Hello community! It's time for another photo essay and this time we asked to @alexandrecoelho to share a photo essay featuring the LEGO City Stuntz sets 60333: LEGO Bathtub Stunt Bike, 60293: LEGO Stunt Park and 60294: LEGO Stunt Show Truck and you better be ready for some action!
“Welcome, welcome, to the most magnificent stunt show of the world: Lunacy Wheels!”.
This is what Tread “The Phoenix” Octane used to listen every day for almost 10 years. He was the star of the show. Always trying to overcome himself and presenting to his audience the most risky stunts that his crazy mind could invent. But like someone said one day, “He who play with fire…gets burned”. And so it happened. After a bad landing, Tread suffered a huge lesion and The Phoenix”, just like the mythological bird, “burned to ashes” and ended up moving away from the show. So now is where our story begins.
After about 2 years, Tread sees a giant billboard announcing that the “Lunacy Wheels” is back in town. Full of enthusiasm and curiosity to see how the show is now, he decides to put his feet on the way.
But his eyes can’t believe what they see! Only a very small group of people remains in the audience and he can’t understand why, until…the show begins. “But what the hell…” he thinks! There’s nothing about lunacy now! That’s why no one goes to see the spectacle!
After a truly unexciting introduction from his old friend Citrus “The Clown”, he presents what used to be one of the most hilarious attractions. “A huge applause to Sudsy “Duck” Simon”! But all the comic parts were cut out of the stunt. He used to jump over 10 giants bathtubs, landing on a pool full of ducks that flew and quacked over people in the audience. Sometimes, someone were unlucky enough to catch a “gift” from a duck, but it made people laugh even more. Now, he only jump over a small rubber duck and land on the same pool…but no duck’s to fly in the end.
Tread expectations about the main attraction starts to vanish. If Citrus and Sudsy couldn’t make the crowd laugh, what in the world would make the new stunt star? “We now present to you, the extraordinary Incognitro”. “It’s starting”! And like Tread suspects, no lunacy, no craziness, no fearless. Despite the presenter’s encouraging presentation, there was nothing about infamous on Incognitro. Very small jumps, no flames, without taking risks. Like…he was afraid of something. In his mind, Tread only saw one option, because, he couldn’t believe that the show has reached this point.
So, in the end of the show, Tread went to talk with Nate, the owner of the (no so far) entertainment. The team couldn’t be happier for seeing him. Only Incognitro doesn’t seems to be with the same party mood. But regardless of all the satisfaction for this reunion, Octane had to express his concern about all that he saw and despite being very apprehensive, he volunteers to help them rebuild the show to give it back the lunacy of other times.
Nate take Tread to the old material warehouse and with the assistance of the rest of the crew, they uncover all the old ramps and props. In a few days and with a huge enthusiasm of everyone, everything looks brand new again. All the ramps were painted, all the pyrotechnic devices were replaced, all the gears have been oiled and the water tanks were filled. It’s time to share the renewed “LUNACY WHEELS”.
“Dear people of the LEGO Valley, we are pleased to present you again in our arena, back from the ashes, the incredible, Tread “The Phoenix” Octane”! And…baaaammmm! Like a thunder, rumbling and crashing, Tread makes its entry making the crowd go wild.
The flames light up the arena, giving to the jumps a ferocious and dangerous feature. Even the maniac robots are looking more harmful than they used to be. Tread is so full of adrenaline that the stunts seems to be greater than ever. “But wait a minute, dears spectators! Incognitro is joining the show!” - announce Citrus. Unexpectedly and without any previously training, the dark rider that have replaced Octane during his time of absence, break the lane inside, almost throwing him to the ground.
Using the last stunt of the night, just like he’s challenging him, Incognitro jump at the same time than Tread, but he hit the target first, throwing Incognitro to the fish tank. In the middle of the fall, his helmet jump of, finally revealing his identity. To everyone’s surprise, Incognitro is in fact…a girl! But not just any girl! It’s Foxy, Nate’s daughter and Tread apprentice when he was the star of the show.
Foxy explains how sad she was after Octane left the show and how that sadness turns to angry after a while. Also the team thought she had disappeared after Tread accident, because they didn’t know that was her riding the black motorcycle. Tread hug her and apologize for all the time that he was away. And well, what’s better than a big attraction? Two of course! Foxy became to be part of the show too of course and now, every person, little or old, could start to be astonish after they enter in the arena and listen: “Welcome, welcome to the most magnificent stunt show of the world: Lunacy Wheels!”
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