Random set of the day: Mother with baby
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 208 Mother with baby, released during 1978. It's one of 3 Building Set with People sets produced that year. It contains 46 pieces and 1 minifig.
It's owned by 140 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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Looks like they're on their way to see My Dad--I mean, their Dad.
EDIT: It's almost a fever dream, seeing Homemaker and minifig in the same set, since in my mind one is very much "Vintage era" and the other is not, but scale-wise and detail-wise, it works fairly well.
So cursed...
I love it, but I hate it.
So fun to see minifig "baby" , and feels a whole lot more LEGO to me compared to Belville and that weird Scala era.
I mean, took a while but I love Friends theme now, and the scale of sets is mostly compatible with figs.
Belville could certainly be seen as a mostly larger Friends/Princess theme, but Scala took the non-lego to another level of weird, with "Barbie-like", naked dolls with clothes.
Both Belville and Scala were also from the same era during 1997-2001, clearly the "dark age" of LEGO for some themes, and Belville came out as long term success having yearly waves of sets for quite a long period 1994-2008
The year is 3023.
Minifigures have long since perished. The remaining FRIENDs minidolls, in their dark and eldritch wisdom, created an artificial intelligence to nurture and raise a synthesized version of the minifigure to inhabit the world they created from the fragments of Heartlake that survived the Great Cleansing.
Test subject PLN099 seems to show promise, despite her simple attire and blank expression. The Dark Council of FRIENDS will watch her development with great anticipation.
( :) ) That's quite a chin on the baby.
@GBP_Chris said:
"The year is 3023.
Minifigures have long since perished. The remaining FRIENDs minidolls, in their dark and eldritch wisdom, created an artificial intelligence to nurture and raise a synthesized version of the minifigure to inhabit the world they created from the fragments of Heartlake that survived the Great Cleansing.
Test subject PLN099 seems to show promise, despite her simple attire and blank expression. The Dark Council of FRIENDS will watch her development with great anticipation."
Replace Friends with Scala or Belville and there's a script for a good LEGO horror movie.
Friends doesn't really deserve this, as in some aspects it's currently better then City imo.
But if you want to use minidolls to sacrifice, take those from the giga-overpriced Disney 4+ princess sets.
Kind of crazy to think that LEGO predicted that trend of fully-grown adults acting like toddlers. And about 40 years before Tik Tok came along!
6 year old me wants this GIRL set to turn into a race car. There's a minifig, four wheels... I think there's a solution!
"Mama, when I grow up, will my legs fuse together like yours?" As @Formendacil said, scale- and proportion-wise, a minifig makes a good baby/toddler.
The 'irony' is: this is literally one gen generation handing off to to next; as in the minifigure replacing the 'spaghetti arms'...
Never got this set...did get: 575, 602, and 641, w/Coast Guard being my "heavenly choir" moment ("AhhhhhhAHHHHHH!!!":D). This was because prior to the moment all I had I had was manikinfig and one spaghetti arm; it was like see evolution right in front of me...ah, happy times. :D
Scale-wise, it does work ... but minifigs as babies for larger figures will never not be horrifyingly creepy.
The genius of maxifig is the hair: one way the fig is young(children), the other way the fig is older(adult) - works for the two genders that were available back in those years.
I still want the maxifig hands to be produced once again. Would be very useful in so many designs now that we have the mixels modified plates with ball cup.
Kinda puts the fact that there are so many minifig based sets, long after the final Homemaker set, in a different perspective. It also explains _SO_MUCH_ about Benny.
@TomKazutara said:
" @TeriXeri said:
" @GBP_Chris said:
"The year is 3023.
Minifigures have long since perished. The remaining FRIENDs minidolls, in their dark and eldritch wisdom, created an artificial intelligence to nurture and raise a synthesized version of the minifigure to inhabit the world they created from the fragments of Heartlake that survived the Great Cleansing.
Test subject PLN099 seems to show promise, despite her simple attire and blank expression. The Dark Council of FRIENDS will watch her development with great anticipation."
Replace Friends with Scala or Belville and there's a script for a good LEGO horror movie.
Friends doesn't really deserve this, as in some aspects it's currently better then City imo.
But if you want to use minidolls to sacrifice, take those from the giga-overpriced Disney 4+ princess sets."
I am sorry, but Scala and Belville figures are superior to Friends dolls.
Their articulation is far better than the Duplo like Friends dolls."
I don't really care which is better, I got no dog in that fight. I just think it's funny to imagine the LEGO FRIENDS as a bunch of dark eldritch entities that prey on the minds and souls of minifigures. It's made every new FRIENDS release remarkably more entertaining for me.
I'm glad we all embrace that Scala dolls are from the abyss tho.
Loved the set. Minigifure as a little kid totally works.
Well... the alternative is this: 254 Family (I'm glad I have that, for the wheels that is ;-))
You’ll notice it never said it’s her baby…
That minifigs were not originally definitively supposed to represent adults is one of the dark horrors of Lego past. But it explains so much.
Seems to me it's a giant who kidnapped a regular minifig and forced her to dress as a baby.
I did not know of that crossover before i came back to Lego.
We have that indian set that is the other end of the line. Having a parts of a solid fig as a baby.
That was also new to me.
A minifig's worst nightmare, being trapped in the maxifig universe ....
"Now be good, or I'll cut your head off, paint it red and use it as a vase." 277-1
I dunno, if children can walk, they are in a stroller, right, not a pram? highlyunrealistic
According to the catalogue, this is actually a young girl with her doll. But apparently the doll is able to walk ;)
My brother got me this set as a present when I became a dad. Love it (for that reason only). The white minifig has a black dot on her back though, I don't think it's the correct one.
1978 was a good Lego year!
The introduction of the minifig!
The introduction of two (sort of) 'evergreen' themes: Classic Space, Town.
The Yellow Castle! 375
https://brickset.com/sets/year-1978
Babies should not climb in the furniture … 297
@Reinier said:
"According to the catalogue, this is actually a young girl with her doll. But apparently the doll is able to walk ;)"
And the little girl can’t. Seems like a setup for a horror movie. Who voices the minifig, Jennifer Tilly?
Love the mix of scales, it works so well!
Reminds me that I still have a Technic figure (from 8840-1)… should see if there are any MOC ideas I could get out of him…
And now that baby can have a baby doll of it’s own - even one in a spacesuit!
Ugly blue shoes on the girl. White might have looked nicer.
Hmm. Even in 1978, they needed a 1x5 plate to extend the carriage handle to the canopy. Only took another 40+ years. :)
Four pigtails, smiles
Planning, a day, such a joy
Two hands, held, one heart
By today's standards, this is an adult minifig holding the hand of some kind of enormous robot
The baby’s eyes look slightly too close together. Was it a bespoke head rather than the standard smiley? I know Bricklink says it’s the default, but I wonder if anyone who has one can say for sure?
now combine this with a nowadays minifig-baby for a naturalistic grandma-mother-daughter setup.
you're welcome.
Tragic that the kid will never really grow up. Reminds me of the movie "Die Blechtrommel".
But she will be able to rebuild her pram into a full size 70s/80s Legoland car, matching her size.
That minifig head has got to be prototype. The eyes are too close together, and eyes seem to be too close to the smile. It's actually very creepy.
One of my first set !! I was really young, maybe 3 or 4 y/o. I rebuilt it during the lockdown in 2020 Love this printed piece, and the minfig and homemaker together.
@jsutton:
The head shown in the picture may not even be the final production version.