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Post by Chigs! on Oct 27, 2005 8:39:11 GMT
Lego is/was great.
Discuss.
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Post by homsar on Oct 27, 2005 10:59:25 GMT
Lego was so much simple back in the day. It was just a green base, a bunch of blocks, a couple of yellow people and your own imagination to run wild with.
Now it's gotten all complicated and commercial with all those different sets like Bionicle, Star Wars and even a Batman one coming out.
Give me the classic any day.
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Post by Samface on Oct 27, 2005 11:59:06 GMT
There's a Batman one?  I always preferred the themed Lego, whether it was movie tie-in or not. Pirates was obviously the best, but Wild West, Aquanauts and Space (especially the humongous Spyrius robots ^_^) also rocked bells. |
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Post by SJ on Oct 27, 2005 12:22:38 GMT
Have any of you seen Monty Python and the holy grail in LEGO? It's great.
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Post by Smithy on Oct 27, 2005 12:53:02 GMT
There's a Batman one? now you can team up Bruce with Spiderman, Darth Vader, and Harry Potter in lego form. Sets will reportedly feature - Batman Dragster: Catwoman Pursuit Batboat: Hunt for Killer Croc Batmobile: Two-Face's Escape Batwing: Jokers Aerial Assault There better be a Batgirl and a Robin figure, A Batcave with Alfred would be amazing also. I thought the new Viking lego looks pretty cool... |
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Post by Robert Frazer on Oct 27, 2005 13:56:05 GMT
Ah, dearest Lego. I retain fond memories of you and your gloriously primary-coloured plastic bricks.  When I was younger, I used to gather up Lego with an avid passion (I even enrolled in the Lego fan club), and my long-suffering parents were continually purchasing new sets for me. What tended to infuriate them, though, is that instead of having a shelf full of lovingly-sculpted models, I'd assemble a set, stare at it for around twenty minutes, then take it to pieces and sling all of the components into my Lego case where everything would become mixed up and impossible to rebuild again (and I invariably lost the instruction manuals anyway). Eventually, my mother imposed a Lego boycott in the Frazer household, and thus my days with the happy yellow men came to an abrupt halt.  When I was around twelve to thirteen years old, my parents relented slightly and purchased for me the Lego Mindstorms set, a rather sophisticated kit which allowed you to create programmable robots from Lego pieces and a central computer (what was christened an RCX module). Regrettably, however, I didn't use it nearly as much as I should have done and to this day it lies in the bottom of a cupboard, with most of the pieces still in their packets. Nowadays when I think of Lego, though, I can't help but feel rather guilty that I should have been using the more sophisticated Meccano instead... |
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Post by madhair60 on Oct 27, 2005 14:32:18 GMT
Aquazone was where it's at.
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Post by Hevs on Oct 27, 2005 14:55:25 GMT
0I was addicted to bionicle a few years back... Now I have no unhealthy obsessions. Apart from sonic >_<
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Post by Spudiator on Oct 27, 2005 15:02:17 GMT
Used to love Lego when I was a kid. My brother had the Lego Technics test car, which was amazing because it was still made of basic lego without any specialist pieces, but it had everything, working suspension, a working gearbox with engine pistons, everything short of an actual working motor was there:  The Model Team series were pretty cool too, it always amazed me that you could build such incredible looking models from a pile of basic pieces. I see the sets these days and there just seems like there's too many specialist pieces, which seems kinda sad to me, one of the best things about Lego was that once you got bored of what you'd built with the instructions you could just go nuts and let your imagination run wild. I always wanted to go to Legoland too, but they never had one in this country when I was a kid. |
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Post by homsar on Oct 27, 2005 16:11:40 GMT
I went to Legoland Windsor when I was 11 and I had an awesome time (My dad manged to score some free tickets). There were loads of great attractions like the recreations of famous countries in Lego and the driving test. It was also the first time I ever rode a Rollarcoster (The dragon coaster in the magic castle) and I was screaming the whole time. Looking back, I was such a wuss. |
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Post by chaoscontroller on Oct 27, 2005 16:53:10 GMT
Aaaah Lego. ^_^ *Reminisces*
I think the original ones were better, although some of the sets that you can get now are really cool.
I preferred the bigger blocks; they started making microscopic pieces for some reason. I spent almost as much time trying to bite them apart as I did playing with those ones.
I always used to try and make a house, but I usually ran out of pieces before I could start the roof. ¬_¬
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Post by Blizz on Oct 27, 2005 19:12:13 GMT
Lego... Quite possibly the best toy in the world. ;D
Although I quite liked the original Bionicle.
