1974

I saw this 1975 set a couple of weeks ago at a really nice shop in Berlin, https://www.sadk-berlin.de/

Sell many small sets in a single lot

It looks like a crab from Squarebob whathis name pants guy ... is this the right picture?

Time to bring up "Dear LEGO" again .. (credited Richie Dulin) : 1949 Dear Lego Bricks! You’ve gone and totally changed your product focus, and rendered my collection of wooden and plastic non-brick toys obsolete. The LEGO Company has alienated its most vocal evangelists...I have friends who are very angry about it and, I feel their pain. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1955 Dear Lego Trees? One piece trees? I’ve been making perfectly satisfactory trees for years from basic bricks, and now you go and render my collection of tree building bricks obsolete. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1958 Dear Lego Now you’ve done it! Your consumer research into these new brick designs, with the stud and tube, might have found that consumers prefer these sort of bricks, but you didn’t ask me, or any of the vast number of Lego fans who are perfectly happy with the existing bricks. Last time, it was just my tree building bricks, but now it is my entire collection of perfectly functioning Lego bricks that you’ve rendered obsolete. I’ve come out in a cold sweat worrying about this. Woe is me. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1961 Dear Lego Are traditional Lego fans no longer enough for you? What’s wrong with the houses we’ve been building for years? You’ve now rendered our windows, doors, and even trees redundant by introducing the wheel. The wheel defeats the purpose of Lego itself. Mark my words, this is a really bad move. the company won’t last ‘till 1965, let alone the end of the decade!! I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1962 Dear Lego The plate! You go and introduce the plate! Are kids today so unskilled that they can’t build with bricks? You make it too easy for them. The introduction of the 1/3 brick (“plate”) marks an historic decline in the worth of the Lego system. I am shaking with rage. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1963 Dear Lego I am distraught! Nothing I have bought from your company in the past now has any worth at all. CA was good enough for thousands of fans, but you go and replace it with ABS. Why? Was it on the basis of some market research that “decided” that CA wasn’t good enough, and that a handful of consumers (who are probably only kids, or their parents) would prefer the so-called “superior” properties of ABS. I haven’t slept for days, worrying about this. I regularly open my window and shout obscenities in the general direction of Denmark. You should immediately revert to CA on all sets. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1969 Dear Lego This is too much. It took me years to get over the ABS vs CA thing, but now you’ve made me take the LEGO bricks from my sister’s 3 year old. I gave them to him last birthday, but now I find that they’re obsolete for that age group because you’ve thoughtlessly introduced this Duplo stuff. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1970 Dear Lego Why small wheels? What’s wrong with the ones we’ve been using happily for years, but which you’ve now rendered obsolete? It’s just getting too stupid. My health is suffering again, and my doctor has been forced to prescribe a mild sedative. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1973 Dear Lego Right. I’ve almost had enough of this. Over the last several years, I’ve built several ships out of bricks (including those I had to take from my sister’s then 3 year old when you introduced Duplo). I have been entirely satisfied with those ships. But now, I find that Lego, probably because of some ill-qualified marketing buffoon, is introducing ship’s hull pieces. All my hull bricks are now obsolete. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1974 Dear Lego Arrrggghhhh! I never thought you’d change the scale, but you introduced the Lego family. All my doors, windows, trees and most of my wheels are obsolete in one fell swoop. A serious company doesn’t treat its consumers this way. Shame on you. