[Closed] Lego - in't it brilliant

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

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(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.

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

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

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

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.

she had broken it down and built something else

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

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! 😀

Technic stuff was best. Like the car I built. 🙂

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I still have that. Also, its predecessor.
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I'm not usually one to pick up on grammar and typos, but if you pluralise "lego" as "legos", I [i]will [/i]come knocking on your door with a pair of bombers.

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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. 😥

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 👿

Lego's good, but Meccano's better. 😉

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...

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and this

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are in my study 😳

Really wanted one of these

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some people do take it rather seriously though

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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!

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.

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! 😉

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.

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"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.

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 🙂

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

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.

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 😛

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

It is Lego.

[url= http://www.hawkin.com/20670-13149/bigtrak ]Bigtrak is back!![/url]

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

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

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.

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

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I had loads of the old technics stuff, but I always called it technical lego
Including this
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And this
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My mum said it was worth its weight in gold. Of course it wasn't long until I discovered ****ing, drugs, drink and sex though. Much to her disdain.

Djglover you are [i]obsessed[/i] with ****ing! Again and again with the ****ing! That must be bout the eighth time you've mentioned it in the last couple of days! 😯

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

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.

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OOOOOOHHHH- I think I had that too, with the fiunky yellow windows. Wasn't Space 1999 at its height around about then? I had red spacemen too, and yellow ones as well.

Animated lego is something I never had but try these
Lego production line

Lego car chase

LL928!

I remember building that with my Dad one Christmas when I was about 4 or 5. I'm now 34 :-). My lad is 1.5 and already hooked on Duplo!

I'm looking forward to the next ten years of Lego again.

I wanted that LL928 set, but had to make do with the smaller LL 918.

Still loved it though, and I hope it's in with the the missing bits.

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What I did find was the 314 police Boat. A very early set, this, from 1976. With the much simpler non-posable figures.

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The earliest set I had was a tiny bungalow in white with red windows and door, and blue cyclindrical pillars and chimney. Probably a late 60s set. Can't find any pics of that one though.

I came across this recently - amazing lego thing with Rubik's Cube thrown-in:

Man I love lego. My brother decided to get me a construction toy for my christmas last year (I was 31, just the right age) but he got me MECCANO. WTF? I demand lego!

I loved lego when I was a kid.... so much, nothing else touched it for a kids toy

btw I know this guy http://www.theory.org.uk/david/ David Gauntlett, he's a lecturer in lego (ok it's a fair bit more complex than that) but he has big boxes of work lego at home and has worked for lego as well

but he got me MECCANO. WTF?

Disown him.

Lego is no longer any good!

When I was young I had Lego and made endless creations. Creativity was central to the whole experience.

These days Lego comes in the form of complicated kits with a million specific pieces, with instructions which dictate a difficult sequence of assembly, with any mistakes made along the way causing frustration and disappointment. With old Lego, there was no right or wrong, no success or failure, just creativity and adventure.

These modern kits have sucked the fun out of the experience for youngsters, but it's OK for Lego because they charge such high prices for these kits and they know the Lego experienced dad's will enjoy the challenge.

If you buy one of these, my advice is throw away the instructions and let your imagination drive the exercise, build your abilities and self-confidence and just enjoy what you dreamt up.

My old man worked in the Lego factory in Wrexham when I was a kid so I ended up with boxes of the stuff 😀

I also remember a guy a few doors down from us getting a job with Lego as a model builder. He used to build all the big models you saw displayed in the window of Wooolies and the like. Getting paid to play with Lego seemed so cool when you were 9.