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Post by Chigs! on Oct 27, 2005 19:47:08 GMT
I never got around to buying any model team stuff - which with hindsight is a shame, as they'd probably be the ones I'd be most interested in to this day I did get the last big proper technic car they made before they started getting silly with nascars and williams/ferrai tie in racers which is rather ace - still lying in my cupboard in wait You do realise we all sound horrendously old talking about how lego was better in our day, despite being true ^_^ I don't know if it's just when your a kid everthing looks huger, but lego sets these days seem diddy by comparison with more and more specialised bits - shame I'm not adverse to all the tie ins, but I think it stifles the creativity a bit - oh for the days of pirates or western lego again ^_^ Even the lego catalogues naff these days - whatever hapened to the epic displays they used to put together for the catalogue each year - highlight of my new year getting a new lego ctalogue... I'll see myself out... >_> |
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Post by Samface on Oct 27, 2005 20:06:11 GMT
Are the catalogues sucky now? I loved them when I was a kid, one of the many jobs I considered was the guy who has to think up and set up all those massive displays... >_> *follows Chris out* |
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Oct 28, 2005 7:17:01 GMT
Yay for Lego! ^_^ I remember when my Primary School 1st got a Technik kit... joy was had by everyone! hee hee... me and my friend made a little battery-operated car.. (with the help of The Teach!) she crashed it and it bwoke!! *cwies* I had my own Lego set as well... it was a bit pants tho. Ive seen today in the massive Lego shop in the Bullring (well massive comared to one aisle in a toy shop I was used to!) thats theres PURPLE lego!! I didnt have purple.... Meh. |
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Post by JJ on Oct 28, 2005 10:31:55 GMT
Finally! A lego thread!  Lego Technic was awesome, simply awesome. About ten years ago I sat down and made that enormous black car, piece by piece. You know, this one:  It was such a labour of love that even now, ten years later, I haven't dismantled it. It's a beautiful testiment of mankind's urge to create. |
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Post by Samface on Oct 28, 2005 10:39:27 GMT
I never really liked Technic.  Didn't really have any personality. |
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Post by Chigs! on Oct 28, 2005 11:16:47 GMT
Samface - well y'see what with the computer and all they went through a phase of just compositing the displays of the models shot seperatly on the page layout, whihc always struck me as a bit of a copout - I think they're getting better and have reverted a bit to actual displays at funky angles for excitement purposes - but it's nowhere near the scale of those epic town displays they used to do ^_^ Oh, and Technic from about 96 onwards, once they started getting clever with the panelling and bodywork elements managed to make some quite lovely designs Jamie J: That was an awesome car - and I do remember very much wanting to have it as a kid - did you ever get a chance to see the full scale version they did, made out of lego? Now THAT was impressive |
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Post by Blizz on Oct 28, 2005 11:24:17 GMT
Did anyone else ever have the Star Wars Lego?
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Post by Smithy on Oct 28, 2005 12:34:55 GMT
Did anyone else ever have the Star Wars Lego? Got a Naboo Starfighter, and Obi Wan's Jedi Fighter sitting on my Shelf at home. Need Ani's Jedi fighter from III to complete the prequels set. I'd love to say they were the geekiest thing I own, but I'd only be lying to myself... |
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Post by Samface on Oct 28, 2005 13:40:24 GMT
Did anyone else ever have the Star Wars Lego? Original X-Wing set, TIE fighter/Y-Wing set, Anakin's podracer, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon meeting Jar Jar in the jungle (bought because it was the cheapest set with those funky Trade Fed. droids ^_^) and Darth Vader's Transformation. They've all been broken up now except for Vader. I think they're currently languishing in the attic in my big blue Lego Box Of Doom. |
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Post by Chigs! on Oct 28, 2005 19:11:30 GMT
Blizzard: The original X wing set and a Darth vader key ring I think - If I had the time and the money's I very much contemplate getting the whopping "makes model team look like duplo" star destroyer..and then end up using it as a coffee table... >_>
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Post by Blizz on Oct 28, 2005 20:00:06 GMT
I only ever saw one of those Star Destroyers....in the Lego shop in the Bull Ring. I was impressed though. Suddenly, I want one again. |
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Post by Samface on Oct 28, 2005 21:18:02 GMT
There are Star Destroyer sets? Hmm... *gets his Google on* ...  WOAH, MAMA.  |
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Post by Blizz on Oct 29, 2005 10:36:24 GMT
....I'm in love dude. |
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Didn't really have any personality.