Random set of the day: Riding Stables
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 5855 Riding Stables, released during 1997. It's one of 6 Belville sets produced that year. It contains 148 pieces and 3 minifigs.
It's owned by 108 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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You might be thinking, where are the stables?
This image is only part of the set. The full set is here: https://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/SL/5855-1.png
Riding stables would make you certifiably unstable.
Evidently not an image of the actual set, given that this has 148 pieces yet I only see like a dozen in this photo. Going to the set page and scrolling down to the photos in the eBay results are the closest I can get on the Brickset site to seeing what the actual set looks like, which is dramatically different from the impression given in this image here.
You know what? I was going to comment on how those girls are riding on their night-mares, with their stabbing lances in hand, but I'm not going to do that. Today, it's all sweetness and love. So, um...look at the flowers! Wait, none of these girls is named Lizzie, are they?
So a regular minifig is only going to come up to the top of those horses’ legs, right? Such impressively massive steeds!
Those "minifigures" still haunt me to this day. I don't know what LEGO was thinking with making creepy "LEGO" dolls.
Those horses are cute tho...
@Robot99 said:
"Evidently not an image of the actual set, given that this has 148 pieces yet I only see like a dozen in this photo. Going to the set page and scrolling down to the photos in the eBay results are the closest I can get on the Brickset site to seeing what the actual set looks like, which is dramatically different from the impression given in this image here."
Or you can open the 1997 catalog with this set and see the full one. There also is Paradisa there which I think is just better than Belville or Friends.
Whoops, seems like I opened the wrong website....sorry guys, I'm off to Brickset,
I like the background on this image. It's so 90s lego.
It's starting to get a bit iffy how many sets don't have a clear image because instruction scans are used. If it hadn't been for the excellent help of Maxbricks14, I might have thought this was it. Can't those images be sourced somewhere else?
There is an image of the box at https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=5855-1&name=Riding%20Stables&category=%5BBelville%5D%5BRecreation%5DT=S&O={%22iconly%22:0} but mainly fencing and base bricks so I would call it a paddock.
@Maxbricks14 said:
"You might be thinking, where are the stables?
This image is only part of the set. The full set is here: https://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/SL/5855-1.png"
Yeah. The image on the post is from the instructions, not the box.
I guess we know what they are having for dinner.