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Posted by: chunger Feb 27 2005, 04:35 PM
Hello everyone,
I was wondering if anyone used to play with legos. . . my older brother and sister didn't let me play with their first lego firetruck and police car in 1978. . . they said I tried to eat them. I was pissed. . . I think I was 2, but I still remember that incident vividly. Afterwards, I went lego crazy and ended up doing architecture in college. 
I have friends with kids come over to my house every week now, and they're just getting to the age where they are having enough focus to play with legos. I figure if we're going to do something anti-social and mellow sometimes while they're over, I'd prefer legos over videos. . . anyways, I'm needing to bolster my lego supplies. It's for the kids. .. 
no, really. . . it is. .. . for the children. I was wondering if anyone on the list has legos that are no longer used. . .either yours or your kid's. I'd be interested in stealing. . . I mean buying them . I gave a large portion of mine away quite a while ago. 
Well, if you've got anything, please shoot me a PM. I'm really glad LEGO is selling 1000 piece buckets again, but they're still dang expensive. Ebay is extremely helpful, but I figure there's people here who are into gaining garage space for car parts 
-'Chung
Posted by: trekkor Feb 27 2005, 04:49 PM
I love Lego's. they are fun.
Can I come over? 
KT
Posted by: Cap'n Krusty Feb 27 2005, 04:49 PM
Play with 'em when I was a kid? Jeeeeezzzzz. I bought them for my kids when they first came on the market ....................................................................... I often "helped" the boys play with 'em, though. The Cap'n
Posted by: neo914-6 Feb 27 2005, 04:59 PM
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| Play with 'em when I was a kid? Jeeeeezzzzz. I bought them for my kids when they first came on the market ....................................................................... |
Yeah, I had tinker toys and metal erector sets when I was a kid.
2 year olds discover they are carnivorous. My daughter would bite hard and then smile.
It is hard to find the classic Legos that don't have all the theme crap and yes they have become expensive for injection molded pieces...
Search for Mega-Bloks, they are compatible..
Good luck!
Posted by: vsg914 Feb 27 2005, 05:04 PM
I'm a 50's kid. Tinkertoys rock!
Posted by: Rhodes71/914 Feb 27 2005, 05:11 PM
Loved playing with Legos when I was a kid, still do. My 3yo son is really starting to figure out the mega-blocks. Legos will be next, but I have to agree that the theme stuff is a little out of hand.
Posted by: neo914-6 Feb 27 2005, 05:27 PM
Clarification, there were some "small" Mega Bloks that were virtually identical to Legos. The current Mega Bloks are larger for smaller kids so they don't swallow them.
Posted by: Midtowner Feb 27 2005, 05:35 PM
Lego's rule. Especially if you build a tall tower then have at it with small rocks and a wrist rocket! Yeah, that's what I did as a kid but I came out somewhat normal.
Posted by: Qarl Feb 27 2005, 05:36 PM
I LOVED Legos. My mom always new when I was up on Saturday morning... no mistaking that sound of a little kid digging through the big box of Legos, looking for the right part.
I still have mine, but I am going to keep them. I had always kept them, intending them to pass them on to my child, but I won't go there. 
Maybe my nephew will play with them when he comes over.
Posted by: wrpspddrvr Feb 27 2005, 05:42 PM
They have Ferrari Legos now. I can't tell you how excited I am. 
Cole 
Posted by: jd74914 Feb 27 2005, 06:06 PM
I seriously played with legos until 3 years ago (I'm almost 17). I built and programed (well, mostly programed) lego mindstorm robots using a form of labview (if my memory is correct), for a while in competitions. My team was really good , and we won a few design awards. Lately I've been helping teaching middle-school students how to program. The latest batch even got a programing award. 
Anyways. I'd send some if you weren't so far away (we millions of lego pieces). Legos are the best toys ever.
