Lego Truck from the Past

Emergency Van 556

Dump Truck 6648

Fuel Pumper 554

More sets from my Lego past that I found the directions for online. I remember (vaguely) building these the first time. The Emergency Truck had almost 100% of its pieces. The other two were missing a few here and there but still came together well. Some of the Exxon stickers are still hanging on to the pieces.

Police Station 381

Found the directions to this set #381 from 1979 online and decided to build it for Justin. He helped out looking for pieces in our massive bucket but I ended up doing most of the construction myself after he went to bed. We have almost all of the pieces for the set, still in good condition. The only stuff I was short was one complete window setup and parts of another. But one is complete. There were also not enough of the blue cylinders used for lights... I had to substitute green for the lights next to the door. Justin was psyched. We've been playing with it for about a week now. I have some other old sets... to follow in later posts

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Lego Cargo Ship

Justin and I built this cargo ship last week. His new Lego magazine came in with the brand new Maersk Container Ship in it and Justin decided we should build one out of our own stuff. So we did. He had a great time loading it up with stuff, mostly the small cars he had won at the Jugleplex food/fun day. I made the hatches detachable and later hinged. There is another shot without the yellow railings. I like it without, but once I found more of the railings we added them all the way down the deck.
This ship is now gone... a victim of the old lego set renaissance that followed. I found the instructions online for a number of my old sets and immediately set to work rebuilding them. More on that in the next few posts.

Monday, August 6, 2007