That's a lot of bricks.

@Mr__Thrawn: There's no brown, but orange and yellow largely replaced brown after a while, and both of those are here!

The most annoying thing with these sets: some colours have the whole range and some don't: big no no.
300 parts, 7 colours -> 42 parts per colours (plus 6 random parts of any colours I guess or simply 294 parts).
42 parts: two 2x8, two 1x8, two 2x6, four 1x6, two 2x4, four 1x4, two 2x3, four 1x3, four 2x2, eight 2x2, eight 1x1. (or something like that)

Irrelevant nowadays with PaB but Lego could still do boxes like that for people who don't know about PaB.

So you can build the well before dramatically kicking someone down it

@WesterBricks said:
"Well, it doesn’t claim to be anything that it’s not."
Could also be one of the few sets to not have any extra pieces, too, so not even "false" advertising on the part count.

All these basic bricks are cool, but if you want to build something with a consistent color scheme, you never have enough of one particular color. Same problem with todays Creator Basic sets (even worse, actually).

I'm not going to count them all, I'll just take your word for it.

The angle of the photo is not helpful as a lot of the bricks are the less useful double width. Miss the grey bricks for castle and space, but maybe too valuable?

@HOBBES: Meanwhile I got a sealed, so-called "Limited Edition" copy of 5529 for less than 9 USD just 3 years ago. I don't really believe that it's so much Limited Edition as simply a different box (the contents are identical). But I'm keeping the box anyway.

I wonder how many pieces this has?

Is it possible to “unlike” this set of the day?!….

Single color boxes would have been more useful for me. Variety results in limited size creations or rainbow colored designs (Not that anything wrong with rainbow)

This type of set was always welcome; I recall back in the early 80's being given the choice by my mum 'do you want to go to the Christmas pantomime / have an Easter egg / go for a meal, etc., etc. - or do you want Lego? The choice was always obvious and I ended up with sets 830, 833, 836, 838, 839, and 841 as I remember over a period of time - brilliant for just doing your own thing with!

Is this the first time orange was included as a main colour in a bulk bricks set? I remember the Freestyle ones I had in the 90s only had the classic five + green.

No complaints about it; orange is my favourite colour, after all! Just curious.

Some many classic AFOL comments (though I accept some are tongue in cheek) about the mix of colours. Perhaps the target audience of a set like this might enjoy building multi-colour creations rather than trying to make them match the real thing exactly.

@BrickRandom:
After slowly warming up to my hobby, my parents didn’t want to buy me LEGO sets as presents because they were worried they’d repeat something I already owned. So they bought me a set of LEGO books someone else had already bought for me. Then when they finally did buy me a set for the first time in my adult life, it was 10717. They said maybe I could use the parts to build some of my cars. I’m looking at 60175, and I’d just built Mater, slightly smaller than the armored truck in that set, using nine less pieces than the entire set used for an armored truck, an ATV, a plane, a tree, and four minifigs. I mostly use plates, brackets, and small slopes, in addition to specialized car parts. When I do use bricks to build cars, they usually have at least one stud on the side. I don’t think I’ve used a single 2x brick in a car for more than a decade, and I get teased by my LUG for the fact that I buy lots of dark-purple 2x4 bricks on LUGBulk, only to use them to build packing material for MOCs, or display stands for minifigs. So what am I supposed to do with a set like 10717? Reject the first set they’ve bought me since the 80’s? Open it and use maybe a dozen parts out of it in MOCs?

I’d say a set like this would be good for kids who need to bulk up their parts collection, but even as a kid I was all about minifigs and specialized parts when deciding which sets to ask for at Christmas or my birthday. Some things never change. The box as proof that they did buy me another LEGO set is worth more to me than the contents thereof. Even if I ever need filler structure for a landscaping project, I have thousands of dark-purple 2x4 bricks that have never been used.

@VintageDude:
Ironically, brown and green had already been added to, and then removed from, the color palette by that point. Crumble trees used both, years before I was even born, but I think the Yellow Castle was my first set with green parts (though we did have some random 10x20 bricks in our collection), and the first brown was probably from another castle set.

@VintageDude:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?itemYear=1949&colorPart=6&catType=P

Green bricks. 1949. Someone (I think either Ole Kirk’s wife or Gotfried’s wife) suggested that they reduce the color palette to the Mondrian Five (black, white, red, yellow, blue) because she liked the paintings.

@VintageDude said:
" @sjr60 said:
"Green and orange still look alien for proper Lego bricks!"

I wonder how many kids are writing request letters to TLG, asking them to produce bricks and plates in more colors?

Aged 9 in 1980, I wrote a request letter to TLG's office in Sweden (located in Lerum, near Gothenburg) about bricks and plates in pink, purple, brown, green and orange. Pink pieces emerged in 1992, some 12 years after my letter ...."

12 years only! That's good. We might be able to finally get the goat by 2050.

@VintageDude:
Hey, I’d heard for years that green was the sixth color introduced, I think some time during the 70’s, and that light-grey was sixth (in 1978 when Space launched). It wasn’t until I found out about crumble trees that I realized that was all wrong. Turns out medium-blue was there in 1949 with green, and regular primary blue didn’t arrive until 1950. The annoying thing is I’d even forgotten the base-bricks in our collection, which hinted at green being around much earlier (I don’t remember how we got them, but there were at least two generations of molds represented).

When you're at the store and mom says, "You have Lego at home," this is the Lego at home.