Roadways with two buildings more like.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"Roadways with two buildings more like."

And some seasonally-appropriate crumble-trees...which will shed their foliage over time.

Fantastic set. Missed it the first time around as it was the year I entered my lengthy dark age. Delighted to get a perfect, boxed copy 8 years ago. All the best of Legoland... Working crane, TV aerial, road signs, flag, chrome radiator grills, granulated bush, and not a single sticker in sight!

I remember drooling over this set in the catalog more than 50 years ago. But never had it.

@Bart_66 said:
"I remember drooling over this set in the catalog more than 50 years ago. But never had it."
Just seen it advertised for £90 - £215 on BrickLink... Rather chuffed to have got it for £20 on eBay!

I don't know if I just haven't been paying attention or what, but I'm not sure if I've ever seen baseplates with corners that rounded. And people say Lego cuts corners *now.*

@TheOtherMike said:
"I don't know if I just haven't been paying attention or what, but I'm not sure if I've ever seen baseplates with corners that rounded. And people say Lego cuts corners *now.*"

I got a blue one from Gary Istok that I believe was this one:

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=785T=C

@TheOtherMike said:
"I don't know if I just haven't been paying attention or what, but I'm not sure if I've ever seen baseplates with corners that rounded. And people say Lego cuts corners *now.*"
Most (maybe all) of the dotted baseplates had rounded corners

I dunno, a large but hollow warehousey building, a crane and a small house seems more like we’re looking at out in the sticks rather than a town centre. This feels more like a docks or industrial park than an urban centre

Bit weird but cool set! And it still surprises me how old those traffic signs actually are.

Big question is: Are those cardboard roadways better or worse than road plates? I have a feeling not that many will have survived....

Looking at the parking spaces, there's indicators of which spots are for cars and which are for trucks, but at first I thought they were little oil spills, which felt kind of appropriate. It was an odd level of detail to include, but I guess that's not what was intended.

For 336 pieces you get 2 buildings, a crane, 4 vehicles, a shrubbery (always wanted to use that word), some base plates and a large (carton) town plan. Crazy to think that the same amount of pieces would now give you 1 (Speed Champions) car.

Not complaining, though. If it weren't for the increasing attention to detail and growing complexity of sets, my dark ages would still be ongoing.

I remember being given this set either one Christmas or birthday. It was not obvious that the roadway came folded and was stored inside the lid of the box. you could by the roads separately, so I was also given the road base. It must have been a year or more before I discovered the road base tucked a\way in the box lid.

@WizardOfOss said:
"Big question is: Are those cardboard roadways better or worse than road plates? I have a feeling not that many will have survived...."
Certainly much better than I'd expect a 50+ year old bit of cardboard to be but mine, along with the bricks, appear to have had very little use. I suspect they'd normally have been lucky to survive for more than a week!

TIL why old baseplates had rounded corners. Very interesting system! I guess they switched to square ones again because these weren't great when put next to each other due to the corners being awkwardly rounded (I say again because earlier there were those brick-thick rectangular plates).

@sjr60 said:
"Fantastic set. Missed it the first time around as it was the year I entered my lengthy dark age. Delighted to get a perfect, boxed copy 8 years ago. All the best of Legoland... Working crane, TV aerial, road signs, flag, chrome radiator grills, granulated bush, and not a single sticker in sight!"

"1972 was the start of my dark age" is probably the earliest year in such a statement I can recall hearing!