Random set of the day: Gold City Junction
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 6765 Gold City Junction, released during 1996. It's one of 6 Western sets produced that year. It contains 350 pieces and 6 minifigs, and its retail price was US$50, which equates to about US$105 in today's money.
It's owned by 4,570 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at Brick Owl, BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $427.80, or eBay.
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Plot twist, the Union is in league with the robbers, holding up that small town for every cent its got. They've been specializing in this for about 150 years or so now...
A great set from a great range. Get this and the sheriff set 6764 and you had a nice little frontier town.
This city doesn't look very gold to me
Never come across this one, but it looks like it's got so much play value. The old west sets were pretty cool.
@GSR_MataNui said:
"This city doesn't look very gold to me "
Presumably they keep it in the bank.
I always loved the fact that they made a 4x4 barrel just for cowboys to hide in.
Epic series. RIP
I want an Icons version of this, including sheriff's lockup and maybe a inn or saloon.
What timing! I got this set a few months ago and just got the Sherrif's office.
The baseplates are warped, any advice on how to flatten them?
@MCLegoboy said:
"Plot twist, the Union is in league with the robbers, holding up that small town for every cent its got. They've been specializing in this for about 150 years or so now..."
What do you think this is, Utah?
Oh look, a White Whale in the form an Wild West town in a box.
That Flatnose Curry.... Ain't it always the torsos that don't have overt details tying them to specific factions or themes that make them so versatile, there-for so sought-after and expensive. Sigh.
What a fun-looking set. Cool theme but I only had a few a the much smaller sets. I have that green general store window pane--found it in a parts bin once at a store.
Sort of imitates Lego's relationship with its customers.
@GSR_MataNui said:
"This city doesn't look very gold to me "
That’s because this isn’t the box picture, the one with the $50 price tag slapped crisply on the front!
@PurpleDave said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Plot twist, the Union is in league with the robbers, holding up that small town for every cent its got. They've been specializing in this for about 150 years or so now..."
What do you think this is, Utah?"
“We do things differently here”
I love, LOVE this theme. Every set is just so iconic. I miss themes like this. It's what helped build the Lego identity. (Pun intended)
Ah, the Wild West.
The gold mine was the one I always wanted. I'm so sad that bought hardly any of the Western sets before the theme was retired.
How come western sets were allowed to have guns, but current city police sets can't have them?
Either that one single bandit is the most dangerous man who has ever lived or a sheriff, his deputy a soldier and a cannon seems like some serious overkill
I loved western movies, why I passed on this theme is beyond me. I've built a saloon some time ago for a few cowboy figures that I got over the years. I think I'll try to add couple of buildings to accompany it.
Love the 90s diorama sets display! They were so realistic and nice looking.
I had the Sheriff's Office, and this was my white wale. Somehow, they didn't sell this one in my area, or maybe it had retired despite being shown frequently in the magazines of the time. So unfortunate, and what a great series that was back in the day.
@MCLegoboy said:
"Plot twist, the Union is in league with the robbers, holding up that small town for every cent its got. They've been specializing in this for about 150 years or so now..."
Yes, and the Democrats are still upset the Union freed their slaves.
Yes, the 90s had some juniorized Town sets, but Western along with Adventurers, Rock Raiders, the sheer multitude of great Space subthemes, Castle, Pirates, Aquazone make that decade the Golden Age of LEGO for me.
@Arnoldos even fright knights?
@GSR_MataNui they had a mine 6761
@MisterZ said:
"How come western sets were allowed to have guns, but current city police sets can't have them? "
The police in the Lego Movie sets were military. Ie, 70815
This was one of the Western sets I never had as a kid, so I was chuffed to build my own reimagining early last year. I had submitted the bank to the Twist of Nostalgia challenge on Ideas, but sadly no luck there. I hope LEGO revisits Western in an Icons set someday, though it seems like it might forever be relegated to Bricklink Designer Program!
Gosh, look at those STAMPs! Have it, but always hated that I have never been able to take those parts apart because of the stickers :(
Wow. For a day, I feared that Huwbot lost his streak of good old classic sets!
The western theme had so many good sets.... and it could have been even better! From the the preliminary images I've seen, there was a bison mold in the works - and trains! - when the theme got canned.
@GSR_MataNui said:
"This city doesn't look very gold to me "
8107 - more gold here, subtheme was called Golden City I guess
@namekuji said:
" @MisterZ said:
"How come western sets were allowed to have guns, but current city police sets can't have them? "
The police in the Lego Movie sets were military. Ie, 70815"
Hate to break it to you but The Lego Movie was 12 years ago. Hardly "current".
@MusiMus said:
" @GSR_MataNui said:
"This city doesn't look very gold to me "
8107 - more gold here, subtheme was called Golden City I guess"
yes, this was before Lego starting making just about everything in Ninjago gold... Hard to run across a ninja who isn't glintering in bling anymore...
@watcher21 said:
" @Arnoldos even fright knights?
@GSR_MataNui they had a mine 6761"
Witches and Dragons? Sign me up!
An absolute CLASSIC of a set. That coach alone is full of cool features, chief of which is a built-in explosion feature like in Sheriff's Lock-Up! You can actually blow its armor up!
