Bah.. can't find the pics of my Enterprise... :(
Back in the mid to late nineties all I had were some Lego collections from the Castle theme (my parents couldn't buy me the one I wanted the most: the King's castle). So, while my cousins had either the box of thousands of multi-colour bricks and other had the space-themed ones, I was the one building castles...
Nowadays I will build things like Pyramids with secret entrances (blame games like "Fred" and "Profanation" for that), helicopters, dinosaurs, planes, spaceships (Star Trek, Star Wars...), my dream house (built more than one, always with the "guys-only" room and.... castles! Lots of castles! I'm also fine with building things with multi-colour bricks. But I can never have enough bricks for what I want to do. :)
Meanwhile, here's something Specchums and Lego lovers might find interesting...
A bit disappointing really, dead expensive and half the pneumatic bits have broken. The rams etc all work well but the reservoir is too small, you run out of pressure after a couple of strokes.
That's what she said...
Was anyone else a member of the Lego Club? Funniest thing was seeing in the club magazine that someone else with exactly the same name as me and living within 50 miles was also a member...
Its really cool that all you folkes still play with lego, and there was me thinking I was retarded. :)
Probably best not, at this stage, to rule at the possibility that we're all retarded in the thread :)
I think the technic stuff in particular is brilliant, as not all of us have the space for a real full-sized partially assembled tractor in our garage. So building a small scale one, with real steering and realistic uppy-downy pistons, etc is the next best thing. ;)
It seems Lego now realises their target market aint just the kids, look at this 50th anniversary set (yes its real and not photoshoped).
'tis one of the owners of Lego, he was also the kid on the original Town Plan box which it is a tribute to. Lego have certainly accepted their adult audience though, with far more direct-to-consumer sets targetting a 16+ age range.
I'm so tempted to waste all my savings on the 12V 77xx train sets of the 80s off ebay. They were sooo good :smile: That decoupler.. and the remote controlled level crossing!
Those architectire sets are far to expensive for the number of bricks that some of them consist of.
It's because they have to be hand packed in the factory, as they sell at too small a volume to bulk produce. I've got FallingWater, though I'm not as impressed by the others. The boxes they come in are so much higher quality than a typical set though, as are the bound manuals.
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It seems Lego now realises their target market aint just the kids, look at this 50th anniversary set (yes its real and not photoshoped).
nope, I had to look up "scratter"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scratter&defid=814002
thanks..:-o
Back in the mid to late nineties all I had were some Lego collections from the Castle theme (my parents couldn't buy me the one I wanted the most: the King's castle). So, while my cousins had either the box of thousands of multi-colour bricks and other had the space-themed ones, I was the one building castles...
Nowadays I will build things like Pyramids with secret entrances (blame games like "Fred" and "Profanation" for that), helicopters, dinosaurs, planes, spaceships (Star Trek, Star Wars...), my dream house (built more than one, always with the "guys-only" room and.... castles! Lots of castles! I'm also fine with building things with multi-colour bricks. But I can never have enough bricks for what I want to do. :)
Meanwhile, here's something Specchums and Lego lovers might find interesting...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/manuelsagra/2319467324/
yeah all my houses had really low walls. and were bungalows.
That's what she said...
Was anyone else a member of the Lego Club? Funniest thing was seeing in the club magazine that someone else with exactly the same name as me and living within 50 miles was also a member...
I think the technic stuff in particular is brilliant, as not all of us have the space for a real full-sized partially assembled tractor in our garage. So building a small scale one, with real steering and realistic uppy-downy pistons, etc is the next best thing. ;)
Hmmm... Bit creepy, that!
Was? I still am. :-P Not entirely sure how, I think I overenthusiastically ticked "Yes, send me stuff" boxes on their website at some point.
'tis one of the owners of Lego, he was also the kid on the original Town Plan box which it is a tribute to. Lego have certainly accepted their adult audience though, with far more direct-to-consumer sets targetting a 16+ age range.
It's partially dis-assembled and it's outside... Only the removed parts are in the garage :p
Well, that was unexpected! :-o
:p
That's fabulous. :)
the biggest tyre maker in the world is lego
They were quite impressive, if a little small.
http://architecture.lego.com/en-us/Products/Landmark/21006%20-%20The%20White%20House.aspx
Things of utter beauty.
:-P
Dont care just want em! Unfortunately certain people want bloody bathrooms instead :mad:
It's because they have to be hand packed in the factory, as they sell at too small a volume to bulk produce. I've got FallingWater, though I'm not as impressed by the others. The boxes they come in are so much higher quality than a typical set though, as are the bound manuals.
It's worth having at least one.
they mentioned the fire in 1814, but didn't say who started it. :grin:
Great tile your bathroom with Lego then. :)
No but you do get these:
he he
http://www.spacecentre.co.uk/Page.aspx/338/LEGO_CITY/
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
I can't quite think which "rule of the internet" covers it
Konzentrationslager?
Sounds more like something Chav's and tramps would drink.
I'll be there.
edit: I mean I'm taking my 10 year old to see that.
He's also dragging me along to the Meccano exhibition in November :-
http://www.nmmg.org.uk/spacecentre.html