Vintage set of the week: Red Bricks
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 930 Red Bricks, released during 1973. It's one of 12 Basic sets produced that year. It contains 45 pieces.
It's owned by 63 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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Where is the roof?
What are we supposed to do? Use our imagination?
Forget the roof, there's only enough pieces to make three walls of a house!
Red bricks? Don't even need to beat the stages anymore to unlock the cheats, smh.
My favorite color!
But not my favorite LEGO color; that honor goes to Dark Azure!
I didn't know they had Yogscast Lewis design the new Minecraft set
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Where is the roof?
What are we supposed to do? Use our imagination?"
When this set came out in 1973, using your imagination was still allowed. So was creativity. In this situation, you’d get a piece of cardboard, cut and fold it to shape, and make a roof.
Clearly an interpretation of Rievaulx Abbey, don’t know why they felt the need to draw a roof like that
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Where is the roof?
What are we supposed to do? Use our imagination?"
Perhaps get another Lego, like 934 Roof Bricks, 45° or 935 Roof Bricks, 33°? Both of them also released in 1973
Hmm....seems TLG was being roofless even back then.....:-))
Useful pieces, but that's about all there is to it.
One thing I noticed: it's all even numbers of pieces, except for the seven 3x2 bricks. So basically ending up with in total a 171x2 line of bricks. Somehow that feels weird, as if a piece is missing. Or is that just my OCD?
Drawn roof sold separately.
The 12 Basic Sets of that year made a very good way to make the fundamental buildings you wanted, without the obligatory rainbow of colours of todays Basic Sets!
@sjr60 said:
"The 12 Basic Sets of that year made a very good way to make the fundamental buildings you wanted, without the obligatory rainbow of colours of todays Basic Sets!"
When I looked them up this morning I was quite impressed. Those that have a price listed are £0.52. Not sure how much it compares to a monthly salary then, but looks very affordable
@myth said:
" @sjr60 said:
"The 12 Basic Sets of that year made a very good way to make the fundamental buildings you wanted, without the obligatory rainbow of colours of todays Basic Sets!"
When I looked them up this morning I was quite impressed. Those that have a price listed are £0.52. Not sure how much it compares to a monthly salary then, but looks very affordable
"
£0.52 is around £5 in today's money, so not much has changed in the pricing department.
And The average weekly wage in 1973 was £41.90 for a man and £23.10 for a woman, compared to £517 combined for both in 2013.
I still feel like this style of packaging feels weirdly modern. I guess it's just the simplicity of it.
You know, I generally would prefer to get fewer colours at a time in a bulk brick acquisition... but this is quite extreme.
They sure are red bricks.
@Adrienn said:
" @myth said:
" @sjr60 said:
"The 12 Basic Sets of that year made a very good way to make the fundamental buildings you wanted, without the obligatory rainbow of colours of todays Basic Sets!"
When I looked them up this morning I was quite impressed. Those that have a price listed are £0.52. Not sure how much it compares to a monthly salary then, but looks very affordable
"
£0.52 is around £5 in today's money, so not much has changed in the pricing department."
Yes, although people like to clutch their pearls at the cost of Lego, it really is no more expensive now than it's always been. The only difference is that in the 60s and 70s by far the most popular Lego was the basic general building sets so it really was 'a new toy every day' and as such was a bit of a bargain. It's only expensive now because people want 'a new set every day'!
@Brickalili said:
"Clearly an interpretation of Rievaulx Abbey, don’t know why they felt the need to draw a roof like that "
Nah, it's Harrenhal. The walls are still glowing red from the dragonfire.
@Shadowcloner said:
"Red bricks? Don't even need to beat the stages anymore to unlock the cheats, smh. "
Only legends will understand!
And by legends, I mean literally anyone who has played a Traveler's Tales LEGO video game.
Even in 1973 I would have been underwhelmed to receive this. My eleven year old self needed a lot more bricks than that.
No police. No firefighters.. No bad guys. No plot. No story. Boooring…
@Iltbrand said:
"No police. No firefighters.. No bad guys. No plot. No story. Boooring…"
The bad guy was a crooked cop who murdered children and painted his house with their blood. Their parents tracked him down and burned him alive in his house (that is why it is missing the roof, door, window and wall). The firemen knew what was happening and stopped a block away.
You need 60134-1 and 6307 (sold separately) to complete the story.
Fixed it for you.
I heard these sold really well in Russia.
@kdu2814 said:
" @Iltbrand said:
"No police. No firefighters.. No bad guys. No plot. No story. Boooring…"
The bad guy was a crooked cop who murdered children and painted his house with their blood. Their parents tracked him down and burned him alive in his house (that is why it is missing the roof, door, window and wall). The firemen knew what was happening and stopped a block away.
You need 60134-1 and 6307 (sold separately) to complete the story.
Fixed it for you."
Where the heck are you when Fabuland sets turn up?