Vintage set of the week: Small house set
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 14 Small house set, released during 1973. It's one of 10 Minitalia sets produced that year. It contains 93 pieces.
It's owned by 25 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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'Tiny house' would have been a more fitting name.
That's quite the step just to get inside. Strong foundations are good to build a home, but they don't have to poke so far out of the ground.
Minitalia looks like a village established before Legoland.
Who can say where the residents went?
It's a mystery.
Those windows are so cool! I also need some of that green lattice fencing.
More like a huge house!
Shame that the the 'Vintage Set of the Week' rules out any genuinely vintage sets.
My first ever Lego set was 212-1 Small House. That was a proper small house!
@Maxbricks14 said:
"'Tiny house' would have been a more fitting name."
Or "Private Jail Cell".
@Maxbricks14 said:
"'Tiny house' would have been a more fitting name."
Or perhaps "Mini House?"
@MCLegoboy said:"That's quite the step just to get inside. Strong foundations are good to build a home, but they don't have to poke so far out of the ground."
Not to mention the accessibility issues. And Lego wouldn't even make a wheelchair piece for more than forty years!
@Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
"Those windows are so cool! I also need some of that green lattice fencing."
The fencing also appeared in that colour in three more Minitalia sets—unsurprisingly, most of the sellers on BrickLink come from Italy!
Minitalia is such an odd theme? Product line?
@Binnekamp said:
"Minitalia is such an odd theme? Product line?"
http://www.miniland.nl/Minitalia/minitalia%20pagina%20eng.htm
Interesting to see that the bricks had „crosses“ instead of tubes like common LEGO bricks.
Interior rooms not included, apparently
A similar line to Minitalia was made in Japan under the name of "oLo" (around the same time as Minitalia I guess?).
oLo also did use unusual bottom connectors like Minitalia.
While it could be confirmed that oLo was indeed made by TLG, they weren't very fond of putting their name on those. It also co-existed somehow with the regular Lego sets (though these typically only sold in large cities). Not sure if Nintendo's own N&B bricks were out there at the same time as well :D
@Rimefang said:
"Minitalia looks like a village established before Legoland.
Who can say where the residents went?
It's a mystery. "
Italy, presumably.
Minitalia is so interesting - a cut-rate product to try to better sell in the economic conditions of Italy at the time. But on the other hand, years ahead of its time as those windows, shutters, and doors ended up being the prototypes for the Town sets from 1978 onward when the minifigure era began.
Also, green 3-long slope bricks!
@MCLegoboy said:
"That's quite the step just to get inside. Strong foundations are good to build a home, but they don't have to poke so far out of the ground."
It looks like the door needs it for clearance from the studs on the baseplate to open.
Minitalia sounds ti me like a portmanteau of mini and genitalia .
(Sing along time, in the key of "Madness":))
This House
Is really, very small
This House
Isn't very big, at all...:)
@brick_r said:
"(Sing along time, in the key of "Madness":))
This House
Is really, very small
This House
Isn't very big, at all...:)"
How about this?
Our house
Is a very,very, very small house
With two cats in the yard
Getting them inside is hard...
@TheOtherMike: Hmm...not bad, 'cept no 'cats'...I mean, you use 1x1 bricks to 'represent'...but then they'd 'fit', so...:)
@brick_r said:
" @TheOtherMike: Hmm...not bad, 'cept no 'cats'...I mean, you use 1x1 bricks to 'represent'...but then they'd 'fit', so...:)"
They're not in the picture because they didn't fit there, either.