The link to this page may be incorrect or out of date.2. You may have bookmarked a page that has moved.Show all reviewsLego Creator Volkswagen Camper Van - Very cool set that may bring back memories for some!!Great model, but fragel.Great set - if fairly fragileGreat VW Bus Camper Van LEGO SetGoin' where the water tastes like wine.....Two iconic cuiltural figures together!Really cool modelGREAT SET!←Previous...Get fast answers from reviewers See all 19 answered questions What do customers buy after viewing this item? • Lowest PriceBaby Einstein Take Along Tunes Musical Toy8,807Top RatedLEGO Creator Volkswagen T1 Camper Van 10220-129Need customer service? As soon as I saw Jenny’s post about the Lego VW Camper Van back in October I knew I had to have it, just as she did when she first saw it. I was a good boy all year, so I was fairly confident that my letter to Santa would achieve the desired result and so it was with great excitement that I unwrapped the large, rattling, box on Christmas Day.
It made me feel like I was 14 all over again, as I pored through the two-part, 115-step instruction booklet and plotted when I could dedicate a whole day to the build.This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be missing content or contain faulty links. to report an issue. The big difference from when I really was 14 is of course that I now have a little “assistant” to help with the building. She was almost as excited as me as we sat down at the kitchen table a few days later to start what turned out to be a seven hour build-a-thon. Another difference is the fact that I knew I probably wouldn’t take the model apart and dump the bricks in with the rest of our collection later, so I wanted to try to capture the fun of sitting there, sometimes with her on my knee, as we built the Camper Van step by step. So I set up my iPhone onto the tripod, fired up the iTimeLapse app and set it going with a 30 second interval. I also had my DLSR around to photograph each step, but I won’t bore you (or anyone else) with those!
As we progressed through the build, every now and then Dulcie would get bored and go off and pester her Mum, but never for long. She was always drawn back to the Camper Van, sometimes just helping me sort the bricks from the 16 individual bags, sometimes actually building the sections with me or even on her own as I found the pieces. At other times she went off into a little world of her own, building things out of the pieces I hadn’t got to yet, including a great little glass house reminiscent of the Farnsworth House — further proof that girls don’t actually need the new girlified Lego Friends range, they just want it! By the time we were nearly complete, one of the dogs from the Belville range appeared and started joining in the fun, waiting for the Camper Van to be complete so he could go for a ride in it, as he was the only thing we have that was about the right scale for it! Watch for him towards the end of the video, and see if you can spot these other great moments that I’ll cherish:
The moment I decided I should give the Camper a right-hand drive conversion, as I live in the UK The appearance of a white substitute brick because there was one missing from the set. It turned up on the very last step, incorrectly built into the rear wheel arch! My assistant’s constant ‘energy boosts’: grabbing chocolate coins from a pink box It’s a fantastic model, and it’s all the little touches that really make it: the Lava lamp, the folding table/chair/bed, the tiny sink, and the pop-up roof — they all bring back memories of the vacation two years ago when we rented one for a week. It now sits proudly on the shelf of my study, while we await the lottery win so we can afford to buy a real one!The requested URL /?p=7521 was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.As soon as I saw the brand-new Lego Volkswagen T1 Camper Van, I knew I had to have it.
It looked very fun to put together as well as full of quirky detail and different from many of the other Lego sets. Since I love putting things together following a set of instructions, big Lego sets are perfect for me. You’ll never hear, “Oh no, you mean I have to put it together?” in this house. Lego put out a video giving a tour of all of its features, including information on creating such a product from scratch. The designer even showed where he left his personal touch on the interior. From the Lego press release: “The red LEGO VW Camper Van is a loving recreation of a T1 Camper from 1962, also known as the ‘Combi’ or ‘the hippie van’. It includes features such as the ‘V’ shape three-way colour split at the front, rounded roof and window frames, opening ‘splittie’ safari front window, opening doors, and of course, the instantly recognisable pop-up roof.” Officially connected with Volkswagen, the Lego Volkswagen T1 Camper Van evokes an era gone by, when people would just toss a bag into their VW and head across the country.
Some of my favorite features of the set are the pop top, the movable doors and windows, and the detailed vintage interior. The interior includes awesome details such as a lava lamp, a plant, and a T-shirt that says “Make Lego models, not war.” The seats also fold down to make beds, though everything is a little bit too big for minifigs to use. But once the set is built, it has plenty of functionality for kid play time as well, if you can part with it and want to risk lost pieces (I can’t and don’t). This set was much more involved than most other Lego sets I have put together. Also unlike the sets that I am usually drawn toward, this one had many more kinds of pieces, making any kind of assembly line impossible but keeping things fresh and interesting all the way through construction. Put together with an awesome friend of mine plus my two kids, the 1,332 pieces probably took us about eight hours to assemble, though that is just an estimate. (Though something tells me it might have gone faster without the kids.)
We did build it in just two sessions, though. The first was about two hours, the second about six. Fortunately, by the time we were so tired that our eyes were starting to cross, there were so few pieces left that it didn’t matter. Lego kits are extremely fun and challenging to assemble, and this model was no different. While pieces of similar size are usually packaged together in the same bag, in general the pieces are probably only sorted by some design of the manufacturing process. Itty bitty pieces are usually together, and larger ones are usually together. But often similar pieces are in different bags, and pieces needed for steps are scattered around. I’m sure this is to keep costs down, but searching for just the right piece isn’t the most fun part of the building process. If they bundled pieces required for the first 1/4 of the build together, and the next 1/4 of the build together, and so forth, that would be a real boon. (A Lego kit my daughter got for her birthday was bagged and numbered in just that way.)