Are we sure that description is accurate?

Not that pretty. The dog is cute though.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Username28 said:
"Also, I love that the boy is wearing a LEGO shirt."

Pretty sure he's just sporting tattoos of shirt/shorts/shoes, and isn't actually wearing any clothes. Ask the girl on the slide if I'm wrong. _She_ has clothes on. But her shoes are still just tattoos."

She has a skirt on. The top is still just a tattoo.

PRETTY PLAYLAND sounds like a Chappell Roan song.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"Not that pretty. The dog is cute though."

The Grim!!

I think I've found teddy bear's murderer... it tried to mimic the murderer's general pose.

It's like a game of Find the Fabuland Parts. I can spot four (six if you count the skateboard wheels separately).

One of the first Belville sets I believe.

A swing, see-saw, roundabout with mouse-prints and a fully realized slide.
Pretty complete for a playground!

And a chrome silver bucket!
Pretty cool.

Pretty nice for what it is.

Athough I prefer the paradisa version.
Because of the size this must have been
pretty expensive!

Poor dog only has one front leg, and all his hind legs appear to be fused together.

Bet you won't get the set complete nowadays. That tree is costly!

EWWWWWWWWWW

Imagine how huge that slide would be to minifigs

@Brickalili said:
"Imagine how huge that slide would be to minifigs"

Imagine? 6738 comes with an image.

Must be an upmarket park to have chrome garbage bins. Like to know if anyone ever managed to get the figures to stay on the swing, see-saw, round-about etc. and is the slide wide enough for the skateboard?

Those dolls are largely indefensible, although I'd quite like to take one apart to see if I can mix and match bodyparts with a Technic-figure. The neck-joints seems to be the same size, and in turn, of the same size as a Fabuland neck-joint.

Other than that - these are pretty decent parts-packs. Big parts, bold colours, thick prints and CHROME. That tree alone is worth the price of admission. Well, almost; those things go for about 25 Euros, new.

Yeah.

@isani said:
"It's like a game of Find the Fabuland Parts. I can spot four (six if you count the skateboard wheels separately)."

Belville actually saw a lot of Fabuland parts still up to the very end. Guess most of it scaled a bit better to the figures. There is a even a Duplo part in a few sets!

A bit odd though, they never tried reusing the older Homemaker furniture parts. But probably the molds were already gone by then.

@Ridgeheart said:
"Those dolls are largely indefensible, although I'd quite like to take one apart to see if I can mix and match bodyparts with a Technic-figure. The neck-joints seems to be the same size, and in turn, of the same size as a Fabuland neck-joint."

You're one of THOSE kids c0.

This set is included in the Great LEGO Sets: A Visual History book! It certainly belongs there! ;)

@jkb said:
"Bet you won't get the set complete nowadays. That tree is costly!"

Probably cheaper to just brickbuild them these days, and I’ve seen ones that look a lot better.

@Ridgeheart said:
"Those dolls are largely indefensible, although I'd quite like to take one apart to see if I can mix and match bodyparts with a Technic-figure. The neck-joints seems to be the same size, and in turn, of the same size as a Fabuland neck-joint.

Other than that - these are pretty decent parts-packs. Big parts, bold colours, thick prints and CHROME. That tree alone is worth the price of admission. Well, almost; those things go for about 25 Euros, new.

Yeah."

What?^^ Is this really true? I'm too afraid of cracks to take mine apart :P

Admittedly it would make sense, but their are a few cases where Lego joints needlessly were different, but close. Although in some cases it might have been done on purpose to prevent some hard to disassemble connections.

I read somewhere, that the Technic figure was used as a sort of base template for creating the Belville figures, but some parts have entirely different connections, like the feet. Also their limbs are thinner, so I would suspect the joints in the arms are thinner too.
Oh - and the Belville hands are on a ball joint, whereas Technic only has swivel.

I'd also argue that those trees from the 1970s look a bit dated nowadays (especially with almost everything getting an update like every 2-3 years nowadays it feels).

I have one of them (in a bit of rough shape, but nothing broken or bent). Never really paid much attention to it until discovering the are much sought after.

Does anyone know the reason those things are so hilariously expensive? Most of them only ever appeared in Service packs, Dacta and oher obscure themes, so that probably can't be the reason?

Okay there's the Classic Castle Joust and that Town promotional Festival, but those sets seem to be priced normally (regarding age and rarity) if the tree is missing, so it doesn't seem to matter much either.

I know it has some MOC potential as it adds some variety to vintage era forests, but since green became more common a long time ago, people switched to brick-built trees anyways?

And it was neither too scarce (Shop at Home had them for quite a few years at an affordable price) nor too exotic/iconic I would say...

@PurpleDave said:
" @jkb said:
"Bet you won't get the set complete nowadays. That tree is costly!"

Probably cheaper to just brickbuild them these days, and I’ve seen ones that look a lot better."

Uhm, likely, and I thought about that, too... But that's NOT the point!!!

@Atuin:
What I know about is that they didn’t appear as frequently as the three smaller trees of the same style, so most fans never had one from a set. Then, in the early days of the internet fan community, they announced that the mold was nearing end of service, so they planned to run it until it died, scrap the mold, and retire the element with no possibility of return. Between the initial scarcity, the announcement that it was going away, and how easily they broke (the likely reason that they decided to retire the part so much earlier than the other three trees if the same style), it’s not surprising that prices spiked.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Atuin:
What I know about is that they didn’t appear as frequently as the three smaller trees of the same style, so most fans never had one from a set. Then, in the early days of the internet fan community, they announced that the mold was nearing end of service, so they planned to run it until it died, scrap the mold, and retire the element with no possibility of return. Between the initial scarcity, the announcement that it was going away, and how easily they broke (the likely reason that they decided to retire the part so much earlier than the other three trees if the same style), it’s not surprising that prices spiked."

Ah, I see... basically the same reason cloth sails and capes are so expensive - a lot produced but not many survived.

Metal pink slide

At a flea market I found this set I only purchased the tree for 3 Euros

Painful Playland

@ElephantKnight said:
"My sister had this growing up. I guess she still has it. It was the only Belville set in my family. Has some nice chrome, and that dog would make an excellent Blacktron spy."

It was assembled hardly ever--so the general image of the set brings back almost no memories. Some of the parts do--but not all! I would never have been able to tell you those printed white 2x3 slopes on the merry-go-round belonged to this set if you told me to pick them out of a police line-up.

@Formendacil said:
" @ElephantKnight said:
"My sister had this growing up. I guess she still has it. It was the only Belville set in my family. Has some nice chrome, and that dog would make an excellent Blacktron spy."

It was assembled hardly ever--so the general image of the set brings back almost no memories. Some of the parts do--but not all! I would never have been able to tell you those printed white 2x3 slopes on the merry-go-round belonged to this set if you told me to pick them out of a police line-up."

They didn't just belong to this set. That printing was applied to red, white, and yellow slopes, and two other sets had the white slopes. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3298px11&idColor=1T=C&C=1

@Formendacil said:
" @ElephantKnight said:
"My sister had this growing up. I guess she still has it. It was the only Belville set in my family. Has some nice chrome, and that dog would make an excellent Blacktron spy."

It was assembled hardly ever--so the general image of the set brings back almost no memories. Some of the parts do--but not all! I would never have been able to tell you those printed white 2x3 slopes on the merry-go-round belonged to this set if you told me to pick them out of a police line-up."

I built it for our sister at least once or twice, so I actually have some visuals locked up inside my head.