Vintage set of the week: Village Set
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 380 Village Set, released during 1971. It's one of 27 LEGOLAND sets produced that year. It contains 485 pieces.
It's owned by 35 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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I get that he likes Lego, I certainly do, but not enough to hug it!
This village seems to only have at minimum 5 citizens, and one of them managed to get in an accident so bad, that they're being taken to the hospital, while their burning car has been put out by the fire department, and now being towed away. What happened? Only the giant knows.
Is the house on the right open in the back so you can play inside of it? Play inside of it _with_what_? It has no minifigs, and what I can see of the interior doesn't look like it has any furniture either.
I choose to believe that the person who named this set could see into the future and knew that the set they were naming would one day be chosen for a Vintage Set feature, decided they liked the sound of that, and leaned into it.
Superb. My 69-70 childhood. Had all of these as individual sets. (603-3, 347-1, 346-2 , 344-1) Legoland at its magnificent best.
@Maxbricks14 said:
"I get that he likes Lego, I certainly do, but not enough to hug it!"
"You know, Sid, I really like LEGO. ...I mean, I know that's not profound or nothin', ... Heck! We all do ... But for me, I think it goes far beyond that".
I see 'The Village'...but I fail to see 'The People'...Theory: Either they're "In The Navy", or staying at the "Y.M.C.A."...:D
The house on the left was the prototype for 4886
This was an early multi-set set, in that it combined four existing small sets along with a few of the granulated trees to give a larger all-in-one playset.
@MCLegoboy said:
"This village seems to only have at minimum 5 citizens, and one of them managed to get in an accident so bad, that they're being taken to the hospital, while their burning car has been put out by the fire department, and now being towed away. What happened? Only the giant knows."
Only show Legoland has always been an extremely dangerous country. Luckily this village doesn't appear to be as much of a crime infested hellhole as Lego City....
All jokes aside, I do quite like that yellow car!
So is this an early example of a Value Pack or more something like Dacta?
It clearly is made up of several smaller sets which were also sold separately. This also raises the piece count to unusual heights of it's time...
Hard to believe 485 pieces could build something of that size. Nowadays, you barely build a car with that piece count.
I must have Christmas on the mind--I saw "village" and added "winter" without seeing the pictures.
Once again getting strong vibes of those bonus levels in the early TT Lego games where the goal was to walk about scenes like this blowing up as much of it as possible :D
"Where am I?"
"In the Village."
@brick_r said:
"I see 'The Village'...but I fail to see 'The People'...Theory: Either they're "In The Navy", or staying at the "Y.M.C.A."...:D "
Or they just don't want you, they don't want you, they don't want you as a new recruit...
@Brickalili said:
"Once again getting strong vibes of those bonus levels in the early TT Lego games where the goal was to walk about scenes like this blowing up as much of it as possible :D"
Wait, they actually intended for us to do that? I thought I was just putting it out of its misery, like Old Yeller.
I have the composite sets, but not the amalgam. Seems difficult to find.