Oh and I really need a Millenium Falcon. Might ask the wife for one for xmas.
It does make a rather fine Christmas pressie.
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It does make a rather fine Christmas pressie.
He gave you that? Good lad. 😀
It was our secret santa scheme - you get one big pressie, instead of a half dozen or more cheapo ones. Each family member only buys one pressie, and only gets one.
Thats one of my brother in laws in the pic, his turn to buy for me that year. WIN
I've got seven or eight of the Hobbit/LOTR sets set up in my mancave.
I can stop any time I like.
ANY TIME!
some of the boxes are a bit ratty, but, in my loft, all complete, waiting for monkfingerjnr to get a bit older...
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I was in the Lego head office yesterday - lots of scandinavian hipsters smoking roll-ups and table football in the cafe.
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I'm that jealous I hate you 🙂
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YES! That was proper Lego, back when each kit didn't have a thousand pieces that were specific to that particular model. Call me old-fashioned, but if you want to build a model Ferrari buy an Airfix.
I had the fork lift. Got it when I was 8 years old.
It was the start of a long slippery slide into a career ( 🙄 ) in engineering.
Many years later I met the Educational Director of Lego on a flight to Seoul where I was going to do some work in a paper mill. I told him that it was his fault.
Mrmonkfinger, that brings back memories! I had both the digger and the forklift many many years ago. The pneumatics were brilliant, if a bit slow.
My wife made the mistake of buying me an X-Wing last Christmas. Since then I've also invested in A Millenium Falcon and the VW Camper Van, though I'm trying hard not to open the boxes until my boy is old enough to help me build them. I've also been standing in the local toy shop like an idiot feeling The Simpsons mini figure bags. Addictive stuff.
Mr GF
Aged 36 3/4.
I wanted a lego death star for christmas but was told I was too old for it and it was way to much to spend on lego 🙁
I'm only in my 20's!
The pneumatics were awesome, if a bit fragile.
It was the car chassis that was the real box of awesome. Having that at Christmas aged 9, that was just the best thing ever. 30 years later I still think its a cracking piece of design work by the Lego elves. Loads of features. And all from "standard" technic range parts.
It was the car chassis that was the real box of awesome.
I had that too 🙂 The rack and pinion steering, the gearbox, the differential, the pistons, all brilliant!
Btw, anyone know if you can download instructions for the car chassis (and other old kits) from anywhere?
Edit... I should have just [url= http://lego.brickinstructions.com/lego_instructions/set/8860/Car_Chassis ]googled it [/url]:)
Awesome...
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Back in the early 80s I had one of the cars that I'm sure had some kind of (wired?) remote control. Something like this:
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EDIT: just noticed this is the same as above. Can anyone confirm if this did indeed ship with a controller? I remember getting the right hump on Xmas Day when my brother (who built most of it) kept playing with it and I thought the battery was going to die!
Nah, it didn't ship with motors / controller but it did have instructions for adding a motor to the steering and one engine. I only had one lego motor so I had to keep reaching down and turning the steering wheel by hand.
It was completely awesome
Im waiting till i finish my office at home so i can deck it out with my lost childhood! Ive been cruising ebay for months seeing the prices of classic Lego Space stuff, the prices people are paying for NOS lego is astonishing!
As long as i get an LL918 in the collection i'll be happy
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Misses has just bought me this:
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It is honestly awesome!! So much fun making it. Got 4 bags still to open!! 😀
As long as i get an LL918 in the collection i'll be happy
That was the first spaceship I had 🙂 My mum bought it for me in Woolworths - I still remember picking it from the shelf!
what was the OP's purchase, i cant see it??
That was the first spaceship I had My mum bought it for me in Woolworths - I still remember picking it from the shelf!
I remember my first ever Lego ship, my mum bought me from Littlewoods, and that was that I was hooked!
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From 1978, I collected most of the space lego from each year up until about 1988, then like an idiot i swapped for a shitty electric guitar. my only regret.
Never mind, I'm going to reclaim that lost youth soon
Skinnyboy
I used to have that LL918
I still don't know what happened to all my lego 🙁
Its criminal isn't it, if only we had the foresight to be OCD weirdoes back then instead of playing with it, we'd be millionaires Rodney!
I loved Lego, still do, but I am not a fan of the new stuff at all, 5 pieces in a box all specific to that model/series.
I look back wistfully at my collection in my memory and it was awesome, i could play for hours on end doing different setups and baseplate configs, to get that perfect diorama shot in mind, only for my little brother to sneak in a Townsperson or a horse from his lego collection haha.
I pity people who didn't play with Lego as kids, I feel it gave me my great spatial awareness and problem solving skills that i have now. I can still in my mind build every single one of my old collection without the instructions.
Old lego space is the business, proper golden age stuff that. I was just on the edge of that, and the more modern kits with the visors on the helmets and the monorails and things, which were "better" but lost the charm. Old stuff always inevitably felt like bootstrap space colonist red mars kind of thing where newer stuff was a bit too flash and developed.
