Random set of the day: Bracelet
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 308 Bracelet, released during 1979. It's one of 6 Scala sets produced that year. It contains 38 pieces.
It's owned by 57 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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The 57 people who own this ought to form the Secret Order of the Scala Bracelet.
Ah, pre-clikits clikits.
Those beautiful printed tiles, though...
The schmutz on the packaging that was scanned make it look like the bracelet is drawing this poor child's life force.
Old Man Dots
Scala!
Those hinge pieces that made up the bracelet look really interesting. Does anyone know if they connected to anything else, like maybe the 1x2 Hinge Brick Base (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3937)?
@MCLegoboy said:
"The schmutz on the packaging that was scanned make it look like the bracelet is drawing this poor child's life force."
Haven't you read the fine print? That means it's working!
I like how there are numbers on it. Gotta keep those bracelets in order.
I can see a use in those hinge pieces.
Complete opposite of the gun carriage/cannon base as tonight’s featured random part.
Well, it seems like in some way or another, LEGO always returns to Jewelry/Bracelets. From the original Scala line in the 70's, to Clickits in the early 00's, to DOTS today. Unlike many other types of LEGO products, those ones always seem to return to LEGO in some form or another.
Those hinges could be useful.... Sort of want to buy some.
Ah yes, the old printed tiles... It would have been great to have some of them...
one of hew bots favorite themes
Ooh weird old hinges. Gimme.
Blatant Scala-posting from Huwbot.
He just wants to wreck stuff. That’s why we love him.
@Harmonious_Building said:
"The 57 people who own this ought to form the Secret Order of the Scala Bracelet. "
Who says they haven’t already?
I always thought Scala was from the 90s.
@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J:
On the contrary, it might be fun to launch this out of a cannon.
This takes me right back to my childhood, as my kindergarten girlfriend had several Scala products, including this very bracelet. Fittingly, she has passed the sets on to her children.
Scala means stairs in latin.
Why the late 90s-early 2000s Scala is called that way I understand. Lots of stairs in doll houses. You know, the one that tried to manifest My Dad into our reality.
This Scala though... why is it named that way?
Weird to think this is so old that this set came out not too long after the first minifigures and during the first wave of the Classic Space theme.
@LegoDavid said:
"Well, it seems like in some way or another, LEGO always returns to Jewelry/Bracelets. From the original Scala line in the 70's, to Clickits in the early 00's, to DOTS today. Unlike many other types of LEGO products, those ones always seem to return to LEGO in some form or another. "
It's not the only time that themes have re-emerged under a new guise. You can draw a similar lineage between Hobby Sets (1970's), Model Team (mid 1980's to late 1990's) and Creator Expert.
@Frostvik:
Scala started out as buildable jewelry in a short run from 1979-1980 as the OG Dots, then the theme name was recycled for Lego's answer to Barbie in the 1990's
The font or style of those printed numbers have some real Fabuland vibes to them. As far as that goes, I love it.
Which... is honestly the thing about Dots that I don't really care for: the colour pallette and vibe is very... Friends et al. Some individually interesting bits, but the "aqua/lavender/coral" colour scheme doesn't fit in my normal building. Granted, I'm not the target demographic, but I do wonder how a "Creator Bucket" colour scheme (or Ninjago or City, etc) would work for Dots.
@Formendacil said:
"The font or style of those printed numbers have some real Fabuland vibes to them. As far as that goes, I love it.
Which... is honestly the thing about Dots that I don't really care for: the colour pallette and vibe is very... Friends et al. Some individually interesting bits, but the "aqua/lavender/coral" colour scheme doesn't fit in my normal building. Granted, I'm not the target demographic, but I do wonder how a "Creator Bucket" colour scheme (or Ninjago or City, etc) would work for Dots."
Maybee 41935: Lots of DOTS woldb be more useful to you? It does have the "girly" colors but also normal black, white, blue, red, yellow etc...
The girl in that picture is now pushing 50. I wonder if her modeling career took off.
Ey, this one already was a RSoTD some time ago
@Lego_Farieval said:
"Ey, this one already was a RSoTD some time ago"
Probably not this exact set. But the girls hairstyle has definately been a topic of discussion here.
@Frostvik said:
"I always thought Scala was from the 90s."
Now, feel welcome among Those Who Know. It's all Scala, Clickits and Dots before Scala, Clickits and Dots. Well, I mean, the impostor Scala.
On Second thought, you can attach a 6894 onto the bracelet. With enough bracelets, you can swoosh an entire armada at once!
@goldenguy880 said:
"Those hinge pieces that made up the bracelet look really interesting. Does anyone know if they connected to anything else, like maybe the 1x2 Hinge Brick Base ( https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3937 )?"
Now you made me want to buy some of these...
I already want 313 to find out, whether those round purple thingies are a yet undiscovered color or just a weird paint application :P
The only Scala I (Scala II being of cause the doll house theme from 1997-2001) item I own is the 4x4 clip from 310 I found in a parts lot and was very confused what it actually was from^^
@PurpleDave said:
" @LuvsLEGO_Cool_J:
On the contrary, it might be fun to launch this out of a cannon."
Or try to shoot stuff through the ring formed by the links, to practice your aim.
@TheOtherMike:
Any cannonball worth shooting won’t fit through such a tiny opening.
Where is todays random set?
@Lego_mini_fan:
I’m thinking RPotD played a trick on us for Halloween and double-posted, because the first RPotD lasted one hour, and the second one replaced it right when RSotD should have gone live.
@PurpleDave said:
[[ @Lego_mini_fan :
I’m thinking RPotD played a trick on us for Halloween and double-posted, because the first RPotD lasted one hour, and the second one replaced it right when RSotD should have gone live.]
I think brickset glitched.
@Lego_mini_fan:
DST happened. The clock must reset back to 1:00 from 1:59, triggering a second RPotD in fall, which means it would skip from 12:59 to 2:00 in spring and skip right over it. RSotD must be pegged to 2am in the UK to sit on the other side of the time changes. RPotD should, therefore, be shifted to 12:59 if Huw wants to keep the timing without it going squirrelly twice every year.