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 http://minifigures.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx, 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)....
....then came the mini-figures series
First lego set, for what was my 5th birthday:
Lego Tipper Truck 6527 by douglasfshearer, on Flickr
Our standard chess set:
Prepared For Battle by douglasfshearer, on Flickr
Bought this when it came out two years ago, great fun:
Finished by douglasfshearer, 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"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX09WnGU6ZY
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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