LEGO, are you ever too old?

[SJFISHER67]

You are right, sorting out the parts into different colours is best. I would have thought that the bags could be coded somehow against the 3 instruction manuals.

And when it's built it may look something like this:

I have exactly the same set up, but also use the towing spec lift of the truck to tow my old 1990 Lego Team American Truck (MC5580), because it's looking a bit tatty now.

[Tech1e]

I had much the same idea..lol

[My_Yeti]

I have always wanted something like this:

Way too expensive though, last time I checked it cost 200 quid per engine.

[JohnMcL7]

I've not done very well, I ended up buying the excavator, the new logging truck, the container truck, the Unimog, the supercar and the flatbed truck. They're still enjoyable to build and marvel at the engineering, all the gearing in the flat bed truck is very impressive but with the logging truck I get the impression the designers were bored and fancied a challenge. It has a single motor with which it drives four isolating gear sets which put the stands down, rotate the crane arm, move the lower part of the crane arm or the higher part of the crane arm although the grab is all manual. The pistons in the engine are driven using one of the rear sets of wheels which has a differential between the wheels connected to an axle running up the chassis, through the steering system and up to the engine so that if either wheel turns, the engine turns.

I put this video together of the bulldozer:

John

[FellyMagic]

Well of course Lego is absolutely full of win. There is a website full of spare Lego gubbins for sale, known as Bricklink

['daiking']

MEGA*******WANT

http://hooniverse.com/2013/05/17/amazing-lego-technik-caterham-seven/

Edited 18 May, 2013 by 'daiking'

[Nick P]

That Caterham is awesome.

I can't wait till the boy is a bit older so I can start buying Lego. I want the super star destroyer and the camper van. I do like to go to the new Lego shop in Leeds of a lunch time and gaze in wonderment.

[JoshH]

Any got any series 10 of the mini figures yet ?

[Nick P]

That Beetle is fantastic but £750?!!! If I built that, I'd have to slam it.

[Nick P]

http://www.stanceworks.com/2012/07/daily-grind-our-slammed-volkswagen-lego-bus/

[CFB]

My latest creation...

Turned this...

Into this...

With motors and remote.

The articulation is amazing and the dog kept amused from the comfort of the sofa.

[Coops]

Cracking CFB - I've since added the Helicopter and F1 car to my collection.

[CFB]

Cracking CFB - I've since added the Helicopter and F1 car to my collection.

Does the helo fly?

Now that would be really clever

[Brijo]

....I can't wait till the boy is a bit older so I can start buying Lego....

Quite right, you can't. Do it now

('Scuse me butting in - just found this topic. Some of our 'family' Lego is round 40 years old and is well into its third generation of designer/builders.)

[Coops]

Does the helo fly?

Now that would be really clever

If the kids get hold of it, they will probably try and make it fly.

You can fit the motor pack into it but not tried that yet - have a motor in the Flatbed truck so may transfer it across.

[Nick P]

This happened at lunch time....

First Lego I've bought as an adult! B-Wing and Tower Bridge.

[Nick P]

Next on my want list:

10240 Red Five X-wing Starfighter

10221 Super Star Destroyer

10225 R2-D2

21103 Back to the Future Time Machine

10188 Death Star

9516 Jabba's Palace

8110 Mercedes-Benz Unimog U 400

10220 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van

10226 Sopwith Camel

21101 HAYABUSA

All the modular buildings that are still avail - grand emporium, etc.

[JohnMcL7]

Any got any series 10 of the mini figures yet ?

Yes, got most of them aside from the revolutionary soldier, the sailor and Mr Gold. When Tescos restocked I was going to have one final go at finishing the series off but the Tesco security guard wasn't too impressed at me feeling the packets so I didn't continue and haven't had another go since.

John

[Nick P]

That's nothing John. I once got busted by a security guard at boots, sneaking bars of soap back into the store so I could buy them again after I cleared them out. The boots points on the soap were worth like 3x what the soap cost.

[CFB]

That's nothing John. I once got busted by a security guard at boots, sneaking bars of soap back into the store so I could buy them again after I cleared them out. The boots points on the soap were worth like 3x what the soap cost.

Sainsbury have an offer of 8p off a litre of fuel if you spend £20 on TU clothes.

Been in several times and bought stuff just over the £20 , got the vouchers then taken the clothes back to the other local store.

Sneaky but what the heck.

[Nick P]

So, things got a bit out of hand over the last few months. Bought:

 

Cuusoo Hayabusa

Super Star Destroyer

Fire Brigade

Grand Emporium

Tower Bridge

3 UCS B-Wings

 

and just got a http://www.lego.com/en-gb/technic/products/construction/42009/a on the 3 for 2 on all toys deal at Argos (couple of colleagues joined me). We would have got a unimog each on the same deal too but Argos haven't got any stock.

 

Half built one of the B-Wings so far. The rest are in the loft / basement. Got most of the above on decent savings off list. The B-Wings were only just over £100 in the Lego shop when they were selling off their remaining stock.

[magic62]

I know how you feel Nick.

 

I bought the big Excavator first, next came the Unimog, after that the 4x4 Crawler and now the Crane has also already been built (by my son). 

These things are amazing!

[Coops]

My Technic collection now sits at:

 

Flat bed Truck

Tractor (on back of truck!)

Helicopter

F1 Car

Motorbike

Camper Van

 

Am torn between the crane and the recovery truck, although that is very similar to the flat bed truck so it could be the crane.

 

Trouble is, the crane is that big I don't think I have anywhere to put it.

[Titanium_Man]

Not seen this thread before... but no, you can never be too old for Lego IMHO, especially Lego Technic.

Bought my lad his first Technics set when he was 8. Yes OK he was a little young, but I wasn't

[magic62]

The crane is BIG! The water bottle behind the crane is a 1.5 litre bottle.