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I generally don't like the overly specialized sets, but those first pirate ships were damn fun
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I had rather a large box of so-called generic LEGOs as a kid. I say "so-called" because, in those days, it was the only kind there was. The most specialized ones were little windows and roof tiles for houses.
That box must be worth a small fortune to the right person today. Of course, I handed it off for ~$5 around the time I turned 15..
I actually still have my legos stashed away in my parents' basement. I should build something out of them one of these days, just something to put on the shelf to show people how big a nerd I am (as if the books and DVDs weren't enough).
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One thing I really WOULD liked to have had were beefier hinges, swivels and ball-n-socket joints that could be positioned and hold that position (interchangeable rubber gaskets inside the joints would do the job). Most LEGO joints are very low friction so you cant effectively 'pose' a mecha even if its fully articulated the arms will just flop down without support and it will want to tip over if it has any flexibility in the legs. I had to use a system of flips and hooks that would lock limbs into particular positions, that worked reasonably well for knee and elbows but I was never satisfied with hip and shoulder joints.
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And when we got home at 4 in the morning and built a model of the absolute cheapest Volkswagen on the market, our Dad would smash it to pieces with his belt and make us mow the lawn all weekend long.
The best non-generic LEGOs were the animals. Horses were like gold to my sister and me. The early sharks were awesome too.
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Originally posted by Straybow
We had generic LEGOs and we liked 'em. Tell that to kids nowadays and they won't believe you.
Nope, they don't know how good they've got it. We had generic LEGOs we collected by sorting through trash in the neighborhood.
Oh, really? We had to go through discarded vacuum cleaner bags to find our generic LEGOs.
That's nothing. We had to sort though garbage in the landfill, with out teeth, to find generic LEGOs.
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That's nothing. We ad to walk all the way to Bombay, and sit next to the beggars on the street corners, asking passers-by to give us small fragments of generic LEGO blocks. Then in the evening we had to walk all the way back to Denmark and glue our LEGO fragments together before we had to leave for Bombay again 1 hour before we got home.
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I mostly built space ships too. My friend always said they had "Box syndrome" because most designs were just, well, a big box.
Originally posted by Impaler[WrG]
One thing I really WOULD liked to have had were beefier hinges, swivels and ball-n-socket joints that could be positioned and hold that position (interchangeable rubber gaskets inside the joints would do the job). Most LEGO joints are very low friction so you cant effectively 'pose' a mecha even if its fully articulated the arms will just flop down without support and it will want to tip over if it has any flexibility in the legs. I had to use a system of flips and hooks that would lock limbs into particular positions, that worked reasonably well for knee and elbows but I was never satisfied with hip and shoulder joints.
Hear hear, I used those Technic blocks with holes in the middle to lock the limbs into a pose, you had the little grey things you could put in the blocks and the protrusion could be used to lock the joint or limb in the position you wanted. Not fairly elegant, but it looked decent enough.
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Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Wow, I had no idea there was so much latent Lego-geekdom on Poly!
Not sure what to think about that.
Yep. Us oldtimers didn't have much else. Lego was awesome.
Far from being boring, the old generic sets (I remember simple blocks with about a half dozen colours) fostered imagination and creativity. We didn't have computer games where we chased electrons across a screen all day.
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When I was about 11 I won a NZ Lego (Technic) Competition. First prize was a trip to Legoland in Denmark.
To qualify I made a deer (submission by photo) (they probably chose the animal category because it's difficult).
To win, I made an articulated truck/trailer unit with a buggy on the trailer.
Here's the full amount of lego I received from this coup:
About 3 medium sized sets which were used at the finals competition.
2 maximum sized sets (meaning the top-tier technic models) from Legoland itself. One was what I spent the spending money on (plus another medium sized set), the other was just a gift from Legoland - they said "Take any set you like!".
AND we had paid to bring my brother along too, Legoland gave him a free maximum sized set too, we were like "Wait are you really being this generous" and they're like "yup ", he chose a non-technic set (which IIRC actually cost slightly more than mine, lol!).
So I got about 4 medium sets and 2 large sets and my bother got the large set.
Pretty much any one of these was more lego than I had before I won the competition (I had very little with which to make the model which qualified me for the finals, I did have awesome efficiency* tho :P). None of these sets would have been affordable to the humble farmboy I was.
Suffice to say, I was in Nirvana. Legoland was good. Except I didn't get enough time to play with legos, but their generosity was mind-boggling.
There were the sets I chose:
* Actually that's an interesting point. I was competing against a kid who had far more experience with large quantities of lego than I had (iow, he was from a richer family :P). And I had like 3x as much lego in front of me as I'd ever seen before to work with. And like 3 hours to make a winning model.
We were instructed to make "A Vehicle", I knew there was no way in hell I'd beat out my new friend who was used to making giant models (and was frankly brilliant at it) if I played fair. So I gambled with making 3 separate models all of which were a size I was used to working with and could demonstrate enough of my technical skill to compete with a single large model, and I had them fit together in such a way that they were still arguably a single unit.
My mother later said she was like "WTF" when she first saw what I'd made, but it made sense when I attached the trailer and loaded the buggy.
The judges deliberated for HOURS, far longer than it was meant to take. I'm sure they were torn between disqualifying me (defacto 3rd place) and awarding me first place, or at least having great difficultly deciding whether my articulated model was better than the dual-motor mega super-car my friend had built.
Regardless, I contribute me success to being a strategic genius, if I wasn't Id've made something lame like the 3rd place kid did (I knew for sure he deserved 3rd place on technical merits, but I didn't know whether my gamble would be ruled as legal...)
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