Vintage set of the week: Large house set
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 15 Large house set, released during 1973. It's one of 10 Minitalia sets produced that year. It contains 157 pieces.
It's owned by 31 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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Pretty small by today's standards
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Pretty small by today's standards"
Especially after 70922!
If it's in the Minitalia theme, wouldn't it be mini?
You keep saying this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Ooh, another 2-digit set number!
Imagine 157 pieces today being considered a large set.
That kid is nearly 60 today.
I don't think I'd ever seen those window pieces before; I like them. Tempted to track some down on Bricklink.
It’s not a large “set”, it’s the Large house compared to the Small house, set 14 issued the same year.
@Luthercpa said:
"It’s not a large “set”, it’s the Large house compared to the Small house, set 14 issued the same year."
14-3? I'm pretty sure that thing is a shoe, and some old woman is running an illegal orphanage out of it.
@TheOtherMike said:
"I don't think I'd ever seen those window pieces before; I like them. Tempted to track some down on Bricklink."
They are interesting. They aren't quite as wonderful as I had hoped because the shutter tabs are very big and they aren't compatible with standard shutters. But the pane pattern is unique.
Minitalia was a brand sold exclusively in Italy, and the reasons for its existence and uniqueness are still murky. The standard story is that it had something to do with import restrictions, but that's also disputed. The bricks are of lesser quality plastic than standard Lego. The basic design for the door and window are the only ideas that survived from Minitalia, but even then they were modified when re-incorporated back into standard Lego.
Cool to see a Minitalia set featured. Those doors and windows were prototypes for the Lego Town ones that debuted with minifigures in 1978. Minitalia bricks also have different tubes/anti-studs than regular Lego bricks. And they featured some parts in green (like slopes) that would not appear in regular Lego sets in that color for many years.
Wow didn't know the Fence also existed in green
As I own some of these sets from my childhood I asure you that the quality is total crap.
Not that large a house, but at least the door seems large enough of minifigs! That was some forward thinking!
Not sure anything about that house particularly screams “Italy” to me
Mamma mia!
Mind the step.
Green fences!? Scandalous...?
Interesting to read about Minitalia. My knowlegde of that era is not the greatest and I knew about the theme but had no idea what made it its own thing. Apparently it was quality. 'Det bedste er ikke for godt'' only was for whatever happened in Denmark long before the chinese outsourcing ca 2010, then. I still have those first CMFs...
...Our house, is a very very very fine house,
with two bricks in the yard,
life used to be so hard,
now everything is easy because of you...
(with apologies to Crosby Stills and Nash for modifying their song)
A set with actual playspace. I miss those
@Murdoch17 said:
"...Our house, is a very very very fine house,
with two bricks in the yard,
life used to be so hard,
now everything is easy because of you...
(with apologies to Crosby Stills and Nash for modifying their song)"
I think you owe apologies to Neil Young, for leaving him out of the band. Only the first album was CS&N, while this was on the second album when they became CSN&Y.
The green fences were only released in Minitalia sets, 4 of them. Prices are not bad on Bricklink.