It uses a technic suspension piece. And you know what else does? The bank has that feature too! That blue bench on the front can be blown off with dynamite as well, with the vault behind it.
Another cool feature is the shutter doors on the facades at the top of the buildings. You can actually have a cowboy/bandit aim their guns through those 'holes'.
Oh, and there's a general supply store. How cool is that!?
Western was great!
Western was a few years to early to ever get featured in the comics of the Lego Adventures magazine, since that started its run in 1999; nonetheless, a few bits and pieces of the theme still managed to sneak their way into the comics of other themes. Most notably, the banker from this set leaped a hundred years or so into the future to put in a minor appearance as Lego City's banker... who was in the process of being robbed by the Brickster, so I guess his life really hadn't changed much since the Wild West...!
Too, versions of this General Store building (slightly modified to remove the signage) showed up from time to time whenever generic houses were needed in the background of certain comics. Most notably, in one of the Sports comics it was a house built to this design where a rival team's manager tried to trap football star Hotshot Harry to prevent him from being able to participate in the match.
Only little things, of course; but I still thought it was kinda neat that things from this set got those small cameos here and there!
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On an unrelated note, brown horses! I don't know if they were actually the rarest regular colour of Lego horse*; but to me, who had a couple each of black and white ones, the brown ones certainly SEEMED to never show up anywhere, so it's always nice to see them especially!
*According to Bricklink, yes, they were. Just counting the classic mould & print, white horses were in 60 sets; black horses were in 52; and even if you combine the versions of the brown horses with printed and unprinted manes, they were only in 28 sets in total, and very few of those were the tiny pocket-money-size ones (e.g. 6013, 6026, 8777) that I got all my other Lego horses from. No wonder they seemed so much more rare to me!
@MisterZ said:
"How come western sets were allowed to have guns, but current city police sets can't have them? "
Lego allow weapons in settings that are explicitly historical or fantasy, but not modern day. Additionally, it may be a hint that Lego City police are based on the police force of countries such as the UK, where regular officers don't carry guns?
Adorable set. The robbers can just nip round the back of the bank and in through the missing wall to steal their loot.
@SearchlightRG said:
" @GSR_MataNui said:
"This city doesn't look very gold to me "
Presumably they keep it in the bank."
Welcome to the joke, please enjoy your stay
@GSR_MataNui said:
"This city doesn't look very gold to me "
Now I have the desire to rewatch Road to El Dorado.
@GBP_Chris said:"What timing! I got this set a few months ago and just got the Sherrif's office.
The baseplates are warped, any advice on how to flatten them?"
If nobody has any suggestions, you could buy replacements. A quick look at what's on offer at Bricklink shows that they aren't very expensive, although the cheapest ones are damaged in some way.
@Brickalili said:"Either that one single bandit is the most dangerous man who has ever lived or a sheriff, his deputy a soldier and a cannon seems like some serious overkill"
Since I'm already in a Road to El Dorado mood: "Both?" "Both?" "Both. Both is good."
@Adrianucho said:"Gosh, look at those STAMPs! Have it, but always hated that I have never been able to take those parts apart because of the stickers :("
Just looked at the Bricklink inventory, and it could be worse. Take a look at this STAMPed assembly from 6668: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=BA220pb01&idColor=5T=I&C=5 There's a reason I never applied the stickers on my copy.
@oldtodd33 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Plot twist, the Union is in league with the robbers, holding up that small town for every cent its got. They've been specializing in this for about 150 years or so now..."
Yes, and the Democrats are still upset the Union freed their slaves."
Unless you're being sarcastic, this comment makes about as much sense as when some keyboard warrior here on Brickset attempted a response to a comment I made awhile back elsewhere.
Their response demonstrated an embarrassing lack of comprehension for basic words like "so-called" and "clueless," seemed to imply it was necessary to know everything about something before you stopped being clueless and insisted that they read and responded to exactly what I wrote despite repeatedly using the word "all" instead of what I had actually wrote, which was "few" and "fewer."
Point is, I'm assuming that MCLegoboy was only partially joking, so this just seems really out there to me. :-P
@Vesperas said:
" @oldtodd33 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Plot twist, the Union is in league with the robbers, holding up that small town for every cent its got. They've been specializing in this for about 150 years or so now..."
Yes, and the Democrats are still upset the Union freed their slaves."
Unless you're being sarcastic, this comment makes about as much sense as when some keyboard warrior here on Brickset attempted a response to a comment I made awhile back elsewhere.
Their response demonstrated an embarrassing lack of comprehension for basic words like "so-called" and "clueless," seemed to imply it was necessary to know everything about something before you stopped being clueless and insisted that they read and responded to exactly what I wrote despite repeatedly using the word "all" instead of what I had actually wrote, which was "few" and "fewer."
Point is, I'm assuming that MCLegoboy was only partially joking, so this just seems really out there to me. :-P"
It was an unnecessary comment so I gave one back. If you look at the historical facts of my statement I would be happy to discuss the matter.
Always liked these sets, I only had some of the smaller sets with minifigs and some guns, I think.
But a friend of mine had a few of these.