I had this as a kid, that giant spacebase made me drool as a 8 year old.... still does! but you needed sooo many peaces for that! I was very fortunate as a kid and had a huge collections of classic space. But no way i could come even close to building it back in the day!
I loved to build my own creations even as a kid, but I was always aware that everything looked blah to me. The colors and shapes just weren't right. Now I'm just thrilled with all the changes the Friends line has brought. But I do love this concept of showing you some instructions and then a large scene. I might copy that idea ;D
In this and an earlier idea book review, you commented a couple times about the "focus on" the primary colors. Maybe you don't remember, but at that time, those basically were /all/ the colors. My brother and I acquired about 35k pieces between the mid-'70s and '92, mostly in the '80s. Before moving them from my parents' house, I took a photo. There was one bin full of transparent parts, another with plant parts (green and brown), the brown boat hulls and a few other pieces from the Pirates line, and some brown minifig tools. Oh, and some horses were brown. The rest-probably 32k+ of those pieces-was a sea of red/blue/yellow/white/grey/black. That was it-everything was those six colors with the occasional special piece in green or brown. Colors outside of those 8-and green and brown were very rare, only used for a handful of pieces-didn't really start showing up until the late '80s. Tan and dark grey were still exotic colors in '92 (let alone '87).
I have a lego Adventurers puzzle book from the late 1990s. The puzzles may be easy, and the story may be for little kids, but I'm never going to give it up!!!
You really do get a kick out of watching these Lego idea books! I got to admit, those Lego space bases are really awesome! Shame they didn't come with instructions to build them, but these books are very interesting!
Wow! That half hour felt like three minutes! Sooo much classic space and classic Kingdom. Man, they should pick it up again. Maybe 3 sets each theme. Who doesn't want a castle? But i feel left out for years now.
I have this same idea book and I was flipping through it the other day and it occurred to me, many of the things they present to you are nearly unattainable. I was thinking, which sets would I need to build each one of these ideas? Specifically it got my attention the spaceship at 16:50. The vertical hinges used to attach the double canopies, that piece didn't exist in light gray in 1987!! Not in classic space or any other theme!! It wasn't until 1999 or 2000 that a set came out with that piece in light gray. What do you think about that? Not to mention that to build this spaceship (and many other ideas) you would need about four or five of the large sets of that era!! Just take a look at all those arrow tiles, and four wing pieces. To get those you would need the Solar Power Transporter 6952, the Gamna V laser Craft 6891 and the FX Star Patroller 6931. Not to mention that the gray cockpit piece was exclusive to the Intergalactic Command Base (6971). Also take a look at the spread where they show you the large blue base. Take a look at the pieces used, especially the windows with yellow glass. How many sets (and duplicates!!) would do you need to replicate that!! Of course I'm aware that these are just building ideas, but come on.. It's like they are suggesting buy, buy, buy!! 😂😂😂 Great ideas nevertheless, of course you can modify them to your liking.
When people nowadays say that Lego sucks now and it used to be so cool back when it was just primary colors and basic bricks, I really can't fathom why they think that. These were cool and all, for their day. But as a kid these kind of basic sets held my attention for so much less time because it was so limiting in what you could convincingly build. Lego now is just objectively better because you can still make everything from this book if you really want - and also a near infinite number of other things that couldn't have even been conceived of. Just try making a Millennium falcon out of those pieces. I just don't get it.
I can't speak for everyone, but for me it wasn't the variety of pieces that was the problem, it was the actual content of each set, such as amount of minifigures, the cost, cool looking guns instead of stud shooter, etc. Plus, back then they had a lot more sets for each theme, including easy-to -get minifigures that are increasingly harder to get each year because of the prices and extra content. But hey, that's just my take on it.
