That bunk bed looks unsafe!

Look at the hair on that kid! This bangs are to die for!

@Murdoch17 said:
"That bunk bed looks unsafe!"

Move the chairs and table beside them so in and out is a breeze.

What a name! "complete children's room set"

@Murdoch17 said:
"That bunk bed looks unsafe!"
That honestly looks like a bunk crib if I'm being honest.

Sorry I'm late, I was buying too much stuff to get a Tahu after talking big game about not having what it takes to do so.

*Ahem* Anyway...

goofy ahh lego set

Not quite sure how it works in other countries but I have never seen a table set in a bedroom in Canada or the UK or Germany (either friends, family or acquaintances).

@TheBrickPal:
Where are the children?

@HOBBES:
Play table, like 4509.

@TheBrickPal said:
"Complete? Where are the walls?"

This set was just too far ahead of times....a sign of things to come!

All jokes aside, the set itself is nice but not that special, but I love the packaging!

More like a school room than a children’s room really, albeit one with bunk beds…
…you know I might have enjoyed school more if I’d got to lie in a bunk bed while learning

@PhantomBricks said:
"This cannot be a complete children's room. Where are the dirty clothes, foot hazard toys, and food leftovers?"

Where's the foot hazard toy? You're looking at it.

In other words, not for the children who left their body parts at the back of the RSOTD schoolroom 5235.

@HOBBES said:
"Not quite sure how it works in other countries but I have never seen a table set in a bedroom in Canada or the UK or Germany (either friends, family or acquaintances)."
Huh?
For a start, every bedroom of every kid I have ever known, be it in Germany or the UK, has had at least one table in it. After all, where would kids do their homework otherwise? Or if they're not in school yet, where would they draw pictures, build stuff out of play-doh, do a jigsaw puzzle, etc.? I mean, if you had a proper hard mat you could do a jigsaw on the floor too, but try play-doh or a water colour paintings, like the ones especially younger kids love to draw, imagine what a mess that would make on your carpet.

Plus, I have been to Canada twice, and the kids of the friends we visited also all had tables in their bedrooms.

Come to think of it, why wouldn't a table be in a kid's bedroom anyway?

Even if this set hails from the early Seventies, the furniture looks like something out of a 2023' IKEA catalogue. Those shelves for example look almost exactly like some from the current KALLAX line of products.

I just noticed the trans-clear 1x1 cylinders on the table (presumably cups) have 1x1 black tiles underneath for use as coasters... I don't recall ever seeing children using coasters unless adults made them / constantly put cups on coasters behind the kids' backs!

This fact, coupled with the fact of the strange bunk cribs, makes me think we are dealing not with normal everyday children. Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, I present to you: the Complete Children of the Damned play room*!

*Children of the Damned not included, Village sold separately

@AustinPowers said:
" @HOBBES said:
"Not quite sure how it works in other countries but I have never seen a table set in a bedroom in Canada or the UK or Germany (either friends, family or acquaintances)."
Huh?
For a start, every bedroom of every kid I have ever known, be it in Germany or the UK, has had at least one table in it. After all, where would kids do their homework otherwise? Or if they're not in school yet, where would they draw pictures, build stuff out of play-doh, do a jigsaw puzzle, etc.? I mean, if you had a proper hard mat you could do a jigsaw on the floor too, but try play-doh or a water colour paintings, like the ones especially younger kids love to draw, imagine what a mess that would make on your carpet.

Plus, I have been to Canada twice, and the kids of the friends we visited also all had tables in their bedrooms.

Come to think of it, why wouldn't a table be in a kid's bedroom anyway?

Even if this set hails from the early Seventies, the furniture looks like something out of a 2023' IKEA catalogue. Those shelves for example look almost exactly like some from the current KALLAX line of products. "

I think you are mixing table set (a table and a set of chairs - 2 to 4 usually) and a desk. In that set above there is a fairly large desk to do homework and craft (white with a red top with three top shelf and two yellow lamps). I am not talking about those - there is usually one (a desk, of some sort - some small , some quite large) in every bedroom (especially kids bedroom). Here at least, I have always seen the table sets for kids in the 'play room' (in Canada those are usually in the basement - which I recognize many countries do not have)

@PurpleDave said:
" @TheBrickPal:
Where are the children?"

Won't somebody please think of the children?

Not included in this set:

- Children
- Room
- Completion

@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"so... much... hair...

also, what child's bedroom is furnished quite like that?"
It not a child’s bedroom as it would be understood today, more akin to a nursery where children would often play, eat and sleep. Children ate with their nanny, not their parents, decades ago.

