Modern vs Vintage Lego Forestmen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ย. 2024
- I built my first certified Lego set this week. In this video I compare a modern Forestman treehouse with a vintage one!
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UPDATE: Bricks & Minifigs replaced the warped part--no problem. Yay!
I was going to say - every BAMs I've been to will gladly replace any part that's not up to par - if it's not right they'll make it right. I was short a couple pieces on a Star Wars T-47 (Snowspeeder) and they were very eager to make it right on my next visit - even to the point that they made sure it was the right color (based on when the set was made).
I haven't built any certified sets but I certainly have plenty of experience with vintage instructions. They are definitely a game of finding what's different in the illustrations from step to step. The modern instructions call out the pieces needed for each step and make it much easier. The old style isn't impossible but they can be challenging! Keep up the good work.
Thanks for your support, Skeeter! Cheers!
Do I have any certified vintage sets?… oh yes, the ones I had as a kid that my mom had the forethought of boxing up and saving for me and her future grandkids 😂 and I have some really great iconic Castle theme sets from the 80s and early 90s.
I have to say that after coming across those old Lego while going through her house, I very much prefer the newer Lego we have right now. There are so many more parts and colors, and the builds that people are doing and sharing online are just amazing and inspiring.
I feel we are living in the golden age of Lego right now. We have access to everything - old or new, whole sets to individual parts!
When I first got back into Lego in 2021 as my “full time hobby” 😂, I had thought about buying the other Forestmen sets that I so desperately wanted as a kid, but didn’t get. But when I started looking at what people were building and what was available for pieces I started my journey into MODs and MOCs. It’s been really great to just create something from scratch.
It’s always a blast to watch people bring out and talk about those older sets. I used to love looking through those little catalogs included in the sets, dreaming of owning every single Castle set 😂 it’s a great time to be in Lego now!
Great vid Thom!
Haha, good old mom! Those are the BEST certified sets! :-)
If you need MOC inspiration, look up official LEGO alternate builds for the LEGO System era sets. On the back of all System era boxes, LEGO included images of several alternative builds made with the pieces included in the box. See what you can do with your second (and perhaps less complete) treehouse!
Thanks! I will look into that!
I like the advanced building techniques of the newer castle sets, but love the vintage minifigures
Yes, I know what you mean. They are charming!
I used to built Lego in late 90s-early 00s and returned to building Lego last year. And at first new instructions felt too detailed to me. So yeah, instructions have changed and I can understand difficulties with older instructions for the people who are used to new ones
Your channel is great! I recently purchased the 1992 Black Knight's castle, and absolutely love vintage castle. Even though I grew up with 2013 knights haha.
Awesome. What number castle set did you buy?
I love your channel. I grew up with the vintage castle era. I find the newer sets are harder for me to build. If you want some easier vintage sets to build look at the small play sets form the early 80s. Most of those sets are common pieces you can find in the bulk table at bricks and Minifigs. Sets like 6030 and 6035 are some of my favorites.. P.S. I love the lore you are making up. So much fun. Keep up the great work. Happy Building.
I agree! I have some of those small builds--I did a video on them. I have 6035 and I'm now going to look for 6030. I'd love to figure out how to moc small builds based on these originals but have yet to try my hand. Thanks for posting!
Lego instructions have definitely improved over the years. I grew up in that vintage era, but even so, going back and building vintage sets can be much more challenging. "What's different in this next step." Also, dark sets were particularly challenging for me because sometimes it was tough to tell the difference in the instructions between black vs dark grey vs light grey (or even the outline of the piece). This happened to me building a Batman set from 2008 (so not even vintage).
Just a note: Typo in your video title
Thanks for the heads up on title--auto correct! It's been fixed. Glad it's not just me on those vinatge instructions. Thanks for posting!
You got this ! I think you will do great. I can tell in your voice. Go for the "home remodel" method before the full MOC method. Makeovers are fun! Colorful Exaggeration often leads to inspirational creation. Thanks for the watch, make a great day !
It’s not because you are old😉
The instructions have come a long way
Thanks. Although I AM old, haha! Cheers!
I have the new version of the set and I love it, it does a good job of modernizing the set while staying true to the original model. As for the newer vs older instructions, I don’t have many older sets, but I have a couple castle and Knights Kingdom sets from the early 2000s and the instructions were difficult for me as well. I grew up with the newer, more easy to follow ones so it was a different experience building with the older ones because they have less directional arrows and outlines.
I totally agree about the newer set! Thanks for posting!
Perhaps the feature I like the most in modern instructions (aside from the builder app) is that the pieces for the step are listed - I'm a "sorter", at least for the step I'm working on. The pieces being outlined is very helpful too - especially where it can improve the overall stability of the set you're building - i.e. a 1x4 brick that spans two pieces rather than 2 1x2 bricks....
I find that very helpful as well. I also like sorting and often open a bag and immediately sort it by color.
I’ve been building Lego since I was a child in the 70’s so I’m quite used to the sparseness of the original instructions. In fact, I have the opinion that modern instructions are to easy as the old versions really made me pay attention to detail as the instructions just showed pictures of pieces added to the picture. I had to really focus on the differences of the build.
Yes, it was probably a really good exercise for my brain so I should stop complaining! Working my brain IS one of the reasons I started this journey in the first place! Thanks for posting!
Separating the pieces by color and element is called Knollimg.
I did not know that--thanks!
Be carefull with brittle brown .It does live up to the name
I sort of "collect" the broken pieces from our bulk collection - keeping in mind that there's nothing in my son's collection older than 15 years - we still find broken browns regularly.
Very true I pulled my Hobbit: Unexpected gathering out of storage to rebuild it earlier this week and it was heartbreaking. Thankfully all fairly common bricks and plates, but still it hurts to see them disintegrate.
depending on the set I sometimes prefer the old style - I believe it's largely due to nostalgia - my brain does have to switch gears and adjust to building with those directions. Even modern Technic instructions can be a challenge - even for my son who's a very advanced builder (building 5000+ piece sets before breakfast ;-) ) - I try to only build a few of those per year...
The instructions that come with "clone" sets (non-Lego) are often the "old style" instructions...
Interesting. Thanks for that info. I have one other certified set that I have waiting to build. It will be a good experiment for me to see if it's easier this time around. Cheers!