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| Author: | pupil [ Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:23 ] |
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MetalAngel wrote: I was odd in that I (no doubt influence by my parents 'helping') kept all my Lego separated by colour. Freak! Huge big plastic tubs, full of all kinds of random Lego, dog hair, half eaten biscuits, star wars figure weapons and broken bits of transformer FTW! |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:35 ] |
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I kept my lego in one big tub, but took special care when building as to the colours used. And whoa-be-fucking-tide if anyone bit my Lego when helping me take stuff apart. |
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| Author: | Ian Osborne [ Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:40 ] |
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The thing is, even the old-style LEGO sets came with a series of 'projects', which gave you instructions on building the designs pictured on the box. The difference is that when you'd built them, you could adapt, modify and redesign the models as much as you liked, or ignore the projects completely and build your own stuff. Today's LEGO does a great job of recreating the images on the box, but the pieces are so geared up for the designs in question there's precious little else you can do with them afterwards. |
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| Author: | devilman [ Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:59 ] |
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Other Lego creations Also...
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| Author: | pupil [ Fri Aug 08, 2008 13:18 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: I kept my lego in one big tub, but took special care when building as to the colours used. And whoa-be-fucking-tide if anyone bit my Lego when helping me take stuff apart. Tons of our Lego was either chewed by kids or the hoover. I think you would have been very upset to see the state of it. There is a part of me that goes "WOAH! FUCKING COOL! INDIANA JONES LEGO!" as I know I would have loved this as a kid, but as stated, the greatest joy is making your own inventions, which these new "themed" sets are hardly capable of these days. |
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| Author: | Ian Osborne [ Fri Aug 08, 2008 13:24 ] |
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pupil wrote: There is a part of me that goes "WOAH! FUCKING COOL! INDIANA JONES LEGO!" as I know I would have loved this as a kid I think that's the problem. Themed sets are simply more marketable than 'ordinary' LEGO, even if it's a step backwards in the quality stakes. 
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| Author: | romanista [ Fri Aug 08, 2008 13:54 ] |
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Zio wrote: Since finding a Lego store in Milton Keynes a few months ago, my entirely fictional 'nephew'* has been treated to some awesome Indiana Jones Lego sets and may soon be getting some of the Lego Ferrari stuff as well, the lucky swine! *otherwise known as me, aged 29. you live in milton keynes? |
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| Author: | JBR [ Fri Aug 08, 2008 14:10 ] |
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I see your 29 and raise you a 35. And I have a cupboard at my parents' full - oh so full - of boxes of the Star Wars stuff. It's actually not a bad investment - I've tended to get a couple of sets (cough, 3 star destroyers, cough) if I've found them cheap and they have so far gone up in value - paid for a flight to China with some proceeds. But still far far too much. If I ever buy a house it'll have to have a spare room for Lego. |
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| Author: | Zio [ Fri Aug 08, 2008 14:34 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: I kept my lego in one big tub, but took special care when building as to the colours used. And whoa-be-fucking-tide if anyone bit my Lego when helping me take stuff apart.  Romanista, I don't live in Milton Keynes (to quote Bono: "where the streets have no names"), but live a fairly short motorway journey from it. It has a big shopping centre, so I go up there from time to time to purchase consumables. |
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| Author: | Rodafowa [ Sun Aug 10, 2008 20:07 ] |
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Ian Osborne wrote: Seconded. Give a kid a box of LEGO with a horse's head in it, and you'll keep a therapist in work for years. Sequel-to-Seven FTFY. |
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| Author: | flis [ Sun Aug 10, 2008 20:28 ] |
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pupil wrote: MetalAngel wrote: I was odd in that I (no doubt influence by my parents 'helping') kept all my Lego separated by colour. Freak! Huge big plastic tubs, full of all kinds of random Lego, dog hair, half eaten biscuits, star wars figure weapons and broken bits of transformer FTW! NOOOOOOO!!! You are the freak! How can you treat Lego in that way!? I'm almost having a panic attack thinking about it...omg...omg... My Lego was separated by colour, of course, and I had a big bucket full of various 'specials' and another with Technic stuff in it. No-one was allowed to touch my Lego. I had a tiny bedroom and my mum always used to get sick and tired of standing all over it to get in to my room so one day, after threatening to throw it in the bin if I didn't clear it up, I came home to find my floor bereft of Lego....This episode surely scarred me for life. She had actually only hidden it in a bin bag under the stairs but I have never felt so gut wrenchingly sick in all my life as I did that day. I bought myself a Technic bulldozer a few months ago, it's ace. I want more! I have 2 boys and the eldest barely looks at the Lego I've bought them, the youngest goes through fazes of playing with it, mostly to make robots, guns and cars but nothing like I used to, whole weekends used to be lost to creating fortresses, towns, fairgrounds, space ships...everything had to have 'secret' rooms, compartments and entrances....argh, I want to buy a huge box of Lego now!! |
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| Author: | pupil [ Sun Aug 10, 2008 21:37 ] |
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flis wrote: pupil wrote: MetalAngel wrote: I was odd in that I (no doubt influence by my parents 'helping') kept all my Lego separated by colour. Freak! Huge big plastic tubs, full of all kinds of random Lego, dog hair, half eaten biscuits, star wars figure weapons and broken bits of transformer FTW! NOOOOOOO!!! You are the freak! How can you treat Lego in that way!? I'm almost having a panic attack thinking about it...omg...omg...   
