OMG this set was amazing. As a Lego Big fan maybe you remember a TV commercial where a child is about to go to sleep and puts something heavy on the Lego mechanism and the Lego train turns off the lights in the room?
3:18 I hadn’t realized that there aren’t good scans of the instructions out there. I’ll have to scan mine and upload to the usual sites. I vaguely recall that the bits on the track (the arch and the two radar dishes) were on the insert that shows how to do the track layout.
This was one of the very few sets I kept. The Lego monorail was in a tiny toy store and mom saw how much I looked at it on a high shelf. Only child with single mom and this thing was expensive. Glad I still have it. I had the six-wheel red Magnet guys vehicle but sold it at garage sale. I have not had my monorail out of the box for about 28 years. Thank you for showing it off.
My dream LEGO set was ICE Planet 2002! It took me several years to find and get all sealed sets and I also have one of each set to display!! It’s my favorite and thank you for sharing this!!
WOW.... this brings back some memories. This was the first lego set I ever got. I woke up one Christmas morning and it was already built for me, this was somewhere between 1989-1991. I was between 4 and 6. (I was always bummed that I never got to build it myself, though I think my older brother conned my mom into building it for me before I even woke up since I was so young. Oh well. I eventually combined it with an Underwater base lego set, and turned the train into a multi part submarine.
Just found you great video and love that you are old school Lego collector and builder . You are absolute beauty and brains and a collector. You are the trifecta!!! Lol can’t wait to visit your channel in the future
Wow, I'm so jealous. I had this set brand new when i was 7 years old and wish i had a time machine to steal it from myself as 7 year old me didn't keep all the peices together and played with it like a child. 😅 Been looking out for a complete set now for the last 5 years
Circled this in the Sears Wishbook for years as a kid, never got it, but it was an expensive set to buy even back in the 80's. Finally got mine 4-5 years ago, complete with box and expansion track pack!
Omg this was MY dream set, when I was a kid in the 80s! 😲 … also, I don’t remember the specifics, but Lego can no longer make these monorails tracks. A real shame.
The monorail track was outsourced to a third party company who manufactured the track for LEGO and that company went out of business. I also heard that the molding of the track elements had about a 50% rejection rate so one out of every two pieces had flaws in the mold.
That is incredible set, and it would look amazing around a Christmas tree. I recently found out we're getting a Bricks & Minifigs store here in Charleston, SC.
@@ForBricksandGigglesthere are 3 BAMs in Florida, they are 90 miles, 110 miles and 140 miles away from me…..BUT! The new Orlando Brick Co. will be opening up just 9 miles from my house!!! 🤗
Grats! It’s perfect, it’s like the 1960’s vision of the future, monorail, monorail, monorail! $18 for the little antenna rod thingy is such a typical thing for such expensive old sets, stuff like that and those rare plumes from the Castle sets.
I got this back in 1990 or so when I was about 7, and recently decided to assemble it. I was shocked to discover I had all the pieces and it worked perfectly, but the biggest miracle was that the battery box hadn't been ruined by an exploding battery during the last 30 years. Mine also has the thicker bricks on the connector cable.
Totally set it up to run around the Christmas tree! I did this several years ago with 6991 Monorail Transport Base and it was amazing. Since I never had a train (nor monorail) around the tree as a kid, it was something really special to see!
Wow, this was cool timing, as I also received a dream set I wanted as a kid in the mail this morning! The 6598 Metro PD station from 1996. Wanted it since I was four and I finally have it! Congrats on getting your dream set, that really is some build!
Glad you were able to get this. Always love the monorail play features. These sets are not only expensive today - they were expensive then- lol! Its neat seeing how much the exclusive parts have gone up. I had to get some parts for mine but that was a long time ago. Gets more and more challenging to complete which is why this is such a special set to have.
Yes, I've really wanted to get one while they are still on the market! I feel like there are less and less every year! I can always fix it up over time but I am so happy to finally have it!
