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stupar

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So my boy got his first box of lego for christmas and it got me remembering my childhood days of building with my lego...especially technic stuff!
After much deliberating (all of 10 mins tops) i have decided to buy myself a current lego technic set.

Does anyone here still indulge in lego technic?
 
I pre dated 'technic lego'

Well - I was the right age as my mates had it (and space lego) but I just had bucket loads of 'normal' lego handed down.

I got some a few years back when my oldest was into into it and it's great fun.

Totally different to having to make things for yourself from bricks though.

My youngest 3 kids are about ready for it now so I may pick some up.
 
love technics lego - had loads of it as a kid - all still in parents roof... I may have bought myself the air sea recue helicopter when i was erm... 39!
 
I too predate the technic stuff but proper lego could not be beaten as a toy

Endless possibilities and literally hours of fun to be had.

I went nuts when my brother gave all of my lego away....and I was about 25! :)
 
I never had Lego as a kid, though would play with my cousins stuff when I went round there but pretty certain it wasn't technics, just a bloody big box of bricks of various sizes. I seems to have taken up Lego in my 40's though, as a photography thing and generally stick to the figures set in real life scenarios, the kits and big stuff simply doesn't appeal. My grandson is 3 and now has his first legos sets so have helped build him smaller stuff, mainly from Lego City.

On a side note, a friend of mine has two stepkids, about 7 and 9 years old-ish, who over the years had built an entire 'City' set up in the spare bedroom. She reckoned that it has probably cost about £10k in all, all bought by family at various christmases and birthdays and guess what? They hardly ever played with it, once each part was built and added, it just became part of the landscape. So, a couple of months before christmas, they decided to take the whole lot apart, bought some shelves and a load of the stack & store type bins, and over several weeks broke it down in to its bricks and mortar, as it were. The kids now have 3 times the space to play in and spend hours making their own things in lego, using their imaginations to build stuff just like we did when we were kids :D
 
I'm starting a Lego Star Wars collection :) having a 10 month old baby is the perfect excuse I always say.....
My other half likes the super hero Lego but I'm not too keen on that, I also have the latest mind storms box set that I need to unpack in the new year :)
 
I got a set of technic lego from my mum this Christmas. My wife bought my my first ever set for my birthday earlier in the year.

Love the stuff! Perfect for those days when the garage is too cold to go and fettle with the car, but still want to fettle with something moderately mechanical.
 
Got loads and loads of Lego, my brother and I were obsessed with it as kids. Only ever got one Technic set though, a Hot rod which was cool as!

I've a female classmate friend who still buys and build lego now at 29.
 
My kids had a lot of Lego, and my mother brought a big Technics kit back from the US. I'm not very good at technical stuff, and not very interested either, so that one caused me a lot of grief "helping" my son to build it! All boxed up in SA now, and waiting for my grandson when he's older. He's got Duplo for now, but we'll add to the Lego later on.
 
Have you checked out all the robotics stuff Lego do now? I believe you can control them via tablet/smartphone apps.

I collected town lego (now city Lego). I had police, fire, and petrol stations, hospital, airport, cargo train, restaurant, race track, and some roads. And guess what, I've still got it all. My 6 year old son plays with it now and has added to it from birthdays, Xmas and he saves his pocket money. He started his Lego with duplo and then went onto Alien Conquest, which he has all of, because it was so much cheaper than star wars Lego.

The biggest problem I've found though is that Lego don't keep series going long enough. We had to buy the last thing he needed for Conquest way before the Xmas he got it because they were stopping it. So if you do start a specific collection for your kids ;), even if its a certain city theme eg the mining sets, bare in that in mind and be prepeard to spend out before you need them.
 
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We just had a box of Lego and used that to make our toys. For the first week or so, we made every model in the booklet that came with the box.

Never had the lego technics stuff - out of our price range. The lego models these days seem to be tied into licensing so you get stuff like lego star wars. Never saw the point - you can make only one model and most people would put it on display rather than play with it.
 
