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Technic Lego

  • 13-03-2017 12:47PM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm 29 and for the last few years, I've wanted to start playing with Lego again.. And recently, I've decided to quit drinking so it seems like the perfect time.

    I started looking a while ago and found this.. Absolutely amazing piece to be fair and I can get it delivered from AliExpress for $300.



    Can After Hours give me any reasons for why I shouldn't?


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  • #2
    Permabear
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #3
    Boom_Bap
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    Go for it, Lego is awesome.


  • #4
    frash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,643 ✭✭✭frash


    Lego Forum
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=668


  • #5
    Winterlong
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    Absolutely go for it. THat looks great. We all need hobbies...


  • #6
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Never really seen the point. It's a lot of money for something that has building instructions so you don't 'create' anything and the end result is a bit flimsy, you're older than 10 so you'll hardly be lying on the floor rolling it about making engine noises and it's not much of a display piece.


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  • #7
    Wanderer78
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    Jesus, the attention to detail on that thing is amazing. Go for it


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
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    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Never really seen the point. It's a lot of money for something that has building instructions so you don't 'create' anything and the end result is a bit flimsy, you're older than 10 so you'll hardly be lying on the floor rolling it about making engine noises and it's not much of a display piece.

    When I was a teenager, I never actually built what was on the box. It was always just news pieces for my own creations.

    I'd build what's in the video I posted though to get back into it and see some of the more advanced things and because it's amazing. Then I'd destroy it.

    It feels weird to be feeling so excited over Lego.


  • #9
    maximoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,220 ✭✭✭maximoose


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I can get it delivered from AliExpress for $300.

    You may not care, but just in case - that's not Lego. It's a clone chinese version, couldn't tell you if the quality is any good or not.


  • #10
    hungry hypno toad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭hungry hypno toad


    OP, just to be aware, that isn't an official LEGO set, and given that it comes from China will probably be fake pieces. (Or could be real pieces that someone 'bricklinked' bit probably not.)

    That may not make that much difference but the instructions may not be great either.

    Plus it isn't a great price if it is fake.


  • #11
    whiskeyman
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    Deleted User wrote: »

    Can After Hours give me any reasons for why I shouldn't?

    768ddf67108834695ece1c4c0557dad6.jpg


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
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    maximoose wrote: »
    You may not care, but just in case - that's not Lego. It's a clone chinese version, couldn't tell you if the quality is any good or not.

    I've read reviews and the quality is fine. Just some parts are shinier. And I live in Vietnam so can't get proper Lego anyways.. It's all fake.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,642 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Aliexpress had the Ghostbusters Firehouse for $100 but it was a chinese clone.

    As much as I would love to get the Firehouse I only buy real lego and here is why: When I was 9 I was in the Cub Scouts and we did a charity event to get toys for an orphanage in Ukraine. I wrote a letter to Lego asking could they donate some sets. I even said if they had left over pieces or sets with missing parts we would take them because lets face it, its more lego right? I got no letter back, but a few weeks later on Easter Bank Holiday Monday we got a phone call from a truck driver asking for directions for our house. About 15 minutes later a 3-ton truck was backing into our driveway with over 50 boxes of Lego from Lego. Castle, Pirates, Space, you name it.

    So, I only buy real lego, not clones or copies.

    OP definitely get some. I got this for my birthday last year and loved putting it together:
    http://storage.technicbricks.com/Media/2013/TBs_20131201_1/TBs_20131201_1_01.jpg

    I'm 33 by the way.


  • #14
    hungry hypno toad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭hungry hypno toad


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I've read reviews and the quality is fine. Just some parts are shinier. And I live in Vietnam so can't get proper Lego anyways.. It's all fake.

    Any idea what the instructions are like?


  • #15
    Glenster
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    There was a lego star wars set and stickers and an encylopedia for sale in my work a few years ago (You know the books in offices thing)

    I bought it, pretended it was for a nephew and played the sh*t out of it.

    I was 27 years old.


  • #16
    conor222
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭conor222


    Its great fun, got two of the lego architecture as presents over the last year. Loved making them :)


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
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    hungry hypno toad wrote: »
    Any idea what the instructions are like?

    It's a fan-made piece but has good instructions.

    3D - http://www.bricksafe.com/files/afol1969/Instructions/Wing%20Body%20Truck.pdf

    Photos - https://plus.google.com/photos/117021167471864977943/album/5940648351635406001/5942231735359406386


    4380 pieces..... Would take me a year.


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Aliexpress had the Ghostbusters Firehouse for $100 but it was a chinese clone.

    As much as I would love to get the Firehouse I only buy real lego and here is why: When I was 9 I was in the Cub Scouts and we did a charity event to get toys for an orphanage in Ukraine. I wrote a letter to Lego asking could they donate some sets. I even said if they had left over pieces or sets with missing parts we would take them because lets face it, its more lego right? I got no letter back, but a few weeks later on Easter Bank Holiday Monday we got a phone call from a truck driver asking for directions for our house. About 15 minutes later a 3-ton truck was backing into our driveway with over 50 boxes of Lego from Lego. Castle, Pirates, Space, you name it.

