Technic used to do these cool books of instructions only - they were 14 dollars around 1992 - which if you owned Technic set X and Technic set Y you could build Z.

You could build the ALIENS PNEUMATIC LOADER in Lego Technic. Coolest thing ever.

Anyway yes creativity is great but also official instructions are great too.

Edit: https://oldinstructions.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1991-... page 59 thanks Grok.