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Best toy ever. FACT.
Only went the the Lego store.
Ah, fair enough.
I inadvertently hit report post when copying your thread.
Wah!
Has someone been racist? On a Lego thread?? 😯
Only on STW....
My last Lego purchase for myself was quite a few years ago and was a Millennium Falcon (Lego Star Wars 4505) I still have the box in the back of a cupboard, but the kit is built and on top of a display cabinet in the living room. I let my youngest play with it whenever he wants.
I've just seen one on sale on the internet for £575 😯
What about that advert in the 80's (?) when the Lego truck had a helicopter come out the back of it like some transformer, am I remembering that right? I looked on youtube but couldn't see it. That was class & I spent ages trying to copy it! 😀
Was that the same one that had Tommy Cooper narrating it?
This one -
... evidently not, having just rewatched it.
i used to be a toolmaker, lego mould tools were supposedly the most accurate/ had the tightest tolerances in the business. that was years ago like, but cool if it was true...
I've heard similar stories, the tolerances are tiny.
Lego rocks!
Who else remembers the year books with loads of pics of layouts/ideas/builds/etc?
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And who else was jealous of the kits your mates had? I remember my best mate having the big spaceship (as per image above) on his window sill and I was soooo envious. I had loads of space kits including the other two pictured, but that big ship always eluded me.
I had that book! Might even have some pages of it around somewhere. Came with a sheet of stickers, which I found in the box of bits.
i used to be a toolmaker, lego mould tools were supposedly the most accurate/ had the tightest tolerances in the business. that was years ago like, but cool if it was true...
Sounds about right. Remember when you went round to your friends' house and they had some impostor bricks that had a loose fitting and were made of inferior plastics? No impostor bricks in my house.
Unfortunately in my teenage years I sold a [b]huge[/b] box of all my Lego for £10 - beer money.
I can remember spending hours and hours buidling stuff with lego!
What I enjoyed building the most was spaceships. Great big ones that looked like the Star Destroyers from Star Wars 🙂
My son is now getting into the lego habit as well.
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I know - the local Modelzone in the Trafford Centre had some on display, and I wanted to demonstrate it to my son, sadly they said (saturday afternoon) it was too busy 😡
I've dropped enough hints to mean that I should be waking up to one for Christmas!
I remember getting into technical Lego - the "car chassis" was utterly brilliant!
Our boy has just turned 2 and got some Duplo Lego for his Birthday. Can't wait to get him some more "grown up" stuff soon!
I once built a Chinook helicopter out of Lego. From scratch of course, not a kit.
Well actually, it was 2 months ago, for my boy. He bloody loves it!
Pics available!
It might actually be worth having kids just to play with lego all over again.
Lego rocks. Bestest toy ever.
I had one of these
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And one of these
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And I think one of these
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Plus loads and loads of other stuff.
Always wanted the car chassis though, but it was always more than I could afford with my birthday money 🙁
DezB - MemberI once built a Chinook helicopter out of Lego. From scratch of course, not a kit.
Well actually, it was 2 months ago, for my boy. He bloody loves it!
Pics available!
Well show us then!
This was pretty badass...
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Ooh such a wonderful trip down memory lane. This thread sent me Googling and I found this gem of a site - http://www.ericalbrecht.com/technic/index.html
It was of formative importance in my life.
Annoyed me when people mixed up their Castle & Space stuff, though. 😕
Plus loads and loads of other stuff.
Always wanted the car chassis though, but it was always more than I could afford with my birthday money
Remember Dad used to go WILD when we left bricks lying around. Forget land mines for the military, just scatter the fields with Lego and they'd have no chance!
I remember all those kits you had!
Remember we used to try and make the longest cars we could in the bedroom. My Best memory of them was we never had a rack and pinion steering system so they were just a steering wheel directly attached to a huge tiller type axle - like a traction engine...
Good times!
