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> My favorite "make stuff toys" of the 70's were my Erector set and Lego set The Legos I had in the 70s did not have any mini figures (did they exist in the US
by TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
> My favorite "make stuff toys" of the 70's were my Erector set and Lego set
The Legos I had in the 70s did not have any mini figures (did they exist in the US at that time? None of my friends had any either) and there parts were only a few standard sizes as I recall (no small ones like today). I don’t even remember “kits” so much as “here’s a bunch of Legos, go build something” like another version of blocks of Lincoln Logs.
Did you actually have kits with build instructions that came with the kit?
- egypturnash 4y agoWikipedia says the modern "minifigure" appeared in 1978, with a simpler, more abstract precursor without movable limbs showing up in 1975.
- bewaretheirs 4y agoMatches my experience - first kit I got with minifigs was the #575 coast guard station which various sites say was released in 1978.
- JackFr 4y agoGirders and Panels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girder_and_Panel_building_sets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girder_and_Panel_building_sets
- LanceH 4y agoJust got that for my youngest a couple years ago, there is a modern version, not changed much. It's still fun.
- CWuestefeld 4y agoI believe I saw small Legos kits as a kid in the 70s, but I certainly didn't have any of that. As you say, we had just a bucket of legos bricks. What I really liked to do with them is to make all kinds of all-terrain trucks with lots of wheels and stuff. This was all just from imagination, and they I came up with fresh designs every time. I really don't understand what people do these days, with kits that are supposed to be assembled just so. I mean, I get that people like to build scale models, but why not just do that? With lego, it's not going to look like the real thing anyway, so why not use it for your own expression?