Lego - The Coolest Toy Ever?

Kintarō Hattori · 2006-06-27 00:36:09

Sorry Mods if After Hours isn't where this should be posted, but I didn't see a Toy's Forum as such. It's also not exactly Retro as it's still very much on the go. I was browsing through boards a while back and I wandered into the Requested Forums section and saw that Grimes and many others would love a Lego forum. I…

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Kintarō Hattori

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Sorry Mods if After Hours isn't where this should be posted, but I didn't see a Toy's Forum as such. It's also not exactly Retro as it's still very much on the go.

I was browsing through boards a while back and I wandered into the Requested Forums section and saw that Grimes and many others would love a Lego forum. I hadn't thought about Lego in years but it got me thinking that I was very lucky when I was a kid growing up in the 80's in that my folks used to buy me Lego quite reguarly. I began thinking about all the great pieces I had and how I loved putting them together and then taking them apart and trying to come up with some designs of my own.

I really couldn't get this out of my head and I had a big desire recently to buy some Lego. I know that's sad but I really wanted to do it. So I rather embarrassingly owned up to this in work and was fully expecting to be ridiculed by the lads, when lo and behold the four I was talking to, including the main manager in his mid thirties and the assistant manager admitted to loving it and even messing about with it these days.
I'm afraid I gave in to my desire and went out and bought a piece of Technics Lego for €10. It was a tractor. Well I spent about an hour or so putting it together, in between watching tv and being distracted by the missus who's just learning how to type. I had great craic and it brought back some of the fun of my childhood.

The point I'm getting to I guess is that it's excellent value for money with some of the sets costing less than €4. The design of some of them, particuarly the Technics stuff is very clever and I love the fact that it helps make kids think about what they are doing. It's great for the imagination and I will DEFINETLY buy Lego for my kids when I get around to having them someday.
It's excellent value for money, it's cleverly designed. The kids have to construct it to make it work, hopefully inspiring their imaginations. There are so many possibilities. When your finished with one thing, just build another.

Is it the best toy ever?

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#2 27-06-2006 12:36AM

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Your easily amused!!

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#3 27-06-2006 12:39AM

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You should get one of those massive sets that would keep you going for ages. I remmember this one, turned out to be a big wheel shape and you made a car do a loop-the-loop. Really good!

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#4 27-06-2006 12:39AM

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Dr. Bill wrote:

Your easily amused!!

You have no idea.

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#5 27-06-2006 12:40AM

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YeAh! wrote:

You should get one of those massive sets that would keep you going for ages. I remmember this one, turned out to be a big wheel shape and you made a car do a loop-the-loop. Really good!

If this sudden facsination doesn't die off, I might just end up shelling out €100+ for the bigger sets.

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#6 27-06-2006 12:40AM

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eo980 wrote:

Sorry Mods if After Hours isn't where this should be posted, but I didn't see a Toy's Forum as such. It's also not exactly Retro as it's still very much on the go

Aye; add your support:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054920827&page=3

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#7 27-06-2006 12:43AM

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Done.

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#8 27-06-2006 12:44AM

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Dr. Bill wrote:

Your easily amused!!

YOu will soon slip up, they all do...

I played with lego a LOT when i was younger, had bucket loads of the stuff passed down by my brother. We would spend the day building stuff, the aim being to use every piece. We didnt make it somedays...

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#9 27-06-2006 12:45AM

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Endurance Man wrote:

YOu will soon slip up, they all do...

I played with lego a LOT when i was younger, had bucket loads of the stuff passed down by my brother. We would spend the day building stuff, the aim being to use every piece. We didnt make it somedays...

So thats why you call yourself 'Endurance Man'!!!

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#10 27-06-2006 12:49AM

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Yeah I had lego when I was younger... It really is great I had quite small pieces, but loads of them, so the things I could build were virtually limitless!

Ah ya f*ck, ya gave me the urge to buy some now! I won't though... People think I'm wierd enough

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#11 27-06-2006 12:52AM

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Lego is the best.

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#12 27-06-2006 12:53AM

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DaveMcG wrote:

Ah ya f*ck, ya gave me the urge to buy some now! I won't though... People think I'm wierd enough

Ya Will Ya Will Ya Will Ya Will............ go on, don't let me be the only weirdo who admits to this on this thread. Save me from my own humiliation. The cheapest set I saw cost less than a tenner!

