Vintage set of the week: Dressing Table with Mirror
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 272 Dressing Table with Mirror, released during 1973. It's one of 8 Homemaker sets produced that year. It contains 32 pieces.
It's owned by 196 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at Brick Owl, BrickLink or eBay.
52 likes
16 comments on this article
I didn't know salad dressings needed a whole table. That mirror also feels a bit superfluous.
Seeing these old Homemaker sets, it occurs to me to wonder if anyone has made dollhouse style furniture for Bionicles. Would a typical villager from Ta-Koro have any need for a dressing table with mirrors?
@MCLegoboy said:
"I didn't know salad dressings needed a whole table. That mirror also feels a bit superfluous."
You think that’s bad? You should see the size of the salad bar!
Okay, this is weird. I just looked the instructions up on Peeron and the last page (http://peeron.com/scans/272-1/3/) shows show not two transparent 1x1s, but a yellow one and a black one.
@iwybs said:
"Seeing these old Homemaker sets, it occurs to me to wonder if anyone has made dollhouse style furniture for Bionicles. Would a typical villager from Ta-Koro have any need for a dressing table with mirrors?"
Matau constantly describing himself as "handsome" implies there are some form of beauty standards in the MU, and we've seen stage plays/dances from time to time in (granted dubiously canon) media which implies some sort of performer culture. I'm sure Matoran would need to doll up their masks or armor from time to time to impress a crowd/client, at the very least in a Ta-Matoran's case it would help them assess the symmetry and fit of their masks without need of a mannequin
Nice studless design for 1973 set. Studs at the top are probably to connect similar sets.
@TheOtherMike said:
"Okay, this is weird. I just looked the instructions up on Peeron and the last page (http://peeron.com/scans/272-1/3/) shows show not two transparent 1x1s, but a yellow one and a black one."
oh, that's interesting. I wonder if it's different based on country
@BlackFalconBirdman said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"Okay, this is weird. I just looked the instructions up on Peeron and the last page (http://peeron.com/scans/272-1/3/) shows show not two transparent 1x1s, but a yellow one and a black one."
oh, that's interesting. I wonder if it's different based on country"
I know set numbers that differ by market are a thing (retail sets don't still do it, but promo sets of certain stripes do), but has inventory ever varied between markets, outside of Dino 2010/Dino attack?
Looking at how crinkly that mirror is, would it be of the “Funhouse” or “Haunted” varieties do we think?
Magical times with flush edge tiles.
@Lego_lord said:
"Nice studless design for 1973 set. Studs at the top are probably to connect similar sets."
Or just furniture knobs common in the real object design of the time.
That heart sticker reminds me that these were primarily aimed at girls.
Homemaker is the first in the evolutionary line that led to SCALA, Paradisa, Belville, Scala and finally Friends! It makes a lot of sense seeing the homemaker figs as 'mini' 'dolls'. The scale and specialized furniture also have striking similarities to Belville.
@namekuji said:
"Magical times with flush edge tiles."
Ah yeah those OG tiles. Once they were pushed onto studs, there was no way you were getting them off again undamaged!
@TheOtherMike said:
" @BlackFalconBirdman said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"Okay, this is weird. I just looked the instructions up on Peeron and the last page (http://peeron.com/scans/272-1/3/) shows show not two transparent 1x1s, but a yellow one and a black one."
oh, that's interesting. I wonder if it's different based on country"
I know set numbers that differ by market are a thing (retail sets don't still do it, but promo sets of certain stripes do), but has inventory ever varied between markets, outside of Dino 2010/Dino attack?"
Well, I did get the wrong inventory (mistakes) in 7665 (wrong head for Obi-wan) and 7097 (wrong pieces). 7665 gave me an extra head in a bag. 7097 was maybe an instruction mistake.
I don't know if there's been differences in inventory for non-mistakes... at least stickers were different on some British vs Dutch versions.
Huwbot is trying with this kind of set to get close to Clikits :D
@BlackFalconBirdman said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @BlackFalconBirdman said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"Okay, this is weird. I just looked the instructions up on Peeron and the last page (http://peeron.com/scans/272-1/3/) shows show not two transparent 1x1s, but a yellow one and a black one."
oh, that's interesting. I wonder if it's different based on country"
I know set numbers that differ by market are a thing (retail sets don't still do it, but promo sets of certain stripes do), but has inventory ever varied between markets, outside of Dino 2010/Dino attack?"
Well, I did get the wrong inventory (mistakes) in 7665 (wrong head for Obi-wan) and 7097 (wrong pieces). 7665 gave me an extra head in a bag. 7097 was maybe an instruction mistake.
I don't know if there's been differences in inventory for non-mistakes... at least stickers were different on some British vs Dutch versions."
On the subject of inventory mistakes, I got two copies of 7621. One copy came with Indiana Jones, and the other came with his stunt double (CW Anakin head, still on my fridge to this day). And perhaps the most infamous inventory mistake was 8525/8530. With a staggered release in 2001, the 8530 bag hit Europe early in the year (possibly January?), while the 8525 box didn't show up until summer (July?) in NA. Most of the other sets were delayed in Europe until they released in the US, which may have contributed to the problem. Both mask packs were supposed to contain a random Toa mask in one of six colors (red, black, brown, blue, green, white) and one Turaga mask in one of six secondary colors (orange, dk-grey, tan, md-blue, lime, lt-grey), but two of the Turaga masks got produced in Toa colors. Additionally, one of the Toa masks was produced in transparent colors (tr-red, tr-brown, tr-fl-orange, tr-blue, tr-green, tr-clear), but they also produced this mask in two colors that weren't used for any other masks during the first year (tr-fl-yellow, tr-fl-blue). By the time 8525 released in NA, these 14 masks had all gone out of production, and the random options matched the image on the back of the box, with the addition of the Infected Hau chase mask. At least two of these misprints would later resurface in 8546 and 7397, but most of them would remain forever exclusive to the early copies of 8530.