Monorail. Monorail. Mono-

Fandyien

holy shit is that really $700

Tox

Construx was pretty awesome. I had a bunch of contrux.

Here's a few of the ones I remember having:









That last one? That was the SHIT. It was basically a battery-powered motor, and you could put little wheels on the motor, and connect them to other wheels by rubber band. This allowed you to make an intricate system of belts and pulleys that allowed you to pretty much do anything you could engineer. It was awesome.

LTM

Fandyien wrote:

holy shit is that really $700

A lot of the Creator sets get that way after they stop making them. I think I paid $150 or something in the store.

That's the same thing that's happened to the Creator Eiffel Tower.

Turambar

I have so much of the stuff posted in this thread
Memories are flooding back

My favourite:

I remember me and my dad building it on christmas...


Nowadays you need to own a diamond mine to be able to afford the tiniest lego

webguy20

LTM wrote:

Man, I wanted to buy the Lego Eiffel Tower set a few years back, but sort of balked at spending the money at the time.

Now its not being made anymore and I don't really want to eBay it for $300+.

I do have this, half done, though:

http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-4557560-LEGO%C2%AE-Creator-Carousel/dp/B001USHS9C

My Fiancee has the Eiffel Tower set and it is bad ass and HUGE. 3ft tall. It was a bitch to build too because almost all the pieces are grey. It made it so hard to find the right piece. Took her about a week of building in the evenings to get it done.

she got this last year for christmas and it is pretty bad ass. They needed to make a passenger car set for it though.

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Emerald-Night-10194?c=Trains-ByTheme

Peter Ebel

I had a lot of lego shit when I was a kid. The best was probably a big ass technics rally car that operated via a system of pneumatic pumps.

Caveman Paws

I feel so old! When I was LEGO age, the "cool LEGO" sets were the ones with "wheels" and "clear pieces."

You would hear rumors of LEGO kits that had motors, but you dismissed such talk, since clearly such a complex item had no place in the LEGO universe. But then you'd stumble upon a SEARS catalog from the US and there it would be, motorized LEGOs. Wild times man.

LTM

webguy20 wrote:

LTM wrote:

Man, I wanted to buy the Lego Eiffel Tower set a few years back, but sort of balked at spending the money at the time.

Now its not being made anymore and I don't really want to eBay it for $300+.

I do have this, half done, though:

http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-4557560-LEGO%C2%AE-Creator-Carousel/dp/B001USHS9C

My Fiancee has the Eiffel Tower set and it is bad ass and HUGE. 3ft tall. It was a bitch to build too because almost all the pieces are grey. It made it so hard to find the right piece. Took her about a week of building in the evenings to get it done.

she got this last year for christmas and it is pretty bad ass. They needed to make a passenger car set for it though.

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Emerald-Night-10194?c=Trains-ByTheme

That one is pretty cool. I've almost bought it a couple times.

I'm not sure what I want next if I ever finish this carousel, though. The motorized part actually is really cool, with the moving horses and everything.

Al_wat

When I first clicked this thread I thought it was going to be about the Simpsons

Artreus

I had polly pockets.

Fuck you they were awesome.

Also I had a few good lego sets.

I had this



and one of the pirate subs.

My stupid step brother fucked them all up though.

Dark Raven X

What's with the BRICK logo?

Are you from one of them up raining chocolate snow bass ackward countries?

MegaMan001

Dark Raven X wrote:

MegaMan, you got any Space stuff, I will give you actual cash money for that Lego.

I got the Ice Planet stuff. The Deep Freeze Defender, that Ice Sat V thing and I think some other vehicle. All of the Ice Station / Ice Planet variety. No boxes or anything fancy.

Artreus

I have no idea, I just googled rescue boat and that was the first image I came across

marty_0001

God yes some of these sets are bringing back memories

How did my parents put up with my brothers and I raking through the tubs of lego on weekends? Just KRSSSH KRSSH KRSSH, for hours on end, looking for that elusive piece.

I thought about trying to bring in some sort of system for organising everything but it never got off the ground.

Rolo

so awesome

MetroidZoid

MrMonroe

I am loving this music

ronzo

Got this the other day, can't wait to be done with this paper so I can put it together

TheStig

I had something like that but it was a classic car, I can't find a picture of it

The Black Hunter

I built a 70cm long LEGO star destroyer with like 1/3rd of my lego pieces

then I built another one with another 3rd

then I did the thing that came naturally and combined them, making one about a meter long.

Then a baby kangaroo (not shitting you) ran up the hallway and broke it to pieces

Sir Carcass

I can't afford most of the lego sets I'd want nowadays, but I'll get one of the Creator sets occasionally just because you get more bang for your buck. Here's a couple I have:



That one is cool because if you pull the little tab on the back, the wings swivel.



The doors and trunk open on this one.

I want to get this one, but $60....



I've also got some smaller Creator sets that I can't remember. Also some of the Star Wars stuff from around with Episode 1 came out, including an X-Wing and a TIE Interceptor. I should dig my legos out as it's been a couple of years. My son is getting close to the right age.

Stale

I've been very very tempted multiple times to spring on the death star and star destroyer lego sets.


But I just can not justify the 400-600 a pop for each.

chrishallett83

Hello thread.

I have these:


Here they are on my shitty coffee table next to a footlong steel rule:


I want this one too, but I really can't afford more Lego now:

Dark Raven X

Something about this set is really calling to me;



It's the only new lego thing that really strikes me as being fantastic.

Paladin

ugh technic parts are so hard to disassemble

Dark Raven X

Also, CHRIS! Those red cars?

I had something similar.

I am sure it was called The Millenium Car, but much googling tells me to shut up, that never happened.

But yeah - very similar design, but with a sweet ass V8 engine with working pistons.

Assembling that shit correctly was a key moment in my childhood. Watching the pistons work? Man. That was an achievement.

Artreus

Those Lego creator sets are great. I have been eyeing a yellow airplane one for a while

Dark Raven X

My Explorien Starship came today.

It is huge.

I can't even remember how big it must have seemed when I was a kid.

Cause damn, the thing is huge.