In 1978 LEGO released 3 Building Set with People sets. The largest Building Set with People set from 1978 was
340-2 Fire Trucks with a piece count of 274 and a retail price of $9.99. The current estimated value of all these Building Set with People sets from this year is about $720.84 which represents a 3437.5% growth.
Building Set with People ran from 1974 to 1980 with a majority of the sets released around 1977 and was a subtheme of the Homemaker brand designed to appeal primarily to girls. Most of the sets contained Homemaker Figures, also known as Maxi-Figs or Maxifigures, and the sets were about building items such as vehicles and room settings like a hospital, school classroom, a beauty salon or nursery for the figures and centered on domestic and suburban life-based settings. Building Set with People sets are typically vintage LEGO and such are very hard to come by in new and sealed packages.
1978 LEGO Sets
In 1978, LEGO released several new sets and themes, including the LEGO City theme, which expanded upon the city sets released in previous years and introduced new models of public transportation such as buses and taxis.