LEGO Model 6117: Doors & Windows

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As official buildings, especially the modular ones, become more accurate in terms of scale, naturally a bigger door is needed in comparison.

LEGO complicated the matter even more when they introduced the maxifig that was more than twice the height of the 3×4 door. I think that there is no "perfect" height, which means that each door has it's uses; the 3x4 door looks great in Bill Ward's camper, and the 4x5 door is good for smaller, more derelict buildings.The 4x5 would fit in perfectly on a farmhouse or on another more rural type building, whereas the new 4x6 door has a more contemporary look. And since Denmark, Norway and Sweden had some of their own local production (in Billund, Oslo and Lerum respectively), there were some LEGO items produced that TLG Denmark was not even aware of since Norway had their own LEGO production until 1961, and Sweden was a hodge-podge of gettting LEGO parts from Norway and Denmark.

It came with various pieces to build only windows and doors for an addition to a LEGO collection or for additional parts of buildings. This latest door - mainly the frame makes it more useful, not only can we have standard opening doors but large plane windows or even sliding doors (COOL) ! To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. If there had been more color- and depth coordination I would have bought at least one - if not two - more sets. Includes age-appropriate building instructions and even more LEGO bricks to help children unlock their creative building skills!In my view, doors need to be tall enough for a minifig to pass through; this isn't always the case with a 5-high door, when steps/tiles/big hair are taken into consideration. Great selection of different modern style windows and doors, we brought these to add to my Lego collection from 30 years ago for our 4 year old daughter. Use intermediate sized doors and windows in between background and foreground buildings to infill the 'mid-ground'. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In my opinion the current door with frame is for me, although with great fondness I remember the classic 4x5 door in my Shell servo, yellow fire station, snack bar and little garage - ah simple times as a child !

There are a lot of different shapes and sizes but only two or three of each, so it becomes difficult to build something that looks really nice. Unfortunately, although one could see through the clear plastic, the door had a major design flaw; it was molded shut. BrickEconomy, the BrickEconomy logo and all content not covered by The LEGO Group's copyright is, unless otherwise stated, ©2024 BrickEconomy.

Cheaper, thinner plastic would replace the old 4×5, as well as the need to attach a round 1×1 plate for added door-opening ability. I was going to start a thread comparing the prefab doors to brick-built ones, but I'm not sure of the need anymore. From the 1975 small 2×3 door that didn’t open to the new 4×6 door twice the size, what will future LEGO doors offer? Kids love these bricks, everyone can have a go at making something and letting their imagination run wild.

On the side of the 5-high door, however, I tend to build buildings at 6-high per floor - 5-high door, with a lintel or decoration above it. Warning: LEGO Parts can be small, they are usually not suitable for and may pose a hazard to children under 36 months. Bought this along with bricks and roof tiles and I know my son (and I) will have hours of fun making things and playing.I cannot mention realism as a deciding factor for me since I don't MOC in a "proffesional" way and extreme accuracy and realism is something that's not my target when it comes to LEGO. A few years later, LEGO would introduce a new 3×4 door contained in many Universal Building sets that allowed small fingers to open an attachable screen. not really a good present unless you give them all as a set, as you cannot make anything with any one of them, however if your kids like making houses and you don't have enough roof tiles, or they like making cars and you don't have enough wheels etc. I have a lot of modern LEGO, including the newer 4x6 doors, but my collection goes right back to the late 1960's so I have lots of the old 2x3 doors and every size in between. And I wish they would have designed the door knob like on the old doors, to be able to open them with a flick of the nail.