Vintage set of the week: Mobile Site Office
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 646 Mobile Site Office, released during 1971. It's one of 27 LEGOLAND sets produced that year. It contains 51 pieces.
It's owned by 302 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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That menacing sticker is blocking half the office. And it can't be taken off either without ruining the box art.
I...really don't think this is how you're supposed to do "work from home".
guess we'll never know what office looked like...
With the sticker, I thought this was another vintage train set. And only then did I realise, oh, the front is the back and the back is the front of the truck.
Nowadays this would be super badass truck with secret compartments and folding platforms and whatnot
(I'm probably thinking too much about 7288, which was one of my first sets)
My favourite theme. Got all of the Legoland miniwheel scale buildings and vehicles of 1971, although this was probably the weekest set of the year!
Love those clever boxes.
Just a cut-price caravan
@Worrissey said:
"guess we'll never know what office looked like..."
Or you could look at the images on bricklink.
Looks a bit like a train caboose. Who steals a train caboose?
@MCLegoboy said:
"Looks a bit like a train caboose. Who steals a train caboose?"
somewhere out there, somebody has probably done that. And it probably involved a large amount of beer, and / or addictive substances. If people can take NYC subway cars for a high-speed joyride*, then they can probably steal a caboose. (yes, that has happened several times in NYC. I was just reading an TRAINS magazine article on it a few weeks back!)
*Don't try this at home! I'm not responsible if you do try and drive a subway car through your house!
@PurpleDave said:
"I...really don't think this is how you're supposed to do "work from home"."
More like home from work.
Even with only prints this set is marred by a sticker.....
@Murdoch17 said:
"If people can take NYC subway cars for a high-speed joyride*, then they can probably steal a caboose. (yes, that has happened several times in NYC. I was just reading an TRAINS magazine article on it a few weeks back!)"
79104.
Isn't it so cute and blocky? So many memories, and good ones, come back to me with such a picture...
@Zordboy said:
"With the sticker, I thought this was another vintage train set. And only then did I realise, oh, the front is the back and the back is the front of the truck. "
I saw the name first, but though that the truck was pulling some kind of desk before I realized that there was a stcker.
@sjr60 said:"My favourite theme. Got all of the Legoland miniwheel scale buildings and vehicles of 1971, although this was probably the weekest set of the year! "
I'm not usually one to call people out on misspellings, but yes, this is a "week" set, since it's shown up in this feature!
Do site offices come on wheels? More caravan for touring circus maybe. Only interesting item is the 1971 version of the brick with the Legoland print 3010p30 is unique to this set, before replaced with 3010pr9965 in other sets until 1975 (upside down middle pin now unsupported).
@ambr said:
"Do site offices come on wheels? More caravan for touring circus maybe. Only interesting item is the 1971 version of the brick with the Legoland print 3010p30 is unique to this set, before replaced with 3010pr9965 in other sets until 1975 (upside down middle pin now unsupported)."
More like a construction trailer I'd say. Pretty common.