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Or just pre-drill your base plates so that you can push from beneath Actually, you probably should leave a few gaps in your 'sea of tiles' until you're sure of the final position of everything. There's no easy way out of this one!

I wasn't even aware of this set's existence. While it's average, it's also in one particular way much better that this year's promos: a free minifig is always welcome!

Flesh? Ugh... It's not even used for minifig parts Instead of making things even more confusing, they should have stuck with the official colour name.

Hmm Scotland... yeah I know what you mean!

Maybe you could expose your bley cheese slopes to strong UV light to yellow them?

Very good MOC, full of great little details! I like how you have thought out all the supporting facilities of a fun park: medical, mechanical support, etc. And I also like the use of the old pigtail wig on some of the minifigs, it's a nice classical touch

Yes, I've seen a few at Bluewater in January... content not so interesting but I suppose it's highly variable from week to week.

I don't agree with Dark Nougat, it's too confusing being close to but not quite the official denomination Medium Nougat. Sand Orange is good but Ricecracker is right saying that it's much darker than regular Orange and as such is probably a sandy variation of Dark Orange. So, Sand Dark Orange or Dark Sand Orange? Myself I would just call it Sable, but in heraldry it means black

Thank you for the terrific review! This set is amazing, the colour palette is awesome and the minifig prints are beauuutiful! This is an instant classic, one of those sets you are tempted to buy even if you don't care whatsoever about historical themes!

Very funny review! This game is a nice part pack, besides the possible entertainment factor. The LEGO Games line is such a wonderful idea on every aspect.

Sticker protection! Didn't open mine, but see Dunjohn's review.

Now that the Daily Mirror Racers promotion is over*, I thought I would write a brief general review about the 6 sets. *While the promotion keeps going for a few days with a Racers collectors box, play mat and sticker sheet, I decided it wasn’t worth spending any money on a rubbish paper for extras that would end up in the recycling bin anyway! So here are a few technical details about the sets. Two of the sets were previously released last year, while the other 4 are brand new. 7802 Le Mans Racer – 2009 – 28 (+1 extra) pieces - Peeron - Brickset 30030 Tiny Turbo – 2010 – 29 (+2) pieces - Peeron - Brickset 7801 Rally Racer – 2009 – 41 (+1) pieces - Peeron - Brickset 30033 Truck – 2010 – 40 (+1) pieces - Peeron - Brickset 30034 Tow Truck – 2010 – 34 (+1) pieces - Peeron - Brickset 30035 Off Road Racer – 2010 – 30 pieces - Peeron - Brickset Total number of pieces: 202 (+6 extra) Total price (pick-up in stores): £3.55 (6 newspapers) Total price (mail order): £6.50 + £1.60 or more (4 newspapers) + stamp etc. Also have a look at more reviews of the promotional sets here on EB: 7802: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=39995 The Bags The polybags are standard fare, with action impressions of the models within. The background scene is slightly different for each model. The official names of the vehicles are from the Daily Mirror website, and as for all European sets the names can’t be found on the bags themselves. Strangely the bag of 30033 is bigger than the others, although it has roughly the same piece count as 7801. Looking more closely, we find out that in the 2009 sets parts come from Denmark, Hungary, China and the Czech Republic, while the 2010 sets only have Danish, Hungarian and Czech components. The Contents The instructions are made up of a single folded sheet for each model. Once again 30033 stands apart from the rest, as its instructions are printed on a much larger sheet. There are occasional cutouts in the instructions where required, but no part callouts nor any part inventories. With such small models, colour separation is not really an issue, although it seems just fine to me. All instructions are available for download from the LEGO website (where colour separation IS an issue!): 7802 Le Mans Racer 30030 Tiny Turbo 7801 Rally Racer 30033 Truck 30034 Tow Truck 30035 Off Road Racer Sets 7801 and 7802, previously released, both have sticker sheets, smartly protected in their little cardboard envelope. The 2010 sets are all devoid of stickers. It thus seems likely that the stickers are the components made in China (see ‘The Bags’ above). I won’t be using them anyway. Not all promotionals are made equal. Witness the numbers of pieces: 28 in 7802 Le Mans Racer, 41 in 7801 Rally Racer. The colours are primary, except for a bunch of orange plates in 30035, and some dark grey parts. Overall as expected there are quite a few Racer-specific parts (like air intakes, engine parts, fenders), but many useful basic MOCing parts are included as well. However there is nothing new or really exciting. 7801 and 30034 provide the greatest selection of classic bricks and bits, including that favourite of mine, the classic 2 x 4 mudguard in yellow and red. The Builds Nothing fancy here, the idea is basically to create something looking vaguely like a 4-wheeled vehicle whilst using the least possible amount of pieces. No revolutionary techniques are involved, and the number of steps vary from 7 to 13. All can be built in a minute or so, unless you decide to take the bag building challenge to another level and have a go at opaque bags! None of vehicles are minifig-compatible, and they would require a considerable amount of work to fit your favourite pilot in. Some of the designs are successful in creating sporty, good-looking – albeit simple – vehicles, some not. You can judge by yourselves, but here are a few quick thoughts of mine: 7802: Nice low-slung design, hard to photograph but trust me it looks good – even without the stickers. 30030: Really not my type. Doesn’t look like an official LEGO product, very ungraceful. 7801: Nice design, high part count, many standard parts. I don’t think it really needs any stickers. Surprisingly I found no extra trans-smoke cheese slope in my bag, either it was missing or none is provided. 30033: Simplistic truck but still good looking, 5-wide (!) rear section, high part count. 30034: Has a somewhat unfinished look, could use a few more bits. Functional towing hook. 30035: Good source of orange plates, different wheels from the other Racers in this collection. In Conclusion Playability is limited with any one set, but definitely improves with all 6. In particular, the Truck and Tow Truck can be used to carry the other vehicles. Swooshability is excellent for all models. The design is nothing to write home about, but an effort is made to use different parts between the 6 sets. The colour palette could have been more daring though. The set numbering makes me think that 6 brand new sets were initially designed for this promotional run but two (‘30031’ and ‘30032’) were eventually replaced with existing designs (7801 and 7802), but this is just a theory of mine. If true, I’m glad of the change as the two older models are also among the nicer ones IMHO, regardless of the stickers, while some of the new ones are less than stellar. But that’s just my opinion, feel free to disagree! Overall the sets do not use that many specialized Racer parts, and provide quite a few useful basic bits. As mentioned in other reviews, the absence of minifigures or rare parts or colours will not appeal much to AFOLs, but as a vehicle building part pack it definitely comes cheap. The price/part ratio is among the best, especially for sets picked in stores. I could only wish that next time the LEGO toys are offered with a decent newspaper, one that I would actually want to read. It would be an even better value!

