The perfect morning for the Lego Ideas Book from 1980, which is like a graphic novel with instructions. Here's a complete PDF oldinstructions.com/wp-content/u... - ThreadSky

grindrod.bsky.social • 45 days ago

The perfect morning for the Lego Ideas Book from 1980, which is like a graphic novel with instructions. Here's a complete PDF http://oldinstructions.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1980-6000-1-Ideas-Book.pdf

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admiralezzel.bsky.social•45 days ago

I have both, book and sets. 🙃 Unfortunately some pieces of the space ship don't like the reassembly so much. The castle seems sturdier...

sparrowbagley.bsky.social•45 days ago

My 9th birthday present. I remember every single page in that book!

crusaderproject.bsky.social•45 days ago

I had that kit

brokenbiros.bsky.social•45 days ago

A core text for the young Gina

zemblamatic.bsky.social•45 days ago

I loved these books with my life *bursts into tears*

grindrod.bsky.social•45 days ago

The young Grindrod too. Those stickers! I still have some.

brokenbiros.bsky.social•45 days ago

I’m not sure I actually built much from it though, probably due to not having all the right bits? But I used to look at it a lot…

grindrod.bsky.social•45 days ago

Yeah, it was impossible to build those things, but it did give me ideas of the narrative sort though, and I loved all the collisions of different sorts of things

brokenbiros.bsky.social•45 days ago

Yes definitely! I like the little taxi office that looks like a prefab

gargarin.bsky.social•45 days ago

I'm always amazed at how simple my first set was which was a fire station it's almost like the idea of a building

grindrod.bsky.social•45 days ago

Amazing how much of that stuff has stuck in my head all these years

reallyjeffoconnor.bsky.social•45 days ago

I had both of the sets in that picture.

The pieces are still on the basement.

I may build that ship this week. Thank you for the link!

grindrod.bsky.social•45 days ago

Now THAT sounds like an excellent project!

constructionhist.bsky.social•45 days ago

Construction Historian loves that there are old instructions for 40yr old lego ideas and definitely thinks this counts as construction history.

grindrod.bsky.social•45 days ago

I mean, it definitely is. It's construction all the way.

constructionhist.bsky.social•45 days ago

It was your find, so do you want to write a micro-mention about it for the next Construction Historian, or shall the co-editors do it themselves?

grindrod.bsky.social•45 days ago

Oh I would love to! Let me know what I need to do!

depesando.bsky.social•45 days ago

Reads like the lost storyboard for that jump between the bone and the spacecraft in 2001

grindrod.bsky.social•45 days ago

I love that because their house burns down they think fuck it let’s steal a spaceship and visit the moon and the past

jimllmixit.bsky.social•45 days ago

Not only a reflection of the time, but an almost utopian vision of the not-too-distant future that sadly, 45 years on, we've still yet to achieve here in the UK.

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