Dolls not included? What a ripoff!

This is basically https://brickset.com/article/90452/vintage-set-of-the-week-complete-children-s-room-set and https://brickset.com/article/90878/vintage-set-of-the-week-dining-suite combined in one.

Where are the dolls? Are they in the drawers? What cruel punishment to chop up a house's residents and stuff them in their own drawers!

Are they the best dolls, where they’re not even present? Or are they hiding until you turn off the lights, and then they’ll go “Trilogy of Terror” on you?

@michaels_afol said:
"The idea behind the early Homemaker sets was to combine them with other toys so it was BYO dolls. Then three years later the maxifig (or Lego People as Lego referred to them) was introduced and they were used in this theme after that."

My question is what type of dolls did they have in mind? These are far too small to use with Barbie-type dolls, which I guess were the most common in the early 70s?

@Bobsy said:
" @michaels_afol said:
"The idea behind the early Homemaker sets was to combine them with other toys so it was BYO dolls. Then three years later the maxifig (or Lego People as Lego referred to them) was introduced and they were used in this theme after that."

My question is what type of dolls did they have in mind? These are far too small to use with Barbie-type dolls, which I guess were the most common in the early 70s?"

It works perfect with a brand new toy that was introduced around this time... Playmobil...

Looks like a Minecraft set!

@Neverroads said:
" @Bobsy said:
" @michaels_afol said:
"The idea behind the early Homemaker sets was to combine them with other toys so it was BYO dolls. Then three years later the maxifig (or Lego People as Lego referred to them) was introduced and they were used in this theme after that."

My question is what type of dolls did they have in mind? These are far too small to use with Barbie-type dolls, which I guess were the most common in the early 70s?"

It works perfect with a brand new toy that was introduced around this time... Playmobil..."

GASP! Fraternising with the enemy?

I've a few vintage large baseplates, no red ones though. That 24x32 is very nice. Seems a few different sizes were made in this era but it didn't return (as a 32x32) until 2013 in 10232 and then was largely hidden.

@michaels_afol said:
"The idea behind the early Homemaker sets was to combine them with other toys so it was BYO dolls. Then three years later the maxifig (or Lego People as Lego referred to them) was introduced and they were used in this theme after that."

Yes. I remember playing with LEGO using it alongside other toys. There were many 3-4 inch figures back in the 70s. I used to use LEGO across a range of scales from action men, Kenner SW figures down to 1:76 railways, scalextric, etc.

@michaels_afol said:
"The idea behind the early Homemaker sets was to combine them with other toys so it was BYO dolls. Then three years later the maxifig (or Lego People as Lego referred to them) was introduced and they were used in this theme after that."

I remember seing photos of kids , probably around late 1970s, early 80s, combining all sorts of toys, from bricks LEGO to build small houses/market stalls, to playmobil figures and accesoires to decorate them further.

Kind of how the later Scala theme worked out (the 90s scala, not the 70s "DOTS" theme), with a very non-minifigure type doll, cloth pieces and playmobil like accesoires.

@TransNeonOrangeSpaceman said:
"Looks like a Minecraft set!"

To me, looks a lot more like an expansion to a Duplo set, especially a set like this : 2780 : Complete Playhouse , which had a seperate Kitchen set as add-on 2778 : Kitchen

Of course Homemaker was made about 20 years before this 1991 Duplo set, so the Duplo set was likely inspired by Homemaker, unless there are in fact Time Machines.

Closest Duplo I could find during the 70s homemaker era would be something like 032 : Living Room Furniture

@Ridgeheart said:
" @sir_vasco said:
"There appears to be a magic rune on the back of the couch."

"Learn to build! Learn to use expand your imagination! Learn to draw the blasphemous sigil of Yog'zephon, It That Will Sing From Its Thousand Maws The Chorus That Will End The World! Then rebuild the world and do it all over again!

Lego. Rebuild the World.""

I, for one, welcome our new overlord, Yog'zephon. May his thousand maws sing us to eternal sleep in his glorious world-ending mercy!

@Ridgeheart said:
" @sir_vasco said:
"There appears to be a magic rune on the back of the couch."

"Learn to build! Learn to use expand your imagination! Learn to draw the blasphemous sigil of Yog'zephon, It That Will Sing From Its Thousand Maws The Chorus That Will End The World! Then rebuild the world and do it all over again!

Lego. Rebuild the World.""

That was pretty good, was it a spontaneous creation? I actually did a google search on Yog'zephon and this board was the second hit.

On the other big topic here, I sometimes used LEGO with Transformers back in the 80's. The minifigures and road plates scaled kind of close to the regular cars (like Hound and Tracks). Not that it means much given how Transformers were made from various differently scaled toy lines.

Never expected to see the sigil of Yog'zephon of the Thousand Maws in this set. In Friends maybe, but not here.