I had this set as a kid, it was one of my favourites. Many hours playing with this set and having great adventures.

What a lovely set that has everything you need, with so much playability.

Aww, I loved the heck outta this set as a kid.

Had this as a kid and still have it today. Very fun playset!

Bought this set as an adult! Still have it!

Lovely.

Those were the dark ages for me back then. First time I see this set or this baseplate. And a space aspirator! Makes me smile. Was life simpler back then with fewer different pieces, fueling our imagination?

One of my favorite Classic Town sets. I'm still preparing my Classic city layout, and this one set by itself will have such a huge presence in it. It has it own zone to make it secluded and feel more like a wilderness. It backs up to the edge of the layout, and the left side will have a giant brick-sculpted mountain with a waterfall. The front will have a couple baseplates wide of woods that distance the cabin from the street. A family friend gifted me his baseplate from this set, so now I can extend the river on the right side. It looks surprisingly organic when you mirror them to each other. That second river plate will have some of the scenery and structures from the set's alternate builds. From there, it opens up into the ocean, alongside the beachfront, away from the harbor docks. The area around this set took a lot of thought and it's going to be great to make it happen.

I had this! Amazing set. Any “outdoors” or woodsy themed town sets always make me super excited.

That bridge gave me flash backs to 6270 Forbidden Island, happy days. The base plates back then were awesome!

Love the unique baseplate and helps to put all the parts together into a whole which is missing nowadays. The continuation of the river into the waterfall, green fields and distant mountains takes artistic license to another level.

@namekuji said:
"I often fry my clips too."

You're too old, it's obviously a red fish.

@TransNeonOrangeSpaceman said:
"This was during the period when they gave such cool and memorable set names. Black Seas Barracuda, Mega Core Magnetizer, Deep Freeze Defender, Rocky River Retreat - easy to remember even after 30 years."
Even the smaller sets. Celestial Sled, Rebel Roadster, Saucer Scout... Lego had a serious thing for alliteration in those days.

Man, I had so much fun with this set. I used to give one of the hats to the man and let the woman have a male hairdo. Little odd that they didn't include a female hair piece.

I have to ask; what is that structure on the left between the barrel and the broom supposed to be? I thought maybe some kind of external plumbing or generator but it looks too far away from the cabin, and it’s use of the megaphone piece means I can’t unsee it as some kind of bazooka which would raise serious questions about what these two are doing in the woods...

I loved this, one of the only sets I still have from my childhood.
So much fun, the tree design, the log cabin...

@BovineBrick said:
" @Brickalili said:
"I have to ask; what is that structure on the left between the barrel and the broom supposed to be?"

My initial thought was also bazooka, but I think it's a water pump, given the lever on top and the barrel directly beneath the spout."
Ah that does indeed make way more sense, yes

@Zordboy said:
"But, no, the thing that most struck me about the set was the idea that there was a cave,a there under the rocky pieces, that was connected to the cabin, and how cozy and sweet it would've been to chill in there, or just hang out, or take refuge from a storm. Maybe there was hidden treasure or loot in there, or something? It was just one of those things that always stuck with me. "

I forgot about the cave, I played n there for days. I am sure I still have all the pieces for this in my collection, I need to rebuild it.

That was my first lego set! Back in 1995 my parents bought it for me as a present for starting school. I still have all the parts and my kids (4yo and 2yo) are already starting to play with it.

i got this set at a Savers nothing lost all parts are there just only dent on the box.

@Galaxy12_Import:
The shutter bricks were probably used because they'd be more stable stacked like that than 1x1 bricks. The pine trees actually look very unrealistic. Besides having the green disc at the top of the trunk (which I suppose could be written off as additionally foliage), I don't recall ever seeing a conifer with that much exposed trunk unless something had just eaten all the lower branches.

I'm also cringing a bit at the idea of using fieldstones for a roof, which is basically what that print looks like. Bricklink incorrectly lists this as a "slate roof" print, but it would be another four years before a print that actually looked like a real slate roof would be produced. Slate can look like regular shingles, decorative shingles, or fishscales, but it never shows mortar joints, and because one edge of each tile is always overlapped by the upslope layer, it's hard to imagine that pattern being possible on a roof. In a driveway, sure.

