/me weeps quietly in memory of the big-*** box of Lego once possessed...

You're right - Lego used to pwn, then they started getting into all this other lark - and Legoland Windsor in England is great, but a lot of the original stuff there was based on your more normal Lego, which will always rule.

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"So... Graham Andrew Rutland [Gee_4ce]... well, it says here that Graham and Andrew mean... strong and manly!" - My girl Naomi whilst consulting a big book of names...

I miss the Pirate sets, they really ruined that line. Plastic sails, specialty pieces, half-baked ships. It was ridiculous..

Compare this: http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6285 (Black Seas Barracuda)

To the last Pirate ship they made: http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6289 Red Beard Runner

The Runner isn't all that bad, but compared to the Barracuda, it's ridiculous. They really dropped the ball, it's supposed to be around the same size and price, but it doesn't look as structual as the Barracuda.

Thing I miss most though, their Launch Command stuff. Sure they had Spaceport and Missions to Mars lines, but it wasn't nearly the same. Spaceport also had quite a few specialty pieces getting in the way. Such as the whole thruster assembly being one piece so it could lightup and whatnot.

http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1996/c96eu/c96eu-07.html

Launch Command liftoff port was the greatest set. You'd lay the boosters and gas tank down on the runway, hoist it up to set it on a sled piece. Then you'd roll the shuttle in, hoist that up on the crawler, roll it forward then push the booster assembly into it to join it.

Then you'd roll the crawler back and blast-off. And it really did all this, with the help of a crane and support rods running over the tower. I really miss sets with interactivity like that.

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"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"

Every once in a while I get nostalgic and pull out my Lego box. The most recent thing I made was a working model of the floating-arm-trebuchet that we built for Physics I.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -Isaac Asimov

Never tickle the third foot!

Am I the only one that remembers the original space people? Those were some cool sets!

*sigh* I remember having all those great lego sets. space command lift-off site, and older space shuttle that got towed around by a semi-truck, the aquanauts, exploriens (that huge flag ship rocked!), space police, the real police, the fire fighters, it was all great! I wish i didn't have to give everything away when i moved in October now all my beautiful ships and buildings are just a pile of wreckage on my brother's floor.
And Glyde Bane I remember the micro machines too! they're awesome (Those i got to keep when i moved ), did you ever collect those action fleet ships that micro machines made for a little while?

I have tons of legos in a big plastic bin. Good times. Maybe they'll have the good old legos again and not any of that special piece crap.

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I had a few of those, but all mine were the yellow people. I didn't like them so much
maybe because they were so stinking old...

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Do you have stairs in your house?

I had a couple of those guys as well, but they just couldn't compare to the Futron Sets that replaced them.

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You underestimate the power of the Dark Side...

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I've got the 6346 Space Shuttle set. I love it.

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-Robert Jastrow

Harry Potter lego is the pits. Overpriced and unimaginative. Starwars lego is a bit better.

Only good current lego product are the lego bionicles we get for our son, good value and design.

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Corrupting the kiddies since '97

I bought some lego a while ago it was some mystical castle with dragons and warriors. I know I'm 18 and in college but it still looks neat in my room I keep it for looks now I don't play with it anymore.

Say what you will, but the Special Edition line of Star Wars Legos absolutely ruled. The ISD, Blockade Runner, etc. Wow, I'm sad that we won't be seeing a continuation of that line.

Long live Blacktron! Blacktron was my first love -- Legowise, mind you.

I had - well, still have - that giant Exploriens starship. Man, I still love that thing. I remember making Lego animations with our camcorder, hitting "record" and "stop" as quickly as I could to get as smooth an animation as possible. Great fun.



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On the contrary, I live for specialized pieaces, weird shapes, stuff like that. it allows me to customize the things I make even MORE.



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"In the memory you'll find me. Eyes burning up.
The darkness holding me tightly.
Untill the sun rises up."

You're right, those were the only exceptions. I was referring to the smaller Star Wars sets that were a part of the regular line of LEGOs.

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You underestimate the power of the Dark Side...

DSettahr's Homepage

I remember that! I got it for my fourth birthday .


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They cost too damned much. That is the only problem.