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| Author: | AceAceBaby [ Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:50 ] |
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flis wrote: My Lego was separated by colour, of course, and I had a big bucket full of various 'specials' and another with Technic stuff in it. No-one was allowed to touch my Lego. Health chiefs propose new method for identifying obsessive compulsive disorders in early childhood. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Mon Aug 11, 2008 17:59 ] |
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Lego monsters and spaceships and stuff need mixing up their colours or they look far too professional. though we had a disproportionate amount of yellow, black and grey Lego, so we often ended up having quite uniform spaceships... though when we built a Death Star that was about two foot tall, we used anything we could get our hands on. Also, Escher in Lego can be found at: http://www.andrewlipson.com/lego.htm (they're near the bottom). |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Oct 01, 2008 13:53 ] |
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Formula 1 Lego: 
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| Author: | DBSnappa [ Wed Oct 01, 2008 14:09 ] |
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excellent |
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| Author: | KovacsC [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:34 ] |
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That is cool... if not a littlew kinky |
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| Author: | JBR [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 15:45 ] |
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I invite your scorn and admiration with these shots of (some of) the boxes of (some of) my lego collection http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/johnbonmatthews/Lego#5252567349400010194 http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/johnbonmatthews/Lego#5252567349133754450 Somehow missing from the shot are a couple of AT-ATs and Star Destroyers. Which are wicked. |
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| Author: | andyb [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 16:14 ] |
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yay lego! |
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| Author: | NervousPete [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 16:26 ] |
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I loved Pirate Lego. I used to have the port, the big pirate ship, the RN sloop and a little treasure island. I used to line up the soldiers double rank style, and I made a smart frigate out of the pirate ship, and a pirate junk out of the smaller one. They had holds and gun decks and aft-cabins and galleys. They looked aceness. Wish I had my pirate lego still, I'd make a most awesome RN sloop now.
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 16:29 ] |
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JBR wrote: I invite your scorn and admiration with these shots of (some of) the boxes of (some of) my lego collection http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/johnbonmatthews/Lego#5252567349400010194 http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/johnbonmatthews/Lego#5252567349133754450 Somehow missing from the shot are a couple of AT-ATs and Star Destroyers. Which are wicked. Drool.... |
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| Author: | flis [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 21:07 ] |
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andyb wrote: yay lego! I have that bulldozer! Most fun I've had in ages. I want the crane, how many pieces is that? Mmmmm....Lego and plant, my favourite. |
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| Author: | Dimrill [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 21:34 ] |
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Want Lego Death Star. And Lego Death Star also. |
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 21:44 ] |
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I've got boxes and boxes of stuff in the loft from when I was a kid along with all the hundreds of pounds worth the boys have had over the years too. Who wants to come and play? 
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| Author: | flis [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 21:48 ] |
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Goddess Jasmine wrote: I've got boxes and boxes of stuff in the loft from when I was a kid along with all the hundreds of pounds worth the boys have had over the years too. Who wants to come and play? mememememememe!!! |
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| Author: | Dudley [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 21:52 ] |
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Goddess Jasmine wrote: I've got boxes and boxes of stuff in the loft from when I was a kid along with all the hundreds of pounds worth the boys have had over the years too. Who wants to come and play? When you move in, you're bringing those. And Flis apparently. |
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 22:01 ] |
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Ha! Check the other thread! 
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| Author: | Dudley [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 22:03 ] |
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So I just saw
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 22:05 ] |
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So we'll have red wine, Pate and Lego. Perfect.
