Random set of the day: Kitchen
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 269 Kitchen, released in 1979. It's one of 3 Homemaker sets produced that year. It contains 212 pieces and 1 minifig.
It's owned by 200 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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Minifigs as small children will never not be horrifyingly creepy.
Great parts in the set, though.
This is so good! Prints, big cupboards....and look at original life vest design!
UCS kitchen.
The minifigure used as a child is priceless!
Creepy minifig baby aside this is a great set
Smooth baseplate is very useful.
Ah yes, just like 12th Century Art, babies are just small adults.
A minifig used as a baby, as cursed as I remember it
https://brickset.com/sets/268-1/Family-Room with a Maxifig actually holding a minifigure. It is absolutely horrifying. You try so hard to forget. Then Huwbot digs it back up. And now I won’t sleep tonight.
@Kerr said: "https://brickset.com/sets/268-1/Family-Room with a Maxifig actually holding a minifigure. It is absolutely horrifying."
That is, just, really really disturbing. Thanks for posting that.
I guess the fourth plate on the table is for little Timmy who is little late for dinner...
"Sit at the table and eat your dinner like a good boy."
"But, mother dear, we're physically incapable of sitting."
"Hmmm, why do we even own chairs?"
The guys from 8714-1 could beat up this family.
Also, they can sit down.
@bananaworld said:
"But, mother dear, we're physically incapable of sitting."
But Maxifigs *can* sit by incorporating a 2x4 brick into their design as seen in this set image: 264-1
I really enjoyed Maxifigs when I was young.
Is the use of minifigs like this inherently disturbing, or is it just because we’re used to them defining the scale of things around them?
I wonder what the new baby figures would look like juxtaposed with a maxifigure...
What's the problem with a minifig as a baby in this scale?
Back when minifigures were babies
Stickers and juniorized parts! What has become of modern Lego?!
Well, they sure don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
(thankfully)
This is incredible - it actually seems to channel 1970’s dystopia with no effort at all - a seeming normal scene imbued with a tension and sense of creeping horror. The colours, the lighting - even the layout fills me with dread.
Genuinely looks like that minifig is being held captive by giant counterparts
@Yooha
I seriously don't know what is so creepy about the "minifigure baby". To me, that's just creativity! If there has to be a baby in this scale, the minifigure is an appropriate solution. It's all just plastic elements. Don't take it too seriously.
People are losing their minds. *facepalm*
Thank you Huwbot for this gem from the past! The comments suggest overall dislike for the set/era, but it is a great peek into the past: mini-figs and maxi-figs together in one set! at the same time when classic space and castle cohabitated with Technic, Fabuland, Scala and 12V motors! The LEGO universe is a vast place indeed with a colorful history. Perhaps some of the commentators weren't even born when this set set released? Not many of this type of set are available on BL, but the rare example is worth 3-4 times the original price around 40 years later (not adjusting for inflation). Pretty impressive, I think. In any event, I am glad that Huwbot's "random generator" is far-reaching and includes such variety! Cheers!
Ewwww.... that’s not very sanitary to leave your hairbrush on the kitchen counter
Oooh i got the 1974 version of this kitchen. Great playful stuff. I used the big cupboard pieces for all our Fabuland sets. Now my daughter uses and loves them (i mean you can put stuff in it and close the door - how cool!)
I don't have this one but have a different kitchen. I inherited it from an older cousin. I also used the cupboards and sinks and cooker in with my Fabuland. The blue base plate was usually the town swimming pool.
Wow. Like...wow. It's amazing how far we've come.
@Brickadillo my daughter also liked the cupboards when she was little. She has never been much of a builder though. She once lined them up in rows. "It's Ikea" she told us.
Some strange comments on here today...
I loved those figures although I only ever owned a couple of them when I was a kid.
I also loved that you could take their arm pieces and make a figure with really long Mr Tickle-like arms
This is *exactly* what life in the 1970s was like for kid-me.
@TransNeonOrangeSpaceman - I am pretty certain that there is a fair number of tongues very firmly pressed into cheeks in these comments!
I don't see what's so bad about having minifigures as babies. They fit in scale quite well with the other figures.
Plus, all the furniture pieces that come in this set are quite nice!
I didn't have this set, but some other one from the line. But space sets were my favourite. :) Brings back memories...
And yet ironically the classic smiley face minifigure seen in this set was retired due to kids finding it cold and creepy.
It’s a strange world.
Nice set, and I love LOVE the use of a minifigure as a baby
@Balthazar_Brannigan said:
"I wonder what the new baby figures would look like juxtaposed with a maxifigure..."
Foetal
@Jackthenipper said:
“This is incredible - it actually seems to channel 1970’s dystopia with no effort at all - a seeming normal scene imbued with a tension and sense of creeping horror. The colours, the lighting - even the layout fills me with dread.”
Maybe that’s why those of us who remember those times turned out dreadful. We were immersed in the horror that was the ‘70s ;~)
Ah, I had the earlier 263 Kitchen from 1974 - no minifigures back then!!
I've got a strange feeling of deja-vu. Didn't we get this set as RSOTD just a while ago?
I still remember the discussion about having a regular minifig as a baby.
Edit: I stand corrected, it was a different set, yet the same "problem":
https://brickset.com/article/46732/random-set-of-the-day-bathroom
This reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode with the lady being chased by the little aliens that actually turn out to be normal humans, and she's the giant.
I'm seeing some people comment on wondering "how is the baby creepy" And I think it all comes down to scale and proportions.
Maxifigs have *gigantic* heads and long arms, so while the minifig's body scales well with the maxifig torso, everything else makes it look miniscule. Like it's the size of a plastic bottle and not the size of an infant.
Secondly, minifigs heads are pretty small compared to their bodies, while babies' most defining feature is how gigantic their heads are. In the end it makes it look like a fully grown adult is sitting in a highchair.
It would be like if you used a Polly Pocket as a baby for a Barbie (and even that would work better.) Yeah, it's clever, but that doesn't make it work.
Whenever you see a 3 digital set number from huwbot, you know you're in for a treat!
Minifigures in their current form were "born" in 1978, so the minifigure in the set would only be 2 years old.
I think with my sisters we had the Dolls Kitchen from 1971 without maxifigs
https://brickset.com/sets/261-4/Dolls-Kitchen
I too, hate to suspend my disbelief during imaginative play :)
@GSR_MataNui Actually, minifigure heads are proportionally too big for their bodies. I think minifigures make reasonable infants for the maxifigures.
Ha, love it! There was a whole line of these basically "build a doll house room by room" sets back then, it's a pretty great idea I always thought. And I'm familiar with that 1x4 with oven knobs--in grey, it's unique to 918, one of the classic-est of all Classic Space!
This set was part of my childhood LEGO collection, somehow, since I was 2 when it was on shelves. I still have 90% of the original parts + manual. I’m sent back in time to playing with these brick-built figs every time I come across this set’s parts in my sort piles!
@PisceanPet said:
"Ah, I had the earlier 263 Kitchen from 1974 - no minifigures back then!!"
I had the even earlier 261 homemaker kitchen from 1971! (Along with the matching 260 living room set)
Here’s to hoping Huwbot gets a homemaker fixation and we get more of these!