Vintage set of the week: House
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is WEETABIX3 House, released during 1976. It's one of 15 Basic sets produced that year. It contains 140 pieces.
It's owned by 145 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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Odd picture, but that is the box art. Promotional sets don't get the best treatment I guess.
I quite like this set though. Went well with the other weetabix promotions: https://brickset.com/article/25845/lego-weetabix-promotions
House
Is that an outhouse with a glass door? What kind of freaky exhibitionism are these folks into?
Are we sure this isn't just some kind of facade being put forth by Weetabix?
For a second I thought that person with the black hair had an unreleased hair piece but it was just the pigtail part side on.
That doesn't look like it's part of a nutritious breakfast at all
@TheOtherMike said:
"Is that an outhouse with a glass door? What kind of freaky exhibitionism are these folks into?"
"Hey, you wanna watch, go right ahead. But you're gonna regret it..."
...in the middle of "Street"...
Isn't he a doctor?
I love that random red door. It’s like a portal into another dimension. So randomly weird. Is this some kind of outdoor art? “Outdoor”, get it? ;-)
@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J said:
"I love that random red door. It’s like a portal into another dimension. So randomly weird. Is this some kind of outdoor art? “Outdoor”, get it? ;-)"
I'm guessing it's a red telephone box.
The only (and probably first full Lego set) Weetabix set i got was 1484 in 1987 and by then they had settled their models into much more sensible and developed layouts (just don't pay too much attention to how spare the interiors are haha). Still my favourite to rebuilt for nostalgia reasons. Also doubles as a set to build a Weetabix character (probably Dunk or Crunch. I'll build him and post on Discord)
Yes, this is a pretty weak house, why d’ya ask?
Whazzat? Week house? No, I don’t think it’ll last a week. It’s one light breeze away from becoming kindling.
Yellow legs on a proto fig? Quite obscure!
This is not my beautiful House!
13 Grimmauld Place is gonna squeeze its way out the middle of those two any second now
This is art.
@Maxbricks14 said:
" @LuvsLEGO_Cool_J said:
"I love that random red door. It’s like a portal into another dimension. So randomly weird. Is this some kind of outdoor art? “Outdoor”, get it? ;-)"
I'm guessing it's a red telephone box."
Yep - 2 doors back to back. I had to eat a lot Weetabix to collect all these sets
@Harmonious_Building said:
"That doesn't look like it's part of a nutritious breakfast at all"
As a kid on our annual holiday in England I thought Weetabix looked (and likely tasted) like shredded and pressed-together wood chippings, but our English best friend's mum loved the stuff, and in her later years pretty much exclusively ate it.
She went on to live until the age of 99, passing away just a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday!
Can't have been too unhealthy after all I guess.
@Tupperfan said:
"...in the middle of "Street"..."
Our house, was our castle and our keep!
"This is Blasphemy! This is Madness!"
"- No, this is Lego!"
For the fist time I notice the red telephone booth outside. Fun detail. Very British.
Have this set myself. Think I recently packed it away...
@Ridgeheart said:
"The eyes can mislead, the smile can lie, but the shoes always tell the truth."
And, hands. Hands don't lie.
@Atuin said:
"Yellow legs on a proto fig? Quite obscure!"
Even if that is a telephone box, not an outhouse, that fig is still an exhibitionist, walking around without pants on like that...
@StyleCounselor said:" @Ridgeheart said:"The eyes can mislead, the smile can lie, but the shoes always tell the truth."
And, hands. Hands don't lie."
Nor do hips. But hands can lie, if you know sign language.
'Our house, is a very very very fine house...'
The red-haired one isn't wearing pants.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @Atuin said:
"Yellow legs on a proto fig? Quite obscure!"
Even if that is a telephone box, not an outhouse, that fig is still an exhibitionist, walking around without pants on like that...
@StyleCounselor said:" @Ridgeheart said:"The eyes can mislead, the smile can lie, but the shoes always tell the truth."
And, hands. Hands don't lie."
Nor do hips."
Nor tears, apparently.
@StyleCounselor said:
"This is not my beautiful House!"
This is not my beautiful wife!
