http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/niemann/posts/2009/02/17beer.jpg
I LEGO N.Y.
― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://brickarms.com/
― plenty chong (libcrypt), Saturday, 21 March 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
― I seldom pass on tea now. (libcrypt), Saturday, 28 March 2009 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Brickfest is going on in Portland this weekend
― kingfish, Saturday, 28 March 2009 08:02 (fifteen years ago) link
asked this on the spaceship thread and thought I'd try again:
OK, need help. I used to have a couple lego style toys. I don't think the blocks etc were compatible. They were major ships (naval and civilian) that were in a smaller scale than most lego things. A destroyer was 6 to 8 inches long and it came with a small helicopter. Anybody know the brand? It seemed almost fancier than lego. Any ideas?
― Spencer Chow, Friday, December 21, 2007 3:55 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Also, the "studs" had a recess unlike lego. The ship models were only four studs wide. The bows of the ships were fully formed with a bow "cap" that would have the name of the ship.
Anyone??
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
figured it out! TENTE.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
how are they quality-wise? I can't believe none of the knockoffs are able to get close to lego-quality. it's just plastic right?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
The bricks need to be made to an accuracy of three thousands of an inch.
― the visible spectrum is rainbows (snoball), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.cooltoyreview.com/story/front/D23_Expo_LEGO_To_Produce_Disney_Sets_126435.asp
Disney-licensed lego are coming.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 07:17 (fourteen years ago) link
stolen from stevem
http://www.barnabygunning.com/index.php?type=show&p_ID=37&i_ID=427
life size lego house
― koogs, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 09:12 (fourteen years ago) link
wow! dismantled yesterday :-(
― willem, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link
LEGO ROCK BAND is coming
with LEGO BOWIE and LEGO IGGY
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Lego-david-bowie.jpg
― kingfish, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
lolz @ eyes
― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6238/legoiggypop05xlarge.jpg
― kingfish, Thursday, 8 October 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know what else to say other than we live in a world where you can purchase official sets based on Frank Lloyd Wright creations:
http://www.yatzer.com/assets/Image/2009/may/frank_Lloyd_Wright_lego/frank_Lloyd_Wright_and_lego_yatzer_4.jpg
― kingfish, Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't understand why the batman kits are all, like, 3 times more expensive than any other kits of equivalent size.
― JimD, Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
nerd market
― thomp, Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I kind of like the idea of the plodding, boring, barely rewarding labour of putting together a Frank Lloyd Wright Lego. It seems like it would be relaxing and kind of keep me busy for a while. I could have the TV on in the background... Put a pot of coffee on... I wonder how much it costs and how long it would take me to build?
― fields of salmon, Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
whilst the story's real, that picture is a rendering, probably box art. the real version wouldn't have those lines between the cream bricks (which spoils it for me)
http://www.yatzer.com/1710_frank_lloyd_wright%27s_lego_architecture_sets
http://architecture.lego.com/en-US/Products/architect/Default.aspx
(there's a landmark series too - space needle, empire state...)
― koogs, Thursday, 19 November 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2522/3690179500_b7894ef1bd.jpg
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 19 November 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah the same to be said about the star wars stuff, ridiculously priced.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 19 November 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Seriously, "3 times more expensive" was a huge understatement:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-City-7235-Police-Motorcycle/dp/B0007LXVOO/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=toys&qid=1258706307&sr=8-12
VS
http://www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-Batman-Mini-Figure-The-Joker/dp/B000U8452Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys&qid=1258706285&sr=8-1
Just insane!
― JimD, Friday, 20 November 2009 08:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been on a lego kick lately, and some of the custom builds are pretty fun:
http://www.classic-pirates.com/contests/ptvii/parrots-perch-pub-black-rabbit.html
http://www.classic-pirates.com/wordpress/images/2009/11/PTVII-Black-Rabbit1.jpg
― kingfish, Friday, 20 November 2009 08:51 (fourteen years ago) link
that's not really a valid comparison though. like comparing eggs with faberge eggs (ok, not like that at all). the batman stuff's a lot rarer.
i have a lot of the star wars lego and it was never that much more than similar sized sets. but then it was available everywhere.
― koogs, Friday, 20 November 2009 09:48 (fourteen years ago) link
It's fake rarity though, right? That stuff's all still in production, they just don't produce much of it. S'just frustrating when you've got a lego-loving, batman-loving four year old.
― JimD, Friday, 20 November 2009 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
> they just don't produce much of it.
if this is true then they are idiots - all that extra markup is going into middlemen's pockets, not theirs. but it's Lego that people are getting pissed off at.
― koogs, Friday, 20 November 2009 10:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Em refused to let me buy the new mini Lego Millennium Falcon in Tesco last week, even though it was only, like, £15 or something. Cow.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 20 November 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Buy it for her as a present.
― DRUNK SWEDISH CHINTZ (Upt0eleven), Friday, 20 November 2009 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Lego is (the best toy ever BUT) kind of disappointing in that new sub-£20 Lego kits seem to be like 4 standard bricks and a giant clip-on all-in-one bit of plastic for the overall shape, and I just want to pretend I am 7 and in front of a giant bucket of a lifetime's accumulated Lego again with daydreams of infinite possibilities.
