QMan Thunderbolt Chariot Set 41102

Qman's Thunderbolt Chariot is a Trans-Collector set that builds a combat vehicle and combines with other sets in the series into a larger model. Age 6+. Printed instructions included.

Chariot means combat vehicle

Several Qman sets carry Chariot in the name and none of them is horse-drawn. The Chinese word is zhànchē — literally war-vehicle — and it is the ordinary modern term for a tank or armoured vehicle, used without any archaic flavour at all.

It is also, unchanged, the word for the chariots of the Warring States period two and a half thousand years ago. Chinese kept the old word and let the meaning move with the technology; English borrowed tank from a 1915 factory cover story and left chariot in antiquity.

So a product name that reads as entirely modern in Chinese arrives in English sounding like Ben-Hur. Once you know that, the naming across this whole range becomes legible.

Which group this belongs to

Trans-Collector sets are built to combine, and Qman runs several separate combining groups that do not mix with each other. This set pairs with 41101 Integrated Change ABC. The four-part Roaring Flame God General group is sets 41301 to 41304, with 41305 containing all four in one box.

Worth checking the numbers rather than the artwork — a robot on a box does not tell you which robot.

Specifications

Series: Qman Trans-Collector · Combines with other sets in the series · Age: 6+ · Printed instructions