Vintage set of the week: 12V Motor with Accessories Pack
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 702 12V Motor with Accessories Pack, released during 1969. It's one of 25 Trains sets produced that year. It contains 28 pieces.
It's owned by 94 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
54 likes
17 comments on this article
HashtagbringbackLegotrainstheme.
Oh goodie, the best toy there is; a motor. Not even bricks to make it look like a regular train car or even just a street vehicle? Just the base elements to have a motorized thing. It says, "with accessories," but choice of wheels hardly feels adequate.
Just further reminder that nobody has, yet, delivered on any promises to bring a 3rd party 9v train motor to market. Like rubbing salty lemon juice in the wound.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Oh goodie, the best toy there is; a motor. Not even bricks to make it look like a regular train car or even just a street vehicle? Just the base elements to have a motorized thing. It says, "with accessories," but choice of wheels hardly feels adequate."
Considering that this was one of twenty-five trains sets released that year (and that this was when Lego treated trains the same way Lionel and the like treated them, selling both complete sets and accessories to expand your layout), it wasn't *supposed* to be its own thing.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Oh goodie, the best toy there is; a motor. Not even bricks to make it look like a regular train car or even just a street vehicle? Just the base elements to have a motorized thing. It says, "with accessories," but choice of wheels hardly feels adequate."
Considering that this was one of twenty-five trains sets released that year (and that this was when Lego treated trains the same way Lionel and the like treated them, selling both complete sets and accessories to expand your layout), it wasn't *supposed* to be its own thing."
We need more sets like this. Not specifically trains, but parts specific to something such as vehicles, buildings.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Oh goodie, the best toy there is; a motor. Not even bricks to make it look like a regular train car or even just a street vehicle? Just the base elements to have a motorized thing. It says, "with accessories," but choice of wheels hardly feels adequate."
https://brickset.com/article/54997
I think I had this set but it was a long time ago and my recollection of it is a bit hazy.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Not even bricks to make it look like a regular train car or even just a street vehicle? Just the base elements to have a motorized thing."
Consider it as an auxiliary set where parts would be added to resp. used as an replacement for full models:
The wheel base of Locomotive 133 has been built to resemble the shape of the train motor. Therefore you could without any changes to the chassis add the electrical drive.
And - noawdays shockingly - it was up to the builder to figure out how to construct a coal tender-like structure to bring along the battery box.
Much more efficient than nowadays €150+, 700+ piece Motor with Accessories Packs.
@chefkaspa said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Not even bricks to make it look like a regular train car or even just a street vehicle? Just the base elements to have a motorized thing."
Consider it as an auxiliary set where parts would be added to resp. used as an replacement for full models:
The wheel base of Locomotive 133 has been built to resemble the shape of the train motor. Therefore you could without any changes to the chassis add the electrical drive.
And - noawdays shockingly - it was up to the builder to figure out how to construct a coal tender-like structure to bring along the battery box.
"
Some people don't understand that LEGO used to have service packs like this, where you could extend what you have by buying small kits rather than having to buy a whole set if you just wanted some of it. Service packs are no longer necessary with bricklink and LEGO's parts service, but back in the day were essential for anyone wanting to build beyond the set and required specific additional parts.
I wonder what the Venn Diagram looks like between “people who think modern Lego uses too many large specialised pieces with limited connections” and “people who think this large specialised piece with limited connections is Lego’s golden age”
@CCC said:
"Service packs are no longer necessary with bricklink and LEGO's parts service, but back in the day were essential for anyone wanting to build beyond the set and required specific additional parts."
Still, Bricklink is not something most customers will even know about, and availability (and pricing) is always an issue with Lego's parts service.
But even beyond that, to motorize a non-motorized set, you'll need more than just a motor, which makes ordering the neccessary pieces for someone new to this stuff all the more tricky. I'd argue it would still be very convenient if they would offer sets like this, available in stores. Like they still did with PF.
@Brickalili said:
"I wonder what the Venn Diagram looks like between “people who think modern Lego uses too many large specialised pieces with limited connections” and “people who think this large specialised piece with limited connections is Lego’s golden age”"
Well, Lego still offers a similar single piece train motor (though a bit more compact nowadays), so has anything really changed at all?
@Brickalili said:
"I wonder what the Venn Diagram looks like between “people who think modern Lego uses too many large specialised pieces with limited connections” and “people who think this large specialised piece with limited connections is Lego’s golden age”"
Pretty sure it's just a square.
@CCC said:
" @chefkaspa said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Not even bricks to make it look like a regular train car or even just a street vehicle? Just the base elements to have a motorized thing."
Consider it as an auxiliary set where parts would be added to resp. used as an replacement for full models:
The wheel base of Locomotive 133 has been built to resemble the shape of the train motor. Therefore you could without any changes to the chassis add the electrical drive.
And - noawdays shockingly - it was up to the builder to figure out how to construct a coal tender-like structure to bring along the battery box.
"
Some people don't understand that LEGO used to have service packs like this, where you could extend what you have by buying small kits rather than having to buy a whole set if you just wanted some of it. Service packs are no longer necessary with bricklink and LEGO's parts service, but back in the day were essential for anyone wanting to build beyond the set and required specific additional parts."
Some people don’t understand that it’s 1969. Back then giving a kid an electric motor was like giving one a nuclear powerplant today.
@WizardOfOss said:
" @CCC said:
"Service packs are no longer necessary with bricklink and LEGO's parts service, but back in the day were essential for anyone wanting to build beyond the set and required specific additional parts."
Still, Bricklink is not something most customers will even know about, and availability (and pricing) is always an issue with Lego's parts service.
But even beyond that, to motorize a non-motorized set, you'll need more than just a motor, which makes ordering the neccessary pieces for someone new to this stuff all the more tricky. I'd argue it would still be very convenient if they would offer sets like this, available in stores. Like they still did with PF."
Brickset users are not just customers though. I would expect people that have found brickset and jumped through the extra hurdle of joining would have more than a passing interest in LEGO. Ones that have been here many years should have heard of bricklink.
I got the successor to this set (with a black train base) as a kid, and boy, was I proud of my train just running circles all by itself!