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chocolate_o_brian 28 December 2010 06:01 PM

Yeeah, Christmas bargain
 
Well quite good anywho, £59.99 from £74.99 and hours of fun ahead :D

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...brian/lego.jpg

Reminds me of my childhood as I was a Technics making god :notworthy Wanna get back into it and route out my Lego from upstairs for when my unborn son is old enough to appreciate it.

Anyone else have good memories of Lego :cool:

DYK 28 December 2010 06:10 PM

I bought a box of lego from a mate when i was a kid for £1.00.It had the castle and all sorts was well happy,was out in the garden playing with it for about an hour.Then my garden gate swings open and standing in front of me is my mate with his mom,He shouldn't of sold you that lego and i was made to give it back.:( ...

corradoboy 28 December 2010 06:19 PM

Technic came out just as I was getting too old for Lego :( Played with my younger cousins sets a bit, but can't wait for my boy to be old enough for stuff like that. I.... er.... he got a Scalextric this Christmas ;)

Wilky_Boy 28 December 2010 06:23 PM

Absolute class mate ! I loved the stuff when I was younger. My dad and I spent ages making things. I had this one: http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=8860-1

Have fun !!! :thumb:

zs_phil 28 December 2010 06:40 PM

So you bought it for yourself :notworthy,everytime i take my girls in toys r us i always look at the lego and technics ,love stuff like that but the girls walk straight to the dolls :lol1:,not even interested in scalextric .
Tempted to buy myself a nice big model airplane to build or a destroyer

chocolate_o_brian 28 December 2010 06:49 PM


Originally Posted by Wilky_Boy (Post 9786099)
Absolute class mate ! I loved the stuff when I was younger. My dad and I spent ages making things. I had this one: http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=8860-1

Have fun !!! :thumb:


Wow, juat had a proper nostagic trip on that page. I had loads of the Technics stuff off there :notworthy

Leslie 29 December 2010 04:30 PM

Used to have great fun with the old fashioned Meccano, amazing what you could build.

Les :)

chocolate_o_brian 30 December 2010 02:53 AM

Well I've been sat since about 6pm building the model and gave up for the night sbout 30 mins ago. 3 bloody instruction books for one model :D

Will carry on later and post a nostalgic pic of my efforts :D

J4CKO 30 December 2010 07:14 AM

Cool, im a big fan of Technic.

Trout 30 December 2010 07:27 AM

I loved Lego as a kid and my five year said all he wanted for Christmas was Lego - and that is what he got! He is a pretty advanced in his taste - Power Miners being his favourite stuff.

It'll Technic soon enough :D

JonMc 30 December 2010 07:57 AM

My lad got a couple of sets for Christmas, and I have a box full in the wardrobe for those long winter evenings:D

StickyMicky 30 December 2010 08:28 AM

£60 for a box of lego :cuckoo:

I was given a box of fake lego for christmas :(

The quality is just not the same, plus i had 8 single bricks left at the end that did not get used, nor were they even in the instructions.

zip106 30 December 2010 10:03 AM

My 5 yo lad got 4 boxes of StarWars and Ben10 Lego for Christmas.

I've already 'helped' him do 2 of them :)

(as Mickey says - £60!? )

c_n_j 30 December 2010 10:22 AM

I've still got this one made up in the loft at my parents somewhere

http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=8865-1

Kept me quiet for a while anyway.

john_s 30 December 2010 11:39 AM

Lego is awesome! :D

Where did you find it at a bargain price?

Trout 30 December 2010 11:48 AM

I had a Lego C3P0 which was animated with an elastic band. The elastic went and it fell to bits. With no instructions I binned it.

Apparently they are now serious collectors items and easily fetch 3 figures! Grrr!

zip106 30 December 2010 12:11 PM


Originally Posted by Trout (Post 9789114)
I had a Lego C3P0 which was animated with an elastic band. The elastic went and it fell to bits. With no instructions I binned it.

Apparently they are now serious collectors items and easily fetch 3 figures! Grrr!

