Vintage set of the week: Nurse and Child
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 276 Nurse and Child, released during 1977. It's one of 3 Homemaker sets produced that year. It contains 90 pieces.
It's owned by 233 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
78 likes
28 comments on this article
So the Homemaker sets can count as VSotDs and RSotDs. Great to know.
See, Lego? No need to introduce minifigs into this horrible nightmare.
You must be this tall to receive treatment.
Looks like someone hasn't made the cut!
This is appropriate for me as I just came back from a rehab facility today. (I had some seizures four weeks ago.)
This has very “cursed image” vibes.
For some reason I saw the notification and thought of Mando and Grogu... Hate that. Anyway, another odd looking set for RSotD. I don't see any sugar to help the medicine go down. Or medicine for that matter.
Slightly less creepy than minifigs as babies, but still a little creepy.
On a scale of "Fabuland" to "My Dad", we're easily talking high 7.
These vintage sets always show an element that I’m surprised is so old. This time, the flowers, which still hold up greatly. The people who worked on molds back then were amazing to create such timeless pieces.
No matter how short or tall, the same size heads for them all.
@PeterPan:
Of course, this means that newborns are just heads with arms and feet.
Maxi-figs! The scary bane of my childhood. Finding their dismembered doll parts while shuffling through the ol' lego box was unsettling.
@TheOtherMike - Hope you're feeling better!
This set does not respect the Geneva conventions at all.
I can only assume the child is being treated for their crippling lack of elbows
A very early prototype Transformer..... Or the nurse has eaten 600-1.
I miss those flower pieces...
Looks like a gallows *frightened*.
Interesting way to measure people.
"You are 7 bricks and 1 plate tall."
I wonder how that works out in the real world. Maybe someone smarter than me could make a conversion table for metric-to-Lego.
a child who isn't a minifigure... so is it supposed to be a teenager?
Apparently it takes until adulthood to develop elbows.
@TheOtherMike said:
"This is appropriate for me as I just came back from a rehab facility today. (I had some seizures four weeks ago.)"
Dude!!! Hope you are all recovered now!
I miss those hinges!
@lost_scotsman said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"This is appropriate for me as I just came back from a rehab facility today. (I had some seizures four weeks ago.)"
Dude!!! Hope you are all recovered now!"
Seconded! I hope you are recovering well.
@lost_scotsman and @murdoch17: I'm doing much better, thanks for the well-wishes.
@Ridgeheart: I never had any problem with finger hinges snapping off, but mine did tend to lose friction, especially in high-stress applications like 6828 with its wings in flight mode.
@Snifflegully said:
"These vintage sets always show an element that I’m surprised is so old. This time, the flowers, which still hold up greatly. The people who worked on molds back then were amazing to create such timeless pieces."
Most amazing thing is the measurements, how things fit together so nicely, and with modern times and way more SNOT bricks, the math still works out, and new math from things like angled plates is being developed in new sets.
It goes way beyond the simple 3 plate = 1 brick, when working sideways and upside down or at angles.
@pazza_inter said:
"a child who isn't a minifigure... so is it supposed to be a teenager?"
Or just really short?
Not enough medical tools.
I wonder if they should have included some Homemaker figures in The Lego Movie and the related sets.
Didn't realise the grooved tiles came out so early.