Maxifigure Bunkbed

From set 298, “Nursery” from 1978:

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Even though this bed is scaled for a child maxifigure, it doesn’t look too out of proportion for a mini-figure, unless you try to squish it in a house ;-). Continue reading Maxifigure Bunkbed

Maxifigure Baby Furniture

Today’s building inspiration is from a 1980 Lego set, “Bedroom” (Set 5233).

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Before the mini-figure came the maxi-figure, and a much larger scale for building stuff, almost dollhouse scale. It’s kind of an interesting scale in the level of detail it allows using non-specialized lego bricks.  The modern mini-figure was introduced in 1978. Over the next few years, they continued to release maxi-figure scale sets, and in a few cases they included mini-figures to use as babies in the maxi-figure sets. So today we’re building baby-furniture that is scaled appropriately for a mini-figure. Continue reading Maxifigure Baby Furniture