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A treat for all Lego fans..

53 posts & 37 voices | Started 3 years ago by RudeBoy | Latest reply from mudshark

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grizzlygus - Member

Helped to stimulate imagination, develop co-ordination skills, teach design, engineering and construction principles, and allowed kids to act out all sorts of fantasy scenarios

What a load of pompous bollox - I suppose RudeBoy, all your xmas and birthday presents were boring 'educational' sh1te from 'Early Learning' eh ?

Anyways .... I would have thought that the kids down your street played with real bricks ?

Now .... real bricks were well ace for 'acting out all sorts of fantasy scenarios' ....

Posted 3 years ago #
stevomcd - Member

peterpoddyAnd a big crane on wheels with a telescopic jib, but I can't find that one anywhere.....

I had that one too! I think my favourite though was what was called the "Universal motor set" - came with motors and loads of bits, but no big single thing to make - I liked making my own stuff.

One of my best mates has a brother who is a graphic designer and had a job with Lego for a while. His days were basically drawing stuff up and handing the drawings to someone to build them. That's got to be a cool job!

Posted 3 years ago #
taka - Member

i still play with it still pop down to the local toys 'r' us and pick up the new catologs for playmobile and lego

Posted 3 years ago #
Dougal - Member

I bought the big Technic Bulldozer as my own Christmas present in 2007, is great fun. Dog doesn't like it mind, bit like the hoover, very wary of it.

Posted 3 years ago #
RudeBoy - Blocked

What a load of pompous bollox - I suppose RudeBoy, all your xmas and birthday presents were boring 'educational' sh1te from 'Early Learning' eh ?

What a nasty, bitter and twisted individual you are, Gus. Just because you were too old before Lego was invented. You're just jealous.

I have to be honest; I do like the Star Wars Lego stuff. I could only dream of that, 30 odd years ago.

I love some of the more unusual sets:

Posted 3 years ago #
grizzlygus - Member

What a nasty, bitter and twisted individual you are, Gus. Just because you were too old before Lego was invented. You're just jealous.

Nope, I had Lego as a kid.

Which might explain why I'm 'bitter and twisted' though.

Totally useless crap - nothing you made out of it looked even remotely real.

All I wanted (and TBF I got) were proper tools.

And a ferret......never got one of those. My mate did though.

Posted 3 years ago #
sssimon - Member

lovin the 9951 tractor still remember taking it to mt grans to show her on boxing day

Posted 3 years ago #
RudeBoy - Blocked

You mustuv been a very disturbed child, GG.

And you are wronger than wrong, on this matter. Sorry, but it's true.

Totally useless crap

S'like saying 'Christopher Wren; crap architect; all his stuff's very 'samey'. Or, 'Van Gogh; why din't he learn to paint propply?'

A Philistine, is what you are. And you have a heart of stone.

CFH has it over you on this one; 'Best Toy Ever'. S'because it is. There is no argument.

Posted 3 years ago #
grizzlygus - Member

Sorry, but it's true.

No need to apologise, 'cause I'm right - Lego was for ponces.

Me and mates used our 'creative & artistic' talents to do proper stuff, eg : stink bombs out of hydrogen sulphide put together from my chemistry set; or improvised explosive devices made out of empty Squeezy bottles filled with gas and detonated with Jetex fuses; or rammed bangers into freshly done dog's turds so that when they exploded the dog sh1t splatted artistically all up the sides of parked cars.

We had a proper childhood.

Posted 3 years ago #
Northwind - Member

The lego space stuff was ace... I was always a bit bitter that the pirates didin't come along til I was too old, just because pirates are awesome.

I know people say "It's sad that lego has guns now" but come on, every kid who ever had lego space gave them ray guns, you used the megaphone things and stuck a red clear bit on the end, instant death ray. And it was a toy you could actually destroy when you had a fight scene, then rebuild after.

Posted 3 years ago #
damitamit - Member

I used to be big into technic. Had the big truck, sports car etc...

Remember I also had this instruction booklet: Technics booklet

There was this motorised cable car design in it which i had moving across my room for months on a piece of kite wire. Good times...

Incidentally, my colleague just bought me this as a joke for my bday. I think she meant for it to represent a bicycle (and oh my geekiness):

Posted 3 years ago #
Travis - Member

Dougal - my wife bought me that one for Christmas 07..

I hadn't 'played' with Lego for years, totally enjoyed myself cat thinks it's a bit strange though....

Posted 3 years ago #
40mpg - Member

I didnt have 'sets', just collected loads of odd pieces from jumble sales and such. I did manage to build my own 'star destroyer' that was as long as the sofa, although colour co-ordination and in fact any real similarity to the original were purely in my mind!

Posted 3 years ago #
RudeBoy - Blocked

or improvised explosive devices made out of empty Squeezy bottles filled with gas and detonated with Jetex fuses; or rammed bangers into freshly done dog's turds so that when they exploded the dog sh1t splatted artistically all up the sides of parked cars.

Ah, nice. So, you were a destructive, delinquent yoof, then? Intent on destroying, rather than creating?

And you're in the building trade now?

Maybe you shooduv had some Lego, then your work might be a bit better...

Posted 3 years ago #
mema - Member

As part of my PhD I have decided to build some laser mounts out of meccano but I am at a point where I think lego technics would be better as there are gears etc. using lego as 'scientific research' is great!

Posted 3 years ago #
RudeBoy - Blocked

Incidentally, my colleague just bought me this as a joke for my bday. I think she meant for it to represent a bicycle (and oh my geekiness):

You lucky, lucky bastard! You've had a right result!

I've decided, cynical merchandising exercise or not, I HAVE to have some Star Wars Lego.

Posted 3 years ago #
anjs - Member

Well still have that technic car, the yellow castle, a train and 928 galaxy curiser still in orginal boxes.

Also got the daddy star destroyer 10030 for xmas one year. Took 5 days to build.

Posted 3 years ago #
mudshark - Member

I had a few of the smaller spaceships and a smaller technical lego car but it all seemed so expensive! My rich mates had the bigger kits so got to play with them and get jealous.

Posted 3 years ago #