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[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. But I`m not aloud to play Girls only apparently Ahhh some thing just never change. Hmmm might just sneak of with a couple of vital bits.
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
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...

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.

Here is my first set:


Here is my most recent:

[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!)

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

[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!)

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

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