For Racers completists, I have two (2) full series of the 6 Daily Mirror UK promotional Racers sets available for sale or trade. All sets are mint unopened, 208 pieces total (for the 6 sets). Series of 6 (one of each 7801+7802+30030+30033+30034+30035) £12 (€13.30/$18) + shipping or open to trades I believe this is a better deal that what can currently be found on Bricklink. Trades can be anything (other polybags, minifigs, bricks…), let me know what you have. I’m interested in new condition as much as possible. A review of the sets is coming up shortly. EDIT: all sets now SOLD, thanks!

I think they're white, not flesh.

Another good looking minifig, with what looks like quality printing! But I'm at a loss to find a good use for such a character in a normal city setting... any suggestions?

This is good (and surprising) news. The models are gorgeous, but I am of the opinion that they will be a commercial failure because of the excessive price they command. How good can the booklets be to justify selling 57 pieces sets for £20??

Indeed, the printing looks sharp and the printed colours seem to match the plastic quite well. The final product looks almost like a promotional photo, quality-wise. I'm impressed!

Just got my March-April issue of the Magazine, UK version (here only labeled as Issue 2 2010). Overall it's quite different from the US version, starting with the cover: (pic from the LEGO website, follow the link for a summary of the content) Just wanted to mention this as I wasn't aware that the international editions of the Magazine were so different from one another. Not that the UK content is any richer, from an AFOL point of view!

I'm a big fan of stickers, because I never use them! Ok I do regret the move to stickers for some useful printed parts such as street signs. Anyway, what I concur would be a great move for TLC -- without being very expensive for them either -- would be to provide nice scan downloads of their older sticker sheets. If they still can provide replacement stickers for the current sets, then maybe they can make scans available for anything older. This way we can have anything we need printed on polyester sticker labels that will probably last longer than original stickers anyway.

Ha! Great reuse of the Jack Stone figs! Indeed they look like some sort of genetically enhanced Terminators when compared to normal minifigs Nice MOC!

Up! Now that member numbers have reached 10000+, I though new members should be made aware of this thread! The Exclusive numbers are now out there!

Very convincing build. Any idea on how the paint scheme was created, are these stickers or decals? It looks like real paint to me, so it's probably decals? A very fine job in any case!

Thanks for the nice review! This is no perfect set by any means, but it's nice to remember a time when LEGO Space was more about exploration than running after alien criminals and waging war on spy robots (or whatever). But then this is probably just the reason why Exploriens was phased out before long!

I wasn't aware of this one! They won't be able to do the same this year, 2010 is already taken! Interesting theory!

You're right about castle of course, I always make that mistake! I will correct it in the first post. I agree with you that the current block assignments are overkill, I can't see for instance the seasonal sets ever go beyond... 40500? Same for Brickmaster. Your system of 5-digit numbers using the 1980s prefixes would have been both logical and appropriate, but I guess that the days of rational set numbering are gone now! Although it may still happen someday... For all we know only special sets are numbered in the 5-digit system right now. When they run out of 4-digit numbers the regular sets will likely have to upgrade to 5 digits as well, and then we'll see what they come up with. Hopefully something that makes the slightest bit of sense!