Non Numbered Lego sets

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• Bumblepants Member Posts: 7,624

  July 2015

  Once upon a time, all Lego sets came without bag numbers. I was pleased to find the Tower Bridge is old enough to be without bag numbers. Was a lot of fun sorting and searching.
  

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• royalt Member Posts: 2

  July 2015

  I think this was a 2006 model

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• samiam391 Member Posts: 4,492

  July 2015

  royalt said:

  I think this was a 2006 model

  I forget what year LEGO started doing all numbered bags, but it was definitely after 2006.
  
  Personally, I like the challenge of having to sort everything out. It adds to the building time.

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• leetshoe Member Posts: 262

  July 2015

  l like the non-numbered sets. l don't even sort them. Just dump them all out and start building.
  

  

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• GallardoLU Member Posts: 644

  July 2015

  UCS SSD (10221, year2011) I believe is/was the last UCS set to be sold without numbered bags. but I also know that set 10123 Cloud City which was 2003, Did have numbered bags. looks like about 8 years of various numbered non-numbered releases.

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• TarDomo Member Posts: 515

  July 2015

  ^ Luckily SSD came with numbered boxes, atleast!

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• madforLEGO Member Posts: 10,787

  July 2015

  Actually, I open all bags and dump the parts regardless of numbers on the bags. An old habit I guess.
  
  

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• Istokg Member Posts: 2,363

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  Geeze I hate having a "when I was a kid we never had..." moment.  But we didn't have polybags in sets until the late 1970s... and by the 1980s it was practically all polybags.
  
  Now they're putting numbers on the bags... to match them with the instruction books...
  
  I can actually say... "when I was a kid we didn't have instructions".... "you just looked at the box, and had to guess from varius building stages how the back of the model looked.  Sadly this was true for most sets in the 1950s and 1960s.
  
  Now not only do I feel old... but I have to lecture "you kids don't know how good you got it today!!"   :p   Hehehe....
  
  One of my earliest sets was in 1963 when I got this USA Samsonite LEGO #717 Junior Constructor Set....
  
  
  The instructions were on the inside of the box top, and only gave you 4 stages of construction...'
  
  
  You would have thought they would have layed down a layer of windows for the back sides for the 2 floors.... but nooooo... that was too logical......
  
  So I made a logical guess by using up all the windows in the set and building the back like this....
  
  
  
  It took me 50 years to finally figure out that I got it wrong.... when a model of the back of this set was shown in a 1960s Educational brochure....
  
  
  
  "LEGO.... the dream crusher".....   :(
  
  But I digress.....
  
  

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• Istokg Member Posts: 2,363

  July 2015

  Actually.... my Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide has a new chapter on LEGO set packaging.... from the 1949-64 era when parts were shrinkwrapped into a single layer in a thin box.... to boxes with those horrible zipper openings, to having boxes within boxes, and then boxes with polybags with a plastic window over them... to an assortment of different variations on what we have today.
  
  Now I have to add numbered polybags to my reference chapter.   Thanks for the reminder.... :)

  

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• oldtodd33 Member Posts: 2,694

  July 2015

  @Istokg  Boy, you got that right. I just rebuilt an old set and all of the memories came back about having to count studs on the baseplate to get the position right. These days, other than color clarity on the printing, these are easy to work with. 

  

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• 77ncaachamps Member Posts: 2,442

  July 2015

  madforLEGO said:

  Actually, I open all bags and dump the parts regardless of numbers on the bags. An old habit I guess.
  
  

  No wonder you're "mad"... ;)
  
  

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