M:Tron Crawler...Author: jawapro
Date: Mon 16/07/2012 09:03 PM
Reinforcements have arrived!
It feels a little like Christmas!
Christmas from about 20 years ago...
You see - a present arrived today. Ok, so it’s a present I bought myself - but it’s one I’ve wanted since about 1991. I had to source it from Germany.
It’s the M:Tron Crawler - the "Mega Core Magnetizer 6989".
M:Tron was a Lego theme that first appeared in 1990. It’s iconic red, black, and trans-neon-green colour scheme set it apart from anything that had preceded it.
I only had one small M:Tron ship growing up - but that didn’t stop me dreaming and drooling over the Lego catalogues for hours at a time.
The other space themes were keen to explorer or attack - but M:Tron was here to work. Mining, constructing, repairing, transport - this was M:Tron’s field.
Unlike all the space themes before it (and most after it), M:Tron didn’t have a base. The largest set was the Crawler. And now, 22 years later, I have finally assembled it.
From a Lego point of view, it’s quite cool. It uses a few techniques that probably wouldn’t be considered ‘legal’ anymore in an official set - and has some awesome rare parts.
The M:Tron theme was in love with magnets - and the crawler has at least 7 of them!
With the addition of the Crawler, I am now very close to owning the entire M:Tron line. Three sets remain - one small cheap one, one rare small one (which only ever came in a multi-pack), and one which never really existed.
I’ll collect them all in time...
And of course - there’s a timelapse of the Crawler build.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cto6va59UgComments: 3
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