What is the biggest set you could build from memory?

[Dreamweb]

I didn't see a topic like that so here we go.

Are there any sets that you have built so many times that you could build them without instructions? Which one is the largest?

For me it was the 6274 Caribbean Clipper. It was my biggest set when I was a kid and I would often dismantle it and then put back together. First I used the instructions but one day my mother put it in the trash without telling me. She didn't know it was so important to me. Since it was a long time before the internet era, I had no choice but to build it without instructions. Having built it so many times, I remembered where each part should be put so I built it quite a few times from memory, maybe it wasn't 100% accurate but I'm sure it was more than 90%, which I think is not bad for a set this size.

Sadly I haven't built it for quite some time so right now I would defenitely need instructions to do that.

So which sets can you build like that?

[RohanBeckett]

I was a big space nut, when I was young...

and after I got 6783 Sonar Transmitting Cruiser

I used to tear it down, and build it up all the time.

There are plenty of the older, smaller, classic space sets, from the 70's/80's, that I reckon, I could STILL build today, despite not having built them for 25 years.

Eg:

Space Shuttle

Mobile Tracking Station

Mobile Rocket Launcher

RB

[Commander_Rob]

I could once built 7420 Thunder Blazer completely from memory, BUT not anymore I think. With a try or two I might manage.

Apart from that, my achievements in this area are rather small. I can probably build most Star Wars battlepack vehicles without instructions and (thanks to a lot of alternate-model building) the collection of Daily Mirror Star Wars promotionals.

[The Cobra]

When I was a kid I could build my 588 Police station from memory.

Now I only build sets once, so it would be hard to build any set (leave Impulses aside) without instructions.

[Skull-Mark_Ladybug]

...

Edited May 17, 2025 by MacK

[Dfenz]

Probably the star wars battle-packs

[Yoshi648]

I can build the 4561 Railway Express from memory.

[k_peek_2000]

Anakin's Jedi Starfighter

[sok117]

Any bionicle canister, I probably wouldn't even have to look at the book in the first place . I think I could build the Indiana Jones river chase from memory.

[dr_spock]

6630 Bucket Loader

http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=6630-1

[Felix]

I too built the 4561 Railway Express way too many times and therefore I no longer need instructions. Actually looking for all the pieces in my (BLASPHEMY) unsorted collection is another matter.

[The Who]

UCS Falcon

Battle packs, maybe midsized sets like Starfighters from Star Wars.

[user]

I was able to almost build space truck getaway with no instructions when I got a second one.