7:06 I recently decided to check the condition of my monorail, and discovered that the connector wire has basically disintegrated and the motor only runs in one direction. ☹️ I found instructions for repairing the connector wire, but what little I could find on fixing the motor is that they’re basically impossible to fix. I can confirm that getting a known-working motor is not cheap! (I haven’t decided yet whether to go that route.)
That is the same monorail my son had. He had a lot of fun with it. When we bought a new house somehow it went missing and it never showed up again. I’ve been trying to find one myself. I’m thinking it was left on the moving van. I’m so glad you found one. I know where I can get one but the guy wants too much money for ir
The thing I'm impressed about is that you got hoses with good clutch power. I bought a bunch of used Lego pieces to build (Neo-)Futuron-style MOCs, 12 or so years ago (the trans-dark blue antennae weren't that expensive for me, nor the dome pieces, but I had to pay a *lot* for the TD blue cockpit extenders!), but I consistently had trouble with the hoses (white, black, and old grey), because they're often used "under tension" but have bad clutch. That annoys me a lot, because they're excellent for greebling.
The original instruction has at the last pages a part, which you can unfold. Due to this reason I think it´s hard to scan and you could´t find the decorative antenna elements building steps. Happy building and have fun with this great sets! I hope you get all three of them and can review these wonderful sets. :)
That's funny Stacey because a few years ago I got my dream Lego set, 6399 Airport Shuttle. It was not cheap, I saved up for over a year for it. I finally bought it back in October 2021 on Ebay for $887 from someone in Canada. Absolutely love it, glad I bought it.
This is one of the sets I want to get too. I want to get both of the space monorails and I'm building the unreleased Sea-Tron monorail along with the unreleased sets that went with the theme.
Nice, I don't think I have this one, but if I do, it's packed in storage. But I do have the 6991 Monorail set out, and it's here in the original box right next to me. I wonder if these two would link together well into a nice bigger Monorail configuration..? 🤔😃
NIce find! This is such a fun set so thanks for sharing your experience. Monorail came out after I went dark, but once I returned to LEGO in 2013 I was intrigued by the whole monorail concept, especially the Futuron. Space (Classic Space) was my final theme before I went dark, so the futuron minifiges with their "updated" space uniforms were especially appealing. I found my Futuron monorail at an estate sale in 2016. Now have enough straight track to run it in my large Classic Space display with a second MOC train. Have a modified one too that now runs in my city display.
My favorite space minis came from space sets pre-helmet visors. My brother use to turn the smile face towards the back to pretend the blank yellow was the helmet visor.
One down, two to go! 😉 I was chatting with Pavel a couple days ago and he was telling me he had helped you get this. Congratulations! We need to get you a Message Intercept Base next!!! 😄
So happy for you! This is the grail set for lots of us. I just got the same set a couple weeks ago finally after so many years of hoping to find one for a decent price. Facebook marketplace was very good to me! The set is minty and it arrived with the box and manual and backdrop and it wasn’t even advertised with it being included so it was the best day ever when a big box showed up at my house! Love your channel and videos. Thanks for the awesome content!!
So funny, I saw this set at a local Bricks and Minifigs - might have been the same one! Congrats on getting the dream set! Love how this channel deep-dives into old sets like this - it's often the closest look I've gotten at some of these sets outside of their pictures in the Lego catalogs back in the day.
congrats on getting your dreamset. When you said you wanted a monorail i always assumed it was a city/town set. A circular track around a christmas tree would be a good look.
I got my monorail also from our local bricks and Minifigs and I actually walked away from it twice until I realized it was the Bricklink Limited Skyline Express at msrp, amazing.
What an amazing Find! I had the airport monorail as a kid and its still a fond memory. Wish my family had not sold all my collection after i left the house
A couple of mods my brother and I did to our copy of this set back in the day: Firstly, putting a square 2x2 plate under the round 2x2 tile on the stop rails makes them easier to turn (in later monorails, Lego used square tiles, probably for the same reason). The other was to change the container mountings to be compatible with those in sets like 7823, so the monorail could transfer containers to a train or a ship and vice versa.
