6990 Monorail Transport System is a Futuron set released in 1987. It contains a Monorail track with two way stations and a train, a small cargo spacecraft, two containers and five Futuron astronaut minifigures. (Three yellow astronauts and two blue astronauts). It has 715 pieces. The Monorail is made up of two sections. One section is where the system is controlled. The section is mostly white, with some black. Its lasers are transparent red and its windows are transparent blue. The small spaceship is stored right behind the cockpit in a section where the walls can be opened or closed. Behind this is another section where the walls can also open or close. Connecting this section to the other section is a monorail motor. This section of the Monorail has the same colour scheme as the other. It too has a cockpit facing the opposite direction allowing it to be steered from either end. The difference between this section and the other is that instead of storage it has a Light & Sound battery box.
On either end of the monorail is a bumper. The base is made up of multiple parts. One of the parts is a raised base section through which a monorail track runs. It has a TECHNIC axle which when turned raises or lowers a satellite dish. The base has some lights/weaponry on each end, with two more lasers on top and some lights near the tracks. Its colour scheme is white and black, with some transparent red and a bit of transparent blue. The other section of base is on a larger baseplate but is smaller overall. It is at ground level, unlike the other section. It too has a TECHNIC axle part which when rotated, rotates a large window part through a range of 90 degrees. It has a landing pad which fits the smaller vehicle. Another section of track runs through this section of the base. There are also two large scanners. This section contains a mix of black and white pieces with a large amount of transparent blue. Along the track are two satellite towers and an arch. A small ship is also included.
It has four thrusters on the bottom for propulsion. It too is a transport vehicle, with a box carrying device and a box which stores weapons. In addition to the other parts of this set is a small spacecraft. It has no weaponry, only two thrusters and a control panel. The Monorail Transport Base comes with 5 Futuron Astronauts. Two of them are blue and three are yellow. Their shirts have a diagonal zipper pattern going from bottom left to top right. The bottom half is white, while the top half is coloured in and has the Classic Space Symbol in the upper corner. The Monorail Transport System is the base of the Futuron astronauts. Blue Futuron AstronautBlue Futuron AstronautYellow Futuron AstronautYellow Futuron AstronautYellow Futuron AstronautMy Parts: You need to be logged in to see your Set List. FREE Download: Available from PICSL Collectible (2) from $499.99 + $8.99 shipping Lego Monorail Transport Base 6991 lego monorail transport base 6991 25.5 x 18.3 x 4.4 inches
8 years and up #2,082,458 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games) #43,774 in Toys & Games > Building & Construction Toys > Building Sets 5.0 out of 5 stars 25 star100%See all verified purchase reviewsTop Customer ReviewsRare and expensive classic from 1994I owned this as a kid!Space MonorailMonorail TransportMonorail SetLego MonorailMonorail 19886990 MonorailLego FuturonSet LegoLego ToysForwardMy sister and I were huge LEGO enthusiasts in the 80's and this Space Monorail set was our white whale.Finding the Missing Bricks: Rebuilding Vintage Lego Train Kits imageLego introduced its first train series in 1966 with set number 080. In the years since, the Lego Train product line expanded considerably, which made it necessary for Lego to retire old sets in order to...Read More about Finding the Missing Bricks: Rebuilding Vintage Lego Train KitsChildhood Thick70 ChildhoodChildhood MemoriesInstructions SearchInstructions EbayLego Vintage200 VintageFigures SpaceMini FiguresForwardLEGO SET No 200 VINTAGE LEGO FAMILY WITH INSTRUCTIONS |
eBay I had this exact setBlacktron IBlacktron IIClassic SpaceExploriensFuturonIce Planet 2002InsectoidsLife on MarsM:TronMars MissionRoboforceSpace Police ISpace Police IISpace Police IIISpyriusSupplementalUFOUnitronLike this? Share it!facebookgoogle+twitterpinterestredditLink To UsHave a website? Share this with your readers!/lego-set-reference/space/">Space LEGO Set Reference Inventories and InstructionsLatest Story:LEGO Polybag Set Collecting (LEGO) Recent Stories:Water Play - Diving - Part I (Extreme Sports) Water Play - Boats (Uncategorized) Our Most Valuable Kingdom Part II (Uncategorized) Mrs. Santa Claus (Holiday) Our Most Valuable Kingdom Part I (Uncategorized) Multi-Tasking Supreme - Juggling for Fun and Glory (The Arts) Unicorn: One Who Walks Alone (Legends and Myths) The World's Tallest Toys (The Arts) The Christmas Reindeer (Holiday)A few weeks ago, DK sent in one of their upcoming books with Great LEGO Sets: A Visual History.
I’ve already done a review of the Micro-Scale Space Cruiser (11910) that’s included with the book which has 256 pages and normally retails for $40. Great LEGO Sets starts off with a visual timeline of some of the important events and key developments in LEGO set history. If you’re a newer LEGO fan, you probably didn’t know that some of the best LEGO sets came out in the 1980s like Blacktron and Futuron including the Monorail Transport System (6990). A few years after that, M-Tron was released as a new LEGO Space subtheme. The next chapter gives an in-depth description of how a LEGO set is made. A few LEGO designers also chime in to give some information on the whole development process including Mark John Stafford and Jamie Berard, just to name a few. It’s a very interesting chapter of how a set goes from an idea to being on store shelves. After that, we get to the meat of the book where it starts going in-depth of some notable sets from LEGO’s history. The sets are divided in chapters by decades starting from the 1950s to 2015.
For each set, there’s either a one or two page spread detailing some specifics and why they make it a great set. There is a sub-section called the Guided Tour where it shows some key features of the sets. Another section is called Brick by Brick and it gives some addition tidbids about the sets. Throughout the book are two page spreads showing off groups of sets from a certain genre like castle-type sets or train-type sets. It’s an interesting look at sets grouped up in a genre and see how they’ve evolved throughout the years. Finally, DK doesn’t have all the sets conveniently laying around their offices so they have reached out to various AFOLs to send their LEGO sets in to be photographed. The sets selected to be in the book are with the help of Huw and his community on Brickset. A person’s opinion of which sets are great are purely subjective so what one person thinks is the best set ever could be very different for another person so keep that in mind when you don’t see a particular set be included in the book.