There are actualy two sides of it - now when you build a set you get less basic bricks. That's a bad thing as It's proved that basic bricks are asier for kids to use. (that's why Classic space is still amazing, with not descriptive features). New sets are much more detailed nowadays. But a lot of them are really hard to replicate for kids, and treated to much as complete toy, not as a jump pad for imagination. IMO older sets had much better action features (that were easy to buildl and use in your own builds) while today they usualy use shooters as main feature. I also don't like how many sets are just fig centered :/ But yes we get a lot of great new playsets in recent years, amazing set designs like that huge Ninjago set, or whole Elves line. New amazing pieces every year are always a good thing. But IMO lego should slow down a little :)
The whole idea of modern sets including fewer "basic" bricks & plates is a myth as well, easy to disprove by spending quality time going through part inventories for sets of different eras from compatible themes. I've done some of that grunt work myself and found that new sets generally have far more basic pieces outright. Similarly the idea that old sets were just made of basic bricks is a misconception. Creative buckets and "Basic" brick sets used to make the simplest of creations for the youngest of Duplo graduates, sure. The main line stuff of the 80s, though? Packed with specialized pieces, and heavily reliant upon them at that. All LEGOLAND Town cars were built with 1-piece specialized full-width chassis, specialized roofs, and specialized 1-piece full-width fenders. At least today's fenders are separate so you can use them on 4-, 5-, even 8-wide vehicles. I during my collecting & building of every single Classic Space set from the 1978-1988 solid-color minifig era, the number of parts I handled that were not rectangular was astonishing. Today's sets simply use more parts on the whole to accomplish the same sort of things with significantly increased size and detail.
No way! I have that same exact one! My uncle gave me all of his old parts and sets and this was one thing he gave me. Wow. Mine seems to be in better condition however...
30 year old stickers. Do they still stick??? Pretty Classic LEGO System style building here, a simpler time without so many unique parts, may seem limiting to some, but this was my LEGO. Although I didn't own much from that era, I was just turning 5 around 87, so I didn't have much, more of the 90's era sets were what I got, with a few late eighties numbers. Loved what I had, awesome looking books like this always excited though.
I looked all around and cant find my original book =(. I did find my 260 guide at least. And i found the stickers for both at the very least. Wish i had more of those big old black 4.5v basic motors. those things are beasts in small trains.
This takes me back. These ideas books were also a treat.
Wow this is a blast from the past! Nice 👍
I wasn't born
Oh hey Toy Gander!
'it almost hurts!' Looking at that awesome space base - YES that is just the feeling I get too. Thanks Jang!
I had this as a kid, that giant spacebase made me drool as a 8 year old.... still does! but you needed sooo many peaces for that! I was very fortunate as a kid and had a huge collections of classic space. But no way i could come even close to building it back in the day!
Thanks JANG for the classic space overload. I actually had that book. Sure brings back memories. I wish they would bring back classic space
these idea books do what their supposed to do 30 years and more ago, give inspiration. i feel inspired, thanks for reviewing this jang
I loved to build my own creations even as a kid, but I was always aware that everything looked blah to me. The colors and shapes just weren't right. Now I'm just thrilled with all the changes the Friends line has brought.
But I do love this concept of showing you some instructions and then a large scene. I might copy that idea ;D
I like how there was thought to make the builds mostly more complex the further you got through the book.
I have that book also! Glad that there are several fans and owners of it!
In this and an earlier idea book review, you commented a couple times about the "focus on" the primary colors. Maybe you don't remember, but at that time, those basically were /all/ the colors.
My brother and I acquired about 35k pieces between the mid-'70s and '92, mostly in the '80s. Before moving them from my parents' house, I took a photo. There was one bin full of transparent parts, another with plant parts (green and brown), the brown boat hulls and a few other pieces from the Pirates line, and some brown minifig tools. Oh, and some horses were brown.
The rest-probably 32k+ of those pieces-was a sea of red/blue/yellow/white/grey/black. That was it-everything was those six colors with the occasional special piece in green or brown. Colors outside of those 8-and green and brown were very rare, only used for a handful of pieces-didn't really start showing up until the late '80s. Tan and dark grey were still exotic colors in '92 (let alone '87).
I love when you do the old ones. Thanks so much for doing these!!!
Oh love those, thanks Jang for bringing my childhood back, and love to brick constructs
Thanks for posting this one. This brings me way back. Cheers!
