Vintage set of the week: Basic Set
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 6 Basic Set, released during 1973. It's one of 11 Universal Building Set sets produced that year. It contains 349 pieces.
It's owned by 84 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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Very quaint
Basic Set filled with Basic Bricks, nothing to complain about here.
Goose!
I have this one, it’s the oldest complete set that I own
Looking through the picture to see if there's any part here I don't have--I think the blue doors on the main model's house would be the only ones.
Excellent set in proper Lego colours. Only opening doors and shutters seem to have appeared since my dark age had started a couple of years before!
I like that goose,and the ship's pretty cool, too. I do love the charm of old sets like this.
That contraption on the bottom left corner? That is LEGO to me.
And another important new development since my 1st Lego age.... the unbroken 'O' in LEGO!
How freaking cute is that goose?
When the least confusing thing about your example model is the prison guard tower in the side yard of someone’s home…
My first Lego set, at least the US version 135. I made all of the recommended sets on the box, with varying degrees of success!!
Unfortunately, due to the rising cost of goods, anyone who owns this set will be required to pay a 75% premium on their next Lego purchase. The experience of our customers is our highest priority.
@PurpleDave said:
"When the least confusing thing about your example model is the prison guard tower in the side yard of someone’s home…"
For when you really need to reinforce that house arrest
Good old fashioned Lego in five colours. No printing, no stickers, no fiddly little bricks (though those shutters were a bit of a pain and the brackets could bend or break, if I remember rightly). This kind of set really encouraged your imagination.
My first ever set bought for me in 75. I managed to get a replacement from ebay 35 years on
Does this style of Lego sets have a name?
The duck's pretty quack.
Is it a house? Is it a train? Is it a boat? No, it's Supergoose!
I feel a set like this would still be a much better introduction to Lego than the 4+ sets nowadays. Just very basic pieces instead of big specialized ones. I mean, almost half of the pieces are regular 2x4 bricks! And just look what you can make from it....
Pretty sure that was my first Lego set. That and a biscuit tin with loose bricks in it. Didn't worry about getting the latest sets or completing themes - I just made lots of stuff from those few hundred bricks.
Simpler times.
"I like six." (Alexander Knox, Batman [1989])
The bottom left building looks like an early Ninjago City. I wonder, is the wheel on the wall supposed to represent air conditioning unit, a satellite dish or is it there just for fun?
@Robo_Nui said:
"The bottom left building looks like an early Ninjago City. I wonder, is the wheel on the wall supposed to represent air conditioning unit, a satellite dish or is it there just for fun?"
The third thing.
@BooTheMightyHamster said:
"Didn't worry about getting the latest sets or completing themes - I just made lots of stuff from those few hundred bricks.
Simpler times. "
Fortunately those simple times still exist. For every person with a room filled with a Lego city and their cupboards full of empty Lego boxes there are hundreds of kids with just one big box full of loose bricks. They're the true creative geniuses. The true Lego fans.
@windjammer:
Sadness-In-a-Box. No minifigs, the part selection had just barely moved beyond the equivalent of chunky boulders, future old codgers were the only people who were happy, the free boxes of crayons they give kids in sit-down restaurants had more color variety…. It’s a wonder they managed to figure things out enough to eventually become the biggest toy company in the world (while still privately owned and basically producing a single line of toys).
Huh, I thought those models on the box looked familiar. I checked through a vintage lot I had purchased but not yet processed and sure it enough there it was. When taking initial inventory, I had misread the 6 as a 9.
Now owned by 85 members. Someday when I sort it out, I’ll build that bottom left contraption!
I wonder what the extra 11 pieces are that this set has that 135 does not have?
The goose has a red bill here but the box art implies that there are orange pieces for it due to the color saturation.
No stickers, so can still use it.
I believe this was the first set my older brother owned. He would have been 8 when it was released, I was 3. I remember playing with them incessantly, building crazy vehicles over and over. We kept them all in an old Folgers coffee can. My first set was 197 Farm Set a few years later. The round 1x1s in that set became soda cans in increasingly complicated "vending machines" using the slopes to deliver the cans from the top back of the machine to the bottom front.