I intend to play with the set i get more so because it will have power functions too which makes it far more interesting!
 
Had a big box of technics when I was young, that you could make into loads of models. Not a fan of the kits nowadays which are 1# specific item.
 
While I didn't have a Lego set as such, I had a lesser known version which involved smaller white and grey bricks but the method is the same (pushing them together). I can't remember the exact makes of it and a browse through Google failed to yield results so that's how obscure it was. But I thought it was more superior to Lego because I was able to make more "realistic" models with it (had a whole bag load).

EDIT: Just found the makes of it, it was called Betta Buida made by Arifix - the English Lego clone (it was half the size so it wasn't compatible with the classic Lego) . . .

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Been doing meccano with the boy this afternoon, he got a set yesterday from his nan. I have to admit I always thought Lego was loads better than Meccano.
 
I've boxes and boxes and bloody boxes of Lego in the loft. A lot over 40 years old which was mine, then many many sets which are my youngsters... I guess it will remain in situ until such time as the lad is old enough to pass it onto his own kids.. I just collect the keyrings now!
 
Spiderdudeuk said:
I've boxes and boxes and bloody boxes of Lego in the loft. A lot over 40 years old which was mine, then many many sets which are my youngsters... I guess it will remain in situ until such time as the lad is old enough to pass it onto his own kids.. I just collect the keyrings now!
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I'm 45 now and would still play with it.
 
Finally finished it and wired up to power functions

Will upload a video of it in action in due course!
 
IF you can get one the LEGO UNIMOG is a nice one - I like the rock crawler too - The big crane is on my list, I mean my lads - who does not let me play .......
 
A little video of the truck in action
I will warn the video is crap as i dont do good videos or video editing :LOL:

Lego Technic Container truck with Power Functions:
 
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That container truck is the one my wife bought me for my birthday last year.

It's a fun little set, in intentionally did it a few pages at a time which made it last nicely. Good model it is too
 
Lol i ripped the build in just shy of 5 hours!
The laddie and i are having fun with it though.
Alreay got plans to convert the cab to the one used on the flat bed truck from a few years ago
 
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stupar said:
So my boy got his first box of lego for christmas and it got me remembering my childhood days of building with my lego...especially technic stuff!
After much deliberating (all of 10 mins tops) i have decided to buy myself a current lego technic set.

Does anyone here still indulge in lego technic?
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From time to time yes. The advantage of being an adult is you can buy a couple of the top of the line sets for a few hundred quid each. Keep one in the shrink wrap for the future and build the other. For example, the Star Wars SSD which was released recently. It wasn't technic, but it did have quite a few pieces (3,000 if I recall).

I prefer older Lego, as the modern stuff comes with too many specialised pieces and I think this stifles creativity.

About 10 years ago I used to trade Lego via ebay. It's something you never grow out of!

PS. Word to the wise, if you have any original 1980's Lego keychains/keyrings, the Japanese will pay a heck of a lot for some of them, as with original instructions/brochures.
 
Have you seen cubestormer3? It's a robotic rubix cube solver that's built out of Lego mind storms. Solves cubes in around 3.2secs
 
Yv said:
This will not make me popular in this thread, but am I the only one that doesn't think of Lego when I see these models? They look more like plastic Meccano?
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Thats an age thing Yv
 
Byker28i said:
Have you seen cubestormer3? It's a robotic rubix cube solver that's built out of Lego mind storms. Solves cubes in around 3.2secs
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Yep pretty impressive for some lego and very clever programming!
 
My daughter is getting inerested in lego now, and my son was 2 just before christmas seems to be liking it too, only got small bitsatm, like the turkey and bat figures. We have the cat and mouse to build. I have my eye on the camper van and things like that along with the lego tower bridge. But lack of room is a big problem, need some shelves!

extravagant by scilly puffin, on Flickr
 
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