@AustinPowers:
I grew up just outside a city of ~6000 permanent residents (the largest in the county). My bedroom was a weird L-shape, and until my brother got older, we had to share it. The roof started about halfway up the wall, so bunk beds were right out, and dressers had to sit fairly low to fit against the exterior wall. As a result, much of the essential furniture got spread out around the entire room. What little floor space remained was left open. If we wanted more room to play, we went down to the living room, or outside.

@Randomness:
It’s all good. I already did. Nobody else has to.

@Doctor_Hugh:
So, more of a cheerfully-decorated, child-reading dungeon.

@PurpleDave said:

@Doctor_Hugh :
So, more of a cheerfully-decorated, child-reading dungeon.

That’s one way of looking at it but that’s just how it was in the homes of the wealthy until about the mid-20th century. It may seem odd now but it certainly wasn’t considered so then.

For a moment I thought I was the usual kind of bamboozled this week and thought it must be one of those early post-minifig era sets, considering homemaker was still a thing in the late 70s.

Then I realized it is Saturday and that I have actually been DOUBLE bamboozled!

@Doctor_Hugh:
That should be “child-rearing”, not “child-reading”. And yes, I get it. I’ve toured the Charles T Fisher mansion twice. They mentioned that there’s a playroom on I think the fourth floor, because even playing in the back yard after the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s baby was deemed too risky. Indoors was the only way they could be safeguarded from being kidnapped for ransom.

@Quinnly said:
"Look at the hair on that kid! This bangs are to die for!"

Wow, she could be someone's grandmother today.

@AustinPowers said:
"...hence the child's bedroom is usually also the playroom."

I second that. Me and my two brothers shared one room that was "ours". Three beds, three small desks, some closets and in the middle we had a regular square table (about 1.2x1.2m) with four chairs where we played together. When we wanted to fight or play football or whatever, we would move it to the side.

So it was essentially like this set. Two of the beds were bunk beds and the one on the top was mine. It was homemade and to get to the top I used a rope ladder. It took some practice to master, but every evening I felt like a pirate.

@pHcz said:
"So it was essentially like this set. Two of the beds were bunk beds and the one on the top was mine. It was homemade and to get to the top I used a rope ladder. It took some practice to master, but every evening I felt like a pirate."
Hey, I remember those. Some friends of mine had rope ladders on their bunk beds too. We always imagined these beds as pirate ships.

Happy times. Not many toys but lots of imagination and even more fun playing.

Nowadays it seems like everything has to be spelled out for kids. There needs to be media to go with it, a magazine, a TV show, an app.
Stifles all creativity. No wonder kids today also need instruction books hundreds of pages long, spelling out even the most minute detail.
Back to my pet peeve. I hate this trend.

@AustinPowers said:
" Nowadays it seems like everything has to be spelled out for kids. There needs to be media to go with it, a magazine, a TV show, an app.
Stifles all creativity. No wonder kids today also need instruction books hundreds of pages long, spelling out even the most minute detail.
Back to my pet peeve. I hate this trend. "

Don't blame the kids. It's transmedia marketing and companies trying to own a larger share of attention. If your toy has a TV show, the kid will more likely choose that toy. It was a formula developed in the 80s and has only metastasized since.

So it floors me when I read AFOLs complaining about whether a Lego set meets the "canonical" portrayal in Lego's own TV series. Arguably, adults are worse about this than kids are!

@Padmewan:
Actually, they got really weird about it in the 80’s. Per federal law in the US, you could make a toy based on a TV show and that was fine, but making a TV show based on a toy basically equates to a half-hour ad-supported advertisement, and that was _BAD_. Toy companies had to be careful to make sure the series premiered before their shipments of toys made landfall, or the show would be banned from the airwaves. Cable was fine, because it didn’t use publicly-owned radio frequencies to get to your TV, so it wasn’t subject to the same level of government oversight.

@Padmewan : I absolutely don't blame the kids, since it's not their fault.
It's more that I pity them a bit that they can't enjoy the freedom we had.
They are pampered, secured, taken by the hand, no risk anywhere anymore. Everything has to be double, better triple failsafe.
Hyperhygenic, anti allergic, the lot.
I remember vividly one fellow parent back in kindergarten who nearly got a heart attack when her son put some sand in his mouth. She almost threatened to get the supervisor fired for not looking after the kids correctly. After all, her precious kid could have died that day!
*rollseyes*

When we were out and about playing back in the day, no one pampered us or threw a fit about something like that. And we still grew up without incident.

Same with LEGO. We had to use our imagination far more than kids today. There were no LEGO TV shows, no magazines and definitely no apps or computer games. At least I can't remember a LEGO game for my C64 or my English friend's Sinclair machine. And instructions were far more challenging too.
Compare the instructions for 8880 for example with a modern Technic set. The list is endless.