I'm very excited for you to have gotten this set! With the help of a friend who does 3d printing, I got a bunch of straight monorail track printed, and made one for my city. Its by far the highlight of the entire setup! :D
it's a real rad set. Personally, I find a little bit of yellowing and wear part of the charm and authenticity of the sets. Adds a bit of a Lego-movie extra reality element to the sets that I quite enjoy.
Congrats on getting this awesome set and for the amazing video review. If you still need the complete instructions, I have the set and instructions, and can scan it and send a pdf.
I'm quite a minimalist and thus don't keep Lego sets for a long time. But I have a few I don't intend to ever sell, and the space monorail is definitely one of them. Second is the yellow castle (I actually got it in the 80s as a child)
Thank for the video , wow -- a super are set , congrats . Have you ever considered vintage Technic sets ? My first was the Technic Auto Chassis . Take care, Dreamer
I appreciated you detailed video presentation. I like the set, and your interest in a specific era of Lego's. In seeing the Monorail, do you know anything about building a Walt Disney World Main Street Train Station, and a WDW Cinderella Castle. And are there any obtainable plans?
Argh! I wanted that set ever since I first saw it in Brick Kicks magazine. My dad would not get it for me because it was the most expensive set ever and my dad was not going to write a check for over a hundred bucks and let me Mail it to Denmark for one set. I'm so jealous!
I have this set. Got it as a kid and have the original box and instructions that I'm going to sell. If you need quality pics of the instructions/steps LMK
Wonderful video, Stacey! It was my absolute pleasure to help and I am so happy you are enjoying it!
You da man!!!! 😉
👍 👍
love how you spree the lego virus, lol
OMG this set was amazing. As a Lego Big fan maybe you remember a TV commercial where a child is about to go to sleep and puts something heavy on the Lego mechanism and the Lego train turns off the lights in the room?
3:18 I hadn’t realized that there aren’t good scans of the instructions out there. I’ll have to scan mine and upload to the usual sites. I vaguely recall that the bits on the track (the arch and the two radar dishes) were on the insert that shows how to do the track layout.
This was one of the very few sets I kept. The Lego monorail was in a tiny toy store and mom saw how much I looked at it on a high shelf. Only child with single mom and this thing was expensive. Glad I still have it. I had the six-wheel red Magnet guys vehicle but sold it at garage sale. I have not had my monorail out of the box for about 28 years. Thank you for showing it off.
One of my favorite Lego sets.
There’s something magical about the simple play features of retro sets! Congrats on acquiring this amazing set!
When you turned it on, the sound! Love the Monorail sound, and I don't know why. 😁
I had this set when I was little! I built a space mall around it.
The dome pieces are nice. I luv the translucent pieces and the metallic colors.
Amazing set! Congrats! I need to get some tracks of my own for a few of my trains. Very cool.
My dream LEGO set was ICE Planet 2002! It took me several years to find and get all sealed sets and I also have one of each set to display!! It’s my favorite and thank you for sharing this!!
WOW.... this brings back some memories. This was the first lego set I ever got. I woke up one Christmas morning and it was already built for me, this was somewhere between 1989-1991. I was between 4 and 6. (I was always bummed that I never got to build it myself, though I think my older brother conned my mom into building it for me before I even woke up since I was so young. Oh well. I eventually combined it with an Underwater base lego set, and turned the train into a multi part submarine.
Just found you great video and love that you are old school Lego collector and builder . You are absolute beauty and brains and a collector. You are the trifecta!!! Lol can’t wait to visit your channel in the future
Awesome find, contratz!
Wow, I'm so jealous. I had this set brand new when i was 7 years old and wish i had a time machine to steal it from myself as 7 year old me didn't keep all the peices together and played with it like a child. 😅
Been looking out for a complete set now for the last 5 years
Circled this in the Sears Wishbook for years as a kid, never got it, but it was an expensive set to buy even back in the 80's. Finally got mine 4-5 years ago, complete with box and expansion track pack!
