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#1
Lego is so awesome it deserves its own thread.
Apparently the company is having a really hard time keeping up with demand right now - it's so phenomenally popular at Christmastime that they're having capacity issues.
What are your favourite Lego memories? Did you play with it well into your "I'm too old for this but it's just too friggin' fun to give up" years, like I did?
Go all mad sciency and brag up your eevil use of this toy!
-- Retro
I fawking love Lego!!!!! I loving making something then throw it at a wall and watch it like explode.
#3
I loved LEGO® BRICKS, I was a LEGO® Space freak and owned most of the space ships.
Also my sister was into LEGO® BRICKS and we often built up cities as large as our living room. When I go shopping now I often find myself wandering through the LEGO® shelves looking jealousy at the newest LEGO® releases. The models get better every year and often I wished to be a kid again.
When my cousin was younger I often built up stuff with LEGO® BRICKS and it was pretty fun although I was way past the teenager age.
If I have kids someday they surely will be drowned in LEGO® BRICKS pieces, as this toy is the most creative experience a kid can get in my opinion.
Last edited by Rafta; 3rd Nov 06 at 9:19 AM. Reason: LEGO® BRICKS
Hehe, K'nex was another great creative toy, i had like 4 boxes of the stuff, i had like 3 crates full of Lego. I love it!
#5
Yep, I have a hand-me-down crate of lego from all kinds of sets. Best toy I ever had. Hours upon hours of fun.
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Lego is the single greatest toy ever. Unfortunately I've given all mine to younger relatives
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Myself and my sister once built a huge Lego city once. It was quite a well planned city, actually, we had parks and trains and all that.
God bless Lego, greatest toy ever.
Blacktron for the win!
Me and my brothers had a fair collection of pieces, both SYSTEM and TECHNIC. Built, played, EXPLODED, fought over, that sort of thing where quite common every saturday.
I still have a technic three wheel motor standing in my room. You know, the kind of thing you saved for for two years.
The Lego in the past years I find really crappy. Individual pieces became bigger and specialized leaving less room for creativity with the models you could collect. They seem to be going somewhat on the right track again but its not close to what it used to be.
But of course i'm rather biased about how glorious lego was. I still know the '90, '91 and '92 catalogues by heart.
*sigh
#9
Lego rocks. I still have all my old Lego. I even have a few "full sets" from years gone by. The castle Lego is ftw though. I need to get my hands on Lego Star Wars too.
Oh God, don't remind me. I have a carpet-ish thing filled with the stuff. I remember when I was 7, I got this awesome LEGO set of a truck, and my parents were really skeptical of me using it since it was labeled 16+. And I finished building it in one evening...
I also built lots of scenes with my mates and killed each other's units.
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#11
It's been years since I've made anything out of Lego, but I did win the local heat of a national Lego competition once. Unfortunately I was on holiday at the time of the final...
#12
Recently lego seems to have gone downhill a bit, the constructions use a lot more specialised parts reducing their reuse factor and make them too easy to build, reducing customisation too.
Lego Star Wars rocks, too long since i built stuff
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#13
Lego forever!
I played Lego since I'm able to(ie, when you won't eat them up as sweets) and scrap-built something like 20 small robots and cars (hell, I don't have that money to buy TONS of Legos to build something big), and even I gave away all those I owned to others, I'm still willing to buy if there's something fun out there.
But the new series of those robots, well, not good. I kinda like those Bionacle(sp?) and Knights though.
ps. Do anyone of you use Lego as parts of the lessons? Secondary Schools in HK use them in Design and Technology, in order to build something and programm them.
#14
I agree that the overspecialization is killing the fun.
One of the BEST LEGO KITS EVER was a model of a 747 that was about a foot long when complete. It was mostly flat white pieces with some things like turbines and red bits for highlights, and I must have built fifty different types of cool-looking spaceship models out of that little 70-piece kit. I recall almost crying when some of the most popular pieces were so worn down that they wouldn't stick together any more.
-- Retro
#15
I remember crying when I was carrying the UFO series Mothership down the stairs and I trippedon something. The fact I dislocated my arm was irrelevant to the fact my UFO Mothership was scattered into a million pieces at the bottom of the stairs.
I cried more from the broken Lego than the pain my my arm.
#16
I think we all have painful memories from Lego use. Me and a friend once built a huuuuge space ship at the daycare center we used to spend the afternoons at. I tells ya, it was a work of art. Unfortunately we used some other kids tiny ship as the center component and then exapanded from it. The next morning the little devil had smashed our creation! He could've at least waited until we got there so we could rebuild it peacefully. We never really attempted to build another version since we felt perfection only comes once.
