Lego Appreciation Thread (split off from Random Raves XLII)

[Broken_Erika]

My dad's parents would always spoil me with big LEGO sets whenever they visited us or we visited them

That's what Grandparents are for. To take revenge on their children by spoiling their grandchildren.

 

[Birdjaguar]

We saved all of our kids Legos (several tubs worth in a closet somewhere) and will have them for the grandchildren. All the various sets are now thoroughly mixed. Fabulous toys.

 

[Kyriakos]

I had more playmobil than lego. Also, imo, playmobil were more of a toy-setting than lego, cause the latter made you build the things (as if i cared about that; i only wanted a stage for the murderous and byzantine plots i wanted to act out)

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I used to have a lot of Lego when I was younger. Most of it was just random bricks that come in larger tubs and smaller sets like a car with a figure. I only ever had one large set, which I got as a present for Christmas 1996.

 

[Lexicus]

I had more playmobil than lego. Also, imo, playmobil were more of a toy-setting than lego, cause the latter made you build the things (as if i cared about that; i only wanted a stage for the murderous and byzantine plots i wanted to act out)

I had some playmobile, too, but I think we gave them to the next door neighbors who had some younger kids, leaving us with only LEGO. In my LEGO universe that existed in my head, I conceptualized this as the LEGOs finally winning the centuries-long war of annihilation fought between the two species.


I was kind of messed-up kid.

 

[Broken_Erika]

I had some playmobile, too, but I think we gave them to the next door neighbors who had some younger kids, leaving us with only LEGO. In my LEGO universe that existed in my head, I conceptualized this as the LEGOs finally winning the centuries-long war of annihilation fought between the two species.


I was kind of messed-up kid.

No Duplo?
"We have come from the planet Duplo, We've come to destroy you!"

 

[Lexicus]

No Duplo?
"We have come from the planet Duplo, We've come to destroy you!"

Yeah, same thing happened with them, only earlier.

 

[metatron]

My Lego castle had a real portcullis and drawbridge, had two hinged sections, various soldiers and the like, but it had red and yellow pennants I think and didn't have any red bricks included.

Spoiler :

This one?

 

[Takhisis]

I can't find a picture of it but my first LEGO set was a castle that had this dragon in it:

I think I have/had the same dragon but in green rather than black.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Man this thread makes me feel old. My first "LEGO set" was...a box of LEGOs. I built whatever struck me as something to build with it. My little mates and I were really excited when they introduced the special block with the hole drilled in it so you could stick the axle through for the newly introduced wheels.

 

[FriendlyFire]

We were refugees in West Germany when I first found out about LEGOs and how amazing they are, but I knew my parents could not afford them at all. We were living in refugee camps at the time and so I stuck to playing with sticks and ants and tag with other kids and whatever else. Then a couple months after the West German government hooked us up with our own apartment my parents bought me a LEGO starship for my birthday. It was not very big, but it was a great day. Later I even got a LEGO car wash and a LEGO robin hood castle. I loved those 3 sets my parents bought me, but had fantasies of a future in which I have the power to buy any LEGO I want.

I got some crap Chinese clone.

 

[Arakhor]

Spoiler :

This one?

That's it!

 

[Evie]

Man, so many familiar sets in this thread.

I don't recall all the ones I've had as a kid, that are now in pieces in a box around my parent's house. I know I had the Eldorado Fortress and the Royal Galleon (I think I might have had both twice, actually), the Space Shuttle and the Airport...and probably a dozen of medieval, sci-fi and city sets I'm forgetting. I know a lot of the castle sets posted earlier in this thread look familiar.

The Lord of the Rings sets (and the Doctor Who one) briefly lured me back into lego over the past few years. Got a few, mostly small ones (the Wizard Duel, the Council of Elrond), one not-quite-as-small one (the Tardis), and one...very not so small one.

This beauty, to be exact :

Spoiler :

 

[Arakhor]

2300 pieces?? Good grief!

 

[FriendlyFire]

Even Eesti, Poland and Greece can into Lego
For some reason you were all into medieval castles and knights. While the Americans all brought spaceships and sci-fi. Some of you guys were loaded to afford those large sets.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I've never had any LEGO sets!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I would love to have a space port in my city. Mind you right now all I have is a pickup truck so we're still along way away from that. Would be so fun to build the Saturn V, got any pics of that?

It's about a meter tall. There are some snags with it. They didn't do a great job with laying it out internally. It's very fragile while you put it together and some of the steps are really not optimal. I ended up putting it together somewhat out of order to make the assembly smoother. Also, the J-2 engines on the second and third stages will come apart if you look at them funny, as will the payload adapter that the lunar lander gets tucked inside.

But anyways, it's awesome to look at, beautifully detailed and very accurate.

 

[CKS]

Man this thread makes me feel old. My first "LEGO set" was...a box of LEGOs. I built whatever struck me as something to build with it. My little mates and I were really excited when they introduced the special block with the hole drilled in it so you could stick the axle through for the newly introduced wheels.

Mine, too. We weren't interested in wheels, though. We mostly built spaceships (not rockets) for our Aquaman and Captain Marvel dolls. As they were about 10 inches tall, we were chronically short of pieces and so the sides of our spaceships couldn't go up high enough to put a top on. When my dad decided we should build our own house, we built a scale model of it with LEGO first, including all the furniture we hoped to have.

The first kit we ever got was, I think, a fire station. It was mostly grey, at least in my memory, and it was really exciting because the walls were all only one dot wide and we had hardly any skinny pieces before that. We built whatever it was once, and then went back to building spaceships.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Mine, too. We weren't interested in wheels, though. We mostly built spaceships (not rockets) for our Aquaman and Captain Marvel dolls. As they were about 10 inches tall, we were chronically short of pieces and so the sides of our spaceships couldn't go up high enough to put a top on. When my dad decided we should build our own house, we built a scale model of it with LEGO first, including all the furniture we hoped to have.

The first kit we ever got was, I think, a fire station. It was mostly grey, at least in my memory, and it was really exciting because the walls were all only one dot wide and we had hardly any skinny pieces before that. We built whatever it was once, and then went back to building spaceships.

YOU MEAN ACTION FIGURES.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

A friend of mine saw this and wants to build his own. I thought it applied to this thread and I thought I would share the link for you guys. You'll like this, Hobbs.

A guy made a LEGO Saturn V look like it is taking off:

Here's a video showing how he did it:

And here is a link to the article: https://hackaday.com/2018/01/13/led...-v-boldly-goes-where-no-lego-has-gone-before/

Hopefully, some of you might understand this better than I do. I'm kinda geeky, but I don't really understand the electronics stuff.