Caution though. If you start a kid on legos, he will go on to more expensive things. Like bikes, then cars (especially Porsches and VW's), and then he will start looking at engineering schools 
Posted by: Headrage Feb 27 2005, 06:39 PM
I don't even know when they hit the market. Don't remember them as a kid. It was tinkertoys and lincoln logs.
Posted by: rezron Feb 27 2005, 06:50 PM
I bought my 8 year old son a Rokenbok remote control
construction set with all of the extras last year- it's pretty cool to use and the pieces all interconnect with
Legos also! We've bought several pieces on ebay with
pretty good luck.
rezron
Posted by: Root_Werks Feb 27 2005, 06:55 PM
Still do.
Posted by: ChrisReale Feb 27 2005, 07:03 PM
Yea, I got boxes of Lego's at my moms house.
Posted by: Lou W Feb 27 2005, 08:55 PM
We didn't have Lego's, we played with Tinker Toys, Erector sets and Lincoln Logs.
Posted by: ! Feb 27 2005, 09:00 PM
I just winged them at my asshole brother...I was busy playing with Barbies.....
Posted by: MattR Feb 27 2005, 09:01 PM
LMFAO MIKE!!!
That explains a LOT
Posted by: ws91420 Feb 27 2005, 09:02 PM
Had a Lego set that you made a go cart out of it. ( it also made other things but I liked the go cart) The cart had rubber tires and when you pushed it the piston in the engine went up and down.
Posted by: Brett W Feb 27 2005, 10:38 PM
Why do you think all my 914s are in boxes, so I can reminisce about the good ole' days of Legos.
Posted by: bondo Feb 28 2005, 12:18 AM
| QUOTE (Midtowner @ Feb 27 2005, 04:35 PM) |
| Lego's rule. Especially if you build a tall tower then have at it with small rocks and a wrist rocket! Yeah, that's what I did as a kid but I came out somewhat normal. |
Legos rule! I had similar destructive tendencies.. I made up a game I'd play with my friends... Build a lego car, and put a "lego-man" on it. Then we'd send them at each other head on as hard as we could. After each hit you coulf re-seat peices that didn't come off, but any pieces that came off stayed off. Whoever lost their lego "driver" first lost. It was great fun but did a pretty good job of destroying legos.
Here's a lego set I bet you can't find at Toys R Us:
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Posted by: Elliot Cannon Feb 28 2005, 12:33 AM
I think my valve lifters are Legos.
Cheers, Elliot
Posted by: chunger Feb 28 2005, 12:59 AM
ok. . .I posted to the wrong list. Everyone here still plays with their legos. . 
-'Chung
Posted by: mercdev Feb 28 2005, 01:38 AM
http://www.ldraw.org/
Posted by: Brando Feb 28 2005, 02:20 AM
I passed my legos on to my sister. Sometimes i'll jump into the 'ol bucket and build stuff with her. The themed legos have always been around as far as I remember. The space/scifi ones i liked best, they had ultra-violet glowing pieces
Posted by: redshift Feb 28 2005, 03:40 AM
Lego my legos.
m
Posted by: mskala Feb 28 2005, 10:59 AM
Yes, I had a bunch of stuff in my youth. Kept them all, and letting
my son play with them for the foreseeable future.
My coolest project from a long time ago is a 4-speed transmission
with spider gear diff. Saved it still together in the basement.
Posted by: Dave_Darling Feb 28 2005, 01:51 PM
The four-speed Lego transmission is what finally showed me how a "constant-mesh" transmission worked. I couldn't quite "get" it before I built that (yea from a kit).
I think I have at least three of those flip-top plastic boxes worth of Legos. The only way I'll give 'em up is when I'm dead!! 
--DD
Posted by: balljoint Feb 28 2005, 03:02 PM
You picked the wrong thread title. It should have read something like "Major Lego gaseous expulsion contamination in your basement/attic, calll me for quick and cheap clean up solutions."
I played with lego as a child, so did my wife. Always built the first time by design and then went off on my own. I love the stuff. My children will play with Lego too, no question.
