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I sincerely applaud everything ending up on IA. However, if you're searching for specific instructions brickinstructions is excellent as it is far more navigable. For a random example see Starguider¹. I wonder if someone has already scraped that site for IA, beyond simply praying to the Wayback Machine.

¹ https://lego.brickinstructions.com/m/lego_instructions/set/6...

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Yes, we archived the entire thing in 2020[0] (~100gb). Maybe it's worth running again.

[0]: https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/avlad

Edit: What this means is you can open any* link to lego.brickinstructions.com and see it in the wayback machine (IA ingests these archives)

*maybe not the mobile view you linked, not links after the job ran, not pages that couldn't be found in a crawl

That is great. I could see a lot it was in the wayback machine, but I have no idea what the pipeline for that is. Poking around from your link was informative, thanks!

Wow, that just gave me a crazy flash of nostalgia. I think I must have had this set, or at least a very similar one.

me too :)

Same, it hit hard

Whoa, WHOA, I could never have named or described this but it suddenly felt like I was 8 hoping for specific christmas gifts again.

I admit to being a total sucker for Star Wars LEGO but I do love the classic sets with no “lore”. It’s some kind of space truck. People probably need trucks in space right? You figure it out kid.

Same! Just found the instructions for a set I remember getting as a kid. https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/...

I think the lego itself is still somewhere at my parents place, but the instructions were lost long ago

https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/...

I played so many hours with this one...

Thank you for sharing this. I’m going to show it to my 6 year old and he’s going to lose his mind. Great way to make use of my massive box of childhood legos and empty summer hours.

There is/was a website where you could upload all your parts and it would tell you what you could build.

Rebrickable. Very much still alive.

There is a app for that too, which works off of a photo of your parts: https://brickit.app/

When brickinstructions goes belly up, or just messes up its URLs for shits and giggles, you will need to go through archive.org to find out what used to be at that URL.

Oh my god. I thought I was such a big deal when I first saw that one - It was marked ages 6+, but I was a solid 4 or 5.

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