Old LEGO Town Promotional Sets...

[LEGO Historian]

This is set 710.

Carrerra124, are you sure? That Spiezeugring image shows on the left what looks like the windmill with the black sloped bricks from the 730 set. (I had one of those).

Your earlier image from the Idee-Spiel catalog shows the 710 set with the red umbrella... it even shows "(710)". That 710 set.... I don't ever remember seeing it selling in the USA.

Edited August 10, 2013 by LEGO Historian

[Carrera124]

Yes, I am sure

[JopieK]

Two of my favorite sets are the virtually identical 1986 promotional sets... the Swiss TCS (Tour Club Schweiz) 1589, and the Dutch ANWB (Algemene Nederlandse Wielrijders Bond) 1590 (both are Auto Clubs).

Probably the most valuable parts to these 2 sets are the stickered flags or sticker sheets....

The unique 1589 TCS stickered flag...

The unique 1590 ANWB stickered flag....

Unless you have a Roland VS-300 in house of course ;)

I got the ANWB set when I was a child, my brother got the other ANWB set:

http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/2140-1

I have promised an ANWB coworker to try to reproduce at least the latter set stickers (he assured me a lot of his colleagues were interested b.t.w.)

I didn't know there was also a TCS version of the older one b.t.w.

[LEGO Historian]

Carrera124, in that SpielzeugRing image, the girl minifig has red legs and white torso... and the windmill has black parts as seen here... in the 730 set.

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?O=730-2

The 710 doesn't have enough black parts to build windmill blades...

[Carrera124]

I guess I looked at the wrong picture... the set shown on the left side of the Spielzeug-Ring catalog is 730.

The set shown on the top left corner of the Idee+Spiel catalog is 710.

Edited August 11, 2013 by Carrera124

[fhomess]

I love these topics. I grew up in the US but my family is Dutch and I visited quite a bit in the 80's so I'm sad I missed out on all the Dutch promotional sets. They're pretty neat. Thanks for sharing.

[LEGO Historian]

I love these topics. I grew up in the US but my family is Dutch and I visited quite a bit in the 80's so I'm sad I missed out on all the Dutch promotional sets. They're pretty neat. Thanks for sharing.

fhomess... you and I had the same relationship... I am German, but grew up in the USA and went back to Germany 10 times between 1979 and 1993 to visit relatives. However it was my trip in 1979 when I found old sets from the 1960s in a stationary store that got me out of my Dark Ages that year (I found 600 LEGO classic windows/doors in 2 old retailer boxes that I bought). So I spent the 1980s scouring the small toy stores of Germany looking for old and rare LEGO items.

Edited August 13, 2013 by LEGO Historian