We've added 1972, too...

 

  • We've added 1972, too...

    Posted by Huw, 21 Mar 2010 15:38. Filed under Brickset.

    171: Train Set without Motor
    Trains/4.5/12 V, 1972
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    ©1972 LEGO Group

    We've pulled out all the stops today to bring you new images of another year: 1972. It was a great year for trains, with nearly 1/4 of all sets released this year being train related. As in previous years, the models of vehicles were in two scales: 4 wide LEGOLAND models and 6 wide which were more detailed. The first educational sets were released this year (but the Dacta name was not used until later) and also the first sets with 4 digit numbers, two of which were among the first co-promotional sets 1550 and 1551, for Sterling Airways, a Danish airline.


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Posted by shieldsy in Ireland, 21 Mar 2010 16:07

great pics huw :)

Posted by DrDaveWatford in United Kingdom, 21 Mar 2010 17:19

171 (Train Set without motor), which is pictured at the top of this thread, was the first 'big' set I can remember being bought as a kid. I recently managed to buy a nice boxed example with instructions on eBay and it brought back so many memories. Thanks to Huw and Bluemoose was feeding my nostalgia fetish with all these lovely pics of old sets from my youth !

Keep 'em coming !

Dr. D.

Posted by knuclear200x in United States, 21 Mar 2010 18:43

Speaking of 70's sets, would you happen to have that set that was once knocked over in That 70's Show? It was in the first season...some space station or something.

Posted by carding in United Kingdom, 22 Mar 2010 11:42

when are you going to tell us where you got these pics I can't bear not knowing!!?!

Posted by JamesBenjamin in United States, 22 Mar 2010 13:30

I like that you're adding all this older stuff. I was wondering how complete the archive is? Is there a certain year forward from which you have every set they released or is there a whole bunch of stuff in the pre-internet era that's still missing?

Posted by Huw in United Kingdom, 22 Mar 2010 19:04

@carding, all will be revealed soon :-)

Posted by legofanatic2414 in United States, 22 Mar 2010 21:58

Going back to the classics!

Posted by bic3 in United Kingdom, 23 Mar 2010 03:57

I can't wait for 1975 to be added, the year I first had boxed lego sets for myself instead of my brothers cast-offs! I'm still kicking myself for getting rid of it all a couple of years later.

Posted by carding in United Kingdom, 23 Mar 2010 11:34

soon isn't good enogth, you keep saying it!!?!

Posted by b_whytcross in Australia, 24 Mar 2010 03:15

Huw,

You may need to revise part of the update: You wrote "the first sets with 4 digit numbers", yet I believe a number of four digit set numbers had been in use in the 1950's and possibly 1960's in Europe, such as 1210 (http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?S=1210-2)

Posted by gratefulnat in Switzerland, 24 Mar 2010 14:15

@DrDaveWatford
I can feel with you. This was the first big (I was four, so it was big) set I got as a kid, christmas 1974. I still have it (minus the box), but it's shows it's age and the fact that I played with it for a good ten years. Funnily enough, the stickers are still intact, but I'm missing the yellow headlights...otherwise it still makes a decent picture while traveling around those blue tracks.
You said it, nostalgia...

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