On BrickLink, Rebrickable, BrickSet etc. you get the complete part list for the set.
I’ve used Studio before to import an existing set (Lego sets via BrickLink is built-in, else part list via XML) and virtually built only part of a set to get the portion of the part list I am interested in.
Then you only have to get find/buy those parts.
But regarding this particular set others already did the work:
You can get part lists for every separate sub-set (total 405 pieces for those 3 sub-sets).
Given how glossy the bricks are, one thing to also consider is where to put them. A dark corner that doesn’t get direct sunlight is advisable. And that’s probably my biggest gripe with Lego overall: it’s made of plastic. It comes wrapped in even more plastic. As fun as it is to assemble (and in some cases to look at, afterwards), I’m always disappointed with the look and feel. Natural materials like stone, fabric, leather, paper, wood are so much nicer in comparison.
I guess I should not be surprised, that if there is something money can buy, the internet has it. I am surprised, however, that it is all conveniently listed on a single, aptly named site!
Yes, but you shouldn’t directly buy from them anyway. And we have BrickLink, BrickOwl etc. as alternatives.
I’ve put it into BrickLink (because that’s what I’ve used before) and it calculated a price of 46 EUR (average price based on sales from last 6 months for such parts, new and used).
One problem is this price doesn’t include shipping/handling (if there are rare parts you might need to make a lot of orders all over the world…).
Then I let it automatically select dealers (which is typically not something I’d do but it seems we have a lot of common parts here) and it worked really well:
Only two orders in shops in EU, price for those 405 parts is just 25 EUR (excluding shipping), and mostly new parts too!
Looking further at those shops it should be only ~20…25 EUR shipping total (the shop containing the bulk of the order is in Belgium).
So it’s possible to get it below 50 EUR total which is a lot less than 239.99 EUR (RPP) for the whole thing (2532 parts btw.).
(You also see that a lot of money goes into shipping when doing it this way.)
The sets are 6074, 6067, 6062, 6040, 6034 and some pieces and mini figures from other sets.
I’m not sure who had more fun building them, my kids or myself =)
That’s super classic! My cousin had it.
Too bad my Lego sets aren’t anymore. When I was 10 or 11 I cannibalized an airport, a fire station, a police station, a motorbike seller, a post office, a gas station and a moon base to build a huge diorama of a Formula 1 circuit. Oh, I used a proper formula 1 circuit set, too.
Who knows what happened to it. I don’t even have any pictures of it.
I played with it daily until I lost interest in Lego in favor of girls
If there’s one reason for having kids, it’s being able to legitimately play with Lego again .
More seriously, the castle, even in this extended build, looks much smaller than in my memories. It’s really just a wall (consisting mostly of big wall pieces, too) around an otherwise empty square. And a nice gate with drawbridge as the highlight.
I also dimly remember my dad “helping” with the construction … hm .
I remember I cannibalized those sets several times to build almost everything. I was really surprised we could re-build all of them, and only a few pices were missing which we could easily substitute for others.
Humble has a LEGO-themed e-book bundle available for the next two weeks or so:
I had a look at some of the previews, but I don’t think it’s for me. I’ll rather stick to the real thing, though if there’s one thing those e-books have going for them, it’s not taking up shelf space .
When visiting my parents this weekend I took a trip to the attic to look at my old LEGO stuff. I was a bit disappointed to find out that those bricks have not aged all that well. Plenty of yellowing, even though they must have been out of direct sunlight for the past 30 years or so. I guess once exposed, some processes are set in motion that only become apparent over a long period of time.
What I ended up taking home was the (incomplete) collection of manuals. Not too surprising, as I remember that I already had to re-build my first space station (6971, not the one from @Ema above, which gives off Moonraker vibes, btw,) from memory when I was still a kid.
Seems to be a bi-plane in the making, though the back shows B, C and D models, of which I can identify a windmill and a bridge. Google says it’s set 328, from 1967, so could have been my dad’s …
Might apply that change before nailing them to the wall.
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