Was this always the way? I like to imagine that in the 80s you could buy e.g. space kits with hundreds of parts without needing to remortgage, but maybe parents had to haemorrage money to get me and my friends the vast Lego selections we all had.
I think there was definitely more middle ground between a cheap 4-piece set and giant top-of-range space station/galleon Christmas lust object, whatever the prices, though, and less resorting to "here is the all-in-one piece which resembles the picture on the box; now you may open the bag of two tiny headlights, one plain grey brick and one antenna to clip on".
(tempted to buy Mr Spacecadet that mini Falcon for Christmas but he is a cynical bugger re cash-ins and not particularly nostalgic for Star Wars despite 80s childhood, so I guess not ;_; )
― subtyll cauillacyons (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 20 November 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
by hundreds of parts I probably mean 30, which IS hundreds when you are 7, as proven by all the times I told my mother "whoa there are hundreds of ___!" and she would say "well why don't you count them" - she is a maths teacher, after all - and the answer was always about 30
this means I am nearly hundreds of years old and still talking about Lego
― subtyll cauillacyons (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 20 November 2009 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.brickset.com/search/?subtheme=Classic&theme=Town
yeah most of the smaller sets are now just a few pieces of lego with a couple of specially made parts. The link above is a site with all the old cool stuff.
i've been into the technic stuff again lately, luckily that hasn't changed too much.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Friday, 20 November 2009 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Great link! I was all set to go through and go "oh, I had that one and that one and..." but instead I am going "oh, huh, is that where that one brick with the stripes came from? could be, who knows...", since everything was dismantled after a day or two and thrown into the giant collection. I just feel sorry for the kids today, whose collections will be smaller and full of pretty useless half-a-triceratops mouldings
― subtyll cauillacyons (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 20 November 2009 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
the mid-range star wars models were ok. not too many custom pieces (which is the price you pay for wanting it to look like an x-wing and not just generic, blocky spaceship, say*) and would take a good hour or two to put together. but then they all went Episode 1 and i lost interest.
i think it's always been expensive, because it's well made. plus it's essentially petrochemical and this was the 70s.
* case in point, a police carhttp://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/0644-1.jpgmust be a volvo...
― koogs, Friday, 20 November 2009 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a couple of other sites with all the old catalogues, going as far back as the 60's too. i'll dig it out tonight, last time i checked though it was down - it always seems to suffer bad bandwidth anyway.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Friday, 20 November 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.peeron.com/scans/?tid=12
^has instruction scans and catalogue scans, as well as pieces lists for products
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Friday, 20 November 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.bricklink.com/browse.asp
apparently where most of the lego faithful do their trading. Much better pricing than ebay scams.
― kingfish, Friday, 20 November 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I want this shirt.
http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/clothing/bodycolor:navy/product:tshirt/size:large/style:mens/view:preview/534765-12-space-lego.jpg
http://www.google.com/products?q=lego+space+tshirt
― kingfish, Friday, 20 November 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
hell yes
― so says surgeon snoball (snoball), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Buyin' a classic red one.
― President Danny Glover (Millsner), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy crap, I never knew this existed:
http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=10123-1
http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/10123-1.jpg
― kingfish, Friday, 20 November 2009 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah most of the smaller sets are now just a few pieces of lego with a couple of specially made parts.
^^^yep, and this is superlame. I will not be be buying these for my daughter. she gets the old school generic shit
― Jack Kirby's Orangutan Surfing Civilization (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 November 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
my nephews have all my old stuff from the late 70's plus all kinda newfangled things to paste on top, best of both worlds really. they recently went to a convention with lots of custom molded pieces, the younger boy bought 20 beautiful lego dogs.
― sleeve, Saturday, 21 November 2009 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
For those of you who remember playing Tie Fighter back in the day, they're finally putting out a lego Tie Defender:
http://www.brickset.com/detail/?set=8087-1
http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/8087-1.jpg
304 pieces, 2 lego dudes, $50 american
Contrasted with:
http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/6754-1.jpg
No dudes, almost 1,000 pieces, about $50-60
― kingfish, Saturday, 21 November 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Neat how you can pretty much game any video game ship you want, tho. Some of them even come as sets:
http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/5981-1.jpg
$13 american
― kingfish, Saturday, 21 November 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
MAKE any video game ship, i should say
e.g. Your Vic Viper:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3295/2966843423_770faee041.jpg
― kingfish, Saturday, 21 November 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/1103/JARE/Others/bicycle_in_antarctic.jpg
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I know this is echoed many times above, but I went shopping for presents for my wife's nephews the other night and we were looking at Legos. Fuck they are expensive. And so g-d specialized, like you can make one thing and one thing only out the sets. The days of huge buckets full of generic pieces are pretty much gone, no?
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Lego's been losing serious money over the past decade. methinks they will learn their lesson given this common complaint.
― Owa Tana Siam (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
No, they're still there, just in blue/pink plastic tubs
― kingfish, Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
This looks pretty much like the bucket of bricks I received for Christmas as a kid.
― DRUNK SWEDISH CHINTZ (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link