hello everyone this is a little piece of history here
it was quite literally the first lego space themed set I have previously
reviewed the rocket base set from 1973 but this was from 1964 it was sold under
the Samsonite co-branding co marketing distribution deal and it was 98 cents
u.s. at the time which in today's dollars just accounting for inflation
would be roughly 8 so less than 1 to 8 still makes it a pretty good deal on a
price to part basis and it's just an interesting piece of history a little
bit of a novelty it's not a good set by any means it is actually surprisingly
difficult to put together as simple as it is and the difficulty comes from the
design of the old parts now what you're looking at here has mostly older style
parts not all of them are necessarily from 1964 but they are at least the
correct styles from roughly the correct era so they go together in the original
way here are some of the pieces and though lego patented the idea of putting
tubes on the undersides of their bricks in 1958 this 1964 set still had a bunch
of pieces with no tubes and no real connections underneath other than just a
little bit of friction from one side wall to the next so as you put multiple
of these together they kind of need to be just in a particular spot and they
don't really hold themselves they don't really lock in there's just a little bit
of a little bit of clamping force there and that clapping force changes as you
put the pieces together and take them apart the walls will actually separate
especially the outer walls of these macaroni style pieces will open up so if
you find them to be loose you can just go in and just squeeze them together you
can see how flexible that is squeeze the bars together a little bit and then
you'll get a better connection and you need to kind of line these things up and
once you do they can still slide back and forth so all of this could go
together all the way over here or it could go together all the way over here
also these older one by one cylinder pieces were peculiar they did not have
any of the little lip on the underside and they also had thicker walls than
they do today so these were actually more difficult to attach than the modern
pieces and to the point where you actually have to use a good deal of
force and actually introduce some some stretching force into the plastic I mean
that's not even down all the way and I pushed it quite hard and yeah it makes
it extra difficult to put things together you can probably even see how
the cylinder piece is now having to to flex out at the base a little bit so
there's a lot of stress and strain in there which is definitely not a good
thing and like I said it just makes it wow-wow a lot more difficult than
today's parts to assemble so this must have been a nightmare for kids back then
especially when you have these whole long columns of the cylinder pieces that
have to go on to the macaroni pieces and then you have such a tall tower of
macaroni pieces to line up and to get to work right and just squeezing the the
center of the thing at all from the sides will we'll start to introduce
movement and you'll hear it creaking and moving around and like I said if you
especially with these lower ones down here that's that's the probably the
worst part of the whole thing putting it together is getting those 1x1 cylinders
to attach to the undersides of the macaroni pieces that don't have any
tubes or real anti stet connections also these 1x2 bricks at the base have to go
into those same hollow macaroni pieces and they don't like to stay in place so
if you put any weight on this you'll start to see the legs start to splay
apart very quickly and adding to that there's nothing holding these bottom
macaroni pieces together there's nothing keeping them from splaying apart so they
want to come apart you can see here at the base just from picking it up
like this it's starting to open up so this is not the type of thing to play
with and in that sense it's really not a good toy it's not much of not much of a
better toy in my opinion then just stackable wooden blocks this is not
something that you really want to pick up and I'm just expecting some pieces to
fall off it at any moment here it's just kind of the common thing I think most of
my handling I'm this involved some pieces either falling off or needing to
be reset but I mean if you were very dainty if you were very careful and
perhaps you could make this work and you could actually you don't just imagine
that you're flying this thing out into space would have been a lot better with
some pieces to connect on the base you know they just had some 2x4 is at least
to cover that up and lock everything into place
then it would have worked out much much better but this is a little piece of
history oh-ah speaking of things that don't even
connect together this is fantastic here the center stalk is not even attached
with any studs there's just a single 2 by 2 brick down in the base of there
that these four columns of 1x1 cylinders are attached to and that all just gets
sat on top it's it's just placed in there just have to spread these side
columns apart a little bit I'm not gonna go too far with it there
we go pieces are starting to come off these also didn't have good attachments
there that's actually kind of just sitting there but ages of pieces will
will affect that a little bit but regardless it still is the first Lego
space themed set I wanted to get it I pieced it together from individual parts
on brick Clank it's difficult to find these complete and original if if not
impossible to find them slightly used you know I guess you can still find some
new but they will be ridiculously expensive and rightly so for something
of of such age but yeah space rocket 1964
real throwback and just a different time for Lego before they had really expanded
out in the possibilities of play mostly with the design of parts so let me know
if you have any thoughts about this or if you've had any experience with some
particularly old sets yourself thank you for watching and I'll talk to you in
soon
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