Lego Lego Lego

[Hall]

The missus works at a local school. Brought home a pile of Lego to sort out. Reassemble all manner of interesting things. Now does this bring back a few memories. At the moment our adult age girls are all over it, only to help mum of course. :D But I`m not aloud to play :( Girls only apparently :mad: Ahhh some thing just never change. Hmmm might just sneak of with a couple of vital bits. :angel:
Cheers Hall

[Landy Smurf]

lego is the best selling toy and there is a great story behind it I am not sure if it has been posted before but here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdDU_BBJW9Y

[Disco Muppet]

I loved my lego, really regret giving it away as i think it could have helped me understand some mechanical things a bit better by being able to piece them together (think suspension components, etc)
Flip side however is once you've trodden on a piece of lego barefoot, nothing will ever bring you greater pain.

[trog]

some of the Meccano buts where pretty good at causing a short sharp yell of pain !

[Chucaro]

I remember my Meccano during my childhood on the 50's :cool:
It was a great toy to learn about steam engines, pulleys combination and how to use a spanner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUN9H_e8aAw

[Homestar]

Still got 90% of my Lego. My son played with it while he was groing up, but I always told him he was only ever borrowing it off me...:D

The other 10% is either down the back of Mum & Dad's couch, or gone up the vaccy cleaner...

[gromit]

My kids have loads of Lego, and I pick up job lots at Trash & Treasure markets.
A while ago I picked up a big Harry Potter set for $12, the lady said 'I think it's all there' so I spent the afternoon with the kids assembling it and she was right, it was all there. Then I checked Ebay and found them selling at over $100 without the box, ours had the box, the instructions and some extra harry Potter sets included.....
The next one was less of a 'win'. Picked up the Harry Potter train complete and assembled for $15. Got it home and found it was from a shop display and the bloody thing was glued together !!

My kids struggle a bit with Meccano. Too fiddly and they lose their patience trying to hold nuts in place while doing up screws. They tend to build something and then play with it for ages, rather than stripping it down and building something new.

Check out James May's Toy Stories if you haven't seen it. Lego, Meccano, Plasticine, Airfix, Hornby & Scalextric........ Brilliant series.

There was a forerunner to Meccano in the UK where you got the strips and had a punch set to punch the holes in for assembly. Can't remember the name but I have a punch set somewhere I found years ago.


Colin

[Dougal]

I'll confess to having a mountain of lego and still adding to it. I picked up a stack of old educational "dacta" kits recently with a total of 7 old school technic electric motors and battery boxes.:cool:

Here is my first set:
http://img3.toysperiod.com/img/cache/a3/800x600/d4e4o5g414m4r5g5m444a4f446o2o4c4z5o4p59406u2237413 r224v2u2x2231364y2v224y2w2q2b4h4g414x224u22474r254 .jpg

Here is my most recent:
http://www.setechnic.com/Images/Modele/8069/8069-01.JPG

[Cobber]

It's funny this topic has come up actually.
I was in Kmart the other day, and found myself in the lego aisle, about to buy a bunch of lego I don't need (but want!) :D

Then a strange look from a mother at the end of the aisle reminded me that I am infact an adult :mad: ... I'll ask for some for my birthday instead ;):angel:

[PhillH]

It's funny this topic has come up actually.
I was in Kmart the other day, and found myself in the lego aisle, about to buy a bunch of lego I don't need (but want!) :D

Then a strange look from a mother at the end of the aisle reminded me that I am infact an adult :mad: ... I'll ask for some for my birthday instead ;):angel:

Ignore the dissapproving mothers. They are only dissaproving because if their husbands see you with one he will have another reason to argue to buy one himself.

I get a technic set for my birthday every year. Got this one last year Motorized Excavator* | LEGO Shop (http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Motorized-Excavator-8043) :D

[stallie]

I bought the 1200 piece space shuttle kit for my 4 year old for Christmas 14 months ago. He followed the instructions faithfully and carefully, reading and rereading each step by himself. The only help I gave him was early on to find the pieces for the next step and put them in a bowl for him.

All finished inside a week and a very proud boy -and dad.

His younger brother now of same age, however, shows absolutely no signs of such spatial awareness or patience.

[Hay Ewe]

LEGO ROCKS!

I have a fair bit of Technic, thats all I was in to. Have built some awesome things in the past, for me the building and work out how to get the componets to fit an scale shape was the fun part.

Now its changed with the times a fair bit, thats cool but I dont have so much. I was given some a little over a year ago and have a project in mind come some appropriate time...after the other toys and work...

Hay Ewe

[Hay Ewe]

Working on a lego version of this at the moment (well, the past few weeks)
Putting my own engine in to it though (all lego, just not a straight 6)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/01/295.jpg

[frantic]

Both my sons love the stuff (ok my wife and I as well:D )and my 3 and 2 yr old daughters are getting into it to, just have to watch carefully they don't try to eat it. They would rather play with the real Lego than the baby's big duplo blocks.
One quick word of warning though, there is a cheaper brand that looks EXACTLY the same as normal Lego but it is not built to the same tolerances so will not "stick" together like Lego and falls apart very easily when picked up. This causes extreme frustration if you have spent a big chunk of time helping your child assemble the item. In this case it really pays to go genuine;). Uncle Pete's where very helpful in allowing us to return it without a receipt ,as it was a gift from a relo about 2.5 hrs north. We added the extra $$ to get some real Lego.

[carjunkieanon]

Best LEGO build EVER.

And it might be released as a genuine set.

3,400+ parts thou.

LEGO® CUUSOO | Land-Rover Defender 110 (http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/16894#FeedbackTab)

[Jojo]

Lego is great! I had it when I was a minor and now my son is very much into it, building and constructing almost every day, despite being a teenager. He got the VW Campervan kit for Christmas, which is a really awesome model, actually. A few years ago I built a Forward Control, using his pieces. I should have saved it...

On a different note, if one of you has a chance to visit Legoland you definitely should take the opportunity as there are lots of things to see. I was a bit concerned when I went there with the family as I am not into those amusement park arrangements at all, but I made use of the time to look for all the Land Rover models they have, and I can tell you: there are plenty of them! From Series trucks to Freelanders and Range Rovers and everything inbetween. The coolest thing was a 110 driving around with headlights on in front of the scale model of a Danish castle :D. I'll have to dig out the pics.
Cheers

[S3ute]

Hello from Brisbane.

Showing my age here.

Long before Lego really made an inroad into Australia there was a locally made product on the market called Bilda Brix that gave a few of us hours of real pleasure.

Bilda-brix, the 1950s Australian Playmate construction outfit (http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/bilda.html)

Bilda-brix (http://www.architoys.net/toys/toypages/bildabri.html)

Their motto was "more than a toy".

Great stuff.

Cheers

[FeatherWeightDriver]

Looks like a great project!

As does this one ;)

LEGO Land-Rover Defender 110 by Sheepo - YouTube

[Saitch]

Working on a lego version of this at the moment (well, the past few weeks)
Putting my own engine in to it though (all lego, just not a straight 6)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/01/295.jpg
A scaled down version one would hope? :o