4.5 V Realistic V Play

[Electricsteam]

The motorized train that set the standard for all lego locos to come!

Anyways I saw in the other post we were discussion realism V play value.

Way back at the dawn of lego we had set 111 the starter train set and 112 the starter trainset with motor, to kids today these sets look barbaric with such few blocks on it. 4.5 V was all play from out few trains sets in the blue to the up coming whistle sets it was meant to be hands on. There were a few larger train sets not meant for rails too. In the era of blue there was many guides for building with the blue brick and train motor, from windmills to rock movers to Winch for pulling tiny cars up rails satalite dishes to plan propellers. heck! if you used the train track + wheels you could make a large crane reminiscent to the blue one in the recent technic crane contest. You could use the motor there too to make the crane a working one. I wish I could show you en example there is a think a building book out there in an archive which I have misplaced. Lego was all play....... Do any of you old farts remember some more trains back then meant for show not play. Any known realistic blue era locomotives!

I do have 2 of set 111 and one of 112 I'll see if I can dig some of those out.

[Electricsteam]

There I found the pictures of some 4.5 era Realistic V play builds

[monai]

hi, perhaps you should have a look at this topic:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=104603&hl=%2Bblue+%2Bcrane

and the 4.5v based trains (above all Thomas which is very close to the 112 architecture) you can find in the brickshelf galleries.

the beauty of Lego is that you can play today in the sixties way (as I did 50 years ago) and go ahead if you want

Sergio and Eros

[Electricsteam]

hi, perhaps you should have a look at this topic:

http://www.eurobrick...hl=+blue +crane

and the 4.5v based trains (above all Thomas which is very close to the 112 architecture) you can find in the brickshelf galleries.

the beauty of Lego is that you can play today in the sixties way (as I did 50 years ago) and go ahead if you want

Sergio and Eros

I have a build of the crane somewhere in my boxes myself I'm looking at these old idea books and just falling in love with how trains were build buildings ect

[dr_spock]

I remember those red hook couplers. Back then a healthy dose of imagination was all that you needed to give those toys some realism. You didn't even have to build for minifigs since they weren't invented yet.

[Electricsteam]

Some more examples of Blue Era trains. These few seem to be a lot bigger then the average train we see today....

[zephyr1934]

Some more examples of Blue Era trains. These few seem to be a lot bigger then the average train we see today....

While that is a very fine build, there are several post blue era parts on there: headlight brick, ladder plate, 1x4 bracket, levers, windows on the passenger car, the minifig, small turn tables on the drive wheels. The inverted slopes on the stack were introduced the last year of the blue era. I believe all of these parts would come within the next 4 years though.

[Electricsteam]

While that is a very fine build, there are several post blue era parts on there: headlight brick, ladder plate, 1x4 bracket, levers, windows on the passenger car, the minifig, small turn tables on the drive wheels. The inverted slopes on the stack were introduced the last year of the blue era. I believe all of these parts would come within the next 4 years though.

Yeah.... I guess "style" would have been a better thing to say..... I have another piture saved somewhere that was a 2 4 4 2 using the 4.5v motors and the large wheels. Also Blue era style

[zephyr1934]

Oh, it was no criticism of you... I'm just stunned by the fact that I knew all of that off the top of my head. Those were simpler times though. There was a huge burst of new parts with the first minifdig sets (brackets, tools, new doors and windows, wedge plates, etc.).

Oh, and thank you for digging up those pictures from the 242 book. The Peeron copy is MIA, I had seen the 241 book which is excellent but doing a search for 242 turned up scans of 242 which is even better. There were all sorts of crazy ideas there that would eventually turn in to sets and evolve in to technic. Even a ton of snot.

[Electricsteam]

Oh, it was no criticism of you... I'm just stunned by the fact that I knew all of that off the top of my head. Those were simpler times though. There was a huge burst of new parts with the first minifdig sets (brackets, tools, new doors and windows, wedge plates, etc.).

Oh, and thank you for digging up those pictures from the 242 book. The Peeron copy is MIA, I had seen the 241 book which is excellent but doing a search for 242 turned up scans of 242 which is even better. There were all sorts of crazy ideas there that would eventually turn in to sets and evolve in to technic. Even a ton of snot.

I love all the old windows and the amount of roof bricks you seemed to get..... Lego does't seem all that happy to give out a decent roof in a set >.> There used to be a roof add-on set but they stopped selling it.... It's a little hard to make a house when you can't get any proper red slopes or their in/out corners

Edit Studded roofs makes me sad

Edited December 12, 2015 by Electricsteam