Vintage set of the week: 23 sloping bricks, including roof peak bricks, Red
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 980 23 sloping bricks, including roof peak bricks, Red, released during 1969. It's one of 31 System sets produced that year. It contains 23 pieces.
It's owned by 59 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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peak slope slop
Could the description be any longer?
these sort of sets, are a slippery slope
roof slope addiction
2025 LEGO: Relive the exciting adventures from your favourite movie or video game in detailed and action-packed sets!
1969 LEGO: You get 23 slope bricks. Also they are all the same colour.
And the beauty of this is that is fits within the system then as it does today. So as long as they're in good condition, Lego bricks are timeless!
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Could the description be any longer?"
They forgot to mention that they’re textured!
The roof
The roof
The roof looks like fire
This really is peak Lego
Tsk, full of special pieces, what's wrong with simple bricks eh?
Sadly 50% change these brick lost their shape and can't be used to build.
@Euroseb11 said:
"And the beauty of this is that is fits within the system then as it does today. So as long as they're in good condition, Lego bricks are timeless! "
I guess you never had bricks from that era.
From everything I have experienced, bricks from before the early to mid Seventies were of notoriously bad quality, well known for warping or otherwise losing their shape. Almost none of the pieces I inherited from my uncle (from sets from the late Fifties to late Sixties) are usable anymore due to warping.
Otoh, all the pieces from my childhood, beginning with sets from the late Seventies, are still perfectly usable. The only issue with some of those is heavy yellowing, especially on white, blue and light grey pieces (the usual offenders).
And while the well known method for retrobriting using UV light in combination with hydrogen peroxide can sometimes work miracles on yellowed pieces, it can in some cases destroy the bricks. I have lost quite a few of my yellowed blue pieces that way, since the retrobriting made them brittle and lose most of their original colour.
Yup, also still got a lot of those old bricks and slopes, and many turned into curved pieces, got brittle, or both. Also seemed to depend on color, with red and blue pieces seemingly the worst, the white and black pieces generally fine, and yellow very much a mixed bag. Though maybe those were just a bit newer and thus better. Oh, and certainly don't expect any clutch power from any piece.....
8 Year old me: I see what this* is for but I'd never buy this. I want cars!
41 year old me: They have to bring these parts packs back! I need buildings!
Obvously, these parts packs didn't sell enough to be continued =/
*as applied to a later yet similar product.
@Harmonious_Building said:
"2025 LEGO: Relive the exciting adventures from your favourite movie or video game in detailed and action-packed sets!
1969 LEGO: You get 23 slope bricks. Also they are all the same colour. "
"In MY day, we had to build our IPs ourselves--up the slopes both ways! And we liked it that way!"
I don't know if there's any in red, but I wouldn't be shocked if there's an IP (or at least an Icons/Creator expert) set that has all the pieces from this parts pack nestled within its parts list like an inadvertent Easter egg.
@Brickalili said:
"This really is peak Lego"
Only two of the four types of piece included are peaks. The other two can be built atop of, so they're somewhere below the peak.
@Formendacil said:"I don't know if there's any in red, but I wouldn't be shocked if there's an IP (or at least an Icons/Creator expert) set that has all the pieces from this parts pack nestled within its parts list like an inadvertent Easter egg."
I wasn't sure if the two "peak" pieces I mentioned were still in production, but according to Rebrickable, the 2x2 still is, and the 2x4 was in use until last year. So the possibility exists, but I wouldn't bet on it.
There was also a blue pack with the same number 980-2 and the far out corner pieces in 981-1 . Trying to figure out how to use all the pieces, need to build a roof 12 wide following pattern 2-4-4-2 4-4-4 2-4-4-2 4-4-4 2-4-4-2 then peak 4-2-2-4 leaving one peak 4 unused? That also only gives you a 5 brick high one sided roof, really need another row for a 3 brick high roof on both sides.