Lego: C/D, S&D

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I was more referring to the buckets that build up in each house over time when all the sets get mixed together, was just bemoaning the loss of the relatively generic sets of the past.

but yeah this problem is more with retailers than with Lego per se. Stupid chain stores just stock the latest product tie-ins, probably because they're owned by the same company making the movies or whatever.

you'd be amazed at what fun things you can come up with using only a few pieces of lego, but i know what you mean. and really should come down in price for the smaller kits.

technic stuff is still great though, been buying some of the larger sets recently. tho on some they've resorted to these horrible fake pneumatics rather than the actual thing - meaning you need a motor.

i now have thousands of technic parts, and i'm itching to make a huge transformer..

I'll admit though, as a Star Wars geek I think some of those sets are pretty damn cool.

just wait until Lucas reissues the sets with extra crap that looks terrible and doesn't work

i want to rep for mega bloks a little. they feel terrible to work with, but they are lego-compatible and are half the price. perfect for making pencil holders, computer cases, anything that uses up lots of bricks. also they are weird and french-canadian.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/04/tiny-lego-guitars.html

http://craphound.com/images/4112046166_8c53e330a9_o.jpg

Also, an easy way to pick up a shitloada lego is thru Craigslist, thru deals or yard sales that have them offered.

that lego space tshirt is sickkkkkk

Lego superhero mega-crossovers:

http://ulisesfarinas.com/

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My husband LOVES Lego. I'm more a Playmobil fan.

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Bought my oldest kid a "marriage house". I wanted her to have some sort of house and that was available. SO that's what I got her. :-)

Ha, my sister had that house! Still has, actually.

I collected a bunch of the arctic expedition sets when I was young.

Millsner, what's her address? Must have been expensive! Crap, I'm off to check the prices. Very tempted. Of course Ophelia will only be able to look at mommy playing with it. hahaha

Pretty sure it's sitting in my parents' basement now, along with five or six other big Rubbermaid bins of Lego and Playmobil.

I'm actually itching to break out the stuff when I spend a month or two at home this winter.

freaky:

http://markl.hyperrealm.com/lego/6949-large.jpg

Ah yeah, the Magne-something space sets. I had a few of those, but never that one. Magnetron?

Space Police (the original black & blue series) were pretty cool with the interchangeable components and lights, but I guess Blacktron started those and deserves more credit.

When cross-licensing goes bad:

http://yfrog.com/1xtoyfj

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Thanks.

Building the Echo Base on Hoth to scale. Why the fuck not? The lighting and the rec room are a nice touch.

I thought this was updated because of last night programme by James May where he built a full size lego house.

http://www.betleywhitehorne.com/bwlog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/James-May-Lego-House-11.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46422000/jpg/_46422467_legobed_paraw.jpg

I started watching that, but May was such a tosser (particularly when the 2000 volunteers were building the bricks) that I switched it off.

the interior designer didn't seem to understand joints. wha?

the outside just looks fucking boring

"boring plastic square in Surrey" sums up May rather well.

my son just blurted out two days ago that santa was bringing him legos. I didn't even know he was aware of what they were. Purchased, then. Spoiled, he is. where are those toy story legos from? are they still on the market?

they're being released in 2010.

Or possibly this week.

Also, photos of the new licensed Prince of Persia sets are out. So, for those of you who always wanted your very own Lego gylennhall, now's your chance.

i quite like the look of that toy story lego. or did before realising the redundancy involved - toys based on toys.

My two year old is WAY into Lego Duplo. Great toys. I highly recommend the series for toddlers. It's user friendly enough that he doesn't get frustrated, but complex enough that he gets really engrossed. Awesome toys.

http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/1628/lego-kitchen
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They have the new Toy Story sets at Toys R Us for the usual inflated prices. Fifteen bucks for four army dudes and a jeep, for example. They also have the new Atlantis sets, which look cool.

I was able to get a small but still overpriced tub of Duplo for my nephew, tho, so hopefully the infection will spread to him.

Does anyone have a copy of that big-ass Lego Book? The one that has two books one one slipcase?

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I like that they brought back the mine-sweeper/metal detector. That was one of my favorite bits of gear for my space guys way back when.

http://www.bricklink.com/SL/8061-1.jpg?2

'Gateway of the Squid'

Went with wife to buy Duplo as wobs prez for 2-year old nephew. He likes CARS. So after some deliberation we decided we had to "compromise" between his wishes and our oldskool lego purism and bought overdesigned Duplo car thing PLUS a box of about 100 generic Duplo blocks. Kids today eh?

I remember even as a kid I admired that Duplo was pretty much back-compatible with Proper Lego, on a four-to-one-knob basis. (Or two-to-one in one dimension obv! Hence the name Duplo! I only right now figured this out!)

see also SuziLego Quatro
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I didn't realize Duplo was compatible with regular Lego! I was thinking our Duplo stock would become obsolete in a few years.

Lego is indeed ridiculously priced, but that's true of any quality toy nowadays. At least Lego is not likely to break and will hold kid's interest forever (see ilx Lego dorks for proof of Lego as an everlasting source of pleasure).

I had a bag shaped like the duplo bunny when I was a little girl...I loved that thing so much. this thing...I'd forgotten about it until just now.

Anyone here old enough to remember handed-down lego from uncles etc from about the 50s/60s or something, which were crappy because only loose-fitting from above? Ie they didn't have the tight scaffolding inside on the belowside, just the outermost rectangle, so they fit on top of other things and vice versa, but came loose bcz not sufficiently precision engineered?

Lego memories pt 14: new at university, getting into discussion w/new classmates on random stuff, and bonding a bit with one on how great the small lego rubber tires felt to CHEW on whilst being an kid. Tactile+ memory, I can taste it as I write. Om nom etc.

totally chewed on the tires.

yeah, i even swallowed a few. good memories.

here are all the Toy Story sets so far.

and if you ever wanted your own jake gyllenhaal in plastic, here ya go:

http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/103/415x0/103635_a-lego-prince-dastan-and-jake-gyllenhaal-in-prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time.jpg

looks just like him

My favorite Lego series was probably the Forestmen, although I have a lot of love for classic Space / Futuron

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/lego/images/d/d5/Fmen1.jpg

The Toy Story lego figures are some kind of heathen bullshit imo.

any character that don't start from this essential template:
http://www.seanmichaelragan.com/img/LEGO_figure_4_heads_tall.jpg

(but in yellow, obv) don't qualify as lego.

in agreement. i think the lego ewoks break this crucial rule too.

i understand the purist position, but what can be done about ewoks? They ought to be smaller, right?

Also, they're adding multiple races to the Castles line, so you know how lego dwarves:

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