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As I'm mid way through the Technic 911 kit they've just sent me an email promoting this:
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N+1 still applies to Lego doesn't it?!
What's it supposed to be - looks like a cross between a beetle and a 2cv
All about the AFOLs
Gary_M - MemberWhat's it supposed to be - looks like a cross between a beetle and a 2cv
It's a VW Scarabée
😉
Big Lego transport expo thingy coming to Chester soon. The Lego cathedral is quite spectacular too.
Well it's obviously a german spy's car going by the 2 stick grenades and the false plates.......
On the other hand Im getting a bit miffed with Lego.
Most of the kits now are packed full of tiddly little parts, specific to the model. You dont get anything like the number of substantial building blocks as you used to. Look at that car ^ half of the pieces are specific to that model.
Why not just bang out an airfix and be done with it?!
Also is that a surfboard on the car roof? No self respecting surfer is going to go round in that to catch some waves.
I'm not a fan of all these propriety model-specific lego pieces, and it doesn't look very "tecnic"? I remember the old car chasis had a function diff and moving pistons, gearbox and stuff, and the JCB had compressed air pistons to move all the arms. i'm not impressed. 2/10.
@hammyuk - hadn't considered that, and the cover as a tourist is complete with a folded towel ready to deploy...... 😉
Not part of the Technic range Horatio. Know what you mean with the proprietry pieces but to be fair I'm "displaying" (in the home office!) the kits I have so am not free-building.
That attitude will no doubt change when I have kids!
On the other hand Im getting a bit miffed with Lego.Most of the kits now are packed full of tiddly little parts, specific to the model. You dont get anything like the number of substantial building blocks as you used to. Look at that car ^ half of the pieces are specific to that model.
Why not just bang out an airfix and be done with it?!
Yep, its all too elaborate these days, when I was I kid it was just a variety of blocks, base plates, wheels and a vivid imagination.
Apologies for the thread hijack, but anyone aware of Lego bargains at the moment? For an 8 year old around the £30 mark?
It’s no 853 though, is it?
/me fondly remembers the 853 car of her childhood…
Rachel
This was my favourite as a youngster, 6080, and yes pretty much all "regular blocks" that could be redeployed for that medieval themed dragster build 🙂
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Echo the initial 2CV/Dyane thoughts.
In the first picture, is the orange block one of two ramps for the realistic big yellow cab ride home for car and occupants?
Wrong. An existing part in a new colour is fairly common but a genuinely new part is not. Even a very large model wouldn't have more than a couple. You've actually just underlined the genius of modern Lego designers. What is very common these days is innovative & imaginative building techniques - You've been fooled into thinking a very clever arrangement of old parts is something entirely new.Look at that car ^ half of the pieces are specific to that model.
So the wheels, wheelarches, roof panels, etc are specific?
The wheel arches are the only entirely new part in that set.
The wheels themselves will have been used on other sets. The hubcaps look to me like the part that goes on the bottom of the pirate ships to help them glide across the carpet! (Or a thousand other uses!)
Roof bits definitely not new, there have been loads of cool curved pieces for years now.
There's a feature in this month's Top Gear magazine that mentions how few specific parts there are in the Technic car kits. Iirc there were 2 out of the 2700+ parts in the 911 GT3 kit
@bearnecessities - Amazon (tax dodging gits that they are etc) had the technic drag racer for £36 down from 50 last week. Out of stock last time I looked but might be same price when they get more in. Looks like a pretty good set.
I get the 2cv comparison but would still like that to sit on the shelf next to the camper van my wife got me a few years back!
This is missing all the Technics because it's Creator series not Technics series.
As to special pieces, I often hear this but as someone whose son has vast amounts of lego it's not really true: as has been said the only new piece on the VW (apart from the colour) are the wheel arches and it's rare for a set to have a entirely new piece (the reviewers on something like brickset get *very* excited when a new piece or colour appears). The hubcaps are usually seen on the underside of boats. The roof curved pieces are ancient. The door handles are telephones. Etc etc.
captainsasquatch
Do you have any details of the "Big Lego transport expo thingy coming to Chester soon".
Thanks Diz
Nice morris minor 😀
the green mini is far better
How about Brick Live at the NEC?
[url= http://www.thenec.co.uk/whatson/brick ]Brick LIVE[/url]
form an orderly queue and don't go knocking toddlers out of the way!
8860 FTW!
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Brick shows are amazing fun.
Showed the Beetle to my wife and she immediately said the back end was a 2CV. It won't be taking pride of place from my [s] son's [/s] camper van.
Cfh I think I might still have my complete 8860 kit somewhere. Fantastic model.
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CaptainFlashheart - Member
8860 FTW!
I recently bought that on ebay, having had it as a kid (little bro has taken ownership of all Lego unfortunately...) It's sitting in the garage waiting for my eldest (aged 4) to have enough patience to be able to build it.
He's currently into space stuff, since we watched the ISS go over the other week. I bought the wee space shuttle kit as a stop-gap until this arrives:
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If he can build that, then he can have a crack at the 8860 Chassis.
And now thanks to Notter I'm going to have to buy the Knights' Castle, one of my all-time favourites...
/me fondly remembers the 853 car of her childhood…
I still have that upstairs, boxed.
8860 FTW!
And that one. I built it back up last year to make sure it was still complete, need to do the same with the 853 really. Hm, that's a project for the weekend then.