Very cool set! Congrats! Thank you, to showing us!
Omg this was MY dream set, when I was a kid in the 80s! 😲 … also, I don’t remember the specifics, but Lego can no longer make these monorails tracks. A real shame.
The monorail track was outsourced to a third party company who manufactured the track for LEGO and that company went out of business. I also heard that the molding of the track elements had about a 50% rejection rate so one out of every two pieces had flaws in the mold.
Fantastic set! My sister and I actually bought this for our mom when we were kids. She still has it as well as the original box!
Just the sound of the monorail going around the track.. Fantastic! Love the Monorail theme (possibly a little too much according to some ;) )
Wow! Congratulations!! It looks amazing!
Congratulations!!
That is incredible set, and it would look amazing around a Christmas tree. I recently found out we're getting a Bricks & Minifigs store here in Charleston, SC.
That’s exciting! We finally got a BAM near me this year! I need to go back soon!
@@ForBricksandGigglesthere are 3 BAMs in Florida, they are 90 miles, 110 miles and 140 miles away from me…..BUT! The new Orlando Brick Co. will be opening up just 9 miles from my house!!! 🤗
This is my all time favorite set. I still have the parts and could probably assemble it, Ship of Thesius style, but I love it.
Ok.....between this and the M-Tron sets.....thissss...thissss is a collection. 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you! The last year has been very good for my collection 🥹🙌
Incredibly jealous! Praying that one day I can get hold of one myself.
I hope so for you too! I love seeing people get their dream LEGO sets!
@@ForBricksandGiggles I'm very fortunate to have gotten pretty much all of my dream sets, it's a great feeling.
Grats! It’s perfect, it’s like the 1960’s vision of the future, monorail, monorail, monorail!
$18 for the little antenna rod thingy is such a typical thing for such expensive old sets, stuff like that and those rare plumes from the Castle sets.
It’s massive!!!! Wow. Congrats 🎉
9-year old me fantasized about this set for years. Congrats on getting it.
Lovley I am happy for you. The sister monorail set Airport Shuttle is my dream set.
Thank you! Yes, the airport shuttle is fantastic too! So so expensive!
Oh yeah... definately pawed over catalogues dreaming of this one
I got this back in 1990 or so when I was about 7, and recently decided to assemble it. I was shocked to discover I had all the pieces and it worked perfectly, but the biggest miracle was that the battery box hadn't been ruined by an exploding battery during the last 30 years. Mine also has the thicker bricks on the connector cable.
Thank you for sharing your joy with us, congratulations on the dream came true!
Definitely on my wishlist too. An amazing set.
Wow!
Totally set it up to run around the Christmas tree! I did this several years ago with 6991 Monorail Transport Base and it was amazing. Since I never had a train (nor monorail) around the tree as a kid, it was something really special to see!
Wow, this was cool timing, as I also received a dream set I wanted as a kid in the mail this morning! The 6598 Metro PD station from 1996. Wanted it since I was four and I finally have it! Congrats on getting your dream set, that really is some build!
Congrats on getting one of the all time classic "white whales". So freaking classic!
Glad you were able to get this. Always love the monorail play features. These sets are not only expensive today - they were expensive then- lol! Its neat seeing how much the exclusive parts have gone up. I had to get some parts for mine but that was a long time ago. Gets more and more challenging to complete which is why this is such a special set to have.
Yes, I've really wanted to get one while they are still on the market! I feel like there are less and less every year! I can always fix it up over time but I am so happy to finally have it!
Love the details and moving parts. The older sets just have that nostalgic look. Fantastic set.
Super-cool! I’ve always wanted that set too! 😊
Such an excellent set. I wonder if I could find all of the pieces to the one I had - or at least enough to get it running....
Congratulations! I'm so happy for you...what a great set.
