[Closed] Xmas Day lego

This is what you want. [url= http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/Tower-Bridge-10214? ]http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/Tower-Bridge-10214?[/url] You can build half each!

Hmmmm a little more than i was intending to spend.

I would recommend the lego mini. It's a cracking model and is a little complex in areas.

http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/Death-Star-10188?fromListing=listing

+1 for the mini! Hoping for one from Santa myself!

Download the HotUKDeals app and set up an alert for "Lego" (or just keep an eye on the website). Loads of discounts at various online retailers at the moment in the run-up to Christmas.

Get one of those wee tiny cheap quad copters, plenty fun!.

I quite fancy the crane or the batman car.

I'm not sure if I like that lego mini. As a massive fan of mini's and lego it just doesn't look very good. A bit too square maybe. I'm normally not a fan of lego with model specific parts (not normal rectangular blocks) but I think more would of suited this model.

Go the whole hog. The Cool Uncle (every family has them) brought us this a couple of years back:
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This is Single track! It has to be the VW Camper.

Just don't let it roll off the mantelpiece once you've built it 🙄

Go the whole hog. The Cool Uncle (every family has them) brought us this a couple of years back:

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Having been given it for my 40th, I've just finished building up this kit...

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😀

Hmmmm a little more than i was intending to spend.

Don't bother looking at the Beetle kit then!

Big effoff technic crane for me!

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mikey74 - Member

Hmmmm a little more than i was intending to spend.

Because your worth it.

I have the millenium falcon it's so rad. Would
Absolutely love the ghostbusters car' that's awesome!!!

I've bought myself an original 1980 Lego 8860 Auto Chassis on ebay.

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Three-speed transmission, 4 cylinder reciprocating engine, working rear differential, independent rear suspension, rack and pinion steering, and adjustable and reclining seats. Awesome.

Had one for Christmas when I was about 4 or 5, and spent a couple of days building it with my dad 🙂

Has anyone done the architecture series? We used to live in Washington DC so I thought the White House would be a good one, although it looks a little small.

WillH - I think I still have that model in my mum's loft somewhere - I'd love to dig it out at Christmas time and re-build it.

I've bought myself an original 1980 Lego 8860 Auto Chassis on ebay.

How much for, if you don't mind me asking? (I still have that upstairs somewhere.)

I also built a 8860 recently, bought off ebay, built, dismantled, sold again!
But it sated that nostalgic urge. I had one as a youngster.

We bought a 'xmas lego' kit for ourselves last xmas, was the Millennium Falcon (7965), superb kit.

Hoping theres a Millenium Falcon under the tree for me this year. I've told the wife I'm not speaking to her until July if there isn't.

Cougar - Moderator
How much for, if you don't mind me asking? (I still have that upstairs somewhere.)

cranberry - Member
WillH - I think I still have that model in my mum's loft somewhere - I'd love to dig it out at Christmas time and re-build it.

30 quid without the postage

I R disappoint. I'm not going to retire on the proceeds just yet, then.

The Mini is great. We gave it to the boy for his 8th birthday, and it was easily the best present we have ever given him, he loved building it.

We have the box and bits (hopefully) for 8860 at my parents. I'll dig it out and see if I can make it into a complete kit again.

Like the box above it still has the price sticker on it (24 quid from Redgates in Sheffield) and I remember the negotiation I went through to get it for my birthday.

Speaking of which,

Next on my list to rebuild is the 853:

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Cougar - wow! that brings back some childhood memories. That was my dream lego set as a 10 year old and I finally got it one Christmas. I also had the woefully underpowered electric motor kit to make it drive. It used to shit the gearbox regularly if I recall.

I finished up as a real car designer BTW.

So, the Millennium Falcon (7965) - good? I've read some negative reviews that say it's actually not robust enough for kids to play with it and that it's actually a bit small for the price.

I too had the technic car - recently binned the box actually as it had gone mouldy.

My 5 year old daughter is into the Lego Movie sets at the moment and have to say they are pretty cool and mostly not too expensive e.g.

http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/Super-Cycle-Chase-70808

You can find it for around £30 online.

