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.

Fair enough. The licenced sets are generally much cooler though so worth the slight extra IMO! The minifigs are also worth a lot more if you split the set and sell them on.

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? Not as yet

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

My first Xmas Lego:

Followed by the standard LL928 🙂

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

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:

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

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.