By harveyword on Skatehive
Today I'm going back to 1985 - that's when I believe I got this set for Christmas. It came out in 1984 but likely took a little time to get down to Australia. It is set number 6928 - The Uranium Search Vehicle, from a time that the thought of searching for uranium was something kids would be interested in, although on US kids, in the UK (and thus I assume Australia) it was called the Mercury Crawler. The old people amongst you will recognize the tell tell blue and yellow of the classic space theme, this ran from the late 70's through to the 1986 - as a kid we (my brother and I) owned a lot of this theme, space was way more interesting that life on Earth - I mean between this a Star Wars we spent a fair amount of time thinking about the Cosmos. But what about this set? I remember this being my set, by this point my brother was getting a bit old for Lego so this is one of the very modern, very cool sets I had - I fact Bricket tells me this was the last major set of my childhood, after th