£9.99?

DJ_Jon 30 December 2010 12:32 PM

I've got this bad boy in the loft BNIB: http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=8868-1

chocolate_o_brian 30 December 2010 12:36 PM


Originally Posted by c_n_j (Post 9788991)
I've still got this one made up in the loft at my parents somewhere

http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=8865-1

Kept me quiet for a while anyway.

Aye got that one upstairs and remember building it. The thing was Technics was very brash back then and you needed imagination to get the image of what you were making would realy look like. It was definitely things like Lego that gave me my creative streak with my artwork as well as the fascination with building things. :)


Originally Posted by john_s (Post 9789103)
Lego is awesome! :D

Where did you find it at a bargain price?


Sssshhh, don't tell anyone but it was on sale at that place only 'chavs' shop at (according to some on here) - Argos ;)


I can vividly remember as a 5-6 year old seeing the american rig Lego model and wanting it sooo bad. I did loads of jobs for my mum and family to save up. £40 was a lot to a young boy back in 1990 and I was so excited when it arrived :eek::eek: I was on the 11+ models at about 7 years of age as thats all I played with when I wasn't drawing or riding my bike.

http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=5580-1 :D:D:D:D

chocolate_o_brian 30 December 2010 12:39 PM


Originally Posted by DJ_Jon (Post 9789190)
I've got this bad boy in the loft BNIB: http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=8868-1


Ooooh, I remember crying my eyes ou when I found my then baby brother had ripped the instructions to shreds one morning not long after building that model :lol1:

How much is it worth you think, hint hint ;)

DJ_Jon 30 December 2010 01:30 PM

I paid £81 for that set 7 years ago. There aren't any on ebay new in box, but a few sets built for £60

I personally won't sell mine, one of those things I'm hoping to hand down if I ever have kids.

chocolate_o_brian 30 December 2010 04:54 PM

Well she be done :D

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1..._brian/1-3.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1..._brian/2-4.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1..._brian/3-2.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1..._brian/4-2.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1..._o_brian/5.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1..._o_brian/6.jpg

Bit bored now, may route out my old instruction books and bucket of Lego... :wonder: :cool:

DJ_Jon 30 December 2010 09:45 PM

nice work, just needs some neon washer jets & an ironing board spolier from Halfrauds.

Moley 30 December 2010 09:46 PM

I like that!!!

Rob_Impreza99 30 December 2010 09:59 PM

Would that hook support a volvo with a caravan ?

ricardo 30 December 2010 10:10 PM

Back in my day Lego was just bricks :thumb:
You did get lots of different sizes, like two blobs up to 8 blobs for bricks, and as many as ten blobs long for the thin bars.

You could build anything*



*as long as it looked like a house or a bridge. Given enough bricks the bridges were amazing. No fancy stuff mind you.

chocolate_o_brian 30 December 2010 10:39 PM


Originally Posted by DJ_Jon (Post 9790254)
nice work, just needs some neon washer jets & an ironing board spolier from Halfrauds.

On it like a tramp on chips :D

TurboAndy 30 December 2010 10:55 PM

Funny you should post this up as ive been looking at getting a set of Technic again.

I got these back in 1988 when I was 8yrs old. Ive still got these built up in my mother and fathers loft back home lol.
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...ita/8862-1.jpg
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...ita/8853-1.jpg

As I said im kind of wanting to get a new one as im just a big kid at hart so whih do you think?
This?
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...ita/8043-1.jpg

Or this?
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...ita/8063-1.jpg

ScoobyDriverWannabe 30 December 2010 11:11 PM

Just noticed that escavator on hot uk deals

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lego...ator-99/839208

chocolate_o_brian 30 December 2010 11:15 PM


Originally Posted by TurboAndy (Post 9790414)


I was looking at this one at Toys 'r' Us before I went and bought the model from Argos. It's £49.99 from £69.99 at Toys 'r' Us currently if it helps. :thumb:

I just wanna buy more now as I enjoy building them :D:D


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