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As promised, I waded into the project of trying to collect all of the pieces to build the Classic Space Mobile Lab set (LEGO Set Number 6901). I worked on it over the course of a couple of days, including this past weekend. Besides the usual satisfaction that I derive from sorting through bricks, this turned out to be particularly fun because my son got interested in helping me find the bricks. So it turned into a joint mission to hunt down the pieces. I have to hand it to my son who actually managed to find several of the pieces that I had overlooked. I was convinced that I would have to BrickLink the trans-green windshield part and he ended up finding it in the same transparent piece box that I was sure I had combed through ad nauseum. In my defense, I will contend that searching through that particular box of transparent bricks (all trans-color bricks) is like getting lost in a maze of funhouse mirrors. Still, he was able to find it. We have now found nearly all of the pieces. And I am quite convinced at least a handful of them came from the actual set that I first got some forty years ago. Kind of a cool thought. Alas, we have not tracked down all of the "hose" pieces along with a just few others. So I might have to resort to a very small BrickLink order. I hope to bring you photos of the rebuilt set when its done.  By the way, after helping me with finding the bricks for this set, my son decided to try his hand at rebuilding another old LEGO Space set (from a different Space subtheme from the late '90s). So I'll plan to show off that rebuilt set as well in another post.
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