6597 or 10159?

[Dr Kilroy]

Hey! I have got a dilemma - should I buy 6597 or rather 10159? I can get a MISB 10159 or used 6597 in good condition for the same price. I like old sets because of their age, but I like building MISB sets, too. These two sets are identical. Can you help me? Please!

Regards, Dr

[brickzone]

Well, they both seem to be the same in terms of stickers (some other re-releases had stickers where the original had printed) *but* a significant difference is that the re-release uses light bluish grey (bley) where the original used light grey (old grey).

Some other updated parts in the newer ones like stud cutouts on wedge/wedge plates, wider runways on the plates. Significantly the re-release has standard velux windows while the original has distinct "barred" windows. Some omissions in the re-release like a white cone printed with red stripes.

I'd buy the re-release though as MISB is nice, and while I have plenty of old grey and use it (esp. for old castles), for many purposes I prefer the brighter "bley" and also I probably have a larger more versatile amount of that (so I prefer to get more bley to have even more to play around with). If you're going to keep it as an airport or use it for city building, I'd say bley is a better choice.

[blueandwhite]

Personally I would probably go with the MISB set, but this is definitely a difficult decision. There's something undeniably appealing about opening a set for the first time. Moreover, the bley is probably more suitable for today's builder given that old grey is in short supply. Whatever you choose I'm sure you'll be happy as this is a fantastic set.

Edited February 14, 2010 by blueandwhite

[anothergol]

Not to dig up an old thread, but I've been searching about a part for some time now, and it appears that set 10159 (if the original poster can confirm) is not only the last set in which part 6152 appears, it's also the ONLY set in which it appears in its 6152003 form, which is the one that it has in the Digital Designer:

I was even looking for buying a new or near-new 10159 just to get that piece in good state, and weirdly, 10159 is harder to find & more expensive than its version from '94.

I'm sure there are quite a lot of those on Bricklink, but Bricklink not making the 6152003 differenciation, and sellers generally not commenting the state, doesn't make it easy to find one :(

[Duq]

Not to dig up an old thread

And yet that's exactly what you've just done. You could have started a new thread about this particular part...

So what is special about the 6152003 form of 6152? What other versions are there?

[anothergol]

And yet that's exactly what you've just done. You could have started a new thread about this particular part...

but I'm asking the original poster if he can confirm that the part is the right one

(I read he was last active in 2012, though.. but maybe someone else here owns the 10159 set)

So what is special about the 6152003 form of 6152? What other versions are there?

There are only 2 bottom stud holes, vs 4 for the old part. I've never *seen* that part, only a (blurry) hint of it in a video seems to confirm that it exists in that form, plus a Bricklink description that tells that one 6152 is a 6152003 (without saying what it is exactly).

Edited April 18, 2015 by anothergol

[CP5670]

I would get 10159, as I like the guaranteed quality MISB sets give you. However, as others said it does have a number of small changes from 6597, and is not as authentic as most of the other re-releases. One baseplate is strange and doesn't line up properly with the standard road/runway plates. It's also the only set that ever included this baseplate.