Love for classic/vintage era lego thread

[Ondra]

Show some love for 80s and 90s early 00s sets, when they archieve whole themes with bricks of basic shapes and mostly with studs on top.

I had three big boxes of 90s lego and there were like 30 types of bricks in basic colours, so I can after so many years fullfil my dream of some 90s stylized MOCs. 

I also bought some new sets for bricks and only from these sets I have like four small boxes packed of very specialized parts in many colours, types. Its weird how they made specialized parts just to save like three pieces and used total in like five sets.

Vintage lego had genuine feel, modern sets are borderline plastic models. Vintage lego have some magic, completely lost in time and never experienced by many.

[MAB]

This goes back slightly further, as a young kid I had one of these and used to get hours of fun out of it.

I also longed to get the Weetabix windmill set but wasn't allowed, although did frequently build something similar out of basic bricks.

 

I think now I slightly prefer the more modern equivalent of the bus that is also made out of pretty basic bricks although the play value is equivalent, the difference being I don't really play with it driving it around like I did as a kid. Personally (again through adult eyes), I prefer topping it off with tiles on a model so small although don't mind exposed studs on larger models.

I think kids can have just as much fun with modern LEGO as I did with vintage LEGO if they are keen to play with it. One main difference is that kids have so many more toys these days. Having fewer toys makes you appreciate them more.

 

 

Edited April 18, 2023 by MAB

[TeriXeri]

I'm glad the basic brick box with just 1000 standard bricks returned with 11030, even if 6 out of 10 colors are modern.

Of course boxes with mostly basic bricks have existed over the past years. like 11016: Creative Building Bricks most recent example before it retired at end 2022, but the distribution was over 15+ colors and uneven, while 11030 is a lot more focused on 10 colors and 6 brick types of each color.

Edited April 18, 2023 by TeriXeri

[Alexandrina]

36 minutes ago, TeriXeri said:

I'm glad the basic brick box with just 1000 standard bricks returned with 11030, even if 6 out of 10 colors are modern.

Of course boxes with mostly basic bricks have existed over the past years. like 11016: Creative Building Bricks most recent example before it retired at end 2022, but the distribution was over 15+ colors and uneven, while 11030 is a lot more focused on 10 colors and 6 brick types of each color.

That set's filling in a few 'gaps' in the standard brick palette too, right? I'm seeing lots of Coral, for instance, which I don't think had the full range of bricks available before.

[TeriXeri]

2 hours ago, Alexandrina said:

That set's filling in a few 'gaps' in the standard brick palette too, right? I'm seeing lots of Coral, for instance, which I don't think had the full range of bricks available before.

Yes, Coral got 1x1, 1x4, 2x2 and 2x4 for the first time with 11027 and 11030 this year.

11027 is also the only set with Vibrant yellow 1x1, 2x2 and 2x4 right now.

11028 and 11033 introduced 2x2 in Aqua 

11028 has 2x4 in Lavender

11033 has 2x2 and 2x4 in Transparent Opal 

 

Edited April 18, 2023 by TeriXeri

[Toastie]

Well, they started the train theme quite early ... 1965 ... I (still) do see a steam locomotive with a cool carriage, painted in white/blue/red/black/cool-grey - and yes, I still do believe steam engines can run on rubber tires - no need for tracks at all.

[Johnny1360]

Now that is the LEGO of my childhood, very nice there @Toastie, man I hated those tires and rims. Mine actually looked like that, even back then, lol. Not sure if it was the desert climate but those tires would split in half and get hard, every single one I had, in less than 3 or 4 years. Of course they were played hard as well, hauled many a load. Thanks for the picture.

[Toastie]

19 minutes ago, Johnny1360 said:

it was the desert climate

I believe so!

These days I was living 20 miles away from the Danish border for 13 years of active building and playing (sum of parts never exceeding the storage size of one baby bath ) - then a decade 40 miles away from that border - LEGOs (yes, ssss) were stored in the house of my parents still living 20 miles away from that border). Relocated that baby bath when we returned from living in the US for a couple of years to the place we live now, about 400 miles away from Denmark. 

Which translates to: Always very mild climate, lots of moisture, some dry days, no direct sunlight exposure = good for rubber! The loco sits happily in my attic, no sunlight exposure, and I love it very, very much.

Best,
Thorsten

P.S.: It gets "cold" in that attic (winter, down to 10°C when not heating, yes, energy saving) and "warm" during summers (up to 40°C), particularly in the last decade, thanks to global warming). ABS does not suffer at all, the train still is well - but the cheap plastic for that handrail cover in the back simply disintegrated - I like to leave it that way.  

 

Edited April 18, 2023 by Toastie

[Ondra]

Arent these ads more fantasy inducing? 

Why these modern lego ads even needs famous people? These old commercial are weirdly charming.

 

All these old catalogs have real backgrounds with sets inside, I want to be part of these catalog cities so I did one myself as kid. Are new catalogs appealing? Full of photoshop and fake renders. I stopped them even collecting them when they went full photoshop, They were just waste of space.

 

 

[2ndgen]

I had all that blacktron II Lego.  

Just kills me I gave all my Lego away before the dark ages, it's far to expensive now to get it all back.  

[evank]

I build exclusively in 1970s-1980s parts. I'm 48 and find it enjoyable to see what my adult brain can imagine from childhood toys. I built a life-size Chevy 454 and transmission.

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