Random set of the day: Red Beams with Connector Pegs
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 875 Red Beams with Connector Pegs, released during 1979. It's one of 12 Technic sets produced that year. It contains 38 pieces.
It's owned by 153 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $14.50, or eBay.
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I've only referred to them as pins. Imagine if we still called them pegs. Just sounds weird even if not inaccurate.
@MCLegoboy said:
"I've only referred to them as pins. Imagine if we still called them pegs. Just sounds weird even if not inaccurate."
Not only that but 4 of the pieces are plates!
This looks more 'fun and 'cool' than the last RSOTD, and yes I get they are just technic bricks, plates, and pins.
Look, it's the Red beams and connector pegs battlepack.
@MCLegoboy said:
"I've only referred to them as pins. Imagine if we still called them pegs. Just sounds weird even if not inaccurate."
I've always referred to them as "connector pegs."
I love a good knolling pic on my box art
Did this have a B-model?
This is such an amazingly lifelike model of a set inventory.
Imagine this series of supplemental sets with blue pins, er pegs.
This may not look much, but back in the day this was the only way of getting excess spare parts. Well, it was either this or lifting parts from your friends.
Imagine only having 1970s brcks and plates and tiles and fences and doors and windows and wheels and homemaker parts and suddenly you get THIS! The possibilities that suddenly are possible!
Those could absolutely be names from a Space theme
@Lego_lord said:
"This may not look much, but back in the day this was the only way of getting excess spare parts. Well, it was either this or lifting parts from your friends."
There were also the service packs
Imagine them still doing sets like this in every color available....
Every time I hear or read "Peg" I immediately have to think about "Married...with children".
:-)
I always felt sorry for the person who had to line these up to take the photograph, then realize that two of the pins are not perfectly aligned with the vertical slit in the middle. Then repeat for yellow and blue, where one pin slit is totally off which is probably why they gave up before doing black?
Connector pegs, it will come back to you,
When the red beam falls, you see it all in 3D,
It's your favorite supplementary Technic set.
Wow! I have most of these pieces - I didn’t know they were from that set!
@ambr said:
"I always felt sorry for the person who had to line these up to take the photograph, then realize that two of the pins are not perfectly aligned with the vertical slit in the middle. Then repeat for yellow and blue, where one pin slit is totally off which is probably why they gave up before doing black?"
A little blu-tak or a dab of glue works wonders for photography of things like this. Otherwise the slightest knock of the table, a sneeze or even someone opening a window and those pins roll all over the place.
@ambr said:
"I always felt sorry for the person who had to line these up to take the photograph, then realize that two of the pins are not perfectly aligned with the vertical slit in the middle. Then repeat for yellow and blue, where one pin slit is totally off which is probably why they gave up before doing black?"
Nowadays they would just render the whole thing.....probably with some virtual imperfections!
$ 14,50 on BL? Sold out in a matter of hours?
@MeisterDad said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"I've only referred to them as pins. Imagine if we still called them pegs. Just sounds weird even if not inaccurate."
Not only that but 4 of the pieces are plates!"
Or those plates are in fact just vertical 2 stud wide beams with holes and studs :)
Sounds like something out of the trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine....
I recently looked for sets like this for my nephew who is getting into robotics.
Sad to see that Lego doesn't support this type of thing anymore. He doesn't want a Tractor or whatever, just a ton of gears and technic for creative building.
I miss the days of creative building.
Back onto my porch.
Very organized!
Back from the time when bricks with holes in them counted as "technic beams". Today these are listed as system parts...
Bad aim Huwbot: I got 874 but not this one.
@markisnot said:
"I recently looked for sets like this for my nephew who is getting into robotics.
Sad to see that Lego doesn't support this type of thing anymore. He doesn't want a Tractor or whatever, just a ton of gears and technic for creative building.
I miss the days of creative building.
Back onto my porch. "
Your porch... where you can wave your cane at Kids and yell at them to get off of your lawn? Kidding, I do agree with you that it's a shame. Hey, wouldn't something like Classic, but for Technic, be great?
@TheOtherMike said:
" @markisnot said:
"I recently looked for sets like this for my nephew who is getting into robotics.
Sad to see that Lego doesn't support this type of thing anymore. He doesn't want a Tractor or whatever, just a ton of gears and technic for creative building.
I miss the days of creative building.
Back onto my porch. "
Your porch... where you can wave your cane at Kids and yell at them to get off of your lawn? Kidding, I do agree with you that it's a shame. Hey, wouldn't something like Classic, but for Technic, be great?
"
So, universal building sets...
Man, technic has so much more potential than what we get right now.
We need a new technic dinosaur! It's been years! Or a robot! Or a robot dinosaur!
Just imagine what you can do will all these parts!
We aren't giving you any hints anyway.
(Phone conversation in1981)
Hi, Boss…yeah the girders arrived, along with the rivets; and put up the interior structure...
What happened? So, a HUUUUGE Gorilla shows up, carrying a woman…yes, kinda’ like that movie; anyway, ape bounces up-and-down on the top and knock everything askew…
Security? Naw, ‘Magila’ started chuckin’ barrels at em’…what that? You KNOW a GUY who can handle this?!? A PLUMBER?!?!
:D