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123 posts & 78 voices | Started 1 year ago by trusslebabes | Latest reply from StirlingCrispin

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trusslebabes - Member

i am at my mums house clearing the loft out and have got all my old lego trains trucks cranes etc out, have spent the last couple of hours rebuilding some of it with an immense feeling of satisfaction i have even got so carried away i have bought the retro fire station off ebay much to the disappointment of the wife She doesn't get it but she is a girl after all

Posted 1 year ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

I found a box full of my old Lego round my mum's house recently. I contained this:

(Not the box, just the Legos) It's sitting built up on top of the stereo. Loads of other bits too. Apparently there might even be more tucked away somewhere.

Lego is probably the best toy ever.

Posted 1 year ago #
robdob - Member

My dad threw ours away.
I loved Lego. I am quite jealous now!! [off to look at eBay now!)

Posted 1 year ago #
FoxyChick - Member

Lego's great until you tread on it with bare feet at 2 in the morning in your kid's bedroom!

Posted 1 year ago #
robdob - Member

Never liked the medieval stuff, too many special pieces you couldn't use or anything else. Space stuff was worse though.

Posted 1 year ago #
LeeW - Member

I remember buying and building the Lego Tyrannosaurus Rex with my stepdaughter a few years ago, we spent ages building it up and it was worth it because it looked brilliant. I came home from work the next day and found she had broken it down and built something else, I was gutted.

I haven't played with it since, it still hurts too much.

Posted 1 year ago #
IA - Member

she had broken it down and built something else

But that is exactly the fun of Lego. It's there to be built, and rebuilt, and rebuilt...

Posted 1 year ago #
matth75 - Member

I just got ours back from the attic the other week, old technical lego car, tractor, pneumatics stuff, all totally brilliant & some in boxes but my lads more interested in his Playstation so it's now up to me to build it!

Posted 1 year ago #
chorlton - Member

Technic stuff was best. Like the car I built.

Posted 1 year ago #
Cougar - Member

I still have that. Also, its predecessor.

I'm not usually one to pick up on grammar and typos, but if you pluralise "lego" as "legos", I will come knocking on your door with a pair of bombers.

Posted 1 year ago #
LeeW - Member

IA - Member

she had broken it down and built something else

But that is exactly the fun of Lego. It's there to be built, and rebuilt, and rebuilt...

After we'd built it we had the idea of a mini photo shoot, with Lego Darth Vader, R2D2 etc.

Can't do that with a half built crocodile.

Posted 1 year ago #
missingfrontallobe - Member

Lego is ace. My 10 year old is probably at the peak of lego desire & construction, our cupboard under the stairs is full of the stuff!

My biggest retro-want is currently Bigtrak, and my biggest retro loss would be all the Star Wars original figures way back from 1977 - all binned by my father not that long ago on one of his frequent attic clearouts

Posted 1 year ago #
MidlandTrailquestsGraham - Member

Lego's good, but Meccano's better.

Posted 1 year ago #
stumpyjon - Member

I'm not usually one to pick up on grammar and typos, but if you pluralise "lego" as "legos", I will come knocking on your door with a pair of bombers.

+1

That car was ace, working rear diff and everything. I've still got all my lego in the attic plus some I bought as an adult...

and this

are in my study

Really wanted one of these

some people do take it rather seriously though

and

Posted 1 year ago #
IA - Member

I'm not usually one to pick up on grammar and typos, but if you pluralise "lego" as "legos", I will come knocking on your door with a pair of bombers.

+2. And not small bombers, i'd be breaking out the monster Ts.

After we'd built it we had the idea of a mini photo shoot, with Lego Darth Vader, R2D2 etc.

Can't do that with a half built crocodile

That makes it even better. Clearly Vader has just cleaved the crocodile in two with his light sabre!

Posted 1 year ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

One Lego, many Legos.

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Legos.

So there.

Bring it on; if you come anywhere near me, I'll throw poo in your faces. And send you fleeing crying like little girls. Don't give it.

Posted 1 year ago #
robdob - Member

Bring it on; if you come anywhere near me, I'll throw poo in your faces. And send you fleeing crying like little girls. Don't give it.

Oh cack, munchkin rage!!! Run for the hills!

Posted 1 year ago #
IA - Member

I'll throw poo in your faces. And send you fleeing crying like little girls.

See you've warned us now, we'll wear some sort of protective eyewear.

Posted 1 year ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

Posted 1 year ago #
buzz-lightyear - Member

"too many special pieces you couldn't use or anything else"

That's the key - imagination works best when it builds complex objects out of standard units.

An Meccano is better because the structures are strong under tension as well as compression.

Posted 1 year ago #
Marmoset - Member

I've just reacquanited myself and introduced my lad to it over our holiday at a park whihc had a lego room - I forgot how addictive and satisifying it is to play/work with (perhaps a result of being a desk jockey at work?) I've gotta hunt around the loft for all my old stuff tomorrow

Posted 1 year ago #
_tom_ - Member

Used to love Lego, haven't touched it for years though

Posted 1 year ago #
joemarshall - Member

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5YuXrDez40

This thing that I Hacked together at work actually has quite a bit of lego in the control system. And gaffa tape. It looks fearsomely shonky in the flesh.

Posted 1 year ago #
becky_kirk43 - Member

There's a couple of boxes of the stuff in the attic at home home. If I make it big in the science world my house WILL have a lego room

Posted 1 year ago #
Scienceofficer - Member

Posted 1 year ago #
tomdebruin - ex-web monkey

If someone says Legos again I will ban you for 49 years.

It is Lego.

Posted 1 year ago #
CharlieMungus - Member

Bigtrak is back!!

Posted 1 year ago #
bassspine - Member

LEGO I could cut n paste it a few hundred times. LEGO. Singular and plural.

Posted 1 year ago #
jacko54321 - Member

most fun with just the orginal blocks, 2x3 , 2x1, 6x1, 2x2, 2x1. imagination's what you need to be a lego builder !

Posted 1 year ago #
Ambrose - Member

I spent my first ever pay on Lego- the Technic fork lift truck. My Lego was then passed on to my kids and we now have masses of the stuff. But still nowhere near enough.

Posted 1 year ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

If someone says Legos again I will ban you for 49 years.

Posted 1 year ago #
djglover - Member

I had loads of the old technics stuff, but I always called it technical lego
Including this

And this

My mum said it was worth its weight in gold. Of course it wasn't long until I discovered wanking, drugs, drink and sex though. Much to her disdain.

Posted 1 year ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

Djglover you are obsessed with wanking! Again and again with the wanking! That must be bout the eighth time you've mentioned it in the last couple of days!

Posted 1 year ago #
djglover - Member

Focus on the lego the drugs and the sex then. I am.

Posted 1 year ago #
Crell - Member

I loved space lego when I was a kid. As my kids got older I raided my dad's loft and got all my old lego out for them. In amongst it all was my "LL928", my pride and joy. Its since been "modified" in to a series of smaller "space ships" and piles of lego. It's brill.

Posted 1 year ago #