Lego Catalogue, 1973

9 comments to Lego Catalogue, 1973

• Kait

  December 5, 2011 at 6:20 pm · Reply

  Those are awesome. It’s cool that the boats floated… I still have the small “pizzaria” set from the “city” set.

• Thomas Arbs

  December 5, 2011 at 8:49 pm · Reply

  I remeber that! I remember this particular catalogue with Maria’s ambulance! I was 5 then, and would not typically praise my memory. Isn’t that scary?

• beppekin

  December 6, 2011 at 7:52 am · Reply

  In Italy, at that time lego was a little bit expensive.
  For that reason my parents bought me a cheap copy, made in Italy of course, branded “Plastic City”, something similar but different……

• Brian

  December 6, 2011 at 3:08 pm · Reply

  I was 5 in 1973 and seeing this now I can remember having a number of these sets….thanks for the nemoriesv

• johnnyzero

  December 9, 2011 at 1:02 pm · Reply

  I had this catalogue! Lego was so much better when some thought had to go into how you replicated an object from reality. In modern Lego, they just mould something to a particular form and then have a couple of bits to stick on to it. Not clever…

• Yoda

  December 12, 2011 at 5:22 am · Reply

  I’m a bit surprised to see that pre-printed grille in the first pic that early, as a kid it reminded me of the last-of-the-line 1980 International Scout:

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/carphotosbyrichard/4411630880/

• Hilary

  January 7, 2012 at 4:21 am · Reply

  Oh I had that kitchen set, I loved it. But I so hankered after the windmill…or a boat. Thanks for the nostalgic memory!

• Bastiaan

  February 7, 2012 at 1:50 pm · Reply

  I remember the ambulance ad too! I loved playing with Lego and I love how this ad captures the logic of a child building something.

• Carol

  April 30, 2012 at 7:35 am · Reply

  I had the little piano – good memories, thanks