How many monorails were there

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• luckyruss UKMember Posts: 872

  April 2017

  You can search the database really easily from the homepage
  eg
  https://brickset.com/sets/tag-Monorail
  
  3 sets, 2 expansion packs and what looks like 3 service packs.

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• MAGNINOMINISUMBRA Member Posts: 993

  April 2017

  #6399 Airport Shuttle
  #6990 Monorail Transport System
  #6991 Monorail Transport Base
  There was also the two following track packs
  #6347 Monorail Accessory Pack
  #6921 Monorail Accessory Pack
  If you click on those set numbers it will take you to the main Brickset listing for each 

  

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• MAGNINOMINISUMBRA Member Posts: 993

  April 2017

  
  There was also this MAGNIFICENT beast which was unfortunately never released!

  

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• Fauch FranceMember Posts: 2,322

  April 2017

  looks like a mix of aquanauts and space, quite weird.

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• Aanchir United StatesMember Posts: 2,822

  April 2017

  
  

  Fauch said:

  
  

  looks like a mix of aquanauts and space, quite weird.

  
  

  
  This was "Seatron", a Space theme concept that was eventually developed into Aquazone after they sort of dropped the space aspect. So the similarity is no coincidence.

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• luckyruss UKMember Posts: 872

  April 2017

  Was that a proper mock up for a proposed set?  Never seen it before, but look super cool.  Blue monorail track for where it goes underwater?

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• MAGNINOMINISUMBRA Member Posts: 993

  April 2017

  Certainly was! Here's a pic of the undersea creatures factions ships

  

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• MAGNINOMINISUMBRA Member Posts: 993

  April 2017

  And this is what the creatures looked like - twenty five years before we got modified minifig legs!
  
  

  

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• Fauch FranceMember Posts: 2,322

  April 2017 edited April 2017

  it was a bit like the stingrays.
  actually wasn't it 1989? peg leg?

  

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• davee123 USAMember Posts: 810

  April 2017

  Could have been 25 years before the first molded torso, perhaps?  Not sure if we have a date on when Sea-Tron was in development, but the first molded torso (apart from "stiffy" figs) I believe was in 2012 for Ninjago?
  
  DaveE
  

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• JCool Member Posts: 47

  April 2017

  I've always enjoyed seeing the pictures of SeaTron.  Just imagine if Aquazone had a monorail in its first or second wave! 
  
  Has anyone ever tried to recreate these unofficial / prototype sets?  
  

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• MAGNINOMINISUMBRA Member Posts: 993

  April 2017

  
  

  Fauch said:

  
  

  it was a bit like the stingrays.
  actually wasn't it 1989? peg leg?

  
  

  
  Your entirely correct Fauch - my poorly worded comment was referring to the CMF Faun/Satyr legs. It could also be argued that stuff like Battle Droids had 'modified minifig legs.
  @davee123 I'd assume Seatron was developed around 1990 (going by the inclusion of monorail parts).  This is all assuming that the unreleased monorail actually WAS part of the Seatron theme (as it doesn't share many design and colour similarities to what we know WAS Seatron).

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• Fauch FranceMember Posts: 2,322

  April 2017

  
  

  davee123 said:

  
  

  Could have been 25 years before the first molded torso, perhaps?  Not sure if we have a date on when Sea-Tron was in development, but the first molded torso (apart from "stiffy" figs) I believe was in 2012 for Ninjago?
  
  DaveE
  

  
  

  
  the one you put on top of a regular torso?
  has there been a modified torso that fits on legs?
  and the head? I think I read yoda or jar jar were first to have modified heads, but I don't know.

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• Aanchir United StatesMember Posts: 2,822

  April 2017 edited April 2017

  
  
  
  

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  Could have been 25 years before the first molded torso, perhaps?  Not sure if we have a date on when Sea-Tron was in development, but the first molded torso (apart from "stiffy" figs) I believe was in 2012 for Ninjago?
  
  DaveE
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  the one you put on top of a regular torso?
  has there been a modified torso that fits on legs?
  and the head? I think I read yoda or jar jar were first to have modified heads, but I don't know.

  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  Dogpound and Leatherhead from TMNT are the only ones I can think of. Axl from Nexo Knights sort of has one, but it's still a regular torso underneath, just with a unique neck/shoulder/armor piece permanently affixed to it in place of the usual arms.
  
  First modified head was Jar-Jar, I think. Yoda came later (preceded by C-3PO, Chewbacca, and Watto).

  

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• davee123 USAMember Posts: 810

  April 2017

  I had been thinking of Lord Garmadon's torso:
  
  Although upon thinking further, that plugs onto the top of another torso, not onto a pair of legs, so... might not count, depending.
  
  DaveE

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• MAGNINOMINISUMBRA Member Posts: 993

  April 2017

  ^So technically....it's a head? ;-)
  

  

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