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Little turtle gets a lego wheelchair
Dec 13, 2016 2:22 PM
TheirishNPC
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Legolas1234
He had bad Leggos.
KissChasey
*TORTOISE!
rainbowblow
Just wait till he goes down a hill
InGoodCompanyNM
Cheeselicious
While you were posting this I was studying the art of Blade. He's an excellent painter, believe it or not.
Chuninni
Now I want to see if he can go down a hot wheels ramp.
ManimalDeification24
I hope they changed his name to Bladerunner. Or Oscar.
VikingPrincessLaserRaptor
Buttermeupandcallmetoast
For the love of all that's good and sacred, that is a tortoise.
lawrus
Which is..wait for it..a kind of turtle
thedrunkenmaster
Tortoise
lawrus
All tortoises are turtles, not all turtles are tortoises
geobitchdontcare
Get that mechanism that zooms away when you pull it back.
Loutrezilla
You mean a pullback motor ? Too big and heavy for that little one.
KramerCosmo
/r/notaturtle
lawrus
All tortoises are turtles, not all turtles are tortoises
SONlC
Gotta go fast
Jabroni29
Probably a $5,000 vet bill.
ThatAintRightItsAllLeft
Indubitably
Creepinonyourpics
Blade. Laser. Blazer.
somethingfuny
Paint flames on his shell!!!
ekyxor
Don't! He would gain too much speed and then dissappear in the distance before you can catch him.
pancaketits
Soggy bone syndrome .... So humble
pairou
*an.
JustusPost
Khrome
Charging his laser?
fairycheese
That looks like a tortoise to me. A very cute one though.
frankenspider
Could be a box turtle though.
m1st3rand3rs0n
Looks like a russian tortoise to me as well
AuroraNora33
I'm curious; what's the difference?
fairycheese
Turtles live in water, tortoises live on land.
TimeLordDanceParty
Turtles are way more aquatic so they're streamlined + have flippers/webbed feet. Tortoises have stumpy feet + will float but aren't swimmers
Jazman23
Definitely a tortoise
fatcatfreya
Tortoise....that's a tortoise......there is a huge difference.....this one will drown in a lot of water.....
SpruceCaboose
Tortoises ARE turtles. There's a colloquial difference, but it's in no way official. Let a little of that hot air out.
batlrar
It's also "an" before illness, there's no chair for it to be a wheelchair, and only the Lego connector pieces were glued to the shell.
lawrus
All tortoises are turtles, not all turtles are tortoises.
thedancingemu
i don't understand why you're being downvoted when you're correct. Any animal of the order Testudines can be called a Turtle
basball6969
That's a desert tortoise you peon
lawrus
Tortoises are a kind of turtle
basball6969
Nope
ratfaceddog
Yep.
lawrus
https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-a-turtle-and-a-tortoise
TobyFromHumanResources
What a time to be alive.
y2kNep
-Tortoise
degenerator
The turtle version of a Rascal.
dingusbowlterrace
Especially for the turtle!
pres2pond
That's just lego and glue, we've had both those for almost 60 years.
TobyFromHumanResources
You must be hilarious at parties.
VanDerHaat
Those wheels haven't been produced by lego since god knows when.
Loutrezilla
Mid 80s - 90s depending on set. The single wheel holders are so old they're not even on bricklink.
asm80dfa8sdfj
Really? I haven't had legos since I was a kid, I just assumed they still made all the same things, plus the new theme sets
AuroraNora33
Lego has evolved a lot since then
Loutrezilla
Many pieces have been retired in the last decades. Those tires have been slowly phased out until complete stop in 2012.
BoDidly
I think it's actually time for that turtle to be dead...
Necromartian
Well we use decent money to make world accessible for disabled people, I think we can spare some money for legos and superglue.
RareQuotes
I mean its up to the owner but that turtle can still live a good life like that.
BoDidly
You can't own a living being. Only capture and keep it.
Dramacian
These are old wheels, really old wheels.
MidiArbite
They're probably from the Vet's own collection!
HurrDurrImABurr
Best wheels.
sulfuratus
These have an axis, they run way better than the new ones.
ForgivingCat
I'm old.
robotnixon13
I've got Lego wheels like that in a box in the bowels of my basement
RepostSadistic
If you ever move, packing up the basement would be a bitch. So much bowel movement.
PajamaStripes
Seriously y'all? My niece got wheels like these in a set she just got.
Loutrezilla
Lego stopped making those specific pieces in the mid 90s. Pulley Wheels are still made but not in red. The tires were retired in 2012.
PajamaStripes
That makes sense. It was an unopened set from 2011.
Sickofnotliving
Don't turtles live forever? Those might be the first lego wheels. You don't know.
mitchrob12321
They're wheely old ;D I'm not sorry
tomatoboy
Yeah, they look like late 80s maybe early 90s wheels.
JewishMonk
Those were definitely around mid-late 90s
Loutrezilla
Production started in the 70s actually. Those tires were introduced in 1976. Production of most metallic parts stopped in the late 80s.
