Lego

My boy got loads of Lego for Xmas. Ninjago, Star Wars and then big boxes of the classic Lego which is better I think as its just for making stuff up with. Seemed to be one of the toys of this Xmas.
 
Lots of Star Wars stuff are limited editions my brother has Slave 1 and it looks fantastic but £180!! Although I do fancy and Tie fighter
 
I enjoy it at 35 and know plenty of all ages who do whether they have kids or not. My dad was disappointed I didn't buy him a Technic kit for Christmas as I have done for the last couple of years, for example.

Was in a Lego shop a couple of years back in a shopping centre just browsing and there were piles of bricks on tables in the middle of the shop, pretty much no one, whether they were 5 or 85 could walk past them without at least joining and pulling apart one or two bricks. It's one of those tactile intrinsic human things to just zone out for a few seconds or minutes and exercise the creative part of our brain.
 
talkativesprout said:
My son got a new Starwars X wing fighter set for Xmas and asked me to help him build it...within 1/2 he had pissed off on the Xbox leaving me to finish it.....6-7 hrs later it was complete.....I bet the thing is now in bits on his bedroom floor, just waiting for my un-slippered foot to find the sharpest piece of lego on earth
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Could be worse mate, it could find an upturned plug.
 
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I absolutely loved Lego when I was a kid, so when my kids got to the right ages they had no choice but to like it too.
Which they did!

Unfortunately for me at that point, I found out my hands had become too big (and my eyes too blurry) since I was a kid and it had gone beyond me... :-(
 
Was never into it as a kid, nevermind as an Adult.

A £2 football was the best present anyone ever bought me as a kid, that overpriced plastic crap I saw for the shit it was even at 5yrs old.
 
Been building it since Christmas day.all for girlfriends young one.I swear if I have look for a yellow 12 block or grey 6 will end up crying.Fuck that for a hobby
 
Not lego, but i absolutely loved K-nex as a kid. Got the biggest boxed set of it for christmas one year,



Spent days building this, it was literally taller than me at the time i was so chuffed when i finally finished it and it worked when you switched the motor on. Best bit about it, was that there was still loads of pieces left over so you could customise the design, add more stuff to it or build other things without having to dismantle the whole thing for pieces.


I remember watching that inside Lego documentary a while back and you have to give huge credit to them for turning around a company on the brink of going out of business to making it not only relevant again in the digital age but more profitable than it's probably ever been.
 
Anyone have a UCS Millennium Falcon and have it on display? Considering a stand from Wicked Brick which seems to be one of the better options.
 
I work with a guy who’s a proper fan spending ££££’s on Lego, mostly star wars stuff but lots of other models too for his collection. It does have resale value and as a member of Lego he gets discounts and special ‘not for sale in shops’ kits sometimes when he buys other sets. I loved Lego as a kid and think its lost its soul a bit these days as most people buy it to build then display, not jumble up and play with and make their own designs. I have had a couple of sets myself though in past 18 months and the designs are impressive: Himejii Castle for example was a must after visiting this year and the detail is spot on. I’m 53 btw and have been to Legoland twice to fulfill a childhood ambition, both times to the real McCoy in Billund Denmark when my daughter was younger and it was great.
 
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