LEGO joy!

[Philip Ayres]

I'm a great fan of an occasional lego model - especially if I can get someone to buy mew one at Christmas - I had the bridge lorry last year and have got the 2 bed tipper lorry this year (just £15 from Asda !)

But you have to get the 7990 Cement Mixer. Revolving mixer drum that's powered by a handle that actually raises the contents from the bottom. Marvel at the way the front and back bumpers are done. Swap the cab over so it's right hand drive. It's £13 well spent.

[legios]

I've been looking at Lego stuff recently actually. Been fascinated by some of the stuff. The Mission to Mars sets are rather nice - some nice parts in those sets. The "Aerobooster" I think it is called in the Exoforce line is pretty impressive stuff for two tenners - seems to be heavily channelling the spirit of the Stamen/Orchis combination from one of the Gundam shows.

I am very impressed with how far Lego has come since I were a lad - and good to see you can still get your baseline chunky sets as well. That was always the best bit of Lego when I was a kid - start with a plie of bricks and parts and then see what you ended up making with it.

Karl

[The Doctor]

I had great fun as a nipper building a LEGO version of the prison ship from the ZOIDS strip that ran in Secret Wars UK.

-Ralph

[panderson]

I had showe dloads of lego a few years back - many Star Wars stuff inc the Falcon but space and cash meant we parted ways.
I too like the new stuff, eg Exoforce, but thing is I am getting annoyed at the growing use of special bricks and parts. To me this limits the other combinations or models you can use it for
Why not just do the same with the orginal bricks and bits?

[Bogatan]

I still have a lego Gorilla I made 15-20 years ago. Probably no one else would see a Gorilla/Ape, but I do and it is a treasured part of my Transformers collection. I had a group or homemade TFs. The lamest of which is a green lump of plasticine with one of the Technobots (the bike I think) hand guns stuck in it. Thats it. There was a more advanced one using two lumps of plastice connected with one of Devastotors missiles. The head was another gun, no idea what from, and an arialbot hand gun formed one arm and I forget the other arm. Theres was a Robot Wolf the body of which was made from a shoe box and it turned into a space ship, over the years it lost the ability to transform as I had to reinforce the Wolf mode to stop it falling apart. There was a little Lego Dog though calling it a dog is stretching the description to the limit. Then there were my Clay made TFs but thats getting really off topic. (Impactor was good though)

Andy

[Deleted]

I agree with Panderson in that the specialist bits in Lego these days ruin the whole concept of building whatever you like if you can't build what the set was designed for. When I was younger I collected Lego Technic models and I still have all of them to this day. I also still have the original instruction manuals for most of them and a couple of Lego brochures from around 1990 - 1992 and these provide a good nostalgic look at all of the sets that were available at the time. Also, can anyone remember the Lego Paradisa sets that were available in the early nineties? If my memory serves me correct these were the sets that tried to make Lego available to girls.

[Philip Ayres]

I can remember the lego dolls house sets from the 70s !

[panderson]

tempted by my first lego for a while after giveing most of it away
Woolies have a special edition gold figure from the Exo-force range
Nice and shiney with big weapons and not that expensive
To prep myself for it on New Year - will buy depending on how much spend New Years Eve - bought the cheaper Neo-Shifter vehicle - fun and in one mode reminds me of the vehicels from that Earth Final Conflict

[panderson]

Special edition exoforce secured and putting together - its very nice but fear that it will fall to the pain of GPS at some point - shame

[Deleted]

I'd never buy another modern day Lego set but at some point I might consider getting a classic one off Ebay which is usually swamped with them.

[The Doctor]

I received a Star Wars Clone Trooper Battle Pack at Chrimbo. Looks nifty, not had a chance to build them yet.

-Ralph

[kayevcee]

We sold a couple of Indy sets at Christmas. I think we only had a couple of boxes in.

-Nick

[Philip Ayres]

2008 stock got early.

[kayevcee]

I had no idea these sets existed!

Jawa Sandcrawler!
5Kg Star Destroyer!
!!!

-Nick

[The Doctor]

SWEET ZOMBIE MOFF!

-Ralph

[Cullen]

I was very unimaginative with Lego when I was a kid - I used to make the stuff in the manual but never anything else.

[Andy Turnbull]

I don't think I ever made what was in the manuals. It never interested me.

Andy

[The Doctor]

I often liked to build bases for TF's - which could then be blown apart!

-Ralph

[legios]

I very rarely built what the Lego in the box was supposed to turn into. Instead it all went into my steadily accumulated pile of bits which I used to create various things. Mostly Derek Medding's-influenced spacecraft in general.

Karl

[Gav]

Incredible:

gizmodo.com/5018990/lego-secret-vault-contains-all-sets-in-history

[Andy Turnbull]

What an awesome sight to behold!

Andy

[grahamthomson]

I have always dreamed of a similar place in the bowels of Takara and Hasbro HQ.

[The Doctor]

Even more awesome than the warehouse in Raiders of the Lost Ark!

-Ralph

[kayevcee]

Flibble.

[legios]

That is a great deal of Lego in one place. (I hope their vault is more secure than the cell doors on the Lego Police Station though....)

Makes me nostalgic for my old Lego and Lego Space stuff.

Karl

[Deleted]

Some of the Lego sets that they floating around when I was younger were much better than the ones that are doing the rounds at the moment. Look at the Lego Technic range. In my day we had sets where you could build all kinds of realistic looking vehicles out of the standard Lego Technic bricks and if you couldn't build one from the instructions you could build your own. Not now. Most Lego Technic sets have custom bricks for the model in question and just don't work on anything else.

[The Doctor]

You can't beat a big box of Lego bricks that can make anything.

-Ralph

[kayevcee]

I was still buying Lego up till the mid-late 90s (building the big Technic sets was one of the few things me and my dad did together that we both enjoyed) and there were usually only a handful of custom parts in each set- even the really big ones. I was (and am) always amazed that the designers can come up with such elaborate models with only two or three unique parts each time.

I must confess I don't hold much truck with the "it's not as good as it was in my day" comments- I see a lot of modern sets at work and most of them don't seem much more or less versatile than sets from 15 years ago.

-Nick

[Deleted]

I still think the joy of building something from out of a box of square and rectangular bricks is better than building something out of custom made bricks. The recent Lego Technic models feel more like an airfix kit than a Lego set. I once walked into a local toy store and noticed a Lego Technic Formula One car and couldn't believe how it looked. There was no doubt it was realistic looking but that was only because it had far too many custom bricks for my liking.

[KoshNaranek]

That's quite a sight to behold. I actually had that 928 Space set, fond memories indeed.

- Tony