Posted by: Gustl Feb 28 2005, 03:11 PM
I owned tons of LEGO sets when I was younger
I loved to play with them
the one I loved most was the Renault 40 CV (1926) - I sold it via eBay to guy from Sweden about 4 years ago 
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Posted by: i love porsche Feb 28 2005, 03:30 PM
i looooved legos, i had two huge tupperware containers filled to the brim with legos, and yeah, i think that helped me decide to be an engineer, cause i just love building things. but they were all given away jsut a few years ago, sorry
Posted by: morphenspectra Feb 28 2005, 03:38 PM
I just gave away 3 large garbage bags of mega blocks on Freecycle. Look on ebay, they have some people selling huge boxes of used leggos. Goodwill might be another place to look.
HIEDI
Posted by: mike_the_man Feb 28 2005, 05:17 PM
I gave most of my legos away to my little cousins a few years ago. I still have a few at my parents place. I was just playing with them at Christmas time. I ain't giving them up, though.
In University I used to join my engineer friends in MindStorm contests. We'd be given a task, and had to build a program a lego robot to do it. I think we won all the contests that we were in. 3 engineers and a computer geek could build some pretty cool stuff!
Posted by: dinomium Feb 28 2005, 05:25 PM
I am glad to see the basic bucket oh Lego's is back! I was bummed when I want to give them to my nephew and all they had were little "action packs" with INSTRUCTIONS! LAME
The whole point was to USE your imagination...
The greates toy next to Hot Wheels...
Posted by: mskala Feb 28 2005, 06:54 PM
| QUOTE (Dave_Darling @ Feb 28 2005, 02:51 PM) |
| The four-speed Lego transmission is what finally showed me how a "constant-mesh" transmission worked. I couldn't quite "get" it before I built that (yea from a kit). --DD |
They made a kit?!? I did mine myself, although starting from the
2-speed thing from the big passenger car set.
Posted by: bryanc Feb 28 2005, 11:59 PM
I got my first set in 1976 or 77, it was a windmill. Every since then (to this day), when someone asks me what I want for christmas, I say "legos".
Posted by: chunger Mar 1 2005, 03:53 AM
look what I picked up on craigslist!
50 lbs. of legos soaking in bleach.
-'Chung
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Posted by: GWN7 Mar 1 2005, 06:07 AM
Is it a cast iron lions paw bath tub?
I never had lego when I was a kid. They hadn't invented plastic yet. I had to put up with sticks and rocks. In the fall time we built acorn guns and shot each other. That and the DDT they used to spray might explain a few things. 
I do remember spending $200 on a lego set one christmas for the boy. I told him to save the box and he did, cut out all the pictures on it to paste on the walls of his room.
Posted by: mike_the_man Mar 1 2005, 09:31 AM
| QUOTE (dinomium @ Feb 28 2005, 03:25 PM) |
| The greates toy next to Hot Wheels... |
I've still got all my Hot Wheels too!
And I also still ask for lego at Christmas. I've got lego for the last 3 years! What, I'm only 26!
Posted by: BigD9146gt Mar 1 2005, 11:11 AM
Christmas present from my girlfriends folks last year... on my desk at work right now
Dave, that 4 speed trans is really cool, i got that Technic set a few years back with the working mid-engined V8.
Posted by: TonyAKAVW Mar 1 2005, 12:00 PM
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| Christmas present from my girlfriends folks last year... on my desk at work right now |
I got the exact same set from my wife for Christmas this past year!
-Tony
Posted by: Dave_Darling Mar 1 2005, 01:10 PM
| QUOTE (mskala @ Feb 28 2005, 04:54 PM) |
| They made a kit?!? I did mine myself, although starting from the 2-speed thing from the big passenger car set. |
Daaaayum, dude--that's HARDCORE!
You da MAN!| QUOTE (BigD9146gt) |
Dave, that 4 speed trans is really cool, i got that Technic set a few years back with the working mid-engined V8. |
That's the one! The http://www.brickset.com/search.aspx?Set=8880-1 set from the late 90s. I jonesed for that one really bad for a couple of years until I talked Mom into buying it for me for Xmas...
