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Let’s build the Lego Titanic
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arturo7
·This is crazy stuff. When I was a kid we just had Legos of a few different shapes. You'd build something until you ran out of blocks, then take it apart and build something else.
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Pianotuna
·This is crazy stuff. When I was a kid we just had Legos of a few different shapes. You'd build something until you ran out of blocks, then take it apart and build something else.
Pianos seem to be a popular resting spot for X-wing fighters too for some odd reason. Go figure
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerAs kids our Dutch neighbours had lego sent in from o/s as you couldn’t buy it in the shops. The rest of us were Meccano kids (NZ, late 60’s). Now I have friends and clients who have entire rooms dedicated to the stuff. Those Imperial battle cruisers are Big!
Pianos seem to be a popular resting spot for X-wing fighters too for some odd reason. Go figure
Meccano was my thing too, but my cousins had LEGO that I took advantage of when I could.
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JwRosenthal
·I had an Erector set. It was awesome.
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··Omega Qualified Watchmaker+1, mine came in the metal box (probably lead painted)- lots of razor sharp edges and required using tools, choking hazards galore….ahhh, they don’t make them like they used to.
Back then only the strong survived. 😉
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kev1976t
·Lego sets these days are amazing, I've got the James Bond Car and a Batman plane boxed, under the bed as Ive nowhere to put them 🙁
I do have Wall-e and Delorean on a shelf tho
I do have Wall-e and Delorean on a shelf tho
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Canuck
·In my youth, it was Meccano! I guess it is still around. But I got my first set for Christmas about 75 years ago.
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JwRosenthal
·In 1979, my father bought us a new console color TV and our first VCR (top loader Panasonic- I think my mother still had it until the early 00’s and it still worked when she finally gave it away). He spent all day setting it up and was so pissed that my little brother and I spent the next week+ playing with the box the TV came in (for those not old enough to know, those TV’s were furniture)- we didn’t even turn it on. The box finally fell apart after cutting so many holes in it for window and gun turrets, saturated in crayon and paint….it became pulp.
Sorry for the drift- just had a moment.
Sorry for the drift- just had a moment.
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Waltesefalcon
·I had erector sets and Legos, so I guess I had the best of both worlds. As an adult I've enjoyed building Lego with my kids.
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Dsloan
·Our dining table has been taken over by Lego Mario.
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arturo7
·In 1979, my father bought us a new console color TV and our first VCR (top loader Panasonic- I think my mother still had it until the early 00’s and it still worked when she finally gave it away). He spent all day setting it up and was so pissed that my little brother and I spent the next week+ playing with the box the TV came in (for those not old enough to know, those TV’s were furniture)- we didn’t even turn it on. The box finally fell apart after cutting so many holes in it for window and gun turrets, saturated in crayon and paint….it became pulp.
Sorry for the drift- just had a moment.
Those big boxes were awesome!
Once they were no longer good as forts or space ships you could slide down hills on the remaining pieces.
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arturo7
·I had erector sets and Legos, so I guess I had the best of both worlds.
Erector set, Legos, and Lincoln Logs. What more could a kid want?
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Dsloan
·In 1979, my father bought us a new console color TV and our first VCR (top loader Panasonic- I think my mother still had it until the early 00’s and it still worked when she finally gave it away). He spent all day setting it up and was so pissed that my little brother and I spent the next week+ playing with the box the TV came in (for those not old enough to know, those TV’s were furniture)- we didn’t even turn it on. The box finally fell apart after cutting so many holes in it for window and gun turrets, saturated in crayon and paint….it became pulp.
Sorry for the drift- just had a moment.
Big boxes are still a big hit in our household! We bought a second freezer early into covid. The box lasted for 3 months as a very elaborate 'cabin' that our toddler spearheaded. Had doors, windows, and even wallpaper (colored construction paper w dino drawings).
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Paedipod
·You are lucky he did not make a transmogrifier (stolen from a true mastermind)
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·Erector set, Legos, and Lincoln Logs. What more could a kid want?
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Pianotuna
·Meccano was British and more likely among us colonials I presume. Erector sets would be American?