Thank you thank you! 😁🙌
Congrats on getting this dream set. Futuron/Classic Space + Monorail = Big Win
7:06 I recently decided to check the condition of my monorail, and discovered that the connector wire has basically disintegrated and the motor only runs in one direction. ☹️ I found instructions for repairing the connector wire, but what little I could find on fixing the motor is that they’re basically impossible to fix. I can confirm that getting a known-working motor is not cheap! (I haven’t decided yet whether to go that route.)
That is the same monorail my son had. He had a lot of fun with it. When we bought a new house somehow it went missing and it never showed up again. I’ve been trying to find one myself. I’m thinking it was left on the moving van. I’m so glad you found one. I know where I can get one but the guy wants too much money for ir
Oh no! That’s too bad! Well I hope you are able to find another one!
The thing I'm impressed about is that you got hoses with good clutch power.
I bought a bunch of used Lego pieces to build (Neo-)Futuron-style MOCs, 12 or so years ago (the trans-dark blue antennae weren't that expensive for me, nor the dome pieces, but I had to pay a *lot* for the TD blue cockpit extenders!), but I consistently had trouble with the hoses (white, black, and old grey), because they're often used "under tension" but have bad clutch. That annoys me a lot, because they're excellent for greebling.
Man, this is a great set!
That is so awesome! Those vintage sets really are underrated
This is a great video and set! I collect period 1970-1996 with boxes and manuals. This one is definitely on my wish list!
Congrats! Monorails are a blast 👏
7:03 that's actually really cool
Yeah, I love this set too. It's easily my favorite space set, with the Message Intercept Base being my second.
Congrat!! Such a cool set! Thanks for sharing it with us
The original instruction has at the last pages a part, which you can unfold. Due to this reason I think it´s hard to scan and you could´t find the decorative antenna elements building steps. Happy building and have fun with this great sets! I hope you get all three of them and can review these wonderful sets. :)
The scan on Peeron looks complete to me.
That's funny Stacey because a few years ago I got my dream Lego set, 6399 Airport Shuttle. It was not cheap, I saved up for over a year for it. I finally bought it back in October 2021 on Ebay for $887 from someone in Canada. Absolutely love it, glad I bought it.
This is one of the sets I want to get too. I want to get both of the space monorails and I'm building the unreleased Sea-Tron monorail along with the unreleased sets that went with the theme.
Nice, I don't think I have this one, but if I do, it's packed in storage. But I do have the 6991 Monorail set out, and it's here in the original box right next to me. I wonder if these two would link together well into a nice bigger Monorail configuration..? 🤔😃
NIce find! This is such a fun set so thanks for sharing your experience. Monorail came out after I went dark, but once I returned to LEGO in 2013 I was intrigued by the whole monorail concept, especially the Futuron. Space (Classic Space) was my final theme before I went dark, so the futuron minifiges with their "updated" space uniforms were especially appealing. I found my Futuron monorail at an estate sale in 2016. Now have enough straight track to run it in my large Classic Space display with a second MOC train. Have a modified one too that now runs in my city display.
My favorite space minis came from space sets pre-helmet visors. My brother use to turn the smile face towards the back to pretend the blank yellow was the helmet visor.
One down, two to go! 😉 I was chatting with Pavel a couple days ago and he was telling me he had helped you get this. Congratulations! We need to get you a Message Intercept Base next!!! 😄
I would absolutely LOVE that set so I'll take all the help I can get! Lol!
Excellent set! Congrats on being able to find a good copy!
Thank you! I am so happy with it!
Wow! I just saw that exact set when I was on travel a few weeks ago! I'm so glad to know it went to such a happy home. :)
So happy for you! This is the grail set for lots of us. I just got the same set a couple weeks ago finally after so many years of hoping to find one for a decent price. Facebook marketplace was very good to me! The set is minty and it arrived with the box and manual and backdrop and it wasn’t even advertised with it being included so it was the best day ever when a big box showed up at my house! Love your channel and videos. Thanks for the awesome content!!
So funny, I saw this set at a local Bricks and Minifigs - might have been the same one! Congrats on getting the dream set! Love how this channel deep-dives into old sets like this - it's often the closest look I've gotten at some of these sets outside of their pictures in the Lego catalogs back in the day.