+1 for a retro set from eBay... I recently bought this and the plane currently sits proudly (i.e. gathering dust) atop a wardrobe. I may break it down and build the shuttle over Christmas.

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Lego own branded stuff (eg not star wars, Hobbit, etc) is cheaper I've noticed - obvious I suppose but I really noticed it in the secret agent stuff when I was looking for Xmas. Of course the kids want the branded stuff...

Slightly off topic as it's not Lego, but it's still cool. Debenhams have got these in the Christmas gift section at the moment -

http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10701_10001_106010313599_-1

They've also got a V-Twin one.

This is on my wishlist

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-Technic-8263-Snow-Groomer/dp/B001U3ZMKY

I've got the old red lego technic car from the early 90's somewhere. Should be in it's box.

Lego own branded stuff (eg not star wars, Hobbit, etc) is cheaper I've noticed

I picked up the Star Wars AT-AT and Snowspeeder last week off Amazon as my Xmas day Lego - RRP £145 but I got both for £95.

Cougar - wow! that brings back some childhood memories. That was my dream lego set as a 10 year old and I finally got it one Christmas. I also had the woefully underpowered electric motor kit to make it drive. It used to shit the gearbox regularly if I recall.

From memory, it always used to bug me that the gearbox ratios were the wrong way round. Ie, you shifted down from first to second and the engine sped up in relation to the wheels rather than going slower. I used to switch the cogs round when I built it as a kid, so that it worked correctly and appeased my CDO.

Thinking about it just now, I'm wondering if the gears were actually forward and reverse rather than first and second, and I've been wrong all these years. I never had the motor kit, so never noticed whether the engine changed direction or not.

I'm not going to sleep now till I've rebuilt the thing to find out.

I spent a blissful christmas day 2 years ago building the camper van, took ALL DAY and I barely spoke to anyone. *wistful sigh*

I know Lego gets discounted but I was referring to the RRPs so that it was a direct comparison.

Cougar - I had the motor and can confirm that they were all forward gears. There'd have had to be an extra cog in there to get a reverse gear.

FWIW, I modified it to have 4 gears like our real car 🙂

Phew, vindicated. (-:

I've bought myself an original 1980 Lego 8860 Auto Chassis on ebay.

I used to want that so much it actually hurt as a kid.

As I got a little older, my fort tecknic lego kit was a buggy, followed by all my birthday money (later the same day) for a helicopter. God I loved playing with lego!
Edit - these ones 1986! sod it, I'm old! in fact, it would have been 28 years ago tomorrow....!
I'm just sorting out a play room form my nippers. 18months old is OK for the sopworth camel right? 😛

This is a good one!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-Technic-42007-Moto-Cross/dp/B0094J1M3W/ref=sr_1_1?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1416925762&sr=1-1&keywords=lego+motocross

Here's a list of Amazon Technic prices with discount %
http://brickset.com/buy/vendor-amazon/order-percentdiscount/country-uk/theme-Technic

Cargo plane from Amazon Italy (£63)?
http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B00F3B48YA/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=gl00-21&linkCode=as2&camp=3370&creative=24114&creativeASIN=B00F3B48YA

^^^ that set looks good, the chain is cool! RRP from Amazon is bollocks though, that set is £24.99 RRP i.e. no discount!

I know Lego gets discounted but I was referring to the RRPs so that it was a direct comparison.

The motocross bike takes about half an hour to build though 🙁

The licenced sets are generally much cooler though so worth the slight extra IMO!

Oh, I agree though in some ways having grown up with Space Lego where there was no real preconceived notion of what was 'right' I wonder if say star wars lego is a bit constraining in that there are certain ships, styles, etc that are 'right'.

It's also much harder these days to create your own model that looks as good as the retail sets because they are so meticulously designed now plus the huge variety of pieces now means you need to have a very large parts bin!

Having said that though the stuff that people can build now given a large budget and a lot of time is pretty incredible.

Bought myself the cargo plane for my birthday and spent most of a weekend on and off building it. Very cool but very large as well so not sure where it will get kept!

So is Lego in any of the black friday deals?

nemesis - Member

So is Lego in any of the black friday deals?

