What have I bought?

[Israel Hands]

Bought on a Whim from a Charity Shop

Local charity shop has had a bag of random Lego bits on sale for a while for £30. I wasn't interested then, but when calling in today I saw they had been reduced down to £10. Too good to resist, even if I just end up with bricks and plates.

Took a while to sort out. It looks like someone's mum got fed up with their kids mess and just emptied out the toy box. The bag had all-sorts mixed in, batteries, other bits of toys etc, pieces of paper,

Now the last time I bought a random pile I ended up with an almost complete Black Seas Barracuda and Lego fort lift truck 850. This time I'm not so sure. There's some nice pieces there, and I'm pretty sure that for £10 I've done very well, but can anyone see anything build-worthy in there? Also, any thoughts on how much this lot is worth, how much of a bargain have I snagged today?

The battery box (bottom picture), may be a waste though. The batteries inside had perished and burst and had to be pried out with a screwdriver

Nice horse piece and some sort of funky, retro looking motorcyclist

Also, What Are These?

What are these bits? I don't believe they are Lego. They look like some sort of connectors. They are very small, about 5mm wide. Apologies about the blur, as I said they are small.

Edited July 4, 2014 by Israel Hands

[-Horizon-]

  On 7/4/2014 at 3:03 PM, Israel Hands said:

Bought on a Whim from a Charity Shop

Also, What Are These?

What are these bits? I don't believe they are Lego. They look like some sort of connectors. They are very small, about 5mm wide. Apologies about the blur, as I said they are small.

They're the middle part of these.

Edited July 4, 2014 by lego3364

[Israel Hands]

Well of course they are, though to be honest, I've never had to separate out my studs before

I've worked out that the red slopes with the "M" on them are from the Mtron set. I've never collected any space items before so I've never seen them before. I wonder which set it is?

[-Horizon-]

  On 7/4/2014 at 3:33 PM, Israel Hands said:

I've worked out that the red slopes with the "M" on them are from the Mtron set. I've never collected any space items before so I've never seen them before. I wonder which set it is?

I'd say the Stellar Recon Voyager.

[Roger_Smith]

Well, you definately have a lot of parts for 6956 Stellar Recon Voyager in there (http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/6956-1). pt 2337 in trans neon green is a dead giveaway (exclusive to that set), and a lot of the other parts that can be seen can also be attributed to this set.

As there is a second 2507 windscreen piece, there might be some parts from 6923 Particle Ionizer in there, aswell, it's hard to tell (http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/6923-1)

Stellar Recon Voyager alone fetches 30-40 bucks on Ebay, so you made a great deal there already.

The rare big trans blue panel pieces most likely come from 6396 International airport (assuming the lego is all from the same period), which was a very large set. Don't see many other pieces that could be attributed to that set, though. They also appeared in one other set, another airport from 2006, but somehow that seems unlikely.

Edited July 4, 2014 by Roger_Smith

[rollermonkey]

You've got the bottom for the 1980's Police Boat, for one.

[Faefrost]

You have at least parts of some early Technic sets in there. Possibly 8851 or 8862? And the larger dozen blade looks like 8853 maybe?

[Israel Hands]

Thanks for the help, Roger. It tuns out that I have enough parts to make a passable 6956 Stellar Recon Voyager, or a 6923 Particle Ionizer or 6877 Vector Detector, just not all at the same time

I am missing quite a few parts but I still managed to put together a reasonable facsimile of each. Since taking this picture I've replaced as many red bricks as I could with blue ones and have managed to convince my grandchild that the Recon Voyager is Benny's Spaceship-Spaceship-Spaceship. So he's happy :)

I still have quite a few red bricks left, so I'm guessing they had quite a nice space collection going on there.

There's only a handful of parts from the airport (two windows, part of palm tree, and a tail wedge plate), so nothing I can recreate.

I'm going to take a look at the technic parts next, see what I can put together. Thanks for the suggestions so far

[Lego Otaku]

It's likely you'll never get complete set. The pieces often get lost over time, either from playing outside, pilfered by jealous kids next door, and traded for something like candies.

[paul_delahaye]

Looks like you have a few parts from the technic backhoe 8862, front and rear bucket, front wheel, pneumatic cylinder, but there definitely does not look enough to build the entire set.