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1975 Dear Lego Just when I’d got back from taking all my doors, windows, trees and most of my wheels to the rubbish dump, I find that you’ve changed the scale again - this time with the introduction of a new, small fig. These figs are terrible - they can’t move their arms (like the Lego family can) , and they don’t even have faces! This destroys backward compatibility. I’ve developed a nervous tic. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1977 Dear Lego Technic! Technic? What was wrong with my old gear-wheel sets. You’ve rendered all my old cogs, axles and 4x2 bricks with seven holes completely useless. I’m tearing my hair out! What next? I feel betrayed... and now i see my 300,000 brick collection jeopardized by this unexpected insanity.I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1978 Dear Lego When will you get the message? Yet more new figures! What was wrong with the old ones. Who needs moveable arms or smiley faces - the old ones were completely adequate. Most of the people don’t even fit into their cars. This is a terrible move for Lego, and one which will mark its decline as a successful toy company. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1979 Dear Lego Not only have you rendered my prized Moon Landing set obsolete, but you’ve introduced specialised parts too. I’m disgusted with this new space line - it’s just a fad, it won’t last until 1980, let alone the space age in 2000. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1980 Dear Lego Grey Track? Lego train track is blue. Or at least was, until you rendered it obsolete with this stupid marketing led move. What next, a change to some bizarre voltage system (9V?). I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1984 Dear Lego You’ve really done badly with this. Why a grey castle? Lego castles have been yellow for years - why do you need to go and use a colour which has only been widely available for a couple of years. You’ve rendered my 375 Castle totally obsolete - I may as well just toss it out now. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1991 Dear Lego Look, my letter of 1980 was a complaint, not a request! Why new train track? Why 9V? (Why? Why? Why?) Everyone knows that battering trains are 4.5V, and that transformer-controller trains are 12V. Why change to some bizarre system? All my train stuff (except that which I threw away following its obsolesence in 1980) is now obsolete. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1992 Dear Lego You must think kids today are a singularly untalented lot. I’ve been happily seperating bricks with my fingers (and sometimes my teeth), for years, but some marketing whiz-kid at Lego reckons he’s come up with something better! Really, a “brick seperator”. Who needs it? You must really look down on your consumers. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1996 Dear Lego Well there goes my much loved Texas Rangers set (although the Texas Rangers themselves went in 1978, and their brick built horses in 1984). Western indeed! What next, replacement non-red native americans for my 215 Red Indians (which I seem to have neglected throwing away when it became mostly obsolete)?. The man at the rubbish tip is now on first name terms with me, and smiles as he sees me approach. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1998 Dear Lego Why do we need a Robotics Invention System with a hyped up marketing name like “Mindstorms”? What’s wrong with my Technic Control Centre? Well I guess it’s obsolete now. Off to the tip I go again. The man at the tip recognises me at a distance (because of my general shakiness, bald head, strange skin condition, nervous tic, and broken teeth) I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 1999 Dear Lego You commercial sellouts! Now I find all my Space Lego is obsolete, and I have to replace it all with marketing driving Star Wars stuff. I’m literally crying here, guys - have you no respect for us long-suffering fans. I despair at what will happen next - will you replace my beloved castle line with second rate sets based on a book about the adventures of some kid wizard! I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future. 2003 to be continued Also, another world class rant by Xenobuzz : http://www.davidglennsimmons.com/archive/MyLegoCreations/The%20Reinvention%20of%20Lego.htm

