The Lego Thread.

[Mike_P]

Fitted the Zene Bricks motor. Required the operating trigger to be parly rebuilt so that a protruding loop could be fitted along with some other changes. Tail doesn't flap very much with it but the wings are fine. Played around with the arrangement of the drive from the motor but it seems the described arrangement is the best.
According to the card in the box their was a QR code on the box for downloading the instructions, there wasn't. Eventually got a link emailed. Step 1, which actually not the first step anyway, was confusing until I realised it was just removing parts and not adding ones despite the clear indication otherwise.

 

[Mike_P]

Bit disappointed with their release of the Williams F1 car as aside from the lack of correct sponsors, although you can source a third party set, the blue is far too light
Has been scrubbed off being a possible purchase

 

[Pinno718]

A clip of Lego stuff:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c55YxM8AxiE

 

[Pinno718]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9jkoVtmdTQ

 

[Pinno718]

Anyways. Took to Lego again after a long break whilst convalescing. Bought a Lego bundle off fleabay for my girls when they graduated from Duplo and I spotted some Technics mixed bundles for sale. Built a few things with Technics but got quickly bored. Built a hand cranked noise machine for the girls. Technics was in it's infancy when I was young and unaffordable.
Just like those bikes you would drool over at the back of the comic (Cycling Weekly for the young).

But I was fascinated with ball contraptions and must have built 20, all of which did not conform to the GBC standard; Great ball contraption.

 

[classic33]

https://www.lamborghini.com/en-en/news/lamborghini-sian-fkp-37-legor-technictm-11-reproduction

 

[classic33]

LEGO Millennium Falcon with 55,000 Pieces

 

[icowden]

LEGO Millennium Falcon with 55,000 Pieces

Video of it here.

View: https://youtu.be/4mZpSjYfY8I?si=Gm5VQlkcgl3FrjQM

I don't think it has an interior though.

This is one which is about 4 feet long and took 75,000 pieces:

View: https://youtu.be/ILPG2Jr0MfY?si=73JoutohyUHape7K

 

[Mike_P]

More mundane but useful use, a stand for a trough of artificial flowers in a circular window

 

[presta]

Lego seems to have completely lost the plot in the 60 years since I was playing with it.

The Lego I knew was a kit of parts that enabled you to use your imagination to design and build your own buildings in miniature, and in so doing, it fostered the next generation of engineers and designers. The car/planes etc that I see Lego producing nowadays appear to be nothing more than 3D jigsaw puzzles: you pull them apart and reassemble them, and that's it. Once you've done that a few times what more is there to be gained? There doesn't appear to be any scope for a child to use their own imagination or for any element of design, and in that sense, it's self-defeating.

It seems to be just another one of the many ways in which 'progress' has spoilt the richness of life.

 

[Jameshow]

Lego seems to have completely lost the plot in the 60 years since I was playing with it.

The Lego I knew was a kit of parts that enabled you to use your imagination to design and build your own buildings in miniature, and in so doing, it fostered the next generation of engineers and designers. The car/planes etc that I see Lego producing nowadays appear to be nothing more than 3D jigsaw puzzles: you pull them apart and reassemble them, and that's it. Once you've done that a few times what more is there to be gained? There doesn't appear to be any scope for a child to use their own imagination or for any element of design, and in that sense, it's self-defeating.

It seems to be just another one of the many ways in which 'progress' has spoilt the richness of life.

Not true at all looks at the work of this 16yo.

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/a23ac5b6-95bd-4f1e-b5f8-aaabd06ba9f9

 

[oxoman]

Lego seems to have completely lost the plot in the 60 years since I was playing with it.

The Lego I knew was a kit of parts that enabled you to use your imagination to design and build your own buildings in miniature, and in so doing, it fostered the next generation of engineers and designers. The car/planes etc that I see Lego producing nowadays appear to be nothing more than 3D jigsaw puzzles: you pull them apart and reassemble them, and that's it. Once you've done that a few times what more is there to be gained? There doesn't appear to be any scope for a child to use their own imagination or for any element of design, and in that sense, it's self-defeating.

It seems to be just another one of the many ways in which 'progress' has spoilt the richness of life.

The thing is back then lego was revolutionary like mecanno was back in dark ages and it was for kids only. Nowadays it's for adults that probably grew up way to quick as youngster's, so they can relive their childhood again. My eldest is now 25 and does the UCS starwars sets and there not cheap / small or easy.

 

[icowden]

The Lego I knew was a kit of parts that enabled you to use your imagination to design and build your own buildings in miniature, and in so doing, it fostered the next generation of engineers and designers.

Watch the Lego movie - then you'll understand. There are Lego builders who build sets and then there are a the master builders.

They hang out at rebrickable where you can find all sorts of new guides to building stuff with your existing kits.

Then again, there are kits that are just beautiful like the Piano and the Jazz musicians. The space shuttle and Saturn rocket.

 

[Jameshow]

Watch the Lego movie - then you'll understand. There are Lego builders who build sets and then there are a the master builders.

They hang out at rebrickable where you can find all sorts of new guides to building stuff with your existing kits.

Then again, there are kits that are just beautiful like the Piano and the Jazz musicians. The space shuttle and Saturn rocket.

Some people play sheet music....

Others play spontaneous jazz...

Both are valid!

 

[newts]

I bought a job lot of secondhand lego sets in 2002 when our kids were small for c£100(jcb digger, Ferrari, grab lorry etc) they had plenty of fun building allsorts of imaginary creations from the parts of these specific models. They then passed on to my best friends kids & last year they were returned to us & our grandsons (7&9) are having eqaul amounts of fun with me. The original owner would be close to 40 now, recycling & re imaginaning for 4 generations of kids thus far is a great legacy for lego.