@kdu2814 said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"This is not my beautiful House!"
This is not my beautiful wife!"
Just what I expect from the comments. Same as it ever was.
@Murdoch17 said:
"'Our house, is a very very very fine house...'"
I don't see any cats, though.
@AustinPowers said:
" @Harmonious_Building said:
"That doesn't look like it's part of a nutritious breakfast at all"
As a kid on our annual holiday in England I thought Weetabix looked (and likely tasted) like shredded and pressed-together wood chippings, but our English best friend's mum loved the stuff, and in her later years pretty much exclusively ate it.
She went on to live until the age of 99, passing away just a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday!
Can't have been too unhealthy after all I guess. "
It is still the best selling breakfast cereal here. Low calorie, low sugar, reasonably high fibre, so a lot better than many other breakfast products.
@CCC said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @Harmonious_Building said:
"That doesn't look like it's part of a nutritious breakfast at all"
As a kid on our annual holiday in England I thought Weetabix looked (and likely tasted) like shredded and pressed-together wood chippings, but our English best friend's mum loved the stuff, and in her later years pretty much exclusively ate it.
She went on to live until the age of 99, passing away just a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday!
Can't have been too unhealthy after all I guess. "
It is still the best selling breakfast cereal here. Low calorie, low sugar, reasonably high fibre, so a lot better than many other breakfast products. "
No doubt.
But for me as a kid it just couldn't compete with the products from Kelloggs (of course especially geared towards the tastes of children), like Frosties, Smacks, etc.
Then again, our best friend worked at a Unilever factory where they produced a very tasty muesli at the time, which I loved to combine with Frosties. What a grrreat way to start a day. Thank you Tony ;-)
@Jackthenipper said:
" @kdu2814 said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"This is not my beautiful House!"
This is not my beautiful wife!"
Just what I expect from the comments. Same as it ever was.
"
Same as it ever... was.
@AustinPowers said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @Atuin said:
"Yellow legs on a proto fig? Quite obscure!"
Even if that is a telephone box, not an outhouse, that fig is still an exhibitionist, walking around without pants on like that...
@StyleCounselor said:" @Ridgeheart said:"The eyes can mislead, the smile can lie, but the shoes always tell the truth."
And, hands. Hands don't lie."
Nor do hips."
Nor tears, apparently. "
Tears almost always lie. Hips never do.
@StyleCounselor said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @Atuin said:
"Yellow legs on a proto fig? Quite obscure!"
Even if that is a telephone box, not an outhouse, that fig is still an exhibitionist, walking around without pants on like that...
@StyleCounselor said:" @Ridgeheart said:"The eyes can mislead, the smile can lie, but the shoes always tell the truth."
And, hands. Hands don't lie."
Nor do hips."
Nor tears, apparently. "
Tears almost always lie."
Mark 'Oh would like to have a word.
As would Michael Holm...
:-)
Well... @Tupperfan beat me to my fave reference/song...and sooo many other good ones here too...but the obvious one is missing (and to re-lyric "the Commodores")
Ow, It's a briiick hooouse
It's mighty-mighty, just lettin' it all hang out
It's a briiick hooouse
It's neatly stacked and that's a fact
Ain't holding nothing back
:D
Also: @GSR_MataNui: Yes...somethingsomething, NOT LUPUS!...:)
@AustinPowers said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @Atuin said:
"Yellow legs on a proto fig? Quite obscure!"
Even if that is a telephone box, not an outhouse, that fig is still an exhibitionist, walking around without pants on like that...
@StyleCounselor said:" @Ridgeheart said:"The eyes can mislead, the smile can lie, but the shoes always tell the truth."
And, hands. Hands don't lie."
Nor do hips."
Nor tears, apparently. "
Tears almost always lie."
Mark 'Oh would like to have a word.
As would Michael Holm...
:-) "
Sentimental saps. They always get caught in the web of tears.
This has honestly aged pretty well considering it's age, excluding the figs. I could imagine it being a suggested build in a 2000s creator set like 4406
This solves a mystery for me. I have all those pieces and always wondered what set they came from. I would have been 4 so my parents must have got it by eating lots of cereal. ??