Boat mold could be useful? In another color? IDK

Summer palace. Summer not.

Oh! Did we finally get our first Frien- oh, nevermind, it's another one of those late-stage Belville sets that I had no idea existed prior to RSotD enlightening me.

At least it has a decent raised baseplate.

That’s all I can say though.

@Brickalili said:
"I realise some people are lured by those pink rooftops but wow that looks like a pretty sweet baseplate to me. The two platforms, the stairs, you could get some cool designs out of that"

Check out 7047, same mold, even nicer colour!

I love that the post below this one for me was the Castle before Castle (https://brickset.com/article/59248/castle-before-castle) post. One of these looks less like a palace than the others.

I have the identical baseplate from 7047 and really liked it, but was always confused by circle-inscribed-within-a-square indent inside the ravine (covered, but on the right in this photo). I don't remember it being particularly in-system and assumed it was meant to connect with some piece I didn't own. Having just checked the instructions for all the sets that included this baseplate, it doesn't seem like that's the case, as they all just cover up the ravine. Does anyone know what the purpose of that was? Is it just a quirk of the vacuum moulding process?

Love the colors.

Nice base plate, with a teddy bear, cat and potty. I guess living in the garden has it's drawbacks with no plumbing. Useful to be holding an umbrella at all times in case of the odd rain drop while sleeping outdoors.

@Binnekamp said:
" @CCC said:
" @bookmum said:
"I sort of like this. It isn't awful... it's just not got that feeling like it's a real Lego set.
Belville always looks like a kid had some dolls and bits for a dolls house but needed something more so they borrowed some of their siblings Lego and made this."

This is pretty much what kids did in the 70s, before minifigures became mainstream. I used to use a whole range of figures with LEGO constructions. Back in the day when LEGO was a construction toy to play with alongside other toys - for constructing Star Wars ships for Kenner figures, buildings for Hornby railways, farm buildings and pens for plastic animals, destroyed buildings for WW2 toy soldiers, ...."

That isn't just a seventies thing. Kids play with toys like toys. For many it doesn't matter if they use something that is actually lego to go with it."

Agreed. My brother, friends, and I did this in the 80s into the 90s and my children do it today usually using the DUPLO bricks to fashion rooms and buildings for Barbie dolls, and LEGO bricks for furniture. Several different toys are played with along side LEGO bricks because to toys, LEGO is still just another toy.

Disney Castle before Disney but with giant figures.

@CCC:
I don’t know what other action figures they may have had previously, but Kenner famously didn’t have SW action figures ready to go in 1977, which is why they sold a placeholder “Early Bird” kit for Christmas that year. The LEGO minifig debuted in 1978, according to their official stance, so minifigs and Kenner SW action figures basically launched around the same time.

Belville - The lego land of horror! (But with some very uniqe and useful parts)

@SolidState said:
"CASTLE WEEK CASTLE WEEK"
We need that

I rarely see something this disturbing

@Reinier said:
"My goodness, that baby is the stuff of nightmares: https://brickset.com/minifigs/belvBaby7/belville-baby-princess-plain"

Why is the baby worth more Used than New? *shudder*

Well sure, the Belville dolls are creepy looking but boy did they have some good parts and baseplates.

@WemWem :
I’ve addressed this before elsewhere, but it has to do with how people use Bricklink. As a buyer, you can add stuff to a want list and shop for stores that have a bunch of items you’re looking for. You can also set each item for New, Used, or Both. A lot of buyers think Used stuff will be priced lower than New stuff every time (and to be fair, often it is), so they exclusively look for Used parts.

As a seller, if you have a complete set that you want to sell as loose parts, you can add the set, then break it down without having to enter each individual element. The price guide is split up by New or Used sold in the last six months, or New or Used currently listed for sale. You can choose to price everything as a percentage of any of those four categories without having to look up any of the individual elements.

So, it is very likely that cases like this result from people buying and selling without anyone actually checking the price guide directly to see that things have gotten lopsided. It’s not common, but it does happen, especially if either part condition is selling frequently while the other doesn’t see much activity over long stretches of time. If Bricklink had a Seller tool that could tell you if your prices were out of whack compared to like listings, and again compared to the opposite part condition, it’d probably be easy for stores to run a report that would show them what needed consideration for adjustment.

@dancmill said:
"thanks for giving us this info everyday man"

You're welcome my friend! Although I did miss a day or two this week, won't say I'll be keeping up the same pace going forward but I love to hunt down this kind of stuff when I have the time.