Oh my. I remember those sets! They were glorious indeed.
Do you have the lego number of those sets? Or the name?
Ps: I’m now taking a picture of every lego box I buy for my kids. That way I have an archive with all the numbers. That way we can always download the booklets years later, or catalogue the collection with rebrickable
Re:How Lego builds a new Lego set
by Waterluvian on Friday December 15, 2023 @02:44PM
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Behold in all their glory: https://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/space/ice-plan...
And: https://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/space/space-po...
I agree, the instructions have improved greatly over the years. I just rebuilt some of my childhood sets from the late 80's and early 90's (mostly Town theme) and I was struggling at times. My 6 year old son does well with pretty much all the modern instructions regardless of the age (City, Batman, Speed, Technic, Jurassic Park themes).
love the snow space lego sets, I had that one too
Ha! This is really cool! I found some of my old pieces a while ago and tried to remember where the reddish neon stuff was from... :)
Re:How Lego builds a new Lego set
by Waterluvian on Friday December 15, 2023 @07:44PM
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Nice! The same pieces are also used in some deep sea pirate diver sets.
Last week I rebuilt two of my most cherished childhood sets[1] and oh my goodness how did I ever do this as an 8-year-old? Every step in the booklet is a minigame of "figure out what changed" and then an eye exam of determining precisely where each piece went.
[1]: https://imgur.com/v0fL4Xz