{"id":1034,"date":"2010-01-15T19:16:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T00:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2010-11-07T22:16:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T03:16:02","slug":"moc-wreck-raider-quad-from-lego-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/2010\/01\/15\/moc-wreck-raider-quad-from-lego-atlantis\/","title":{"rendered":"MOC – Wreck Raider Quad from LEGO Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of the LEGO Atlantis: The Movie, coming on in a few minutes, it’s actually on now, I’m posting a MOC I made out of two 8057 Atlantis Wreck Raider<\/a> sets. I’m calling it a Wreck Raider Quad, but really it was an Exercise in Frustration. The goal was to see what you could do with a couple of the cheaper sets in the LEGO Atlantis theme<\/a>. The 8057 comes with just over 60 pieces.<\/p>\n

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I only used parts from two 8057 Wreck Raider sets ($10 a set), along with a 1×3 brick and some transparent pieces from other sets. It seemed like a good idea at the time. In retrospect, I wished I had used an 8057 and the $15 8059 Seabed Scavenger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One thing I want in the Atlantis line is a cargo platform\/submersible, which is kind of what I got out of this. Right now the vehicle sets are about moving from point A to point B. They aren’t going to be hauling anything on these vehicles. I’m hoping that with the possible Atlantis Exploration HQ 8077, we see such a vehicle. These are supposed to be researchers after all, and so far they are unable to really haul anything, outside of mini-vehicles (see the 8075 Atlantis Neptune Carrier<\/a>).<\/p>\n

If I delved into my other sets and pieces and used about 15-20 extra pieces from other sets or spare parts (perhaps the 5866 Creator Rotor Rescue<\/a> or one of the Power Miners sets), I could easily make a much better cargo platform\/carrier using what I made as the foundation, and I plan on doing that in the future. I could easily get what I need on BrickLink, but I’m thinking in terms of what you might have easy access to. As I said in my review of the 8057, it’s a good value given the two minifigs (the Shark Warrior especially). I’m far from being a LEGO expert, not even close, but I think with around 100 parts, LEGO could crank something out like what I was aiming for. As I mentioned, the 8057 has around 65 pieces, and between the two of them plus the extra parts I used, minus the parts I didn’t use, my count was around 120-130. You could easily knock this down by 15-20 pieces if you used more appropriate pieces from other sets, rather than limiting it to the 8057 sets. I think the Wreck Raider + Seabed Scavenger would make for a more interesting vehicle.<\/p>\n

I plan on revisiting this MOC in a few weeks, and cleaning it up with better\/more appropriate parts. My biggest limitation was mounting the motors such that they could fully rotate without hitting anything, be it diver or seabed, and the lack of larger plates. <\/p>\n

The lack of larger plates is really what did me in, and my “upgrade” of this MOC will have larger plates making for a true cargo vehicle\/research platform. With larger plates, I could have achieved a cargo\/passenger area of around 6×10 studs rather than the mish-mash 5×5 that I came up with. With a 6×10 area (or perhaps 8×10 if I extended the length of the vehicle), I could probably mount some kind of small crane somewhere on the platform, plus have a dedicated crew area and a dedicated cargo area. I could even make a movable mount for the grappling hook(s).<\/p>\n

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Full set at flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

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The bottom:<\/strong>
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The top, with the divers and controls removed:<\/strong>
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Some other notes:<\/strong>
\n* Yes, I used some illegal techniques. I’m not apologizing, the constraints were tough enough as it is.
\n* The lighting and background were bad – I was in a hurry and playing around with some lighting, and that makes for a bad combination.
\n* I have two pieces that are upside down, thanks to decals, that I did not notice until I was cleaning up the photos
\n* I flipped the propellers\/nacelles around on this MOC versus the way they are mounted on the Wreck Raider, for aesthetic reasons.
\n* Only one set had been built with decals, the other was MOCfodder, and as such things seem a little off.<\/p>\n

The leftover pieces:<\/strong>
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In honor of the LEGO Atlantis: The Movie, coming on in a few minutes, it’s actually on now, I’m posting a MOC I made out of two 8057 Atlantis Wreck Raider sets. I’m calling it a Wreck Raider Quad, but really it was an Exercise in Frustration. The goal was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,17,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}