House with Garden

Today’s build is LEGO set 376, “Town House with Garden”, from 1978: (229 pieces)

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This house in particularly interesting because it’s hinged, so it can be closed up like a real house, or open to play with the inside like a dollhouse. Aside from requiring 2 hinge bricks, the important parts can all be made from basic building bucket pieces.

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Medieval Horse-Drawn Cart

Through Steve’s Lego Blog I came across Lego item 6000, an “Idea Book” from 1980. The horse-drawn cart jumped out at me as being both interesting and something we might have enough of the proper pieces to build.

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Blacksmithing Forge

Today we attempted to build a 2011 Lego Kingdoms set, Blacksmith Attack (6918):

6918-1This set is 104 pieces (including all the minifigs and tools). This set mostly uses types of pieces that are fairly common in current/newer sets, but it does require a few technic pieces for the moving parts.

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