9:35 I love how the police officer smiles as he gets carried into the ambulance.
I have a lego Adventurers puzzle book from the late 1990s. The puzzles may be easy, and the story may be for little kids, but I'm never going to give it up!!!
You really do get a kick out of watching these Lego idea books! I got to admit, those Lego space bases are really awesome! Shame they didn't come with instructions to build them, but these books are very interesting!
One of my friends build them both, they have many rare space pieces inside! Google Amal :D
Wow! That half hour felt like three minutes! Sooo much classic space and classic Kingdom. Man, they should pick it up again. Maybe 3 sets each theme. Who doesn't want a castle? But i feel left out for years now.
I remember these builds. I think i have this book too o.O So many memorys.
JANGBRICKS great video ! I think the planes are my favorite to build !
Love the truck from 7:02 , I'm planning on building it
I had this one! I took it with me everywhere!
I have this same idea book and I was flipping through it the other day and it occurred to me, many of the things they present to you are nearly unattainable. I was thinking, which sets would I need to build each one of these ideas? Specifically it got my attention the spaceship at 16:50. The vertical hinges used to attach the double canopies, that piece didn't exist in light gray in 1987!! Not in classic space or any other theme!! It wasn't until 1999 or 2000 that a set came out with that piece in light gray. What do you think about that? Not to mention that to build this spaceship (and many other ideas) you would need about four or five of the large sets of that era!! Just take a look at all those arrow tiles, and four wing pieces. To get those you would need the Solar Power Transporter 6952, the Gamna V laser Craft 6891 and the FX Star Patroller 6931. Not to mention that the gray cockpit piece was exclusive to the Intergalactic Command Base (6971). Also take a look at the spread where they show you the large blue base. Take a look at the pieces used, especially the windows with yellow glass. How many sets (and duplicates!!) would do you need to replicate that!!
Of course I'm aware that these are just building ideas, but come on.. It's like they are suggesting buy, buy, buy!! 😂😂😂
Great ideas nevertheless, of course you can modify them to your liking.
Yay! I still have my copy of that book!
When people nowadays say that Lego sucks now and it used to be so cool back when it was just primary colors and basic bricks, I really can't fathom why they think that. These were cool and all, for their day. But as a kid these kind of basic sets held my attention for so much less time because it was so limiting in what you could convincingly build. Lego now is just objectively better because you can still make everything from this book if you really want - and also a near infinite number of other things that couldn't have even been conceived of. Just try making a Millennium falcon out of those pieces. I just don't get it.
richard van as Nostalgia wears rose-tinted glasses.
You're right. I did made a MOC X-Wing back then but it wasn't anywhere near accurate as the new X-Wings that we have today.
I can't speak for everyone, but for me it wasn't the variety of pieces that was the problem, it was the actual content of each set, such as amount of minifigures, the cost, cool looking guns instead of stud shooter, etc. Plus, back then they had a lot more sets for each theme, including easy-to -get minifigures that are increasingly harder to get each year because of the prices and extra content. But hey, that's just my take on it.
There are actualy two sides of it - now when you build a set you get less basic bricks. That's a bad thing as It's proved that basic bricks are asier for kids to use. (that's why Classic space is still amazing, with not descriptive features). New sets are much more detailed nowadays. But a lot of them are really hard to replicate for kids, and treated to much as complete toy, not as a jump pad for imagination. IMO older sets had much better action features (that were easy to buildl and use in your own builds) while today they usualy use shooters as main feature.
I also don't like how many sets are just fig centered :/
But yes we get a lot of great new playsets in recent years, amazing set designs like that huge Ninjago set, or whole Elves line. New amazing pieces every year are always a good thing. But IMO lego should slow down a little :)
The whole idea of modern sets including fewer "basic" bricks & plates is a myth as well, easy to disprove by spending quality time going through part inventories for sets of different eras from compatible themes. I've done some of that grunt work myself and found that new sets generally have far more basic pieces outright. Similarly the idea that old sets were just made of basic bricks is a misconception. Creative buckets and "Basic" brick sets used to make the simplest of creations for the youngest of Duplo graduates, sure. The main line stuff of the 80s, though? Packed with specialized pieces, and heavily reliant upon them at that. All LEGOLAND Town cars were built with 1-piece specialized full-width chassis, specialized roofs, and specialized 1-piece full-width fenders. At least today's fenders are separate so you can use them on 4-, 5-, even 8-wide vehicles. I during my collecting & building of every single Classic Space set from the 1978-1988 solid-color minifig era, the number of parts I handled that were not rectangular was astonishing. Today's sets simply use more parts on the whole to accomplish the same sort of things with significantly increased size and detail.
