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Download Instructions for More Than 6,800 Lego Kits at the Internet Archive
- boffinAudio 3y agoCan these be transcoded into an application, anyone know? Seems like a great resource for a mobile app ..
- bena 3y agoLego Builder is already an app. For newer sets, it has step by step instructions with 3d models that can be rotated.
- mrlonglong 3y agoUnfortunately that doesn't have anything prior to 1998. Some great kits in the early 80s.
- bena 3y agoNeither does the Lego site. I've been rebuilding all of my childhood sets (and Bricklinking the missing pieces if any) and there are sets for which I've lost the instructions for various reasons. Finding a decent copy of the instructions for them has been a thing.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoSearching the examples listed, the source for the instructions seems to be Lego's site. So while I'm in favor of archiving them, the collection doesn't seem that noteworthy.
- bena 3y agoI thought this was weird because you can get a lot of set instructions from Lego’s website. And you can search by set number or keyword. So unless this has sets that Lego doesn’t, it’s actually less useful. Internet Archive says it is a dump of Lego’s website. And you can’t search it. And there’s no organization. Good on IA for preserving the existing collection, but if you’re looking for a specific manual, https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions
- londons_explore 3y ago> you can get a lot of set instructions from Lego’s website. This surprises me. When your product is super easy for someone else to make a compatible set of bricks for, the instructions seem like the only thing you can easily gatekeep and demand royalties for.
- saalweachter 3y agoEh, LEGO is a corporation making money, but corporations are made up of people, and while I'm sure the people working at LEGO like money, I also am pretty sure they're bigger LEGO fans than most of here. The cost of putting up ~all old LEGO manuals online [in terms of serving them as well as potential lost revenue] is probably low enough that the rule of cool wins.
- virtualized 3y ago“The dog/child/vacuum cleaner ate my instruction manual” is probably a common support request at Lego, so there is no point in making the digital manuals difficult to access.
- jkestner 3y agoYeah, I can’t imagine that hosting their instructions loses more money than sales driven by those site visits.
- joshuahedlund 3y ago> When your product is super easy for someone else to make a compatible set of bricks for As anyone who has used “compatible” bricks will tell you, it’s not easy to match the quality. Most off-brands don’t hit the right point on the spectrum of connectability-separatability and it makes them noticeably less enjoyable to use.
- em-bee 3y agoi did not make this experience in more than 5 years of getting alternative sets. and the sentiment among those builders i know or follow is that the quality is now mostly on par with lego. a few are still worse, and some are even better. also some claim that lego quality is degrading.
- amelius 3y agoI was looking at the Colosseum LEGO kit, but disappointed that it doesn't contain any gladiators, horses, carriages and wild animals. https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/colosseum-10276 https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/colosseum-10276
- bluetomcat 3y agoIt’s a repetitive and boring build in micro-scale, not in minifigure-scale. Same for all the stadiums and most architectural landmarks released as Lego sets. It’s something you build once and put on a shelf to impress your guests, probably. The only sensible large sets are the modular buildings, and a few vintage-inspired sets released recently - a castle, a pirate ship and a space ship.
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoSounds like a good use for a 3D printer. LEGO famously has incredibly strict tolerances for their blocks but for the accents you're looking for, that shouldn't be much of an issue unless you're moving the model around frequently.
- password4321 3y agoDupe from original source last week? Discussion recommended https://lego.brickinstructions.com https://lego.brickinstructions.com. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616398 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616398
- tcbawo 3y agoHave there been any enhancements to AI-based Lego sorters? Like many people, I’ve got bins full of mixed sets of Legos. A world where you can recognize pieces from a set and divide them up would be amazing!
- londons_explore 3y agoThere are lots of people who have made a business out of lego sorting - you send them mixed lego in boxes, and they'll send you back (for a fee) sets of sorted lego.
- londons_explore 3y agoWith practice and the right methods, its possible to sort lego for well under 1% of the retail selling price using humans alone.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoBut I enjoy sorting things myself! I mean it's quite telling I've spent more time sleeving, sorting and storing my MTG cards than I have playing the actual game, lol.
- naillo 3y agohttps://www.streamhead.com/3d%20printing/ai/2021/11/01/deep-learning-lego-sorting.html https://www.streamhead.com/3d%20printing/ai/2021/11/01/deep-...
- DonHopkins 3y ago
- snowwrestler 3y agoI spent a while looking for a free copy of the instructions for the Technics float plane from the 1980s, and the only place I was able to find a scan of it was on https://www.toysperiod.com https://www.toysperiod.com, which has an extensive Lego reference section.
- cuddlyogre 3y agoI'm still downloading and it's over 100gb for the whole collection. So make sure you have the hard drive space.
- HumblyTossed 3y agoIs this just for sets? I mean are their instruction sheets for how to build stuff with just standard Lego bricks also?
- em-bee 3y agoyou can buy books with instructions for various themes. there are also websites with instructions designed by fans, some you can buy, some are free to download. if you have the bricks you can build them. these sites even allow you to manage your brick collection so you can then find instructions that fit the collection you have. i haven't tried that though because it is a ton of work to enter all your bricks and even if you find instructions that match your collection you still have to deal with the fact that some of your bricks are already used in another model.
- swayvil 3y agoDid we learn nothing from The Lego Movie? Instructions are the dark side. Master Builders use The Force.
- irrational 3y agoHas anyone ever attempted to come up with a list of all the pieces you would need to build all (or, maybe, most) of the sets? That is, ignoring brick color and assuming you can only build one set at a time (then deconstruct it for the next build). I assume the big problem would be specialized pieces. How many specialized pieces are used across multiple sets?
- dsr_ 3y agoIf you discount unique prints and unique colors of existing pieces, LEGO tries really hard to use a mold repeatedly in several sets. If it turns out to be generally useful, they will use the mold for several years before putting it in storage. Unique colors for a part are rare, too -- they typically appear in several sets clustered in time.
- imadierich 3y ago[dead]