@ericjohn:
That's one of the few times I can recall seeing a female minifig from that era with a hat. Helmets that completely covered the head are different, but hats like that leave a lot of the back of the head exposed, making it pretty obvious that she doesn't have long hair. Since they hadn't really produced any short, feminine hairstyles like pixie cuts, it made it a bit awkward to switch from long hair to hat with no hair. I think PotC is what really broke that barrier, primarily because of Jack Sparrow's hat. I remember excited discussion about how the hat appeared to be separate from the hair (it wasn't), because we couldn't imagine the possibility of a single mold for hat and hair. Now there are riding hats, baseball caps, stocking caps, police hats, fire helmets, skating helmets, and safari hats.

@namekuji:
They may not be safe to eat afterwards. That flame is holding up the frying pan and the haunch of clip all by itself!

@Brickalili:
It's a rural cabin. When you get far enough off the grid, there's no city water supply, so you have to pump it out of the ground. That appears to be a hand pump. The lever on the top is the handle that you would raise up and down, and the tap is the spigot where the water comes out. If you're doing it right, the water won't just dripple out of the tap, but will flow out with enough of an arc to mostly land in the barrel. It looks a bit odd because the barrel is so tall that the hand pump is about as tall as a minifig. Normally it would only be about waist-high on a grown adult, and you'd pump the water into a bucket rather than a barrel. You can't easily move the barrel, which means it would sit there and grow stuff on the inside. A bucket you could carry indoors and empty, allowing you to keep the insides (more) clean.

Those pine tree builds are really excellent. That whole mountain has a great forced perspective look to it.

Interesting that the horse has no saddle, and a tile instead of a plate, making it unable to be ridden. Could it be an attempt at representing a deer? Too bad it has reins printed on it, then. And what's the 1x1 trans-blue tile the woman is holding? An anachronistically early cellphone?

Turns out, the horse does have a saddle. And at the final step of the instructions the woman uses the metal detector to find the trans-blue tile. So that piece represents some sort of mineral, although you'd have to use your imagination that the metal detector can detect nonmetals as well. I checked the mecabricks render and double-checked the instructions because, being unmoderated, those renders have even more dubious authority than say, Wikipedia. This one in particular has multiple color inconsistencies and creative liberties taken.

Only one detail remains unexplained: what in the world is the chainsaw in the barrel with clip piece attached? I guess it's supposed to make the chainsaw more realistic with a bulky handle, though that ironically makes it awkward for minifigures to hold.

As everyone has said already--this set is awesome! My mom got it for me when it came out. Still have it of course!

Dude I like this one and how it looks.

@Norikins:
I believe that's a majestic møøse.

(A Møøse once bit my sister...)

There is actually a red saddle in the set, but I'm not sure where it's hiding in the photo. It could be in the back of the of the Power Wheels truck, or inside the little shed on the other side of the river.

(Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...)

Looks to me like the set designer was trying for redwood or giant sequoia with this tree design.

@PurpleDave said:
"The shutter bricks were probably used because they'd be more stable stacked like that than 1x1 bricks. The pine trees actually look very unrealistic. Besides having the green disc at the top of the trunk (which I suppose could be written off as additionally foliage), I don't recall ever seeing a conifer with that much exposed trunk unless something had just eaten all the lower branches."

Sometimes very tall lodgepole pines will have lots of exposed trunk, and occasionally it seems like there’s more exposed trunk than needles. But I don’t think I’ve seen any quite this imbalanced.

@namekuji said:
"I often fry my clips too."

That clip is a crab. They didn't have a crab piece back then.

@darkstonegrey:
Well, except for the fact that redwood trunks would be nearly as wide as the cabin, and sequoia trunks would be even wider.

@TeaWeevil:
I don't know that I've seen any of those. I did see some really spindly conifers in both Denali and Yellowstone, but in both cases there would be little tufts of foliage nearly the full height of the tree.