Vintage set of the week: Ferry
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 311 Ferry, released during 1973. It's one of 28 LEGOLAND sets produced that year. It contains 83 pieces.
It's owned by 514 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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Illegal building technique! Sound the alarms! 1x2 plate inserted between the studs!
SHIP
Lovely vintage set. I’ve always liked the old boat hulls a lot, too. Honestly though, why was this illegal technique even needed? It’s hardly adding anything.
@Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
"Lovely vintage set. I’ve always liked the old boat hulls a lot, too. Honestly though, why was this illegal technique even needed? It’s hardly adding anything."
Might represent a sign, or a radar.
Yo I have this, got it years ago from a second hand shop, the 1x1 cylinders are stupid loose but the old hulls have a really nice slickness to them, a shape that isn’t even remotely present in modern hulls
@Rimefang said:
"SHIP"
Bryan?
@MCLegoboy said:
"Illegal building technique! Sound the alarms! 1x2 plate inserted between the studs!"
We might get away with it, we just need to be ferry ferry quiet…
What is that black structure in the front supposed to be?
@myth said:
"What is that black structure in the front supposed to be?"
I think it’s a car on some oversea trip
@myth said:
"What is that black structure in the front supposed to be?"
I always thought of it as the anchor chain mechanism. Good boat, but a bit partial to the Poseidon Adventure.
311 versus 10294, go.
I vote for the boat that floats.
I like this ferry much.
@myth said:
"What is that black structure in the front supposed to be?"
The black structure is in the back (stern) as the ferry travels from left to right.
What I love about these old hull pieces is that you can attach those red or black weight pieces, which in turn you can use to power the ship by attaching - a Playmobil motor of all things.
Those were the days when LEGO and Playmobil actually cooperated for once.
I proudly have this set!
With box and instructions!
It’s my oldest set - 52 years! - in a very large collection!
@AustinPowers said:
"Those were the days when LEGO and Playmobil actually cooperated for once. "
Playmobil motors does indeed work with Lego, but let’s be more precise:
The keel on this ferry from 1973 (before the launch of Playmobil in 1974) didn’t have the lip for fitting a motor. That lip came with the boats from 1976, fitting to the standard set by Mabuchi, who had introduced their S-1 submersible toy motor in 1967. The first Playmobil boat came in 1978, but they didn’t make their Mabuchi-like underwater motor until 1983.
@Ottox: interesting, thank you for the backstory. I didn't know that.
I got both my first LEGO ship (4015) and my first Playmobil boat with motor in the mid Eighties, and was faszinated that both worked so well together as if designed like that from the start.
You lern something new every day.
:-)
Called ferry, yet just a regular boat