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I sincerely applaud everything ending up on IA. However, if you're searching for specific instructions brickinstructions is excellent as it is far more navigab

by JNRowe 3y ago

I sincerely applaud everything ending up on IA. However, if you're searching for specific instructions brickinstructions is excellent as it is far more navigable. For a random example see Starguider¹. I wonder if someone has already scraped that site for IA, beyond simply praying to the Wayback Machine. ¹ https://lego.brickinstructions.com/m/lego_instructions/set/6933/Starguider https://lego.brickinstructions.com/m/lego_instructions/set/6...

internetter 3y ago
Yes, we archived the entire thing in 2020[0] (~100gb). Maybe it's worth running again. [0]: https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/avlad https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/avlad Edit: What this means is you can open any* link to lego.brickinstructions.com and see it in the wayback machine (IA ingests these archives) *maybe not the mobile view you linked, not links after the job ran, not pages that couldn't be found in a crawl
- JNRowe 3y ago
  That is great. I could see a lot it was in the wayback machine, but I have no idea what the pipeline for that is. Poking around from your link was informative, thanks!
kazinator 3y ago
When brickinstructions goes belly up, or just messes up its URLs for shits and giggles, you will need to go through archive.org to find out what used to be at that URL.
el_benhameen 3y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I’m going to show it to my 6 year old and he’s going to lose his mind. Great way to make use of my massive box of childhood legos and empty summer hours.
- bombcar 3y ago
  There is/was a website where you could upload all your parts and it would tell you what you could build.
  - tspike 3y ago
    Rebrickable. Very much still alive.
  - dunham 3y ago
    There is a app for that too, which works off of a photo of your parts: https://brickit.app/ https://brickit.app/
FeteCommuniste 3y ago
Wow, that just gave me a crazy flash of nostalgia. I think I must have had this set, or at least a very similar one.
- fxtentacle 3y ago
  me too :)
- lukebbutton 3y ago
  Same, it hit hard
- kevinob11 3y ago
  Whoa, WHOA, I could never have named or described this but it suddenly felt like I was 8 hoping for specific christmas gifts again.
  - mulmen 3y ago
    I admit to being a total sucker for Star Wars LEGO but I do love the classic sets with no “lore”. It’s some kind of space truck. People probably need trucks in space right? You figure it out kid.
- etimberg 3y ago
  Same! Just found the instructions for a set I remember getting as a kid. https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/6036/Skeleton_Surprise https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/... I think the lego itself is still somewhere at my parents place, but the instructions were lost long ago
- Loic 3y ago
  https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/6482/Rescue_Helicopter https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/... I played so many hours with this one...
the__alchemist 3y ago
Oh my god. I thought I was such a big deal when I first saw that one - It was marked ages 6+, but I was a solid 4 or 5.

by JNRowe 3y ago

internetter 3y ago

Yes, we archived the entire thing in 2020[0] (~100gb). Maybe it's worth running again. [0]: https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/avlad https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/avlad Edit: What this means is you can open any* link to lego.brickinstructions.com and see it in the wayback machine (IA ingests these archives) *maybe not the mobile view you linked, not links after the job ran, not pages that couldn't be found in a crawl

JNRowe 3y ago
That is great. I could see a lot it was in the wayback machine, but I have no idea what the pipeline for that is. Poking around from your link was informative, thanks!

kazinator 3y ago

When brickinstructions goes belly up, or just messes up its URLs for shits and giggles, you will need to go through archive.org to find out what used to be at that URL.

el_benhameen 3y ago

Thank you for sharing this. I’m going to show it to my 6 year old and he’s going to lose his mind. Great way to make use of my massive box of childhood legos and empty summer hours.

bombcar 3y ago
There is/was a website where you could upload all your parts and it would tell you what you could build.
- tspike 3y ago
  Rebrickable. Very much still alive.
- dunham 3y ago
  There is a app for that too, which works off of a photo of your parts: https://brickit.app/ https://brickit.app/

FeteCommuniste 3y ago

Wow, that just gave me a crazy flash of nostalgia. I think I must have had this set, or at least a very similar one.

fxtentacle 3y ago
me too :)
lukebbutton 3y ago
Same, it hit hard
kevinob11 3y ago
Whoa, WHOA, I could never have named or described this but it suddenly felt like I was 8 hoping for specific christmas gifts again.
- mulmen 3y ago
  I admit to being a total sucker for Star Wars LEGO but I do love the classic sets with no “lore”. It’s some kind of space truck. People probably need trucks in space right? You figure it out kid.
etimberg 3y ago
Same! Just found the instructions for a set I remember getting as a kid. https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/6036/Skeleton_Surprise https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/... I think the lego itself is still somewhere at my parents place, but the instructions were lost long ago
Loic 3y ago
https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/6482/Rescue_Helicopter https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/... I played so many hours with this one...

the__alchemist 3y ago

Oh my god. I thought I was such a big deal when I first saw that one - It was marked ages 6+, but I was a solid 4 or 5.