But on the other hand the great memories are in vast majority. My parents recently threw out all the old Lego we had amassed during me and my brothers childhood. I am a rabid defender of getting rid of old stuff that has gathered dust for 15 years so i didn't protest when they asked... but it did sting a little. =[
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#17
Lego was awsome.
'Nuff said.
#18
Ah, LEGO®.
* PULSTAR goes into faraway-look reminiscence mode.
I used to be absolutely crazy for them. If it was a space-style set (Space, UFO, etc.) or one of the LEGO® Trains, I absolutely had to have it. Until I moved out for university, I had a giant container under my bed (you know those big plastic bins they sell to store wrapping paper and stuff in? one of those) absolutely overflowing with half-built models and random bricks.
It's still in storage somewhere in my parents' house; I refused to let them throw the sets out/sell them. I've just moved up from building models with little plastic bricks to working with more permanent materials.
Last edited by PULSTAR; 3rd Nov 06 at 10:11 AM. Reason: Before the LEGO® Nazis get me...
Lego?! I'll come clean, I'm still playing with it, admittedly it's the advanced (excuses!) Mindstorm version. I've left the Systems series way behind me.. aeyup!
/me hides the Lego Racers collection before anyone notices!
#20
I played with meccano last year FYI. Albeit for university to buil a crane.
Much luff for lego. :luff:
*mildly disgusted with negative price discrimination*
#21
Lego; t'was the best of times, t'was the worst of times. I think the best illustration of that for me was when my brother made an AT-AT from original pieces. He didn't buy a damn kit, just used a ton of the all-uses grey bricks in a dozen ways and ended up with something damn close to the customised kit.
Then the cat sat on it.
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#22
Lego ate my life for several years. We still use them in claymations, since lego is awesome. I used to build lego bases, piece by piece, at the bottom of a pool. Then there's the trams where you put a string between a window and a tree and hang a lego cart. Heh, best memory ever was demontrating the tram to a bunch of adults and cutting the string as it went, causing them all to gasp and yell like something terrible had happened.
I haven't really looked at it too much of late.
#23
The LEGO® trademark police will be after this thread!
http://www.lego.com/eng/info/fairplay.aspProper Use of the LEGO Trademark on a Web Site
If the LEGO trademark is used at all, it should always be used as an adjective, not as a noun. For example, say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGO BRICKS". Never say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGOs".Also, the trademark should appear in the same typeface as the surrounding text and should not be isolated or set apart from the surrounding text. In other words, the trademarks should not be emphasized or highlighted. Finally, the LEGO trademark should always appear with a ® symbol each time it is used.
Use a Disclaimer
A disclaimer should be used when the LEGO trademark appears on a Web page. An appropriate disclaimer would be "LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this site". However, a disclaimer will not serve to undo an improper trademark use. Therefore, use of the LEGO logo or improper use of the LEGO trademark cannot be made proper by including a disclaimer.
Hehe. Apparently they've been real assholes about it on a number of sites. legos.com used to go to a page that whined about the misuse of their trademark, even.
#24
Edited my post to be conform with the LEGO® legal department.
I haven't liked LEGO® in the recent years, as the sets they sell come with pieces that you can only use in that set. It’s also hard to build something completely different with those awkward shapes.
And heres a database with most of the LEGO® sets
#26
Teehee.
Agreed, Derivative. The fun about legos (onoz!) was making all sorts of stuff out of basic parts. The modern ones (Star Wars, for example) are all things you can't really invent stuff with, you can only follow the instructions to make one thing.
I remember making all sorts of massive bases etc.
#27
I built a huge castle that had a working ICBM bunker, well it dodn't fire but it would slidfe into a launching position and the roof would slide open. Considering the rest of the piece was a medieval castle with Pirates with laser guns it was rather odd, but awesome.
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#29
I was quite fond of the underwater submarine series, mid 90's. i would love to get my hands on lots of technic LEGO(R) bricks and parts, pumps, motors etc. add in mindstorm and its a god pltform for building programable "robots".
Never had the chance to use mindstorm though
#30
That cat sat on the AT-AT? Drat!
-- Retro
#31
AT-AT doesn't rhyme Retro, sorry. It's pronounced A...T...A...T. Sheesh, get your Star Wars right.
Legos: Oh man, the love of my life when I was younger. Some of my favorite sets were the underwater ones with all the yellow and blue submarines. My brother and I created the most incredibly complex submarine ever. It was about two feet long. Could break down into modules, and each module was interactive in some way. We even had escape pods that slid out and a small mini-sub for recon!
I was always a stickler for realistic cockpits as well. My bro would always just throw the guy in there with some control panel, but I would build him a seat and place the control panel properly with sometimes even a fake joystick in there.
#32
I couldn't get more nerdy when I used LEGO(OMFG COPEH RITE) to build sets for my D&D adventures. Sure beat a plain ol' paper grid
I at 26 am still a kid at heart and for that reason I will never ever let my collection of LEGOs (R) go, ever.
