"Jim Spanfeller" (awesomeaustinv)
04/13/2020 at 11:26 • Filed to: None
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"Jim Spanfeller" (awesomeaustinv)
04/13/2020 at 11:26 • Filed to: None | 4
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Image source: Brickinstructions.com
The website is Brickinstructions.com, and
i
t’s basically a giant online library of official
Lego instruction manuals
. Lego themselves have a massive online
library of building instructions, but where theirs only goes as far back as
the late 90's, Brickinstructions.com’s collection contains scans of instruction manuals from as far back as
1964.
You can search for instructions by year, theme, or set number, and although they don’t have instructions for every single
Lego set ever made, they do seem to have most of them,
o
r at least a significantly large
number of them.
Just as an example, here’s the instructions for the 1913 Cadillac set from 1975:
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Enjoy!
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> Jim Spanfeller
04/13/2020 at 11:35 |
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I love looking through old Lego instruction manuals and brochures. Here are a few handed down from my dad. I will make sure to check out that website.
“sassy little animal figures”
WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
> Jim Spanfeller
04/13/2020 at 11:40 |
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My brother and I found this over the Christmas break while at our parent’s house going through the giant bin of Lego from our childhood . We were helping his daughter build some basic things, then found some parts for an old castle kit we had. One thing led to another, and we ended up finding the plans and building the whole thing!
This one for reference:
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Jim Spanfeller
> WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
04/13/2020 at 11:44 |
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So that’s where my big, green raised base plate came from! I got it from a friend who didn’t want it, and I always wondered where it came from. The shape and markings seem to match the one in that set.
ttyymmnn
> WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
04/13/2020 at 11:46 |
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We inherited a giant bin of Legos from my wife’s old boss a few years ago, and there were tons of castle pieces and horses and knights. No raised baseplate, though. Just noticed the ghost in the tower...
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> WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
04/13/2020 at 11:46 |
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My brother bought an even earlier castle set on brick link quite a while ago. Those are some really fun sets right there! That base plate looks great too.
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> Jim Spanfeller
04/13/2020 at 11:47 |
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I was just about to point that out. Though doesn’t yours have a pathway on the right side not the left?
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ttyymmnn
> Jim Spanfeller
04/13/2020 at 11:48 |
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I’ll have to check this out. I had a space ship set back in the mid- to late-70s that I absolutely loved. It came with some sort of moon rover that I repurposed into a jeep sort of thing with a gun on the back, much like the old Rat Patrol TV show. I’ve never seen the set anywhere else. Thanks for the link!
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WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
> ttyymmnn
04/13/2020 at 11:49 |
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Yeah, I loved the ghost as a kid. I went crazy when they used it in “ The Lego Movie.”
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WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
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04/13/2020 at 11:50 |
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The base plate has an inside portion too. That’s where the treasure chest goes!
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> WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
04/13/2020 at 11:54 |
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I had this set at one point but I can’t figure out why treasure was buried under a hospital.
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Jim Spanfeller
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04/13/2020 at 12:05 |
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No, the ramp is in the right place. I suppose right or left techn ically depends on your orientation in relation to the base plate, though...
user314
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04/13/2020 at 12:05 |
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Huh, I think I had 6901 as a young lad. I know I had 6940 , I distinctly remember the snake ar m, the lockers in the legs, and how the front and back detatched:
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Jim Spanfeller
> ttyymmnn
04/13/2020 at 12:08 |
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Is it this one? https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/367/Space_Module_with_Astronauts
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> user314
04/13/2020 at 12:10 |
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The green tinted glass and snake arm can’t be found easily anymore but those are some cool pieces. I never remember them being intact but I always liked the old space stuff. Nice.
shop-teacher
> Jim Spanfeller
04/13/2020 at 12:18 |
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Thanks! I will definitely have to check that out.
fhrblig
> Jim Spanfeller
04/13/2020 at 12:30 |
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Wow, it has the very first set I ever got, back around 1978 or 1979:
I still have all my Legos from that set all the way up to around ‘88 or ‘89. I have most of those pieces except the stove, which I think I broke somehow.
I’m going through looking for an Exxon Station set that I had but I’m not seeing it anywhere yet.
daender
> Jim Spanfeller
04/13/2020 at 12:32 |
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That website saved my ass a few years ago when I decided to rebuild ALL of my Lego sets and found out most of my instructions were long-gone . I didn’t remember the names of the sets so I searched by years until I narrowed it down.
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ttyymmnn
> Jim Spanfeller
04/13/2020 at 12:48 |
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No, it was newer than that. I might have my years wrong. Mine had minifigs with helmets and visors. It was also white/grey. I think....
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Jim Spanfeller
> ttyymmnn
04/13/2020 at 13:36 |
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Maybe this one?
https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/1593/Super_Model_Building_Instructions
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Jim Spanfeller
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04/13/2020 at 13:44 |
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I have a few of those canopy pieces, one in transparent yellow and two in blue, along with a few of those snake arm pieces. Fun fact: those snake arm pieces actually predate the minifigure, and were originally used in the old Lego “Homemaker” sets as arms for “maxifigs”, which were the giant ancestors of the minifigure:
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Jim Spanfeller
> fhrblig
04/13/2020 at 13:47 |
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Wow! I like how when the minifigure first came out, they used it as a baby in the sets with brick-built figures. Those poor minifigure babies... They have to live with the knowledge that when they grow up, their legs will become fused together! :p
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> Jim Spanfeller
04/13/2020 at 13:52 |
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My dad’s hand me downs had several of those actually but they always creeped me out too much to build with them. They can be integrated with Lego structures if you try hard enough though. Sadly he wasn’t early enough to get any of the Lego model railroad spec cars. Were those die cast or made of plastic like the rest?
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ttyymmnn
> Jim Spanfeller
04/13/2020 at 13:52 |
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Not quite, but definitely of that generation. I now remember having a red minifig. My set wasn't as involved, and may have been two different small sets. The vehicle was more jeep than rover.
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Jim Spanfeller
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04/13/2020 at 13:55 |
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I think the Lego HO-scale cars used plastic bodies, although they used metal wheels and sometimes metal chassis.