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4 Car Auto Transport Our community, 31 want it Our community, 66 want it Our community, 32 want it Remote Control Car Set Our community, 72 want itFIND MORE PRODUCTS LIKE THISBuild action and excitement with cops and robbers! These are the instructions for building the LEGO Police Police Headquarters that was released in 1975. BI 5850 IN [3.61 Mb]Classic TownClassic LegoSets 1980S1980S UkSteve S Lego376 HouseHouses SpaceshipsHouse LateTown HouseForwardLego house late 1970s. I still have this & my kids play with it. This article lists notable events and releases in the history of the Lego Group.Chicago: Norwood House, 2011. The requested URL /lego-instructions.php?cat_id=6 was not found on this server.Lego letter from the 1970s still offers a powerful message to parents 40 years later 'The urge to create is equally strong in all children… boys and girls' Sunday 23 November 2014 15:27 GMT When it comes to promoting equality of the sexes, we tend to think that we’ve come a long way in the past 40 years.
But a letter that is believed to have been included in a 1974 Lego box set appears to show that the much-loved Danish toy company started to get there a good while before everyone else., Lego sent a message addressed “To parents” inside the box of assorted building blocks, explaining how “the urge to create is equally strong in all children… boys and girls”.It’s a powerful sentiment that has seen the image shared widely since user fryd_ first posted it on Saturday morning.He said that he came across the letter while playing “with his niece and nephew at their Grandma’s house”, and that it was in a set “from 1973 with a blonde girl on the front with a white Lego house”. The nation's favourite toys Here is the letter in full:“To Parents“The urge to create is equally strong in all children. It’s the imagination that counts. You build whatever comes into your head, the way you want it. A bed or a truck. A dolls house or a spaceship.“A lot of boys like dolls houses.
They’re more human than spaceships. A lot of girls prefer spaceships. They’re more exciting than dolls houses.“The most important thing is to put the right material in their hands and let them create whatever appeals to them.”While the image appears to include a copyright from 1974 and the name of a printer in Hamburg used by Lego at the time, the authenticity of the letter could not be independently verified, and a spokesperson for Lego was not immediately available for comment.User fryd_ commented that “it seems like we’ve taken a step backwards” since the letter was written. But others disagreed – with Taliesen13 responding: “That sounds like the moral of The Lego Movie.”These unusual pictures show a 1970s police car bizarrely transformed into a fully-functioning chicken coop.French artist Benedetto Bufalino has utilised the entire vehicle to make way for the animals in his latest project called La voiture de police poulaillerí.The Parisian bought the disused urban vehicle and gutted its interior apart from a few elements such as the steering wheel and
Fast food: This is the latest project of French artist Benedetto Bufalino - who bought and gutted a 70s police car to make a chicken coop New home: The man removed virtually all of the vehicles' interior features and installed wooden and chicken wire structures to contain the animals Most of its exterior remains - including the original signage, a vinyl police banner and blaring emergency lights situated on the roof. Bufalino opened the passenger doors as well as the bonnet and boot to fit wooden structures inside meaning they will be perpetually ajar. Chicken wire closes up the exposed openings and makes sure the livestock are stay in the space. The artist says by transforming the car, its purpose has been renewed into a quirky artwork that can be interpreted as both a sculptural object and a Quirky: The artist has previously turned a car into a BBQ and a telephone box into an aquarium The artist is trademarked by visually humorous transformations of certain objects - often cars and vans.
Previously, he has turned such vehicles into both a BBQ and an enormous plant pot.He has also given a new life to an old telephone box by turning it in to a giant fish tank.I was a lucky "early adopter" of Lego. My father brought some back from a business trip when I was a boy, and that started me on a lifelong fascination with this classic construction toy. Back then Lego was expensive and hard to find, so it's only natural that giant retailer Sears would try to copy that success with Brix Blox. To be perfectly correct, Sears didn't create Brix Blox. It's a relabeled version of "Loc Blocs" by Entex (a famous maker of handheld electronic games). Remember that Sears used to demand that anything sold in their retail chain stores be relabeled with a Sears house brand. So Brix Blox were included as part of Sears' "Little Learners" toy line. The shape and size of the bricks is clearly patterned after Lego, though the two aren't compatible. There are also far fewer specialty shapes like windows and wheels.
The pieces don't have the same precision snap fit that Lego does, so I found the models to be a bit less sturdy. Loc Blocs were manufactured in the 70's and 80's (I even found photos of a Smurf themed set). I'm not sure when this set dates from, but perhaps since the pieces are all red, white and blue, perhaps they're from around 1976? I'm surprised that Loc Blocs existed as long as they did, given Lego's protection of their patented (since expired) construction bricks. In the 80's, Lego became somewhat more affordable and featured many more specialized and sophisticated pieces than the competition - so I guess that it wasn't enough for Loc Blocs (or Brix Blox or whatever) to merely be cheaper. I don't see many Loc Bloc fans around today (Lego forums are notorious for their dislike of other Lego-like building toys). These days the other brands of snap-together building blocks are fully compatible with the Lego originals, so no one has to settle for an also-ran off-brand that doesn't fit anything else.