I figure that when I had a child one day they wil have a large pool of bricks to form ideas and make creations from. The only other thing would be that my future children will complain that their father never allows them to use the bricks.
My collection is around 15,000 peices or more :king: and it is all in sorted colored bins, every color has its own bin, along with the special design peices andcharcters having their own bins as well. Another side effect of me and my cleanliness is they are all washed to remove the oils from hands and I make piles on a flat surface and not the carpet as the carpet gives off weird things, dirt, stray fibers, etc.
If you all would like to see some pictures I will post some if you would like to see them, a large majority of my peices came from collecting the star wars sets and so forth. Bionicle rocks too!
NZ
Oh God.... I had so much fun with LEGO®.
I really wish they hadn't gone the way of, "Oh noes, the children are getting lazier, so let's make these sets easier!" It sucks...
"Sanity... Now why would I want an annoying thing like that?"
#35
What is it with you and nostalgia Retro? Cause you're bring some back in me now.
As a kid I played so much with lego (probably my favorite toy) and had a huge box of it I'd dump on the floor and then have my mother threaten to take them all away if I didn't clean them up. My best creations were probably a large city I built, and a starfleet complete with mothership. Later when I played Homeworld I remembered that exact star fleet I had built. And so many different creations in between.
These days, I really don't like all the franchises that Lego has bought into. Star Wars was okay, because it had neat things you could build, but all these other movies are just ridiculous. I remember when Lego designed its own original universes, rather than buy into a franchise.
you guys should try return to blockland sometime,it's freaking awesome.
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#37
This is why I love LEGO....
When I was little I built this machine from LEGO Mindstorms... it found a path through the house to my dad's office... then it started the conveyor belt that would put pennies into a part of the machine that would throw it at him.
It was AWESOME ... :tooth:
Buggo... How old are you?
/me runs away because he too has built massive contraptions using Mindstorms.
#39
Well when I built this I guess I was like 15... so maybe not that little ^_^
#40
Hehe just wanted to ask the same question as LW.
Mindstorms is pretty "new".
#41
I only built a street-light with Mindstorms.
#42
A lot of people here seem to have made massive cities and bases with their sisters... I have too, we would both gather all the pieces we deemed worthy, build a huge sea-base (most of our pieces were ocean pieces) and make docks for spaceships, submarines, and other vehicles. Heh, then we'd pretend that a tidal wave was coming...
#43
My brother and I did the exact same thing. Except we'd try and imitate Homeworld ships, because waaaaay back in 1999, we thought they were the absolute best (they still are). It never really came out right, except for the Taiidan Defense Fighter, which we managed to imitate perfectlyMe and my brothers had a fair collection of pieces, both SYSTEM and TECHNIC. Built, played, EXPLODED, fought over, that sort of thing where quite common every saturday.
Heh, for school, I shot a video of Act 5 of Julius Caesar. With Legos. It was win and awesome. Speaking of which, I should go back and finish that Lego Star Destroyer...
My favorite Lego kits were the space ones, and the ones that could come apart and rearrange themselves, with magnets and whatnot holding them together. Those, and the little humanoid robot ones, and the city ones. God I love Legos. I have tons of the little pieces, but it's really too bad that I've lost the manuals for most of them.
EDIT: Holy shit, that Lego site linked earlier has the instructions. Win and awesome!
My Interceptor is better than your Interceptor.
LEGOs are great. the greatest feeling was creating a completely original model and having all my friends and cousins tell me how cool they were.
I would say the rescue team sets were my favorite.
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#45
I built a combat drone with the Mindstorm set in my HS physics lab. Pissed the physics teacher off because I used every single piece in the lab mixing sets together.
I have a huge red box of LEGO® bricks under my desk that I'm resting my feet on right now. I have a couple of little cars and a helicopter sitting on my desk. I tried to make a halloween costume one year (I was 14) but I couldn't get my hands enough light blue bricks. I was going to be Megaman. I barely made a helmet. I wub LEGO®!
AKA: LoneStranger, lonestranger or some other variant.
My friend built two, and has them sitting in his basement.Lego Star Destroyer...
*should get a set, and build one*
#47
I also love LEGO®. My most prized model was a self-built aircraft carrier which was at least a metre long, built from regular bricks of all colours. Turns out the thing actually floated too, so I was a very pleased 8 year old!
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... How did you get it to float?
I used to make lots of floating stuff. If you use enough of those light, big, flat parts near the bottom of whatever you want to float, you should trap enough air in there to prevent the thing from sinking.
#50
Yep, thats what I used.
BTW still got all my LEGO® in a massive chest at the bottom of my wardrobe, as well as a LEGO® buggy and 6-wheeled forklift crane as windowsill decoration
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