bpkox0. Here's one Jenoptik of Germany produces: http://bit.ly/18vwaLR
Maybe that helps a bit with the mystery black brick box?
BTW, Legoland set descriptions in Germany were always very extensive and exact in the catalogues, and especially hilarious for 'Space' sets... as a child, whenever the new catalogue came out, I spend countless moments trying to match the techno-babble to specific parts or builds of the sets. Well, got me into science, I guess :-)
Hi Jang!
ReplyDeleteIn Germany (where I am from), this set bore the name 'Radar-Kontrolle'. Quickly checking my old LEGO catalogues from back then, it had the additional description "...mit Absperrgerät und Polizisten". This translates into English as "Radar control with barriers and police officers".
Therefore, as a child, I always deducted/imagined that the little brick with lever and trans-green 1x1 round plate is supposed to represent a speed enforcement radar device, sending the speed measurements via the lever antenna to the control van's dish antenna (also with a trans-green round plate), and with the computer and the map, the officers can check where the signal/transgression came from.
These semi-mobile non-invasive (as in: not road-surface-integrated) radar devices are quite common in the countries of Central Europe. On Switzerland's wonderful autobahns, speed check areas are even highlighted with a traffic sign saying "Radar": http://bit.ly/1Bpkox0. Here's one Jenoptik of Germany produces: http://bit.ly/18vwaLR
Maybe that helps a bit with the mystery black brick box?
BTW, Legoland set descriptions in Germany were always very extensive and exact in the catalogues, and especially hilarious for 'Space' sets... as a child, whenever the new catalogue came out, I spend countless moments trying to match the techno-babble to specific parts or builds of the sets. Well, got me into science, I guess :-)