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| Author: | Zio [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:26 ] |
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Goddess Jasmine wrote: So we'll have red wine, Pate and Lego. Perfect. Wow! That sounds like my perfect evening! I'm soooo jealous! |
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| Author: | JBR [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:35 ] |
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Yousum be careful with that red wine around the lego. Otherwise, though, yes. YES. Also wants it, the Death Star. Cannot justify it, nor find space for it but wants it. |
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| Author: | Zio [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:45 ] |
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There's a Lego store in Milton Keynes. Whenever I go there I stand around and drool. It does make me feel a bit of a fol though, because on the whole the only other people in there as enthusiastic as me for their wares are a good twenty years my junior. |
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| Author: | andyb [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:56 ] |
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flis wrote: andyb wrote: yay lego! I have that bulldozer! Most fun I've had in ages. I want the crane, how many pieces is that? Mmmmm....Lego and plant, my favourite. 1884 pieces apparently, although it looks like its been discontinued now. I also forgot the truck! |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 19:54 ] |
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| Author: | Shin [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 19:57 ] |
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Pate, lego AND wine?! That's like...*cries* like 1000 birthdays all rolled into one!! Oooh, marmite? We are having that aswell right?! |
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 20:52 ] |
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Shin wrote: Pate, lego AND wine?! That's like...*cries* like 1000 birthdays all rolled into one!! Oooh, marmite? We are having that aswell right?! Well duh! Can you bring some crusty bread? SA, cheesecake? |
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| Author: | Shin [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 20:58 ] |
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Goddess Jasmine wrote: Shin wrote: Pate, lego AND wine?! That's like...*cries* like 1000 birthdays all rolled into one!! Oooh, marmite? We are having that aswell right?! Well duh! Can you bring some crusty bread? SA, cheesecake? Mmmmmmm, crusty bread!! It's great with honey that is and loadsa butter (is hungry now) What flavour cheesecake are we talking? Pru had a rasperry ripple cheesecake thing today-nom nom!! |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Tue Nov 18, 2008 17:41 ] |
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Lego Minifig Timeline: (Took ages to load for me) http://gizmodo.com/5070884/exclusive-the-lego-minifig-timeline My fave from yesteryear  
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| Author: | AceAceBaby [ Tue Nov 18, 2008 17:54 ] |
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I guess that is specifically about the figures with the arms and hands and stuff. I had a lego set, possibly my first, and the little guys had torsos with bumps at the sides to represent arms, I think they used 2x1 blocks for the legs, and they had the same head as regular later legomen would, but without any faces painted on. They had hats, though, I think. They predate any of those on that timeline. edit- like these guys: http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/0147-1.JPG |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Tue Nov 18, 2008 17:58 ] |
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Yep, I'm old enough to have had those too. |
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Tue Nov 18, 2008 19:12 ] |
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I went to the Lego imagination center while I was at downtown Disney. Every set you could imagine plus loads to play with too. I bought BEEX a postcard from there, but never found a PO to post it. I'll upload it when I've had a bath.
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| Author: | Malc [ Tue Nov 18, 2008 22:57 ] |
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AceAceBaby wrote: I guess that is specifically about the figures with the arms and hands and stuff. I had a lego set, possibly my first, and the little guys had torsos with bumps at the sides to represent arms, I think they used 2x1 blocks for the legs, and they had the same head as regular later legomen would, but without any faces painted on. They had hats, though, I think. They predate any of those on that timeline. edit- like these guys: http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/0147-1.JPG I don't really remember the torso, but I do remember those legs... Malc |
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| Author: | KovacsC [ Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:52 ] |
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I have the large x-wing model. Plus a few other bits, b-wing, snowspeeder, land speeder. I don't have the room any more. |
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| Author: | AceAceBaby [ Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:03 ] |
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How cool is this? http://www.wowinsider.com/photos/lego-b ... y/1152365/ |
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| Author: | Malabelm [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 13:57 ] |
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This is immense. |
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| Author: | asfish [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 14:00 ] |
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I had the Lego Inter City train set when I was a kid (25 or more years ago) My newphew uses it now, still runs as well |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 15:12 ] |
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Malabelm wrote: This is immense. That is sweet. |
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| Author: | TK-421 [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 16:49 ] |
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I had this made for me a month or so back 
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 17:38 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Malabelm wrote: This is immense. That is sweet. That's properly excellent. 600 hours, though 
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 17:41 ] |
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markg wrote: That's properly excellent. 600 hours, though Pff. It is but a fraction of the time some people here have spent playing Call of Duty. |
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