--DD
Posted by: BigD9146gt Mar 1 2005, 01:23 PM
The history of Legos is as amazing as the product itself.
If i remember right, the inventor was a Swiss wood craftsman. He widdled blocks of wood out, drilled holes, and came up with the consept for his kids, then local parents started buying them. The first sets sold to the public were out of wood. A good friend of my parents has a set that his father brough back to the states in the early 1950s (or when ever they started).
Posted by: Jenny Mar 1 2005, 01:31 PM
I told my boyfriend about this thread yesterday, and he said the first sets were made out of wood. 
Jen
Posted by: morphenspectra Mar 1 2005, 02:25 PM
Has anyone been to leggo land? I cannot find a website, but I saw a show about it on Discovery channel.
HIEDI
Posted by: Jenny Mar 1 2005, 03:24 PM
I haven't, but have heard it's really only fun for little kiddies. The rides, etc.. are sorta blah. But the novelty of everything being made out of legos is fun for kids. Great for kids under 5.
Jen
Posted by: phantom914 Mar 1 2005, 03:30 PM
| QUOTE (morphenspectra @ Mar 1 2005, 12:25 PM) |
| Has anyone been to leggo land? I cannot find a website, but I saw a show about it on Discovery channel. HIEDI |
Here's a link:http://www.lego.com/legoland/california/Default.asp?locale=2057
Haven't been. Heard the same as Jenny says: fun for little ones only.
Andrew
Posted by: Dave_Darling Mar 1 2005, 05:58 PM
Danish carpenter, BTW, not Swedish. The original Legoland is in Billund, Denmark.
Lego is supposedly from "Leg Godt", which means "Play Good" in Danish. It also means "I build" in Latin.
--DD
Posted by: Steve Thacker Mar 1 2005, 06:52 PM
DD,
Tell me... How in the hell do you recall all this shit? You must be a walking frigging knowledgebase.
Mind loaning me a little? I can't remember what I did 10 mins ago.
I suffer from halfziemers.
Posted by: Dave_Darling Mar 1 2005, 07:38 PM
Weird stuff sticks in my brain. Hell, I can't remember half of what I did today!!!
--DD
Posted by: ! Mar 1 2005, 07:44 PM
| QUOTE (phantom914 @ Mar 1 2005, 01:30 PM) | ||
Here's a link:http://www.lego.com/legoland/california/Default.asp?locale=2057 Haven't been. Heard the same as Jenny says: fun for little ones only. Andrew |
Yupppp Legoland is kinda weak....even my 8 year old says it sucks....wonder where she got that mouth?
Posted by: Steve Thacker Mar 1 2005, 08:14 PM
| QUOTE (Dave_Darling @ Mar 1 2005, 09:38 PM) |
| Weird stuff sticks in my brain. Hell, I can't remember half of what I did today!!! --DD |
On the subject of Legos, we were dirt poor. No toys like this were ever in our household. Just getting something to eat from day to day was more important. I had a cousin up the road who had lincoln logs and I thought he was filthy rich. We found other things to entertain ourselves with like hedge-apple and sling-shot fights, hide and seek on the mountain, timber rattler hunts, etc. We were not bored growing up in the backwoods of Virginia. We were outdoor kids.
Posted by: chunger Mar 2 2005, 08:15 AM
Shot in the dark . . . mabe w/ all the lego fanatics, someone can help me out.
The 50 lb. batch I got from craigslist is primarily Castle and Pirate themed stuff. I'd say about 85% or so. I'm mainly into the space themed legos so I thought I'd build and sell a couple of the main sets like 6080 King's Castle from 1984 and 2 large ships from the Pirate series.
I am having some trouble, however because I'm missing 1 canvas sail from each of the 2 ships I want to build up. Just wondering if anybody has these kits in their collection and would be willing to sell me some sails.
-'Chung
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Posted by: chunger Mar 2 2005, 08:17 AM
missing bottom main sail on this one.
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