Random set of the day: Gas Station
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 330 Gas Station, released in 1978. It's one of 3 Building Set with People sets produced that year. It contains 211 pieces.
It's owned by 39 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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Oldest old-school huwbot can get.....
I have no idea what year we got them, but my brother and I each got a copy of set 50-1 as our very first LEGO sets. Those were also the only maxifig sets we ever got. After that, we each got one set with the old plank figs, and then it was on to proper minifig sets.
Is it just me, or does it look like the car has a bendy leg with a very flat foot?
Building Set With People is my favorite theme
I like that the car jacked up looks like a kiddie ride gone crazy.
Hmmm. Scissor lift!
@Studio_Brickton:
A Brems Dufflepud?
^Behind the cars
Instructions for the set: https://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/building-set-with-people/gas-station/lego-330-2-gas-station/
Still better than Town Jr.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Studio_Brickton:
A Brems Dufflepud?"
My answer was also Dufflepud.
Shell sets were always colorful.
4-wide cars and 6-wide cars in one set.
These maxi figures and mini figures were designed by the same company in about the same period. It is such a fine line between iconic, timeless design and abject failure.
Never knew this set existed, has anyone ever seen in real life as must be very rare? Must be very painful having to lose or gain a few bricks every time you get in and out of your car.
I am old enough to have played with maxi figs, they had to lose or gain bricks to do anything - sit down, stand up, bend over. I still have my childhood ones, and I remember my first set with a minifig 297 Nursery.
I always did the hair of the figure on the left on backwards.
@Mechahamster said:
"I always did the hair of the figure on the left on backwards."
They were designed to be useable either way- one piece gave you two options. The men's hair piece was similar.
@560heliport said:
" @Mechahamster said:
"I always did the hair of the figure on the left on backwards."
They were designed to be useable either way- one piece gave you two options. The men's hair piece was similar."
Yes! The short hair could be shaggy or combed as seen in 200-1. (I loved that grey bun hairpiece.) I really liked playing with maxifigs when I was little. I have to get my LEGO collection organized to see what my kids think of them.
@anthony_davies said:
"These maxi figures and mini figures were designed by the same company in about the same period. It is such a fine line between iconic, timeless design and abject failure. "
Maxi- and mini-figures were certainly contemporary. In fact, there was at least one set when a minifigure was used to represent a toddler maxi. But they were not really designed at the same time. I remember having maxies, then slabbies when they were released, and then minifigures when they came out, a total period of about 4 or 5 years.
@anthony_davies said:
"These maxi figures and mini figures were designed by the same company in about the same period. It is such a fine line between iconic, timeless design and abject failure. "
The Maxifigs are a bit older. And he maxifigs looked really iconic at the time, with the models that were designed for them. Take a look at the 222-1 ideas book.
I would bet that if you only ever saw friends minidols, and then your first minifig, you'd think they look like an abject failure.
@CarolinaOnMyMind:
Ah, but I went the extra step and looked up a Danish auto company. They're all pretty much defunct now, but there actually were a couple in the early 1900's.
@rslotb:
Doesn't matter which order I saw them in. I'd always cringe at the minidolls.