My favorite childhood pastime was playing with my dollhouse. I didn’t want anything to do with Barbie and her uncomfortable-looking feet. She was just so vapid and lacking in personality, as was her furniture. That’s what really got on my nerves: the décor. Unfortunately my love of tiny things has persisted into adulthood, though I don’t let myself own any. Unless sample-sized cosmetics count. But when I stumble across them on the internet, I have to pass them on.

Fark linked to a Flickr account of someone who made a bunch of freakishly accurate dioramas of classic television show sets. Most of the furniture has a Lego base and seems to be covered with Femo clay. Here’s what the artist says about their unusual hobby.

As a kid I loved visiting Hollywood and seeing various TV sets in soundstages. I was always forbidden from taking pictures so I would come home and build what I saw. I have not built a set in 12 years and these make great dust collectors. Now I have brought them out for you to see and have some half finished ones as well I am finally getting done. Sets are made of lots of different things but the basis is Lego bricks. A set can take from 2 weeks to a month to complete. Strange hobby I know but I hope you enjoy them!

[From On The Set’s Flickr account]

A lot of the sets are incredibly detailed. The builder did models of Rosanne, The Facts of Life, The Golden Girls, Alice, Designing Women, The Brady Bunch, Three’s Company, Cheers, The Price is Right, Pyramid, Family Ties, The Young and the Restless, and Empty Nest. They even included all the tech stuff like the lights and microphones hanging above. It was definitely more about the filming of the show than reproducing what we saw on television. What an unusual way to compensate for not being able to take a picture. I’m guessing no one else in the world has this hobby.

You can see all the television sets here: On The Set’s Flickr photos. Thanks to Fark for the idea.

Images of the sets from The Brady Bunch, Cheers, and Family Ties thanks to On The Set.