Offshore Rescue/Service Helicopter - Upgrading 6997

Lego's "second generation" helicopters developed a new design language using aircraft parts/windows starting in the mid-1980s.  These looked far more realistic than earlier helicopters, but I think a lot more can be done to this Rescue Helicopter 6697 set to modernize it without compromising classic design. Click through for more and a video review:

Head Up in the Clouds

We thought a new perspective on Bricksburgh might be in order...  so we decided to take flight!

Air Superiority

Every big city needs an aerial unit in their police department.  Bricksburgh isn't THAT big, but given Lego's enthusiasm for creating police sets our citizen:cop ratio is pretty high!  How do the police keep Bricksburgh citizens safe?  With their "eye in the sky" police helicopter, of course.  Last year we showed you some of the design in our post called:  "Rule the Air" and in the video below.

This year... we're showing you how to BUILD it.   Click on through!

Rule the Air!

The police station set # 588 was the very first Lego set I ever had.  It was Christmas of 1982 (I think) and I was both thrilled to get it and also mystified by what I remember thinking was a weird puzzle of some kind.  Lego weren't something I had see before!  The set is superb, even by modern standards, with lots of details and selection of vehicles to mess with.  As time went on the motorcycle was replaced by the more modern types (and dismantled) and the patrol car itself was vastly upgraded.... but the helicopter still... well...  stunk.  And then we upgraded it to THIS:

Isle of Man... Sort of.

The annual Isle of Man Tourist Trophy motorcycle race is an incredible event featuring daredevil cyclists throwing their bikes and their bodies around turns and down straights with very little separating them from certain death.  Our Lego island has a somewhat smaller (in more ways than one) version of the event.