    So, I only buy real lego, not clones or copies.

    OP definitely get some. I got this for my birthday last year and loved putting it together:
    http://storage.technicbricks.com/Media/2013/TBs_20131201_1/TBs_20131201_1_01.jpg

    I'm 33 by the way.

    Nice story and all true. But as I said, I live in Vietnam and anything masquerading as real Lego here would be guaranteed fake so I may as well just buy good fake. Plus my family put plenty of money into it when I was young.

    To anyone interested, this seems to be the best way to get the pieces with real lego.
    https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-1389/Madoca1977/wing-body-truck/#buy_parts


  • #19
    hungry hypno toad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭hungry hypno toad


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    It's a fan-made piece but has good instructions.

    3D - http://www.bricksafe.com/files/afol1969/Instructions/Wing%20Body%20Truck.pdf

    Photos - https://plus.google.com/photos/117021167471864977943/album/5940648351635406001/5942231735359406386


    4380 pieces..... Would take me a year.

    Looks good, price not bad considering he amount of power functions components.

    Should take you 15 - 20 hours max depending on how he has sorted the pieces when packing.


  • #20
    Canis Lupus
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    When I was a teenager, I never actually built what was on the box. It was always just news pieces for my own creations.

    I'd build what's in the video I posted though to get back into it and see some of the more advanced things and because it's amazing. Then I'd destroy it.

    It feels weird to be feeling so excited over Lego.

    Well look if it makes you happy... I'm 35 and spend far too much money and time on gaming and that will leave me with nothing but crippling carpal tunnel syndrome.


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
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    hungry hypno toad wrote: »
    Looks good, price not bad considering he amount of power functions components.

    Should take you 15 - 20 hours max depending on how he has sorted the pieces when packing.

    And it seems that on rebrickable.com, I can say I have all those pieces and then it will show me other stuff I can build with them.


    Screw it, I'm ordering.


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Well look if it makes you happy... I'm 35 and spend far too much money and time on gaming and that will leave me with nothing but crippling carpal tunnel syndrome.

    I'm the same... This is what got me looking at Lego again this evening.

    https://imgur.com/gallery/sz2Ph


  • #23
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Ads, I got some Technic last year (this set) for some nostalgia and modern Technic is completely different from when I was younger. There are very little blocks and it's all weird looking pieces. If anything it seems to have gone more like Meccano.

    It took me feckin ages to build so it will keep you entertained for a long time anyway


  • #24
    Fart
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    I was thinking of getting back into building Airfix models to help me get off the drink.

    Probably a bad idea as I'd most likely end up sniffing the glue.


  • #25
    Your Face
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    No reasons.
    Do it.
    That truck looks class!


  • #26
    Macca07
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    I've bought "Lego" from AliExpress in the past, quality is quite good, and instructions are the same.

    Pieces might be a little bit harder to stick together, biggest complaint my daughter had (she's 7 btw).

    If you're only getting back into it, I'd recommend something smaller. If the quality is $hite, then no big deal. If you get bored, no big deal.

    This is what I'd go for...

    Factory-Whole-Sale-Price-Star-Wars-Millennium-Falcon-Figure-Toys-building-blocks-compatible-with-legoed-gift.jpg_640x640.jpg


  • #27
    hungry hypno toad
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    Fart wrote: »
    I was thinking of getting back into building Airfix models to help me get off the drink.

    Probably a bad idea as I'd most likely end up sniffing the glue.

    Farts and glue don't mix well.


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Macca07 wrote: »
    I've bought "Lego" from AliExpress in the past, quality is quite good, and instructions are the same.

    Pieces might be a little bit harder to stick together, biggest complaint my daughter had (she's 7 btw).

    If you're only getting back into it, I'd recommend something smaller. If the quality is $hite, then no big deal. If you get bored, no big deal.

    Yeah, that's true.. I'm going to look at some smaller ones and see if I like them. It has to be Technic though.


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,642 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Nice story and all true. But as I said, I live in Vietnam and anything masquerading as real Lego here would be guaranteed fake so I may as well just buy good fake. Plus my family put plenty of money into it when I was young.

    To anyone interested, this seems to be the best way to get the pieces with real lego.
    https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-1389/Madoca1977/wing-body-truck/#buy_parts

    I wasn't aiming that at you, I completely understand your predicament. When I lived abroad they had real lego but it was the same price as it is here and I was earning about a quarter of what I was here, so it felt 4 times as expensive. So didnt get any for about 4 years.

    Why dont you get a fellow boardsie to buy you some real McCoy Lego and send it out to you. You paypal him the money for the set and shipping costs.


  • #30
    ibFoxer
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    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Never really seen the point. It's a lot of money for something that has building instructions so you don't 'create' anything and the end result is a bit flimsy, you're older than 10 so you'll hardly be lying on the floor rolling it about making engine noises and it's not much of a display piece.

    That's what you think :pac:


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
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    Good few years ago I got a technics bulldozer.
    it was class but cost me 200 quid.
    Ended up selling it on ebay a few years later for 400 quid!


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