Dramacian
Had them brand new in my childhood, so yep.
NirvanaNik
More grip for when he goes off-roading
colinstu
Those are the wheels I remember. What do new wheels look like?
GrouchyMarx
If I had to guess, I'd say that there's like _at least_ 50 different kinds. Here's a few I found off Google:
Madhornet
I like the smaller smooth ones, they go best with the kind of scale I build on- ahem, I mean 'used' to build.
MOTHERFUCKINGFLYINGSPAGHETTIMONSTER
The middle ones in the bottom right pic are prob the most common
PeteTusk
Not compared to their (or the turtle's) functional lifetime.
draslin
They were new when the road trip started.
justAsimpleCarnivorLookingForAherbavorToEAT
The oldest last longer man!
bl1nkbl1nk
I haven't seen these kinds of legos since I built that "Real Neat ORV" back in '89 -- they were great for chewing on from what I recall
Squelchtone
ORV, bullet holes.
bl1nkbl1nk
Ding! You win, have yourself a Baby Ruth
SpaceCub500
Upvote if u chewed on lego tires
KingBifurious
Back before the alcohol took me teeth.
BlimeyGuy
Well Yeah you seen the price of lego?
Dramacian
Not since at least three decades.
hatemythesis
Costs more than my education
longoriaisaiah
About $3.50 it's unreal
macdaddy961
Get outta here goddamn loch ness monster
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tomatoboy
As opposed to post-China lead-based, arsenic-coated, melamine dusted plastic wheels?
becausebugeye
Precisely!
2ndopp
moriartie
Rorschach
BingleyBingleyBeep
In my mind, he's going, "...yup......yup......yup..."
idontthinkihaveanaccount
Like scruffy
AngelWithTheScabbedWings
I miss my red eared slider so much :(
prochoicepope
I've never noticed how cute turtle faces are, thank you
DasLoupBlanc
their eyes are mesmerizing
ScarletSpider69
So are you.
mustang2733
OurLordAndSaviorGabeNewell
Well, until he he comes across uneven terrain, an upwards slope, or any place where the wheels can't turn
TheBalto
Or if he wants to steer...
Steveysaidthis
Upwards?? We were all hopping to see downwards slope in this gif if we are honest.
Loutrezilla
As opposed to without wheels where it would have difficulty with even terrain.
OurLordAndSaviorGabeNewell
There's only one option for complete freedom: turtle sized jet pack
cfcannon
I want to see a hovertank version
Loutrezilla
Fulton sounds like more fun.
wandergeist
Well it's not like they're releasing him back into the wild. He's in a controlled, incline-free environment for the rest of his life.
OurLordAndSaviorGabeNewell
I want to see tabletop races with turtles on wheels then.
wandergeist
Now that would be awesome. Especially with inclines and banked turns.
OurLordAndSaviorGabeNewell
Have it become its own NASCAR league
wandergeist
Shells covered in endorsement stickers...
Tellyb0228
We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
DieDeutschenKommen
I see 3D printet chells in the futute
LongCommentChainAppreciator
But he's not insured *tosses him off the roof*
dweadpiewitwobbits
Now we need to get him a woman.
babadoctor
THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR TURTLE
TinyLiehon
That's good to know, other Barry
eliherr
He is the 6 dollar turtle
EveryBadWord
The six dollar turtle.
drenix
It'll be cheaper if it were pesos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co-wNI9wn6w
stillers2000
It only cost them about tree fiddy
ThatgifwithaCat
justsomepersonbutyeah
"I didn't ask for this" - Turtle, probably
Krzyf
BababaMoooya1
Yay
raiy0
I don't know why this is so funny. Take all my love with this +1
PhaserRave
Because unlike the show that this is a reference to, this was very cheaply done.
SonsOfMoog
The cheap bit comes from an early Family Guy parody of that 6 million dollar man show. Or whatever amount, it was before my time.
DaviDaTopera
*teenage mutant ninja turtles' theme starts playing on the background*
Iwanttoshagjeremyrenner
Better. Stronger. Faster.
NukeItFromOrbitMan
Na Na Na Na...
weinertip
Aloofer.
ArzelFake001
Let's pool together and make the turtle a thought-controlled vehicle using a RaspberryPi! #turtlenet
Thesadghost
Technology that hurts to step on. If we lose blade and he's upside down, we know how to find him
CactiFantastico
Find him once
Seanthombbomb
"Thats a shell of an invention" - sean connery
CheshiresShadow
Anyone remember that episode of dexters lab where a hawk fatally injures a turtle so dexter rebuilds it with cybernetic enhancements?
Frady
Heck yea I do! That turtle was a boss.
IchitheKira
he never asked for this
mefteef
I will never stop hearing this in Meatwad's voice.
Tellyb0228
That's exactly what I was thinking!
mefteef
We should probably be best friends.
Tellyb0228
https://imgur.com/NNQaeks