Legos

[Takotruckin]

The wieght keyed into a slot on the bottom, not a regular block connection ;) . ?Maybe there was a add on motor?

My dad should still have the hull. $800 and im sure he'll part with it ;)

I don’t remember if it was that one or a blue hull, but I had some sort of boat with a weighted block as well.

 

[total newb]

I don’t remember if it was that one or a blue hull, but I had some sort of boat with a weighted block as well.

I found a pic of the inst and posted it. You were right.

Found the motor for $20 but most are €15-40

I feel like it was smoother and grey but if i had access to it it was because a friend had it.

Those seem to be much newer

 

[Ebs]

I had a lot of those early 90s sets. I remember that police boat, the fire boat too:

 

[korda]

Holy ****. I have a bunch of those 80s technic sets and castle sets. I'd have to sit down and see if I could piece a whole set together. My daughter plays with them. I had the pneumatic ones and should still have that electric motor around that has a battery pack like a ****ing maglite.

I recently did the Legend of Zelda Deku Tree with my daughter and thought my fingers were gonna bleed. **** all those "flowers" on it.

 

[total newb]

Holy ****. I have a bunch of those 80s technic sets and castle sets. I'd have to sit down and see if I could piece a whole set together. My daughter plays with them. I had the pneumatic ones and should still have that electric motor around that has a battery pack like a ****ing maglite.

I recently did the Legend of Zelda Deku Tree with my daughter and thought my fingers were gonna bleed. **** all those "flowers" on it.

With the lil pump and cyl, yellow body & black plunger.

Iirc 3 c cells of disapointing power.

 

[KarlVP]

When we were kids, we built lego cars that we would put estes rocket engines into and race down the street.

 

[SoylentGreen]

Until you build the monorail kit, I'm not interested.

 

[Landslide]

Who has time for this stuff in their lives? Y’all liven in your mom’s basement still or an apparent? Not knocking it just curious about y’all’s idle time is all.

I’ve grown interested in 4x4 RC rigs but I don’t want to start down that rabbit hole either. A buddy of mine has a bunch and they’re pretty cool to run in rocks in a dry bed creek.

I look at legos as a puzzle and when it’s done, then that’s it, that’s your happy ending. I want to build **** I can use after it’s built. But that’s what makes everyone different.

 

[Ksand]

Who has time for this stuff in their lives? Y’all liven in your mom’s basement still or an apparent? Not knocking it just curious about y’all’s idle time is all.

There's not much else to do at 10pm in the winter. An hour a day for a few days and its complete

 

[Squamch]

Damn a lot of you guys grew up rich. That cop boat was the biggest set I ever had, and it was a birthday gift from my rich aunt.

 

[filthy_midget]

Off book **** that people come up with and print out plans.

But fwiw, just like ibb spots goatse, lego nerds spot illegal connection method. Jambing pieces in ways that are not male/female connection.s.

Gay connections? Thats it burn the legos. Lol

Wife has been getting into all the woman kits (teddy bears, flowers, decorative **** for autistic women) but she does this crazy **** where she builds it directly from instructions and doesn't tear the kit back apart to see what else she can make.

We grew up poor. Mom would find a bucket of misc legos at the thrift store, id build, destroy, build something else, on repeat until i got old enough for model cars and not painting or glueing up the whole house. Even then half the time I was adding **** to those kits to make **** look more realistic.

 

[Krackle959]

Still have the police boat kit, parents got me a bunch of LEGO as a kit. Always wanted the monorail or train kits. There’s several totes full of bricks in the spare room for guests to play with. Mom still sends a small kit for Xmas each year as she says it’s hard not to. Lately it’s been the small formula 1 cars, or construction equipment.
Lots of Technic kits upstairs in the box still, I’ll put them together someday. Off the top of my head, the JD skidder, D11 dozer, ford raptor, bronco, and crane. I buy them when getting nieces and nephews gifts, and just tuck them away.

 

[Arps]

So they are like models now? Why not build a model and have it look more like what you are building?

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

Holy ****. I have a bunch of those 80s technic sets and castle sets. I'd have to sit down and see if I could piece a whole set together. My daughter plays with them. I had the pneumatic ones and should still have that electric motor around that has a battery pack like a ****ing maglite.

I recently did the Legend of Zelda Deku Tree with my daughter and thought my fingers were gonna bleed. **** all those "flowers" on it.

The only reason those things are being sold at that price is they are still nib. Legos are worse than new cars. You open them up the value goes just about to zero

 

[Here4memes]

I left all my stuff in my old room when I moved out. When I reappeared after a few years my brothers had gotten all my **** thrown away by dad. Thousands of dollars of legos in the dump. 😕 I had a big tub completely full.

I feel ya.

