Pre-1996 instruction manuals

stoddholman

Hi everyone,
Brand new to the forum as I have recently rediscovered my love for LEGO. I dug out all my old sets from my childhood to show my kids and get them interested in something other than an iPad. Anyways, I have a bunch of old pirate sets without instructions. The LEGO website doesn’t have any manual pre-1996, and I was hoping someone could help. Thanks!!

oldtodd33

https://www.brickfactory.info/index.html  This site is the best IMO.

madforLEGO

....and bricklink.com or brickowl.com if you are looking to buy actual instruction books for sets.

pxchris

You can go to the page for virtually any set on Brickset, click the tab for instructions, and you'll get a list of websites that have scans of those instructions for that set. Very, very rarely will instructions not be available. 

LusiferSam

Swooshable is aggregator site for instructions.  It's under the instructions tab here on Brickset.

Huw

Yes, Swooshable provides our data. A lot of them are indeed on Brickfactory.info but it has a terrible interface so it's usually easier to find them here.