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I HAVE that blue guy and the little ship he came with. It was the first LEGO set I ever got. That set ruled... I need to go dig it out and rebuild it...

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Frogblast the Vent Core!

--End of Line--

i have some of those orginial ones tooo... the HP legos are just sad.. good thing they just fired a bunch of the marketing people they had for the last year or so.. maybe then it'll get better

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" You killed me. That wasn't very nice."
Noble Gases

I was just rummaging through ebay and out of curiousity did a search for Blacktron. I found this.. Hehe.

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They should drop the kiddie SW line and keep the uber cool line.

They're all ****ed up.

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

I love the Ariel Intruder set, it's my prized posession... it's my favorite lego space design ever. I remember my uncle got it for me back in the day. It's missing a few peices now, but is still put togetehr :-D. I've just been inspired to look for more blacktron lego sets on ebay!

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Clarinetists, unite!

-writer of Bloodwing: Fallen Soldier
(no site up yet...)

I love the Ariel Intruder set, it's my prized posession... it's my favorite lego space design ever. I remember my uncle got it for me back in the day. It's missing a few peices now, but is still put togetehr :-D. I've just been inspired to look for more blacktron lego sets on ebay! Oh, and am I the only one that didn't play teh Blacktrons as 'baddies'? In my giant war, it was Futuron, M-Tron, Blacktron, Space Police, and Ice Planet vs Spyrius, Exploriens (kind of swindled into a treaty they couldn't get out of), Unitorn, U.F.O., and Insectoids (which later evolved into the Karlot Verpine of BWFS, since they were the original leaders of this lego 'coalition').

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Clarinetists, unite!

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LEGO R0X0RS MY B0X0RS!!!



I loved Lego, Technic Lego was my passion, all those cogs and wheels, awesome.

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They need more spinny and bendy pieces! It's all about the spinny and bend pieces!

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"Your entire base belongs to us."

"It would be highly appreciated if someone would set the bomb up for us"

(can't believe i nearly missed this thread)

pirates ruled, had a pretty big collection...man whoever put that lego lndex together needs a cookie.....a really big cookie....

heres what I had/have (all boxed up now )

Pirates (who i had as the british)

Forbidden Island
Renegade Runner
Skull's Eye Schooner (best pirate ship EVER!
Shipwreck Island
Rock Island Refuge

Imperial Guards (who I always called the spanish....) kinda reliving Brits vs...well the world....

Imperial Trading Post paid for this with all my own money...at the age of 11 (i think) it was a big deal.
Lagoon Lock-up
Imperial Flagship
Imperial Outpost

Soldiers (again fitted in with the above group)

Eldorado Fortress one of the first things i got.
Caribbean Clipper
Sabre Island
Harbor Sentry

and the islanders....who just randomly attacked people....normally the spanish...

Islander Catamaran
Forbidden Cove
Enchanted Island
King Kahuka's Throne
Crocodile Cage

not to mention my brother and I also had a huge city consisting of port, police, fire station, airport, space ship carrier (always wanted the launcher), petrol station, race start thingy...etc...etc...

my dad never had a loft when I was young, it was full of lego and a hornby (sp?) train set running through the lego ....those were the days....

hopefully if lego go back to what they are good at, they should start turning a profit again, although i did always want to get some of the star wars stuff...

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People of our generation should not be subjected to mornings.

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[This message has been edited by James Bond (edited January 12, 2004).]

Oh yeah, I loved the pirate series! My brother and I shared the sets and had a lot of fun, especially because our floor is blue and we pretended it was the ocean.

I don't remember exactly which kits I had because we switched around the pieces all the time, and I would stare at the catalogues for hours imagining what it would be like to have them--then building them out of spare pieces because I couldn't afford to buy them at my young elementary-school age.

I'll have to dig them out now that I've read this thread. And BIG kudos to James Bond for all those links! Thanks man!

[edit]Oh, and did anyone read the Pirate Comic that they made? It came with one of my kits. Boy, what a story--and it used a lot of elements from the kits they sold.

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[This message has been edited by Kievan Mereel (edited January 12, 2004).]

I had all of that!!!!! good times.
Ahh to be 10 again...

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Oh god, I can't take this much nostalgia. So many memories...

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I had that set

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Castle was the best.

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