@beige2 said:
"I am certain this will be nostalgic for many.
What was the retail price?"

I tried bricklink and it doesn’t have the retail price, or at least I can’t figure out how to find it (I don’t normally use Bricklink). My guess is it’s probably between $2-5 or even less.

@Endermen39 said:
" @beige2 said:
"I am certain this will be nostalgic for many.
What was the retail price?"

I tried bricklink and it doesn’t have the retail price, or at least I can’t figure out how to find it (I don’t normally use Bricklink). My guess is it’s probably between $2-5 or even less."

Damn. 2 dollars for someone's childhood

Pigtails are great. We still don't have a modern version as far as I know.

@beige2 said:
" @Endermen39 said:
" @beige2 said:
"I am certain this will be nostalgic for many.
What was the retail price?"

I tried bricklink and it doesn’t have the retail price, or at least I can’t figure out how to find it (I don’t normally use Bricklink). My guess is it’s probably between $2-5 or even less."

Damn. 2 dollars for someone's childhood"

It would be about $10 today ($15-17 for us Australians), but I'd still get it for that price.

@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
" @beige2 said:
" @Endermen39 said:
" @beige2 said:
"I am certain this will be nostalgic for many.
What was the retail price?"

I tried bricklink and it doesn’t have the retail price, or at least I can’t figure out how to find it (I don’t normally use Bricklink). My guess is it’s probably between $2-5 or even less."

Damn. 2 dollars for someone's childhood"

It would be about $10 today ($15-17 for us Australians), but I'd still get it for that price."

Probably more like $15-20. Micro fighters and Battle packs and mechs which have about the same amount of pieces as the RSotD used to cost $10 in 2010-2014 and now their $16-20.

Welp, I guess these days this would technically be a war crime?

I think I pieced this one together a couple of years ago when I wanted some 1980s cars to demonstrate the 7777 car transporter I'd built.

First car I got that could fit a minifig in, as opposed to a bunch of cars in the 600-609 range.
For the Australians out there, the price was $2.99 bought from Coles (back when Coles was a department store).

No medical tools, food and water, and also no space for a patient to be transported to a nearby facility, so what is the purpose of this?

Dunno what the set name’s on about, looks like a fairly happy car to me

@Endermen39 said:
" @RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
" @beige2 said:
" @Endermen39 said:
" @beige2 said:
"I am certain this will be nostalgic for many.
What was the retail price?"

I tried bricklink and it doesn’t have the retail price, or at least I can’t figure out how to find it (I don’t normally use Bricklink). My guess is it’s probably between $2-5 or even less."

Damn. 2 dollars for someone's childhood"

It would be about $10 today ($15-17 for us Australians), but I'd still get it for that price."

Probably more like $15-20. Micro fighters and Battle packs and mechs which have about the same amount of pieces as the RSotD used to cost $10 in 2010-2014 and now their $16-20."

With this many pieces this set would be a magazine Gift and these sell for 4 euros right now here in Poland.

@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"unless that car was officially licensed by the Red Cross, the Geneva Conventions became the Geneva To-Do List."

yeah, Lego was in breach for rather a long time

@MCLegoboy said:
"No medical tools, food and water, and also no space for a patient to be transported to a nearby facility, so what is the purpose of this?"

You hook their feet through that special loop and let them hang off the back.

I had this back in ‘78 and quite a few others of the small cars from that year.

I know many aren’t fans of stickers, but I love the figs from this year with their torso stickers instead of printing.

@Minifig_Jez said:
"I know many aren’t fans of stickers, but I love the figs from this year with their torso stickers instead of printing."

We were just talking about this last weekend. I knew from BL inventories that stickered vintage torsos exist, but nobody could remember actually owning a set that included them prior to, I think, the soccer team busses. It’s not that we all came in too late, since some of us got pre-minifig sets, so one question that was raised is if stickered torsos were a regional thing.

Nowadays you can't use the Red Cross on toys anymore, as the Red Cross Committee forbids their usage in entertainment. For instance, the video game Doom used to use it on health packs, but now modern rereleases replaced it with a green cross.

A car that actually fits a minifig? IN 1978!?
Is that date correct, because this is the year minifigs were released. And 600-2 was from the same year!

@Binnekamp said:
"A car that actually fits a minifig? IN 1978!?
Is that date correct, because this is the year minifigs were released. And 600-2 was from the same year!"

It actually CAN'T fit the minifig--it's just provides the illusion of being in scale because it's a convertible. If the top could be pulled it, it would be as unaccommodating as any `78 set, ;-)

Compare this with 6629, quite a lot of progress in just three years.

@Stevutz said:
"First car I got that could fit a minifig in, as opposed to a bunch of cars in the 600-609 range.
For the Australians out there, the price was $2.99 bought from Coles (back when Coles was a department store)."

My first minifig set was the sister vehicle 621 Police Car, also bought from the same retail chain in Australia. It was the first time I'd seen the (then) new minifig sets and I remember seven year old me being blown away by them. Lego cars with opening doors and steering wheels! And a minifig with moving arms and legs and a face! It was all ground breaking stuff in 1978. I also recall getting this set back then too, probably a few weeks later. And yes the price was around AU$3 (equivalent to around AU$17.50 today).

Sticker on the figure, door and brick, oh yeah , remember all those comments about how the old days were better because 100% prints? yeah, 1978 was probably before those old days :)

@PurpleDave said:
" @Minifig_Jez said:
"I know many aren’t fans of stickers, but I love the figs from this year with their torso stickers instead of printing."

We were just talking about this last weekend. I knew from BL inventories that stickered vintage torsos exist, but nobody could remember actually owning a set that included them prior to, I think, the soccer team busses. It’s not that we all came in too late, since some of us got pre-minifig sets, so one question that was raised is if stickered torsos were a regional thing."

I got 6600 and 6602 in Charlotte, NC, and both have/had stickered torsos.

They also both have instructions for alternate builds that allow minifigures to 'get in.'
https://letsbuilditagain.com/instructions/6600/

I love how these early Town sets had the minifig waving at the camera.

@Lilo1975 said:
"I love how these early Town sets had the minifig waving at the camera. "

Yeah, nowadays they don't know that they are being watched