ToyInTheAttic

Ohoh! My NASA launch pad 39 is in good company! Nice to see there is a family for it! How can I get your collectors book?

Hello and thank you for all the info you shared. As @Toastie said, yes, the macro-parts you see in the picture are all glued. When I got this I did not know, then I wanted to unassemble it in few pieces to bring it home by car, but then I (and the previous owner!) realized it was all glued. I also want to thank @Evans for the possibilities he mentioned about this set was used for, the set is 99% complete (thanks to the fact it is glued brick after brick) and I will post pictures after restoration, I want to buy classic bricks to complete it, I hope to find them. Now I know there is a collectors guide about the Lego display models family, I think I will go through it to see how many sets are still with us after 50 years. Here are some pictures of the real launch base:

Thank you for your warm welcome, Lego Universe has so many interesting aspects and facets..

Hello Collector245, the set comes already assembled, no box, no instructions. As Wout suggests, if Lego masterbuilder made several of them, where are they? I searched on internet a lot and I found only those two pictures of the original Lego Idea book. Here, we go, this is the massive set I found! 50 years and still going strong! The set is...big!!! And heavy, increadibly heavy. As far as I know this could be the biggest massive set that Lego manifacturers did so far. Hope this could be interesting for those also that are interested in Lego Apollo recent sets, the details are lower here but vintage style is fascinating! And the size is..wow! The view is also flipped with respect to that of the published picture, enjoy! Any other information about other existing dioramas like this would be very appreciated, thanks!

Hello and thank you for your reply, I have the link of the book 241 , I do not know if I can post links in this Forum, the two specific pictures can be found here: Was it distributed someway? Thanks

Hello to all the Lego fans of this Forum! I recently registered in this forum for a specific reason and I hope you can help me. As a fan of vintage toys I came across to a surprising finding during my searches. I am referring about a vintage set shown in the Lego idea instructions book, number 241. In that book, a very large set is pictured, the huge Apollo-Saturn V launch base of Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA! Two pages of pictures are dedicated to this very nice and huge example of what can be done with Lego bricks!! The interesting part of the story is that I found this playset recently for real! It was stored for decades in a house and after specific cleaning it revealed itself in all its beauty! Another surprising thing is that the set is basically all glued in its main parts. All the parts are exactly in the same position of the set that is published on that book 241. So the question is: what is the story of this creation? I know this set was not sold in toy shops, is it possible that few of those were built to be released to toyshops in the past just for display and to enchant children’s eyes? Did you know previously about the possibility to find such special exclusive creations published in Lego idea instructions books? I hope you can really help me in giving a story to this vintage set, I tried with some experts but the only answer I got differently to what I already know is ‘do you sell it?’ ‘do you sell it?’. So I would kindly anticipate in this post that I do not sell it, I do not do business with it specifically. I am a fan of vintage toys, for their colors, materials, mechanical principles and innovations along with years and memories arising from the past. I would like just to share with this wide Forum the excitment for finding this nice Lego ‘treasure’ and I hope to know more about it thanks to the collaboration of this colorful community! Regards ToyInTheAttic

Hello everybody! My name is Christian and I am a fan of the toys of the 70’s and 80’s. Lego can not be excluded of course :) My presence here is for a specific reason that I will write in a specific topic. In the meanwhile, I would like to congratulate with all the Lego creators that produce such a nice creations I see in this forum, this is really a colourful community! Thanks Regards ToyInTheAttic