Sadly this was me as well in early childhood.  Thankfully I was able to restore most of my old sets, including some smaller classic space stuff, but some were beyond saving, like #487 / #924

With thanks to @alldarker and @Brainslugged for putting together the list and the entertaining analysis, here are the entries:

From #70821--

My story is similar to Mr Cross although it involved not #928 but the middle child of the range #924. I was lucky as a child I received a plethora of Classic Space sets of which I am lucky enough to s

My next White Whale was #7190, then it was #6990, then it was #4483, then #6901, then #924, then... you know how these things go, you see a set, you think you need it, and then you begin to hunt for i

Nexogon Exploration module

I have done this a couple of times previously, most successfully on a #924 box, it improved quite a bit, but it is still a little bit warped. I can’t remember if I dampened the tea towel or just relie

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Based on what I think might come from the Speed Champions line: