Lego Appreciation Thread (split off from Random Raves XLII)

[Takhisis]

YOU MEAN ACTION FIGURES.

Who are you, Timmy Turner?

 

[Hygro]

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)

Same.

I had a lot of both.

 

[timtofly]

It is expensive to visit, but in Niagara Falls, there is a Lego city exhibit with electric trains. And the city set collection also had several space shuttle renditions, along with an assortment of airplanes and airports.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

It is expensive to visit, but in Niagara Falls, there is a Lego city exhibit with electric trains. And the city set collection also had several space shuttle renditions, along with an assortment of airplanes and airports.

There's a plan to build a LEGOland park in New York, but I had imagined it would be closer to NYC than to Niagara Falls. The one in LA is very cool.

 

[Kyriakos]

Spoiler :

This one?

Although this has more soldiers than the Black castle, it looks far more plain.
Maybe i recall wrong, and there wasn't some larger lego castle, and i just didn't get this cause the actual building doesn't look that cool.

 

[Snerk]

I had a medieval castle too but I can't find it on the internets.

But I did have this badass pirate ship.

It's funny cause my parents had saved them both and took them out a few years ago for my niece and nephew. Was fun playing with them again.

 

[Bamspeedy]

So I was in China and bought my kid a cheap little lego set from a vendor in a park.

I guess it's from Red Alert 3 when I googled for the image. The other toys there were American ones (Paw Patrol, etc.).

 

[Arakhor]

I'm British - I've been around more real castles than I've had hot dinners, so of course I was more interested in the mediaeval Lego.

 

[Kyriakos]

I'm British - I've been around more real castles than I've had hot dinners, so of course I was more interested in the mediaeval Lego.

Are you Boris, earl of Pfepfel?

 

[Arakhor]

No, but I was for several years joint-Mayor of the Lego town of Cutonbury, Bedroomshire.

 

[Snerk]

I remember reading about that in the papers. The dark days of Bedroomshire Legotown. The Cutonbury gruesome twosome they called it. Unemployment was sky high. Lego men were rioting in the streets. Sad stuff.

 

[warpus]

@hobbsyoyo I love that Saturn V

 

[Takhisis]

So I was in China and bought my kid a cheap little lego set from a vendor in a park.

I guess it's from Red Alert 3 when I googled for the image. The other toys there were American ones (Paw Patrol, etc.).

Ah, yes, @Birdjaguar is obviously going to sell them new military hardware.

 

[Gori the Grey]

My first "LEGO set" was...a box of LEGOs.

Same. My first Lego were from before there were "sets." And I'm still a purist that way. The proper spirit of Lego is not to assemble preselected pieces into a preselected form but to improvise anything out of component pieces. I don't feel old, as a result, by the way; I feel like all the rest of you (but Tim) are mere younglings for whom the true spirit of Lego has been spoiled.

 

[Arwon]

I inherited a heap of old Lego from my uncles and added to it with years of new sets every Christmas and birthday. I reckon I had about 1m x 50cm x 30cm of the stuff by volume by the time it all went into storage...

 

[Broken_Erika]

I have 3 older brothers. I got all their old lego after my third oldest brother got too old and didn't want to dust his creations anymore. Plus the few lego sets i got and all the mega-blocks sets that i got because lego had gotten expensive...It's all stuffed into a big grey bin packed away somewhere now...

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Same. My first Lego were from before there were "sets." And I'm still a purist that way. The proper spirit of Lego is not to assemble preselected pieces into a preselected form but to improvise anything out of component pieces. I don't feel old, as a result, by the way; I feel like all the rest of you (but Tim) are mere younglings for whom the true spirit of Lego has been spoiled.

That's more accurate, but I was too polite to say it right out like that.

 

[Sommerswerd]

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.

Same. My first Lego were from before there were "sets." And I'm still a purist that way. The proper spirit of Lego is not to assemble preselected pieces into a preselected form but to improvise anything out of component pieces. I don't feel old, as a result, by the way; I feel like all the rest of you (but Tim) are mere younglings for whom the true spirit of Lego has been spoiled.

That's more accurate, but I was too polite to say it right out like that.

Whatever you old codgers... I remember building actual miniature lego characters out of legos before there were lego people... but still...lego sets are awesome. You can't make no proper castle with a box of assorted rainbow colored rectangular and square shaped legos.

 

[PhroX]

I had a lot of the space LEGO (way way before they started doing Star Wars). I'd start off by building the set as the instructions said, but it usually wouldn't take long before I'd dismantled it and added it it my increasingly large box of bits, form which I built all sorts of stuff. LEGO does seem to have gone downhill since I was young - far more of the sets have specifically degined pieces, which are much less suited to just building whatever you want.

 

[Hygro]

Same. My first Lego were from before there were "sets." And I'm still a purist that way. The proper spirit of Lego is not to assemble preselected pieces into a preselected form but to improvise anything out of component pieces. I don't feel old, as a result, by the way; I feel like all the rest of you (but Tim) are mere younglings for whom the true spirit of Lego has been spoiled.

I'm sorry yer Lego was boring

My Lego murdered each other for glory.