No way! I have that same exact one! My uncle gave me all of his old parts and sets and this was one thing he gave me. Wow. Mine seems to be in better condition however...
Oh man I totally had that book. Still have a blue 1x4 with that ice cream sticker on it
the semi truck at 6:50 looks like g1 Optimus prime
You have to build a complex sci-fi base for PDF! Imagine how cool it would be!
6:52: "It's Optimus Prime!"
... And it's from the 80's... Awesome!
Jangbicks is my favorite you tuber
Hi Jang. The Ice Cream "Stickers" are actually a print. Awesome vid as usual!!!!
Jang I love legos and I have over 450 mocs and I prefer 6 stud wide builds for more detail
30 year old stickers. Do they still stick??? Pretty Classic LEGO System style building here, a simpler time without so many unique parts, may seem limiting to some, but this was my LEGO. Although I didn't own much from that era, I was just turning 5 around 87, so I didn't have much, more of the 90's era sets were what I got, with a few late eighties numbers. Loved what I had, awesome looking books like this always excited though.
Muito bom o ídeo!! Abraços!!
Ilai Perillo brazil
Yep Branco was around
6:38 and here we see Optimus Prime, in The development stage
19:00 My friend build this :D 8studs.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/stacja-serwisowo-paliwowa-ib-250-by-amal/
He build the second base one as well!
13:40 I used to have some of these doors
I looked all around and cant find my original book =(. I did find my 260 guide at least. And i found the stickers for both at the very least. Wish i had more of those big old black 4.5v basic motors. those things are beasts in small trains.
My nostalgia comes from mostly the original agents theme and the knights kingdom sets
I have a 1970s trends & events and things like that book.
Cool
You need to work on the PDF base. Get it knocked out!
Jang, You should build some of those and show us.
Great video
good stuff jang.
4:45 Stop the pigeon! Stop the pigeon! Stop the pigeon! Stop the pigeon! Stop the pigeon!
At the 28:00 minute mark-ish .... I think the word JANGBRICKS is looking for is "Palanquin" ?
That space base looks great even by todays standards. I want to build that.. but blue is the color I have the least of xD
1987: Bite of '87, or the year when they do those flashbacks in, in Psych.
i still have this book.. somewhere
I liked the old style of lego manuals better than the new ones. I like how they put the finished diagram on the page itself. Do you agree Jang?
Would do please do a review of slave1 8097
Make a custom planetary defense train please
Like a bulky slower train with a lot of guns and turrets that's well armored
Jangbricks, will you make another Lego City Tour soon? (Also great video)
Brendan Wolfgang He did make a major update video 4 days ago
Hey Jang!
That unidentified thing on pages 14/15 is probably a dredging barge.
Do you look throught the catalogs before the Video or are these your first impressions in the videos?
JANGBRICKS
do lego city staff again
Well, why not build that classic space scene and review that?
7:07
To me that looks like a Jeep with a fuel barrel inside, perhaps
Probably a Landrover.
Why hello there. Good video. Goodbye now🙃
Hey everyone, hope you're having a great day.
Everyone voted for you.
+JANGBRICKS please can you add a music store to you're city
Daniel Edinborough He has one in his mall,I think
I subscribed to you.
They don't make these sets the way they used to.
I HAVE THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
the exon truck sorta reminds me of Optimus prime
WOW THAT IS OLD :D
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Ich habe 2 von diesen heften !!
I agree about Lego have to make a hospital soon. Always police and fire department...
So early
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i still have this book.. somewhere
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