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Kids these days have it so good...
2005-03-04, 8:14 PM #1
I was hanging around at the mall with a friend of mine and saw a LEGO store that I had never seen before, obviously new or something. It was a pretty nice store, you could even buy a cup full of pieces (they had a bunch of types of pieces you could imagine) and I saw a bunch of little kids and couldn't help but feel a little bit of nostalgia. Those kids don't understand how good they have it. Anyway, did any of you guys use build LEGOs?
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2005-03-04, 8:17 PM #2
that i do
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2005-03-04, 8:20 PM #3
Oh yah, still do on occassion (when I'm at home). I like to fool around with blockland a bit as well. In fact...

EDIT: Never mind
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2005-03-04, 8:24 PM #4
Quote:
Originally posted by Genki
that i do (pic)

Not a bad looking Hellbringer you've got there... :p


Yes, I admit that I still do partake... :)
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2005-03-04, 8:35 PM #5
i know, that and my Adder/Puma are my best ones
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2005-03-04, 8:41 PM #6
Ah, the old days:

I remember building things when I was a kid, and I sometimes had to spend ages digging through the lego box for the exact piece I needed.
2005-03-04, 8:45 PM #7
Psshh! My legos were organized by class, color and functionality.
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2005-03-04, 8:49 PM #8
a bit, yes.

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all the episode 1 and 2 small sets, and most of the prequel ones.
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2005-03-04, 9:19 PM #9
I used to have enough LEGOs to cover the floor of my room. I made some pretty awesome things back in the day.
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2005-03-04, 9:24 PM #10
I know what you mean. Back in my day we had to walk 30 miles in the snow to get our LEGOs. Uphill both ways!
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2005-03-04, 10:10 PM #11
Quote:
Originally posted by Pagewizard_YKS
Ah, the old days:

I remember building things when I was a kid, and I sometimes had to spend ages digging through the lego box for the exact piece I needed.


Yup, and of course the piece you need was that one that would constantly fall in your way when you were looking for another piece but when you actually need it, it's nowhere to be found.
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2005-03-04, 10:15 PM #12
Cazor is a lego pansy. The sets he showed are all lego-designed sets from the manuals. Pansy! I challenge thee! Make me one o' those new Jedi Starfighters from the Ep3 pics and I'll respect thee! (not that you especially want or need my respect)
2005-03-04, 10:15 PM #13
Quote:
Originally posted by Jedigreedo
Yup, and of course the piece you need was that one that would constantly fall in your way when you were looking for another piece but when you actually need it, it's nowhere to be found.


Exactly. That should be made into a scientific law.
2005-03-04, 10:21 PM #14
My best lego creation was (and still is, if I can find it) lego action figure. It had joints, so it could do things like bend at the knee, but it could bend left or right, just up and down. It wasn't that high tech.
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2005-03-04, 11:59 PM #15
I always scratched my fingertips and broke my fingernails trying to separate my legos a lot of times. Fun stuff. I even made a 2 week project for school at the last minute in 7th grade out of legos. We had to do some kind of mummy thing, so I made a little sarcophogus out of legos then made a body shaped thing out of electric tape and wrapped toilet paper around it to "mummify" it, then put it inside my lego sarcophogus. I dont remember my grade, but I passed the class all those years ago (1995 I believe it was).
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2005-03-05, 12:06 AM #16
a friend of mine had this huge collection... we built this 4foot tall castle of doom once... then after putting all the little lego guys on it decided to build catapults and an enemy army...

the catapults, after a little creativity and a bunch of rubber bands, actually worked... well after some tweaking... took a few tries to get a working catapult that didn't fall apart or flip over
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2005-03-05, 12:11 AM #17
They were cool. Last time I played with them was in 1998 or so... that was when I wanted an idea for a Duke3D level, and because I wasn't around computers at the moment, I kind of planned it there.

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2005-03-05, 12:31 AM #18
I used to be at it alot. Until I got better computers.
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2005-03-05, 12:34 AM #19
Quote:
Originally posted by Edward
I used to be at it alot. Until I got better computers.
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I got 404's little brother from that link.
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2005-03-05, 12:51 AM #20
That's so true about the pieces. And you KEEP on finding that other piece.

I used to make catapaults too! They worked pretty well, though I had to make them VERY chunky to withstand the force of the ...pault?

I used to make everything! Planes and tanks mostly. I wouldn't make any plane or tank, I would make a particular model, eg T-72 or T-80. I never really got the swing wings happening well, but I got a Lightning jet fighter going, an A-6, and an Apache (which had some inventive use of blutak) to name just a few.

I've still got one of my crowning achievements: A droid on a speeder (you know those things from Episode 1) It stands about 1/3 of a foot high.
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2005-03-05, 1:41 AM #21
I always used to make cars and smash them into each other.
2005-03-05, 1:54 AM #22
My last lego project years and years ago were the mechanical and some structural parts of a pinball machine. The rest was cardboard...
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2005-03-05, 5:35 AM #23
I have the same b-wing model as cazor stuffed in a box somewhere.

I wish I had a huge collection of legos :(
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2005-03-05, 7:51 AM #24
cazor is my hero. and my fav ship is the b-wing.

my first lego set was the police station. it had a car, motorcycle, paddy wagon and helicopter. that was 1975. then a couple of years later with my christmas money, i bought the car with the working steering and the pistons that moved up and down as the car rolled when it was in gear.
i'm old enough to have seen the emergence of technic lego. that's when lego was just blocks and those little people.
for the past 4 years i have gotten star wars lego for christmas. including the darth maul keychain which i LOVE.

btw, my kids sometimes play with the police lego set at my moms when they go over. she made us give her all of our legos as we moved out of the house.
2005-03-05, 9:23 AM #25
I found a couple of pictures of prior lego creations on my hard drive. Seems they're both robotic arms.

Lego Robot Arm #1:
Stuff
2005-03-05, 9:24 AM #26
Lego Robot Arm #2
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2005-03-05, 10:13 AM #27
Quote:
Originally posted by DrkJedi82
I got 404's little brother from that link.


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2005-03-05, 3:43 PM #28
I still play with LEGO.
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2005-03-05, 10:28 PM #29
I haven't played with legos in a long time :( I probably will over spring break...I still do have a little lego man that sits by my computer though.
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2005-03-05, 11:12 PM #30
Quote:
Originally posted by Cazor
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2005-03-05, 11:22 PM #31
kyle, dont you love the pnuematic kits? i had so much fun with those.
2005-03-06, 1:51 AM #32
I miss my Lego greatly :(
2005-03-06, 4:07 AM #33
I never had any cool lego. I had the basic type only, really.
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