Vintage set of the week: Cowboys
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 617 Cowboys, released during 1976. It's one of 28 LEGOLAND sets produced that year. It contains 42 pieces.
It's owned by 575 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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The perfect combo of Cowboy hats. A black one, and a white one.
> Hey, why the long face?
- Wait, how can you see my face? You don't even have a face!
> How do you know I don't have a face when you don't have a face?
- ...
> So why the long face?
Reach for the skies! Metaphorically speaking.
White hat can barely walk when he climbs (falls) down off that Clydesdale, and black hat was the only one to raise his hand when that guy taking the correspondence course on how to be a traveling magician asked for volunteers.
Ah, one of Leone’s finest works, ONCE UPON A BRICK IN THE WEST.
I actually like it.
@PurpleDave said:
"White hat can barely walk when he climbs (falls) down off that Clydesdale, and black hat was the only one to raise his hand when that guy taking the correspondence course on how to be a traveling magician asked for volunteers."
white hat cowboy: "How do you feel since your accident?"
black hat cowboy: "Well, I'm not half the man I used to be!"
Be rootin'
Be tootin'
But most of all...
Be kind
Now, the 'white hat's handkerchief/neck-scarf could be 'fluttering' by that steed's speed (:D)...but the guy on the proverbial 'fence'...? :)
Well, it's a western-themed set, so it could've been worse.
I like it that, although their trousers and hats are different, they clearly shop at the same shirt store.
Yeehaw! Hope y’all have a great weekend.
I had this set, was probably my first mini figures.
Back when minifigs were so cool that they sulked around all day with their hands jammed into their pockets.
@Bart_66 said:
"I had this set, was probably my first mini figures. "
I had the related set 372-1 Texas Rangers which I think was the first set I got new, as opposed to ones that were handed down to me.
Like this set, it had slabbies, not articulated minifigures, and I liked them. What can I say? I was young and innocent.
You know, that horse looks super easy to build with your spares, but when you try to build one, you'll see that you're gonna come up short with at least one slope of the same color. Then you say "No matter, not all the horses are one color only". But when you're finished building, your OCD calls out the different color and ruins everything.
I still use those cowboy hats :-)
Brokeback Minifig...because you have to break his back to make him sit.
They call him The Man With No Name. Which one, you ask? Both of them. But this town ain’t big enough for the two of them.
@Lego_lord said:
"You know, that horse looks super easy to build with your spares, "
At that time, inverse slopes were pretty rare, perhaps even new. I got my first from 369.
@chefkaspa said:
" @Lego_lord said:
"You know, that horse looks super easy to build with your spares, "
At that time, inverse slopes were pretty rare, perhaps even new. I got my first from 369.
"
Part 3660 (Slope, Inverted 45 2 x 2) was introduced in 1976 according to Bricklink. And it's narrower version 3665 (Slope, Inverted 45 2 x 1) was introduced a year later.
Seems weird to me that they designed and moulded hats for the minifigs before they designed actual bodies for the minifigs
One of my very first LEGO sets!!
Those old minifig legs would make great architectural details these days on the modular buildings...
"Struttin'" intensifies
Well brick along, little dogies!
Funny: yesterday on some Discord someone showed his oldest minifigs, from around 2000. So I replied with a picture of my oldest figs: these cowboys and an unarmed cop. This set is actually a few years older than I am, so I still wonder how I ever got it.
Even when the actual minifigs were obviously an improvement over these, I do still like them. And these heads are perfect to turn any minifig in a Noppera-bo...
I have no mouth and I must scream
Or eyes
Or face
Or arms
*silently screams at his cattle to get back
Such a cute set! Almost like a wooden toy set! Oh, wait, TLG started crafting wooden toys first!
@WemWem: "All in all, you're just another brick in the West..."
@brick_r: I figure it's windy.
(H)armless cowboys ??
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These cowboys do seem a bit yellow though.....maybe they fear the 215 ?
@WizardOfOss said:
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Django Unbricked
A Fistfull of Bricks
The Brick Bunch
City Brickers
Dances on Bricks
The Magbrickicent Seven
High Brick Drifter
Unforbricken
Brick Cassidy and the Sundance Brick
Mavebrick
The Brick and the Dead
These cowboys do seem a bit yellow though.....maybe they fear the 215 ?"
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@Brickalili:
Remember, these _were_ the actual minifigs at the time. They had cowboy hats for male civilians, pigtails for female civilians, and officer caps for men in uniform, because with no printing that was pretty much the only way you could tell who was supposed to be what.
@WizardOfOss:
The Adventures of Bricko County Jr.
@WizardOfOss said:
"The Good, the Brick and the Ugly
Django Unbricked
A Fistfull of Bricks
The Brick Bunch
City Brickers
Dances on Bricks
The Magbrickicent Seven
High Brick Drifter
Unforbricken
Brick Cassidy and the Sundance Brick
Mavebrick
The Brick and the Dead
These cowboys do seem a bit yellow though.....maybe they fear the 215 ?"
The Good, the Bad and the BURP
@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili:
Remember, these _were_ the actual minifigs at the time. They had cowboy hats for male civilians, pigtails for female civilians, and officer caps for men in uniform, because with no printing that was pretty much the only way you could tell who was supposed to be what."
Yeah it’s that last bit that really highlights my point. Creating accessories for things that don’t have anything to accessorise seems backwards. Like having a bunch of baubles without a Christmas Tree to hang them on
Hats on the slab figures seems less notable to me (maybe because a minifig without hat or hair always looks wrong to me--which was a problem when I contemplated a Jean-Luc Picard) than the other... accessories... here. Using 1x2 plates, even in 1976, is a bold sartorial choice.
@Formendacil:
Oh, they made a bald-cap. It comes in fleshie and yellow.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Formendacil:
Oh, they made a bald-cap. It comes in fleshie and yellow."
But not in 2002, when I was doing the contemplating!
@Brickalili said:
"Seems weird to me that they designed and moulded hats for the minifigs before they designed actual bodies for the minifigs "
They _did_ have bodies. And legs. Just not with moving arms and legs like we have now.
@TheOtherMike: Must be...poor guy's broken in half...
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