I probably had a $1,000 or more of hard earned lawn mowing money in a 5 gallon bucket almost full minus a few strays my mom sucked up in the vacuum that probably got sold for $5 at a yard sale when my parents split up. I remember I had the original car with pistons that was like 2' long, a few spaceships and a fire truck and then some.

 

[JR4X]

Anybody able to find a directory of old Lego sets? I had tons of cool stuff that I can’t find pictures of.

 

[woods]

Kiddo fades in and out of it. I try to do some of it, but Im not all that into it. Same with the rc stuff. Comes and goes. In-laws do all the buildings. They have shelf after shelf after shelf of buildings. Just that after built, not really sure what to do with them. Don't really "play" with them. At least with the rc I can bash em and stuff.

 

[Redwagon]

Now we are talking. I have more then I need 😂
First pic is just all Starwars. Then non Lego ***anic. Will post more later
plus at least 500,000 loose brick.

 

[subybaja]

I look at legos as a puzzle and when it’s done, then that’s it,

That's just weird. I NEVER build the picture on the box. I just play with the new specialty pieces and make something up.
I also don't think much of paint by numbers.

 

[Void_of_Light]

My wife got me the AC cobra for Christmas.

I still have the UCE Falcon waiting to get built. I'm working on a coffee table to store it in.

My wife has way more Lego that me. She has both of the friends sets, the home alone house, the Nintendo, and a bunch of flowers.

I think the bonsai tree nearly broke her. It's half assembled and she gives me the death stare when I ask when she's gonna finish it.

 

[Takotruckin]

I found a pic of the inst and posted it. You were right.

Found the motor for $20 but most are €15-40

I feel like it was smoother and grey but if i had access to it it was because a friend had it.

Those seem to be much newer

This is what I remember

 

[KarlVP]

Anybody able to find a directory of old Lego sets? I had tons of cool stuff that I can’t find pictures of.

Legoland in Denmark is your friend.

 

[rockota]

Monster truck frame w/ cantilever suspension that I built over 40 years ago. Had it mobile at one point, but I never solved the need for a slip joint for driveshafts, so pulled them out and left it as a roller.

 

[Roc Doc]

Gonna have to add Legos to Avocado Toast and new iPhones.

 

[Aggie06]

Who has time for this stuff in their lives? Y’all liven in your mom’s basement still or an apparent? Not knocking it just curious about y’all’s idle time is all.

I help my 6 year old build her sets. We build random stuff with pieces after the sets get built and destroyed.

 

[Sandy Johnson]

I make stuff with the kids for them to play with quite a bit. The lifecycle of our legos usually goes like this:
1. Build set
2. Play with it until disaster strikes and it gets disintegrated.
3. Maaaybe salvage it before mom gets frustrated with parts lying around the house where they should and dumps it into parts bin. If so, go back to step 2, otherwise
4. Lego set parts get recycled into building something else cool.

We don't generally care about matching colors or any of that. They just want stuff they can put their little lego guys in a drive/fly/float around in:

For nostalgia, here's some stuff they made with limited old school pieces at my mom's house:

 

[RedX]

Not gonna lie....I like the Architecture ones.

 

[aron82]

There's online instructions at several sites.
I gave my old Legos to my 6 year old.
We put together most of the old sets. He loves the gears and motors of the technic sets.
You can Google a description of the set to find the number, then get the instructions from the number.
I still have the police boat.
He's learning that you have to brace and support things or it won't stay together.
About the only set I don't let him play with is my unimog with the pto winch and grabber arm crane on the back.
I found one on marketplace for a good deal for him.

 

[Bigstic]

I was indifferent on Lego as a kid. When I turned 40 I asked for a any Lego set for my birthday from the kids. Then again for Fathers day and Christmas from the kids. I get a couple sets a year from the kids. This last year was the first time I ever put one together. I have around 15 unopened sets sitting in my closest. I tell my kids I'm going to put them together when I get stuck in the retirement home.

For fathers day this year they got me "Lord of The Rings Barad-dûr". It was fun as the set is 3 separate builds that join together at the end. So the three of us would each work on our own and then we put it together.

 

[Void_of_Light]

I make stuff with the kids for them to play with quite a bit. The lifecycle of our legos usually goes like this:
1. Build set
2. Play with it until disaster strikes and it gets disintegrated.
3. Maaaybe salvage it before mom gets frustrated with parts lying around the house where they should and dumps it into parts bin. If so, go back to step 2, otherwise
4. Lego set parts get recycled into building something else cool.

We don't generally care about matching colors or any of that. They just want stuff they can put their little lego guys in a drive/fly/float around in:

For nostalgia, here's some stuff they made with limited old school pieces at my mom's house:

Those are pretty cool, I had a hard sided suitcase filled with Legos as a kid. I never got the big sets just the little ones so there were lots of random pieces.