Had lots of lego as a 70's child, loved every brick of it.My Mrs has a few of the Star wars models, a huge death star,falcon and r2d2 etc, all in storage, waiting new house move.They look great but thats it,for me they miss the largest part of the fun of Lego, Imagination!
ahhhh.... the 8860
I threw mine down the stairs to protest at a minor indiscretion committed by my younger brother..
yeah.. That'll teach him
I'm not a fan of all these propriety model-specific lego pieces
they are very "contrived" the abstract nature of lego is it's appeal for me going for realistic you may as well buy an airfix kit.
@ bearnecessities re lego bargains around £30
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plus get a big baseplate or two
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I prefer this which does have much more of the original Lego look and nothing like a 2CV
On the other hand Im getting a bit miffed with Lego.Most of the kits now are packed full of tiddly little parts, specific to the model.
I agree. And as the father of two daughters, I find the gendered nature of the kits - all pink and princesses - to be a bit depressing. Though I note that my girls have much more fun with the bog standard bricks than they do with the kits.
Certainly a lot more specific parts than there used to be - turned me off technical lego when I'd saved for ages and got a whirlwind helicopter (8856) back in 1991 with odd plastic tubing in sheaths (oww missus..) for tilting the rotors (2nd model was an awful boat thing). Loads of stuff only good for that kit (although I guess probably a few more options nowadays).
Have the big original car chassis (probably not all there, but must be >95%) to build with the kids along with a couple of other kits.
WillH,
If he's into the space stuff there is also 8480. One of my favourite kits.
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Ooooh nice, may have to acquire that and store it away for a bit - he's only four! And obviously it'd need to be tested now and again while in storage, by an experienced builder 🙂
I've got one built up in the lounge, my (also 4yo) daughter loves pushing it around and playing space. The motor driven doors and satellite are very popular however have to keep a close eye on her with those as she doesn't stop the motor at the end of the travel! Build wise would be way beyond her for the moment though.
My old 8860 is currently boxed upstairs in the cupboard. It's tatty but on a wet afternoon about a year back my mum was in the loft and pulled together all the pieces and re-packaged/boxed them for me to build with my daughter.
#mumsarebrill
#8860kingoflego
42009 Mobile Crane Mk II currently next to me awaiting either disassembly or display in my to be build extension/study. Maybe it'll sit alongside 8860.
This was one of my favourites when I was a kid. I saved my birthday, Christmas and paper round money for what seemed like an eternity. It didn't disappoint.
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I also really liked my monorail too. All my lego is still up the loft at my moms and I have promised it my daughter when she is a bit older.
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I also really liked my monorail too. All my lego is still up the loft at my moms and I have promised it my daughter when she is a bit older.
I spent an evening with the better half downloading 80s Lego instructions the other night in prep for Jazz jnr graduating from Duplo.
I just saw this, and I can't help but feel it's overpriced extravagance for 1200 blocks. But, [i][b][u]I want it[/u][/b][/i].
http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/Studio-21050
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A mate is curator or organiser or something to do with it.
This was one of my favourites when I was a kid. I saved my birthday, Christmas and paper round money for what seemed like an eternity. It didn't disappoint.
Fixed your link. I coveted that also.
I was a pirate Lego man myself. Or rather my brother had the pirate stuff and me the soldiers. I re-bought most of it a few years ago between contracts and we finally had our 'battle royale' in my mum's swimming pool. Our other halves and even my children looked on in strict contempt... 😀
I don't really get the attraction of lego but I just saw this and thought it might be of interest to folks on here:
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[url= http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/07/legos-largest-technic-set-can-dig-a-moat-around-your-home/ ]Sauce[/url]
brilliant lego technic for clearing up lego 🙂
Right, thanks to you ne'er-do-wells and your tales of Amazon discounts I'm now the proud owner of a 42050 Drag Racer and a 42037 Formula Off-Roader. Ordered on Saturday morning and delivered today, which will go nicely with my 8417 Superbike 😀
Who needs Lego shuttles? It's all about spaceships, surely?
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SPACESHIP!!
I want that so very badly.
😆 Spaceship.
this is true, it's good to see them using old stuff in a new way, but my son's kits seem to have a [i]lot[/i] of bespoke parts. Having said that he's only got a few kits and it's been a long time since my own childhood so I guess these "bespoke" parts may be fairly common across the modern range.What is very common these days is innovative & imaginative building techniques
ransos - Member
And as the father of two daughters, I find the gendered nature of the kits - all pink and princesses - to be a bit depressing. Though I note that my girls have much more fun with the bog standard bricks than they do with the kits.
The "girly" kits are a relatively new thing. I gather that Lego were quite open when they were introduced that it was because their existing ranges weren't selling to girls very well that they introduced such obviously gendered kits.
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[url= https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GGYNAB0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 ]Leg Space: Building the Future[/url]
This is a great book. Written by the guy who designed the Lego Ideas Exo Suit.
Introduced the grand daughter to Lego via the Doc McStuffins kid's TV show spin-offs.
That was a year ago at two - she still kisses all the characters goodnight and puts them to bed.
She'll happily play with her six year old nephew's Star Wars, Creator and City stuff, but the cute characters she recognised from TV played a big part in attracting her attention in the first place.
Technics soon.
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