Vintage set of the week: Payloader
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 410 Payloader, released during 1973. It's one of 28 LEGOLAND sets produced that year. It contains 26 pieces.
It's owned by 358 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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So it loads money?
what is that bar code looking icon next to the Lego Logo?
It's asking you to fork over the dough, it don't work for free.
Friday payday!!
Mine came 2 years earlier as 604-2 Excavator! Also on 682-1.
@DaLegoNerd1 said:
"what is that bar code looking icon next to the Lego Logo?"
It was the huge variety of brick colours back then. At least they normally managed to keep so few colours pretty consistent!
I'm not paying loader anything if they're using that dinky little thing.
@DaLegoNerd1 said:
"what is that bar code looking icon next to the Lego Logo?"
Way, way back when they first started making plastic bricks, the color palette was quite varied. At some point, the wife of either Ole Kirk or his son suggested that they reduce the number of colors to those favored by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (said wife being a fan of his work). After this suggestion was implemented, they added that to the boxes to show the five colors that remained in production for basic bricks. Green was still around, but saw very limited use for stuff like 10x20 "brick-plates" and probably a few plants.
This was a cool little set. Still have it. From just before the faceless minifigs appeared, as I recall. That shovel piece seemed very special.
Pay up!!!
"Random" trifecta! I own all three! :-)
Look how clear those windows are.
I wish LEGO would make them today like they did in 1973.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Maxbricks14:
@TheOtherMike:
I hold off on buying a lot of stuff Day 1either because I'm still working through the backlog of other stuff I didn't buy at launch, or because I try to save purchases for choice GWPs. For S26, I actually passed on them the first two times I found them in the wild, because they'd already been picked over. Third time, a fresh case had just been put out that day, and it was still full. So I bought it.
@gromit6:
71046 references Classic Space with the logo, but isn't really based on the OG Space minifigs themselves. The spacesuit is very similar to 71011-2. The MMU pack may be intended to resemble the one from Blacktron II.
71046-3 is the second classic Grey they've produced, after 8827.
71046-4 pairs well with 71018-11.
71046-6 is Baby Lenny from 70841. And a robot nurse.
71046-9 references the old computer slopes with the text computer screen on its chest.
71046-5 is M-Tron, 71046-8 is Ice Planet 2002, 71046-10 is one of the bugs from Galaxy Squad, and 71046-12 is Blacktron II.
Those are all the references I'm aware of at the moment."
What filler. Need a mechanical shovel to get rid of it.
The image is a bit noisy with all the background clutter. The sets linked by sjr60 is a lot cleaner in comparison (604-2 and 682-1)
one from my childhood ^_^ brb time to go rebuild this one
@MCLegoboy said:
"It's asking you to fork over the dough, it don't work for free."
"Asking you to fork over the dough" describes my experience with an awful lot of LEGO sets. This actually looks like it might treat me more gently in that department.
That hinge connection for the shovel has got to be the longest running hinge connection type still in use? I’m always happy when I find it in new sets.
This was my second set. I got it on my 6th birthday in 1972.
With 351 and the taxi.
@560heliport said:
""Random" trifecta! I own all three! :-)"
That's something that will never happen to me on a day that has the VSotW, unless I go out and buy an old set on the secondary market. And most, if not all, of the sets that old that I want have already been VSotW.
@DaLegoNerd1 said:
"what is that bar code looking icon next to the Lego Logo?"
It's one of Lego's branding logos used from 60s to 80s - it represents the colours of bricks available at that time. They also did flagpoles with this logo as stickers - see 6316 or 1065 for printed sets, or sets that contain the blank flagpole, part number 3596
@Maxbricks14 said "So it loads money?"
To me it sounds like it can only be used for ore-containing paydirt, while it won't work well with overburden or topsoil. I'd guess it means the scoop can be raised high enough to deposit the contents into a dumper or processing plant rather than just pushing it into a heap or over a cliff, but OTOH I'd think that would be the very definition of a loader as opposed to for instance a bulldozer. Maybe it's just a name that has stuck out of habit, similar to "steamroller".
@PurpleDave - every time someone mentions the (IMO incredibly dull) "Mondrian palette", I keep reading it as "Mandalorian palette" - maybe something like light grey, dark grey, dark tan, dark red and sand green, which would be quite a bit better.
@axeleng said:
" @PurpleDave - every time someone mentions the (IMO incredibly dull) "Mondrian palette", I keep reading it as "Mandalorian palette" - maybe something like light grey, dark grey, dark tan, dark red and sand green, which would be quite a bit better."
Except their armor is so varied in color that Jango only has one or two of those colors on his armor. Even Boba Fett didn't have any dark-red on his armor until his third appearance in Ep6. His first appearance (Holiday Special) arguably only used light-grey/light-bley from that list.
@PurpleDave - I guess it's not in any way complete or accurate - it was more an attempt at picking 5 reasonably prominent colors from the sets (I haven't seen the show) which looked good together.
@axeleng said:
" @PurpleDave - I guess it's not in any way complete or accurate - it was more an attempt at picking 5 reasonably prominent colors from the sets (I haven't seen the show) which looked good together."
I haven't seen either of the streaming series (because there's two, remember), but I've seen the sets, and frequently see Hasbro action figures in the toy aisles. The Clone Wars stuff all hewed towards Jango's color scheme, I believe, but later stuff was quite varied. Compare 7914 to 75267.