>>8785184It's hard to call any one set bad since even unattractive sets often have good parts, and that's what Lego was always about. Sets are just a vessel to market and receive parts.
What I do like about Lego's simpler times is that with lower piece counts and less detailed sets, it encouraged people to take things apart and make their own things. When you get into sets with piece counts in the thousands, people, even kids, more-so start to think of them as single use models rather than a canvas to build upon. Nothing was perfectly polished like things are now. So while old sets were objectively worse, the toys purpose was less impeded upon.
