Vintage set of the week: Building Set

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Building Set

Building Set

©1973 LEGO Group

This week's vintage set is 135 Building Set, released during 1973. It's one of 11 Universal Building Set sets produced that year. It contains 338 pieces.

It's owned by 94 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.


22 comments on this article

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By in United States,

Oh right, I forgot it was Friday/Saturday; no Bionicle. We'll try again in 24 hours. Or would it be 25 hours... That's definitely too late for me. Stupid Daylight Savings not being synchronous across the pond, let alone still existing anyway...

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By in New Zealand,

That duck in the corner looks a bit shifty.

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By in United States,

@Maxbricks14 said:
"That duck in the corner looks a bit shifty."
That's because it's a silly goose! Can't trust those birds. They disguise themselves as ducks to lure you into a false sense of security.

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By in United States,

My first Lego set ever- I spent hours building the models on the front and back cover of this set! I have such fond memories of this set!

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By in United States,

They must have done a lot of market research before coming up with that name. Joking aside, that ship model does have its charm.

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By in United States,

@Maxbricks14 said:
"That duck in the corner looks a bit shifty."

Too much eye shadow?

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By in United States,

@TheOtherMike said:
"They must have done a lot of market research before coming up with that name. Joking aside, that ship model does have its charm."

The look of that yellow house is what I built over and over with the pieces I had as a kid. Brick walls, some HO scale doors, brick roof. Had 1-2 slopes and a very limited selection of plates. This set would have been a dream for me at 8 years old.

I’m making up for it now, though…

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By in United States,

@A__Khan said:
"My first Lego set ever- I spent hours building the models on the front and back cover of this set! I have such fond memories of this set!"

Same here - this set and 115 were, to the best of my knowledge, my first sets, when I was about 5 years old. One of my earliest childhood memories is building some kind of rudimentary spaceship or plane using one of the chunky green baseplates and a bunch of blue bricks from this set.

The box is long gone, but I still have the parts in my collection.

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By in Canada,

....And on this farm, he had a...ship?!?!? E..I..E..I..um...no...:)

Plus...a train...on TIRES...how...does that even WORK...I've heard of "Land Trains" in Australia, where a semi-truck hauls 2-3 trailers to areas not served by rail (and cheaper than air)...

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By in Australia,

The US version of 6-3 , which has shows the builds on the front of the box in a different order.

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By in United States,

@MCLegoboy:
Yeah, this is the last weekend of October, when the UK does it. Next weekend is the first of November, when we catch up. So everything will be posting an hour late for a week. Hopefully. Daylight Savings has a history of crippling RXotD, but no articles have been added to the lineup in a while, so hopefully that’s all sorted out?

@brick_r:
Tandem trailers is somewhat common all across the US, and I just saw a triple in Utah last month (just the quickest of glances, since we were passing it on the freeway, and I’d been reading a book with headphones on). Land trains are a different beast altogether. The ones I remember reading about years ago only traveled N-S in Australia, had double-decker cabs, more than three trailers, and required simulator training because taking a hill could break the train apart if done too fast, or stall out on the incline if done too slowly.

As for how it works in the sense of a more traditional train configuration, go check out the Disney parking lot trams.

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By in United States,

It's a shame LEGO shifted away from the philosophy of this product after its release. Ever since it's just been a single, large piece of molded plastic that you slide out of a cardboard box. The fact they still etch in the "brick lines" on the sides just seems mean-spirited at this point.

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By in United States,

The bottom-right model is something. Remind me of Byker Wall. Or a favela. What's the wheel?!

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By in United States,

@michaels_afol: Thus making this the first set to VSotW twice. We've had duplicate RPotDs and RSotDs, but I don't expect we'll see a duplicate RMotD, give the fact that minifigs are given their designations by Bricklink, not Lego.

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By in Sweden,

Nice basic set. The white building with the red roof reminds me of 6379 Riding Stable.

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By in Netherlands,

Just 338 pieces and you can build a ship, a car, a crane and 2 houses....all at the same time! Or you just build a goose, because why not? And I wonder if even the designer knew what he was doing with that bottom right building....

Gotta love these old sets. Low on detail, but high on imagination. Perfect toys!

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By in Canada,

This was also the first LEGO set that my brother and I received one Christmas many, many years ago. We were so naive that we were confused by the mysterious rattling sound that the still wrapped present made. :) Somewhere there is still a picture of 7 year old me in front of the Christmas tree holding this set triumphantly over my head. :)))) Ahhhhh....... Memories......

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By in United Kingdom,

@brick_r said:
"....And on this farm, he had a...ship?!?!? E..I..E..I..um...no...:)

Plus...a train...on TIRES...how...does that even WORK...I've heard of "Land Trains" in Australia, where a semi-truck hauls 2-3 trailers to areas not served by rail (and cheaper than air)..."


Don’t forget to also question why that bottom model has an air traffic control tower…but no air traffic

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By in Netherlands,

Another saturday, another basic set, another duck.
This is giving 112 vibes again

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By in United States,

@TheOtherMike said:
" @michaels_afol: Thus making this the first set to VSotW twice. We've had duplicate RPotDs and RSotDs, but I don't expect we'll see a duplicate RMotD, give the fact that minifigs are given their designations by Bricklink, not Lego."

RSotD and VSotW track which set numbers have been chosen, and remove them from the pool. RMotD does not, specifically because the catalog info gets regularly refreshed from Bricklink, so:

https://brickset.com/article/95140/random-minifig-of-the-day-hp308
https://brickset.com/article/98456/random-minifig-of-the-day-hp308

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By in United States,

@Brickalili said:
"Don’t forget to also question why that bottom model has an air traffic control tower…but no air traffic "

That’s a treehouse in a peppermint tree.

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By in United States,

6-3 at night time.

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