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#13 27-06-2006 12:56AM

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Lego ftw! \o/

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#14 27-06-2006 01:03AM

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Nothing beats lego, nothing.

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#15 27-06-2006 01:11AM

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MrJoeSoap wrote:

Nothing beats lego, nothing.

Seconded

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#16 27-06-2006 01:18AM

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lego is cool. still have a bagfull of it upstairs i think.. oh and wat does "ftw" mean?..

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#17 27-06-2006 01:23AM

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Lego have ceased trading or are scaling down or something.. So all things retro yeah?

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#18 27-06-2006 01:34AM

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PlayGirl wrote:

lego is cool. still have a bagfull of it upstairs i think.. oh and wat does "ftw" mean?..

For Teh[sic] Win

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ftw

Nothing beats lego, nothing.

Try sex.

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#19 27-06-2006 01:41AM

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pfft the lego in the pictures isn't lego at all.

lego has to be unsorted and be in standard shapes (cubes, cuboids etc.)

none of these fancy pieces with crosses in them

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#20 27-06-2006 07:00AM

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Loved lego, even had names for my lego 'family'. Used to love designing and building different houses. Had one of them lego train sets and everyone kept falling over it. got hours and hours of enjoyment from it!

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#21 27-06-2006 08:31AM

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Giblet wrote:

Lego have ceased trading or are scaling down or something.. So all things retro yeah?

Really? I didn't read that, where did you see it?

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#22 27-06-2006 08:36AM

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Lego is the coolest, bestest toy ever, and nothing will ever better it.

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#23 27-06-2006 08:46AM

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I have 2 tv boxes full of lego, I thought it was the best thing ever for kids, still is tbh. I moved on now to rc models(petrol) You build them up like lego, a bit more complicated and drive them like mad:D Not cheap tho!

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#24 27-06-2006 08:55AM

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Ah, lego. Many a long afternoon I spent wading thru buckets of bricks creating my city. Hours of fun.

Couple of links for you:

This one lists nearly every set ever made by Lego

This one can provide instruction sheets if you're missing them.

And this was the first set I got.

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#25 27-06-2006 08:56AM

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I just have fond memories of getting lego for Christmas, aswell as my cousins and brother - and taking all the boxes and disappearing for over 6 hours while I made every single set

Call me a sucker (since they all asked me to do it) - but dammit I had so much fun. And as for Lego Technic - I always wanted that racing car one - the one with the big chunky tyres

I had this one

http://www.lego.com/eng/create/technic/productPage.aspx?family=technic&productNumber=8421

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#26 27-06-2006 08:58AM

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Yeah my parent sold their house recently and had to clear out the attic found two black bags full of lego and the big red technics car. Couldn't force myself to part with them so now they are in my attic

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#27 27-06-2006 09:14AM

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Most definetly my favourite of all the sets I had:

http://www.brickset.com/search.aspx?Set=6941-1

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#28 27-06-2006 09:21AM

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Loved lego
My mam always asked me when I was a kid.
"What are you doing there"

"Building a house"

They use so many lego bricks to build a house.
I was always amazed aswell at the massive lego monster they had in the toy shop. It must of took some time to build.

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

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#29 27-06-2006 09:31AM

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Funny lego video:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaMSi3ojPps&search=gta%20lego%20city

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#30 27-06-2006 09:32AM

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Lego rules the earth with a tiny plastic fist! Well, it's more of a cupped hand but anyway.

One time I arrived at a friend's house. There was a small piece of 'boat' Lego on the table which I proceeded to deconstruct and rebuild in my own design. He then told me that he, our other mate and I had all built totally different things with the same pieces. He'd built a fast speed boat type thing (he's a cop), my mate built a very efficient functional boat (engineer) and I built an abstract piece of art that was a not-boat (programmer).

In summary, Lego is a window to the soul.

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#31 27-06-2006 09:33AM

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My first big Lego castle: http://www.brickset.com/search.aspx?Set=6080-1
cost me the equivalent of £50 in Legoland itself in Billund, Denmark in the late 80s. Man, I couldn't wait for the holiday to be over so we could get home and start building - my brother bought the Robin Hood Forest Hideout and other stuff as well! Some good battles were had.

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