Wouldn't be STW without a bit of 'religious controversy' content:
[url= http://www.thebricktestament.com/ ]The Brick Testament.[/url]
I particularly like 'Son of Man's Bloody Gorefest' in Revelation. 🙂
one_bad_mofo, that site's superb!!!!
This should be sat in my folks loft as we speak/type...
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I always wanted this;
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and later this;
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But couldn't persuade 'Santa' that it was a good idea...
Went to Legoland Windsor (my little ones 4th) & I can report the wasps have gone!
If anyone here has little ones collecting Lego minifigures series 2 [url= http://minifigures.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx ]http://minifigures.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx[/url], my oldest has to swap:
Ringmaster
Traffic Cop
She needs:
Surfer
Vampire
To complete her collection, get in touch 😉
My misses started telling her friends that I was really good at lego, I thought that was a bad thing, I would rather she said I was good at sex or something but oh no, it has to be lego.
Anyway I get to spend more time playing with lego - just built a techics go-kart, very cool 🙂
Oh fantastic thread.
Some of the sets on here are lurking in my folks attic awaiting the arrival of my daughter at Lego age.
I've got both those Technical Lego cars from the first page, the pneumatic and tracked excavator plus a whole load of Space Lego stuff.
Can't wait to get amongst it again (and the Scalextric set)
Brilliant thread, I had the Lego Test Car. Technic was the best. No idea where it all went, younger cousins probably when I got into gaming instead. Still wish I had it all!
Brilliant thread.
My two year old spent this morning building a Lego castle for his princess (aka Peppa Pig). My four-year old then built a spaceport for it. Wonderful to watch.
And tonight I have promised them I will build up my Lego Mindstorms set - my present from Santa last xmas and what you lot all want for next Xmas!
http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx
Lego Mindstorms set = tres cool. I want one.
Blakbird's site, above, is a bit US-centric. There's a few US-only sets on there that I've never seen, and a good number missing. There was a tractor and a forklift in the 70's, for a start.
Huge fan of Lego and now I have a son myself its been great...certainly love the Star Wars Lego although my son and I have gone a slightly different route in collecting the mini figures (60+ so far)....
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....then came the mini-figures series
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First lego set, for what was my 5th birthday:
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/douglasfshearer/301293249/ ]Lego Tipper Truck 6527[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/douglasfshearer/ ]douglasfshearer[/url], on Flickr
Our standard chess set:
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/douglasfshearer/2284489648/ ]Prepared For Battle[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/douglasfshearer/ ]douglasfshearer[/url], on Flickr
Bought this when it came out two years ago, great fun:
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/douglasfshearer/2121776364/ ]Finished[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/douglasfshearer/ ]douglasfshearer[/url], on Flickr
As part of a completely grown up project I'm thinking about, I need some meccano 9becasue leg's for kids), and used to have a pocket sized mini set which would probably have done. Not much on fleabay, so having a look round the shops, and it all seems to be dedicated kits that make certain models, with instructions. IIRC, meccano and lego used to be just some stuff that you played with and built whatever came to mind (or whatever you ended up with), nt what you were told to. Do kids these days need to be told what to build or can you just buy sets that are a load of bits and pieces for you to get on with yourself?
Oh good grief, I've just posted using the phrase "kids these days"
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lego printer - awesome
My most treasured Christmas present ever was a Lego Pub/Inn.
It came with a landlady, and a few boozers that probably should of been guarding the castle.
I managed to win a trip to Legoland Denmark when I was 10-ish (1988) with a competition to build a limited pieces animal model.
If anyone fancies an evening Lego speed build challenge, I think it was 15 parts, my entry included one bit which was a space-type concave curved bulkhead thing that looked exactly like a cobra's hood. Though I now wish I could have built that Alien above.
one of the proudest moments of fatherhood was, when I asked my son where he should place the engine on the spaceship we were building, see him stop, count the dots and place it exactly the right spot.
brought a tear to my eye it did.
You can even build the Forth Bridge in Lego.
(Never managed that with Meccano)
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