Would have been from the one in Austin TX.
Makes me want to build mine now, I love this set
Congratulations, it looks great. Monorail. Monorail! MONORAIL!!!
congrats on getting your dreamset. When you said you wanted a monorail i always assumed it was a city/town set. A circular track around a christmas tree would be a good look.
Well the Airport Shuttle monorail is around triple the price so not in my budget lol! And I think I will try to put it around the Christmas tree! 😁
I got my monorail also from our local bricks and Minifigs and I actually walked away from it twice until I realized it was the Bricklink Limited Skyline Express at msrp, amazing.
I miss that sound, i had the airport monorail as a kid, but it never made it out of the 90's...
Congrats on the set! Wonder what is taking its place on the most wanted list
I will have to come up with something really good! I have a few ideas though...
So cool! My dream set is the 6991 Monorail. Thanks for another great video!
Congrats on getting that set!
Envy. So much envy!
What an amazing Find! I had the airport monorail as a kid and its still a fond memory. Wish my family had not sold all my collection after i left the house
I had the expansion track pack too. Such a great toy add on
A couple of mods my brother and I did to our copy of this set back in the day: Firstly, putting a square 2x2 plate under the round 2x2 tile on the stop rails makes them easier to turn (in later monorails, Lego used square tiles, probably for the same reason). The other was to change the container mountings to be compatible with those in sets like 7823, so the monorail could transfer containers to a train or a ship and vice versa.
I'm very excited for you to have gotten this set! With the help of a friend who does 3d printing, I got a bunch of straight monorail track printed, and made one for my city. Its by far the highlight of the entire setup! :D
I was lucky enough to get this as a kid. It really is fantastic.
Congratulations getting your dream set! This is such a huge deal!!
Modern sets are very nicely details & beautiful but vintage sets are the bees knees!
it's a real rad set.
Personally, I find a little bit of yellowing and wear part of the charm and authenticity of the sets.
Adds a bit of a Lego-movie extra reality element to the sets that I quite enjoy.
Congrats on getting this awesome set and for the amazing video review. If you still need the complete instructions, I have the set and instructions, and can scan it and send a pdf.
Thank you! I was actually able to get the original instructions after the video was made! 😊
Welcome to the monorail owners club! They're just so well engineered. Shame they're so rare.
I'm quite a minimalist and thus don't keep Lego sets for a long time. But I have a few I don't intend to ever sell, and the space monorail is definitely one of them. Second is the yellow castle (I actually got it in the 80s as a child)
YES! You finally got it!! Such a great set, love your closeups, and… that trans dark blue bar?? 😮
Congrats on your LEGO set. A cool set to have 😏.
Congrats on getting your white whale set! The monorail is pretty sweet. I'm hoping we get a remake with the modern gray color soon.
Ok, that was totally unexpected!!! Congrats Stacie!!!
Thank for the video , wow -- a super are set , congrats . Have you ever considered vintage Technic sets ? My first was the Technic Auto Chassis . Take care, Dreamer
i am still trying to piece this one together
Hey I seen you on instagram. Congrats on getting your “white whale” 2 of mine are the imperial flag ship and republic drop ship.
Ooh. I have a copy of that MISB.
I appreciated you detailed video presentation. I like the set, and your interest in a specific era of Lego's. In seeing the Monorail, do you know anything about building a Walt Disney World Main Street Train Station, and a WDW Cinderella Castle. And are there any obtainable plans?
Argh! I wanted that set ever since I first saw it in Brick Kicks magazine. My dad would not get it for me because it was the most expensive set ever and my dad was not going to write a check for over a hundred bucks and let me Mail it to Denmark for one set. I'm so jealous!
Do you have the original blacktron series? They were my favorite.
Congrats! I got that too
I have this set. Got it as a kid and have the original box and instructions that I'm going to sell. If you need quality pics of the instructions/steps LMK
The look of a kid's face when you were watching it go around.
looks awesome, just got a jurassic park set with the big long necked dinosaur