Unidentified Legos

[Nancy Flury Carlson]

I have five small Lego cars that have movable bumpers. When the car hits something, the bumper tips a peg under the driver, and the driver falls out. They look like they could have been McDonalds toys but I have not been able to identify them. The car body, wheels and bumpers are one single unit. The driver, the hood and the rear spoiler-shaped segment are the three things that you can place onto the car. Does anyone know what these are?

[Josh]

not off the top of my head. They do have the logo or copyright symbol on them somewhere? Can you take a picture of them?

Bricklink’s catalog is quite extensive, if it can’t be found there, it’s probably not LEGO. here’s a link to their mcdonald’s toy category: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=G&catString=679

[Tim]

These sound like RACERS sets – http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=S&catID=179.

[Nancy Flury Carlson]

Thanks Tim – I had looked through Racers before but never quite got to these. Most of the Racers sets have many more pieces than these. However, looking again, I see that these are in fact from the Racers – Xalax series. I was able to identify that I have 4573-1 Lightor, 4572-1 Scratch, 4570-1 Shredd, 4569-1 Warrior, and 4567-1 Surfer. Funny because when we originally sorted all our LEGO pieces, we had place a couple of these cars in the “Not LEGO” area. I’m glad I looked more closely. BTW they do have LEGO logos on the pegs. Thanks all!

[Josh]

ah! I never heard of xalax before. I have a few of those driver pieces from mixed lots. Here’s another list for reference: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Xalax

I’ve caught myself incorrectly discarding LEGO parts as well. I used to say, “if it doesn’t have a logo or part number, it’s not LEGO”, but that isn’t always true. Even my “look/feel like LEGO” sense isn’t always a sure fire way to tell. Good for you not throwing them away yet!

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