It bothers me more than it should that all the appliances are minifig sized, but in the wrong way.

The way the Mom is looking at the kid seems like she might give in to the hunger and eat her...

Id love to see a line like this again but proper minifigure scale with regular minifigures.

I never had these as a kid (I was 5 when this one came out), but I saw elements of them in the 212 Idea Book from the 1970s and it was always like a fascinating parallel universe to my young self, because I didn't have any of the specialized parts from those sets.

A couple of years ago I parted together the 981 spaceship from 1979, I love that its control "computer" is a light gray version of that 1x4 white stove-front brick from this set.

The retro minifigs never fail to hold me in wonder. Maybe Lego should release a retro minifigs 6 pack XD

@Lewa8439 said:
"The way the Mom is looking at the kid seems like she might give in to the hunger and eat her..."

Well the way the child’s skirt is built into her like that does kinda make it look like she has the lower half of an octopus, and calamari is pretty tasty…

One of the lego sets were the parts stay popular for kids because of all the cupboards. When lego building with my daughter she will always make use of at least one cupboard

The girl in the photo is today 58yo at least. Anyway, the release of this set nowadays is unreal because of its stereotypes.

@Brickalili said:
"Well the way the child’s skirt is built into her like that does kinda make it look like she has the lower half of an octopus, and calamari is pretty tasty…"

Wouldn't have expected some weird tentacle stuff here.....Brickset isn't what it used to be anymore ;-)

Those stove prints showed up in light gray on the One-Man Spaceship from 1979. Fun to see it here in its original usage.

@Brickodillo said:
"One of the lego sets were the parts stay popular for kids because of all the cupboards. When lego building with my daughter she will always make use of at least one cupboard"

Talking of cupboards it's been a long time since modular buildings had proper cupboards from memory Assembly Square probably the last one

When you look at the whole range of Homemaker sets you can build a pretty well equipped doll house, using 232 Bungalow for its basis. But sets like today’s are unfortunately using the baseplate which would complicate building extra floors on the top

@Ridgeheart said:
"Oh goodie, it's the old tiles without groove. Of course, this makes them extra realistic; much like the tiles in your actual kitchen, you will need powertools and sustained cursing if you ever attempt to remove these things.

@Euroseb11 said:
"The retro minifigs never fail to hold me in wonder. Maybe Lego should release a retro minifigs 6 pack XD"

The Homemakers are the stuff of nightmares. You are off my Christmas-list forever.

I hate Homemakers. I hate everything about this set. Well - okay, that fridge is pretty good. I hate ALMOST everything about this set."

The cupboards and oven are good or a kitchen MOCs.

@Ridgeheart said:
"Oh goodie, it's the old tiles without groove. Of course, this makes them extra realistic; much like the tiles in your actual kitchen, you will need powertools and sustained cursing if you ever attempt to remove these things."

I’ve just sorted through a £10 bulk lot which I bought because I could see the windows from 6372, and it has 90% of the parts from this Kitchen set, the 2x2 tiles are all WITH grooves, but the 1x1 tiles are without grooves.

My sister had this, the living room and the bathroom (both of which were awful for STAMPS). I remember I used to use the blue base plates for boating lakes etc. I would also "borrow" the tiles as in those days in other ranges (at least in sets I had) tiles were novelty.

@Zordboy said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Zordboy said:
"It bothers me more than it should that all the appliances are minifig sized, but in the wrong way. "

"How To Cook Minifigs""

"Wait! There's some dust on the cover! It actually says 'How to Cook For Minifigs'!""

Waitaminnit! "How To Cook Forty Minifigs"

@Ridgeheart:
Sledgehammers also work for removing kitchen tile. Probably a bit too aggressive if you want to save the subflooring in this one, though.

Regarding baseplates, if you rest a standard baseplate with a fully studded surface on a layer of studs, the top of the baseplate sits flush with a layer of plates attached to the same surface. The dimples on the underside of each stud will very loosely nest on top of the studs below. The cavities inside of those studs are not large enough to fit a bar, so attaching nipple tiles will require jamming them in hard enough to leave visible damage on the underside of the baseplate (it might even show on top). And unless the baseplate sits with a half-plate gap over the tile surface, this will result in a height mismatch.

I've built two MOCs that specifically rely on the ability to nest a baseplate on a layer of studs. One is an old Moonbase module that incorporates an old raised baseplate on top of a 48 light-grey by building cliff sides up and capping the edge to trap it there. The other is my LEGO Store, which uses eight clear 16x16 baseplates to form the roof so it has functional skylights. In this case, I used brackets and a ring of plates to tie the roof into the wall. It's strong enough that I can lift the entire structure up by the roof.

Oooh, it is the same age as me…I am vintage!

I would have loved this as a kid; my friends seemed to have only space Lego, and approximately one zillion yellow pieces.

Chrome faucet.

I have this set.
I inherited it from an older cousin and never knew it was an actual set until I started reading Brickset.
The blue base was generally used as a swimming pool for my Fabuland town.

Am I the only one that misses those printed element from above the oven, and in from of the fan/'hood'? I had a couple in grey with my old 918: Space Transport...also, miss the arms and hands from these type of figures.

In the old days when all you needed was a cooker and sink, before microwaves, air-fried cookers, dishwashers, washing machines and fridges, left you no space for cupboards to store all the tins you are never going to open.

I wonder how you stop the cupboards, table and chairs sliding around, although the figures cannot sit down so chairs just to frustrate them.

Looks like stud-shaming was already around 50 years ago. Didn't know that!