Instructions to Build a Mini LEGO Fabuland Car
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For each issue of BrickJournal Magazine, the BrickNerd team creates instructions for a LEGO mini-model to go with the theme of the cover story. For their recent issue with Dale Harris’ Reinvented Fabuland creation on the cover, Are decided to create a miniature Fabuland car! Here is his story about how it came to be.
Miniature Michael Mouse’s New Car
When I grew up in the ‘80s, I ended up collecting what we now know as Classic Town. My younger brother, however, had quite a lot of Fabuland sets, and even though I loved Town – and still do – I was also slightly envious. Fabuland was so cool! Especially the cars, I really liked that aesthetic.
Set number 328, Michael Mouse’s New Car (we called him Mass Mus in Norway, but the set goes by “Moe Mouse’s Roadster” on BrickLink and was released as set 121 in the US, simply called “Roadster”) was a bit different from most of the other cars.
It was released in 1979, the first year of Fabuland, and apart from the then-new chassis, doors and windscreen, it was all made from regular bricks and plates. I still loved it, though.
This miniature version features some classic mudguards that have been out of production since 2004, but they’re super cheap used on BrickLink if you want to stick with my design. If not, there are more recent mudguard parts that will work almost as well.
Here are the step-by-step instructions you can scroll through to build “Miniature Michael Mouse’s New Car”.
Michael’s head is what BrickLink calls Dark Orange, a new colour for 1979. Any shade of brown will work, but the minifig head was actually just produced in Dark Orange as of this year – there are three of them in the LEGO Ideas Winnie the Pooh set!
If you decide to build your own miniature roadster, maybe it will bring back good memories of an old theme – or give you a little taste of something young kids played with way before you were born. Either way, I hope you enjoy it!
You can download a pdf of the instructions and full part list that BrickJournal published here. You can also purchase a copy of the entire current issue here. And until next time, stay nerdy about the bricks!
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