I think the Lego website will be doing around 20% on a few big sets that don't normally get discounted (like the Ultimate Collector X-Wing).

Haven't seen any specific BF discounts on e.g. Amazon yet.

damn this thread, now want some christmas technic lego

I have an intact tech car chassis from back in the day and a whirlwind? rescue helicopter - had some annoying flexible piping stuff - was the first of the tech lego that made me sad as it was getting too specialised.

Lost the box but 99% sure I have all the bits - Might make it a project with the nipper next year.

I was given this for a xmas present when i was a wee nipper. it was a little too advanced for me at the time.

Im hoping all the bits are in the box and i can finally finish it

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My first Xmas Lego:

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Followed by the standard LL928 🙂
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When I saw 'LL929' on Benny's Spaceship in the Lego Movie, my heart skipped a beat 🙂

Just ordered the current technic plane. Going to be fun keeping a 24" model away from a 2 year old 😀

When I saw 'LL929' on Benny's Spaceship in the Lego Movie, my heart skipped a beat

Yeah, that was most triumphant.

You know you can buy it now, yes?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-LEGO-Movie-70816-Spaceship/dp/B00IQNIQ1S

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I have Benny's spaceship 🙂

Trying to decide whether to let my 6 year old nephew play with it at christmas or whether to keep it safe at home.

Nem Jnr is getting it for Xmas...

Mind you I'm wondering if he might actually prefer the Millenium Falcon, hence the earlier question...

Trying to decide whether to let my 6 year old nephew play with it at christmas or whether to keep it safe at home.

Isn't that the beauty of Lego - It's completely repairable if you break it.

The worry is more that pieces go missing while I'm over there or everyhing gets jumbled into a big pile of lego and has to be sorted out.

I know 🙂

Nemesis are you me?

:sus:

No, but are you me? 🙂

I've lost a lot of the bits to those two - have the grey rocket ends and a few other wings and stuff in with the chassis ansd helicopter.

Would love to have those big bases too back too, would be ace for the kids.

I have no lego men, was gutted when the spaceman was called retro...

I have an original Benny along with yellow and red original Space Lego men plus the newer ones with the blue visors and then the blacktron ones. Sadly my old folks seem to have got rid of the rest of my Lego 🙁

We took our two girls to see this yesterday.

http://artofthebrick.co.uk/

I wouldn't say it was wonderful art, but it was certainly amazing what you can achieve with enough bricks and some imagination.

ciron - Member

We took our two girls to see this yesterday.

http://artofthebrick.co.uk/

I wouldn't say it was wonderful art, but it was certainly amazing what you can achieve with enough bricks and some imagination.

I was there Saturday. Thought it was pretty remarkable.

Nemesis - thanks for posting those pics! Really brought back happy memories. Had those two specific sets myself and lost them years ago due to forced 'donation' to younger cousins (along with all my hard earned collection of Star Wars figures, Action Men etc... *sniff*)

We were given a load of 80s technic lego by my wife's brother.
This was the latest to get rebuilt.
Still worked perfectly. In fact it inspired us to try a version of our own using mindstorms:

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Pfft, young 'uns with their fancy space sets... this was my first xmas lego:

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http://gimmelego.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/the-real-classic-space.html

Ha, I had that too! Awesome.

Not read all the thread so this may have been mentioned

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/asda-lego-star-wars-millenium-falcon-7965-for-95-reduced-from-132-97-2061693?aui=38

Any set recommendations for my 10 year old daugter?

She's quite technical so nothing too simple/small.

Thanks!

No point in messing about:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BMKLVJ6/

This is almost the cheapest it's been since launch.

bluearsedfly - what budget for your 10yo?

Got my son a Wembley stadium a couple of years ago ....took until after boxing day to finish .
Great christmas was that one 😉

@ AlexSimon

No real budget but they would be stocking fillers, ideally the non branded ones. Like the look of the cars/planes above so probably something similar. Cheers.

**** me that Mindstorms stuff looks the absolute nuts 😀

Mini or Sopwith Camel recommended.
Have strong suspicion a Unimog has been stashed in attic by significant other - fingers crossed.