Still, I loved this one, we ended up designing loads of our own connectable versions, I had the wheels off that teknic car attached to a massive sort of trailer thing that could clip onto the back of the spaceship and become a sort of EPIC MONSTER SPACETRUKK.
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Blacktron and Futuron was probably the last years I bought Lego. Great sets mind you. I had the Blacktron Strider/Alienator walker thing and that was just a damn cool vehicle! I always wanted the monorail but it was 100 quid back then and that was a bit much for a paper boy's meagre income.
I feel it gave me my great spatial awareness and problem solving skills that i have now.
I suspect that the reason you liked Lego was because you already had the spatial awareness and problem solving skills...
I loved Lego, still do, but I am not a fan of the new stuff at all, 5 pieces in a box all specific to that model/series.
It's really not like that, have you bought any recently?
Aye fella you are probably right, I think thats why i love building bikes now, and get as much joy building them as I do riding them. I rebuild cars for a job and i'd like to think that my lego days as a kid honed my visual and "end result" thinking, much needed when given a Porsche 911 in bits and expected to put it back on the road 100% correct without instructions.
one of what ffs
Lego Technic Mobile Crane version II.
I had the technic chassis and the motor kit. You could either make the steering work really fast or replace the crank and pistonst and make it drive except ot wouldn't move as the diff would just spin!
My favourit kit was this
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remember my mum breaking i whilst dusting and me not being best pleased...
£130 for that 373 set on eBay...
My first two sets were that 885 and LL918. Both bought by my mum and IIRC built together with her. She's always been cool like that.
I'm fighting hard, but it's my birthday soon and rather than refuse to be bought anything, I think I might get Mrs and Miss North to buy me something (which I can build with Miss North).
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My sister was taken to hospital when she was little after eating lego... now a genius has come up with this:
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https://www.behance.net/gallery/14585361/CHOCOLATE-LEGOACGUY
I'm definitely treating myself to this set when it comes out -
http://shop.lego.com/en-US/The-Tumbler-76023
I was massively impressed with the ghostbusters Ecto1 set, but this one looks brilliant.
Lego is AWESOME!! Minivader is currently building (and has been since 6:30) god knows what in his room (though it sounds starwars based) and this happens most weekend mornings. I still have loads of lego left that I put into a big bucket for him. We also have a hell of a lot of the newer sets that need rebuilding.... Still once the weather gets crappy that'll be a great weekend.... I really wanted the lego delorian, and millennium falcon and the b-wing and tbh all of it! Daftvader aged 37and 3weeks
Surprised no one has mentioned this :
Lego Bike Shop & Cafe
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On a related note, despite being an avowed Lego fan, I'd never gotten around to seeing the movie.
Saw it at the cinema yesterday - [i]superb[/i] film, with brilliant jokes and lots of lovely touches (especially the crack in the eighties spaceman's helmet).
Nem Jnr has an original Benny. I keep considering breaking the helmet to match the movie one but I think I'll leave it as is for now...
I bought myself this when I was 17:
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Its in the loft and has been spotted by jr_bandito #1 who can't wait to be old enough to play with it.
We've got that set ir_bandito - works well!
I've spent the weekend making solar panels (out of cheap broken cells) to match the battery packs of the motor sets (usually 9v 800mA).
As a bonus, we found that the older motors (80s and 90s) can be used as generators, so we've created a car that when you brum it along, LED headlights come on 🙂
Lego Bike Shop & Cafe
Bottom left pic on box = Lego SMIDSY
Built the ghostbusters car at weekend, it's good but a bit of a tiddler for the money...
http://flipagram.com/f/IcFmekt0Mt
Maybe not great value as a playset or compared to getting one of the bigger sets in a sale but it's definitely one of the best sets for ages for "big kids".
It looks awesome, the minifigs are great and it's a good build as well (loved the way they did the sloped side windows, very clever!)
Fingers crossed the HQ will be available as a set at some point; it's currently "under review" at LEGO Ideas [url= https://ideas.lego.com/projects/60632 ]https://ideas.lego.com/projects/60632[/url]
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/24/ai-weiwei-alcatraz-lego-extraordinary
From the Ai Weiwei art show at Alcatraz:
The scale of the Lego carpets, and the painstaking labor from dozens of assistants required to execute it, recall his masterpiece Sunflower Seeds, an overwhelming collection of hand-painted porcelain ovals installed in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern. (As with the cordoned-off Sunflower Seeds, Ai had to place limits on this work too; he wanted visitors to walk across the Legos, but Alcatraz’s administrators said no chance.)But the franker hero worship of Trace – verging on agitprop, really – is light-years away from Sunflower Seeds’ sensitive metaphoric evocation of 1.3 billion Chinese. It’s as if, in the years since his detention, Ai has given up on metaphor. He sees art less as a means of self-expression and more as a global lingua franca. Contemporary art, in his view, requires and perhaps even creates an audience committed to liberty. Presenting his art in a prison amplifies that goal twice over.
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Trace, the show’s most ambitious work, consists of six large carpets of Lego blocks that depict more than 175 prisoners of conscience, past and present Photograph: Mae Ryan