Where do you get this assumption from? Eta: Not what the designers are aware of, but what I think? I'm quite aware of the refs in SPIII and designers like Mark Stafford's love of (all things space), but multicoloured figs is not an argument for CS I find this theme to be more like Insectoids/Mars/AQ than anything CS

Here it is : More in this thread (red one ain't too shabby either) : http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6833&st=0

Thank you for the review It's very hard to differentiate the white pieces when a white background is used, especially if the pics have been touched up in photoshop. I actually see this a lot in the Acadamy Approved reviews ..

And before that one, TLG did this one : There's also a pic of a wonderfull brown 12V prototype floating around. That would be nice see come alive, PF brown and all .. Also, a rather goodsized railway crane would be cool

Classic Space is whatever you prefer. It's not a TLG invention and thus not canon. Imho, these sets got diddly to do with CS Most of the times when letters are part of a sticker, it's the designer's initials

Those two pats where designed poorly (and was thus redesigned), that's not really a quality issue, imo. Today, yellow (and other colours) is all over the map, bordering useless. That didn't happen 25-30 years ago when I was a kid

Wonderfull set and a nice review to boot Those feet (train signal stands) only came in white in this set I'd like you to review the lot Regarding polls, I never vote, I don't see the point?

I have not seen a single cracked brick in my inventory (300.000 bricks, mostly new, about 10% is old stuff from BL), so I am not sure this "cheese cracker problem" is so widespread. But there is no doubt that TLG´s quality is not up to their former "det bedste er ikke godt nok" standard

Modding, cutting and gluing is just too easy. I prefer to stay in the official LEGO universe and figure out a solution to get things working without resorting to those methods

It's a special for the Danish toy chain "Fætter BR" (Fætter means cousin). It's their mascot .. www.br.dk/

Pointless, LEGO is as modular as it gets

peeron.com and letsbuilditagain.com amongst others

As you've been advised on brickset, it would be better to change that domainname for a few bucks before TLG spends serious time/money .. LEGO is expensive enough allready Also, it would be a real bad businessmove to promote a site with an url that'll disapear soon (you can't even keep it and redirect)

Add a small bus station, maybe a roadplate, a bench and some greenery and you got something very playable and not silly

(Octan racer) Truck yes, trailer no

Since you're the wizard on such bricks, I have a question. A brick like this : Does not seem to have only printing, but the LEGO logo feels somewhat engraved. How did TLG do that? Printing seems easy enough, the brick is picked up and painted. But engraving (if it is?) much be a more laborious process, no? Some time ago I got some bricks with my own name made by an TLG employee with his own engraving machine (nothing to with TLG at all, btw) and they have the same feel as that brick in the picture. The brick was first engraved, then the letters was filled with ink, pretty neat

That's not possible irl. I just fvcked up and had to choose just which part to cut up. That made 1974 cry a little inside It's actually not too hard for inexperienced studless builders (like myself) to paint oneself up into an impossible Technic corner ..

At least something else than fire/police And thanx for TLG to bring back train doors, but two 4182 right doors? Why not make the other one a left 4181? Rather bad for MOC'ing and BL will be filled with black 4182s And it's not a baseplate, just a regular 16 x 16 dbg plate found in many current and new sets While these stes are not for me, it's much better than last wave I do agree that the crane seems out of place. That, and the really poor sweeper, could have been exchanged for another nice building, imo that is Also, I'm not too fond of TLG getting into 8 wide vehicles (crane and Octan racer truck) again, while buildings seem to get smaller

Those wheels also come in the 8069 which is a super parts pack (allthough I do not know what to do with 20+ buckets). It's easy (at least here) to find with a 50% or more discount and includes 4 mini LAs too + loads of gears. Just rather annoying that the hubs where changed at one point. I do prefer the old 'six hole' version myself That Ninjago vehicle is a gem. No way I can nick those wheels from my sons fav set

Monorail surely does rule, but I'd like to keep mine 4 wide as I only do 6 wide trains and I want my monorail trains to look small Here's a good blog about multiple monorail trains connected (and yes, he uses the pieces linked) : http://www.carolinatrainbuilders.com/2008/09/6-car-airport-shuttle/ Regarding fixing switches, google "anatomy of monorail switch" and you'll find a nice document

Not sure I totally buy the theory. When I was a kid in the 80's I build a simple, but rather long monorail using these : Mounted sideways onto 1 x X beams. That way I could get curves, but not elevation. The motor was mounted exactly the same way as real monorail (I used the old 12V black technic motor run of a 9V battery as this was before 9V parts) It didn't have switches or elavation, but it looked quite a bit like the monorail system to come with 4 wide cars etc I'm sure I wasn't the only one who made something like this Also been dablling with the idea of using cheap blue 12V conducting rails with the train hanging below. So far it's still just an idea, no actual building have been done as I do have a rather sizeable monorail system