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It was generally the large sets that I wanted most, although as I say, I can't really remember them.
I've had little a browse through the sets list, but can't see anything that immediately jumps out at me. I'll keep thinking though...
Have managed to add the Schooner and Mega Core to the collection as an adult but the Monorail has proved elusive.
And then favorites that I did manage to get were #6873 Deep Freeze Defender and all time favorite #6085 Black Monarch's Castle
My white whale: literally #6989 Galaxy Commander, and then funnily enough all the older base sets I never got, i.e. #920 and #926, and the "sister ships" to #928, i.e. #924 and #918.
#6080 King's Castle
#6074 Black Falcon's Fortress
#6066 Camouflaged Outpost
#6990 Monorail Transport System
#6060 Knight's Challenge
#6085 Black Monarch's Castle
#6395 Victory Lap Raceway
#6276 Eldorado Fortress
#6285 Black Seas Barracuda
#6781 SP-Striker
Favorite set of my childhood collection:
#6074 Black Falcon's Fortress
If "all of them" is not an option for favorite sets, I'd say #6927 All-Terrain Vehicle, #6929 Star Fleet Voyager and #6951 Robot Command Center . Good times!
BTW, great topic/thread, Huw!
I didn't really have a favorite as I mostly had smaller sets and ended up building my own stuff.
I had the space monorail and that was my favorite playing set as a child.
But I've never managed to get a grip on those sets mentioned above.
Even then I was already extremely fond of just minifigs, and the Blacktron or the Wolfpacks were at that time in my opinion just the coolest designs. :-)
Also anything train related - I has #7730 and later got #7745, but so much pocket money went on track and all the 12V remote control goodies - I used to dream of having the sort of setup they showed in the catalogues with loads of trains whizzing this way and that... sigh, #7740 !
I remember drooling over the #6082 Fire Breathing Fortress in the catalogue with my brother as that castle had cool traps while ours didn't. We tried to build similar traps into our castles made of pieces of #6074 all the time.
Apart from that I really-really wanted the early 90s 9v train sets, especially #4558 Metroliner and #4554 Metro Station (still the best station Lego ever did). No chance unfortunately. My cousins had the Metroliner with the Club Car so I at least had a chance to play with them a few times when we visited.
Best set I ever got is my 4561 train set. its pretty much the "building block" that started my LEGO collection. I still have the train on my shelf :)
That was and still is my 'holy grail'
Also 7810 Steam Engine along with 7865!
One of my other favourites that I did own wasn't actually a set so not much use for @huw 's list. It was the alternative model instructions that came with #8859 Tractor, sort of an off road truck thing.
http://tubafrog.blogspot.co.uk/2000/01/8859-alternate-model.html
I did however get #6073 (Knight's Castle, also released in 1984), the Black Falcon fortress, although in the Dutch Lego catalogue I remember them being called: de ridders van Donkervoort. Any way, that set meant all the world to me, as it was my biggest and also one of my most beloved castle sets. And as a little kid I had the Lion knights besiege that castle, extended with the blacksmith shop #6040 , and the wall section from #6061, unsuccessfully an endless amount of times. Those Lion knights really were a bunch of stuborn doofuses, getting their buts kicked very afternoon, when I came home from school, and decided to hold another tournament or stage another castle siege. I can't believe how small the Blackfalcon fortress actually is, when I dug it up a few years ago in the attic of my parental house when I got back into Lego as an adult. Nor how happy I was as a little kid with such an small amount of Lego, especially compared to the crazy amount I have collected since as an adult. The all black knight (black helmet, plume, cape etc.) from that set, together with the non-uniform wearing minifig from this little set #6010 (supply wagon) were my favorite castle minifigs. With a third favourite 'castle' minifig Robin Hood only arriving in 1987, when I got #6066 (Camouflaged Outpost) not too long before heading of to secondary school, hitting puberty, and soon after loosing all interest in toys, Lego included (maybe except for Technic Lego for a little while).
By the way the Lion knights, or Crusaders, as people here also refer to them, were in Dutch called: de ridders van Blankenvoort. I think I still have a Dutch catalogue from 1984, and 1985 et cetera somewhere, if I can find it. I loved looking at all those pictures from those catalogues with all the sets from a theme displayed together.
Besides being a huge castle fan, I was (and still am) a big space/scifi Lego fan. From the classic space theme, my four favorite sets, which I owned (and still have) were: #6970 (Beta I Command Base), #918 (One Man Space Ship), #6927 (All-Terrain Vehicle), and #6882 (Walking Astro Grappler) mainly because of the astronaut with the black suit.
In 1986 Lego released two sets with light and sound, which I never had, but really would have loved to have back then: #6750 (sonic robot), and #6780 (XT starship). As well as the Blacktron space stuff introduced in 1987, and that awesome #6990 monorail.
I just always lusted over #6990, remember spending months staring at the catalogue pictures of it.
What I also loved about all my childhood sets, were the pictures depicted on building instructions of alternative builds, for which there were no instructions themselves included, but which were such a great incentive to try and go build yourself a couple of days later, when you had fully explored the model as you had build it first, following what the instructions stipulated you to do.
These pictures served as inspiration to venture out on some great building adventure, stimulating your own creativity, which I think is something which is lacking, and sadly missing, in today's Lego sets.
#6393 Big Rig Truck Stop
#6382, #6385 fire station
#6391 Cargo Center
#6683 Hamburger stand
#7722 Cargo train.....
Now that I think of it, Pretty much every large classic space and town set :-)
I think the single set that I lusted over the most was #6399 Airport Shuttle. I thought the monorail was the coolest thing ever. Naturally, I also wanted the space #6990 Monorail Transport System.
My favourite themes were also city and castle. I wanted all of the bigger sets, but most of what I actually had was smaller. In hindsight, my parents should have bought us more Lego and skipped the Playmobil. :)
I was blessed to have most of the classic castle sets I wanted. In fact, I still have all of my childhood collection. It's been sorted, but needs a good cleaning...someday when I have time.
And I remember a time when we where on holiday in Luxemburg. There was this little shop and they had a #6067 for sale. My mother had to dissapoint me. She thought it was to expensive. This set I could'nt let go. But now I bought one a few years a go. So, everything came to a good end.
In DK we open the christmas gifts the 24th in the evening and I remember I slept holding the box in my arms until next morning when I was allowed to build it.
and it was the impulse set Soldiers Arsenal that got me back in LEGO :-)