All Random Lego chatter!

shotgunmcos

robinph wrote: »

Means that they will need to re-release TPM .

Oh God no...


I agree that its nice to get a break from the 3 shades of grey

Rhyme

I do like that the Stormtroopers look halfway between some of the Clone Army specialised troopers and Stormtroopers. Plenty of interesting minifigures there too, looking forward to higher resolution images.

Nothing really jumping out at me as first-day purchases* but it's a long time between now and April/May for them to grow on me.


*probably a good thing with the rumoured Sandcrawler and X-Wing sets later this year.

mloc123

Collected my childhood lego from my parents a few weeks back... Strated to piece out some bigger sets this week starting here. It took 2 nights of rumaging through to find all pieces. How did I manage as a kid picking pieces out of a pile on the floor?

Tom Mann Centuria

mloc123 wrote: »

Collected my childhood lego from my parents a few weeks back... Strated to piece out some bigger sets this week starting here. It took 2 nights of rumaging through to find all pieces. How did I manage as a kid picking pieces out of a pile on the floor?

Love Lego Castle. My first full set was a yellow Lego castle set, and it was fantastic.

robinph

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Love Lego Castle. My first full set was a yellow Lego castle set, and it was fantastic.

That could be the original and first Lego castle that you got by eating lots of Weetabix. The parents have all our Lego in the loft still, including the Weetabix Castle, but ive not managed to pursuade them to release it to me yet.

There was even some pre plastic bricks era Lego items that we used to have, but that went back to the cousins families.

OwaynOTT

Mine was all given away and all the lovely cardboard boxes for my Nintendo collection was thrown out too.
Somehow space was made for the sisters polly in my pocket crap though.
Had some lovely forest men and wolf pack stuff.

JupiterKid

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Love Lego Castle. My first full set was a yellow Lego castle set, and it was fantastic.

That was the original, first LEGO castle. It came out about 1978/79 when Legoland Town and Space were launched.

Here it is...


Lego launched a proper castle series in 1984. I got the Black Knights castle for my 9th birthday that same year.

This one -

beauf

I had the original, first LEGO castle as kid. Still have bits of it mixed with the other kids lego.

robinph

JupiterKid wrote: »

That was the original, first LEGO castle. It came out about 1978/79 when Legoland Town and Space were launched.

Here it is...

According to Brickset 375 was released in 1978 and was a retail set. The one that we had pre-dates that and is from 1970 but only through Weetabix:



...and all of these sets:


We ate a lot of Weetabix between me and my brothers.

beauf

It has that very early colour palette

robinph

...and notice the very early minifigures as well. No arms, no legs, no face. We had quite a few of these lads:

beauf

I remember them I had them in this set
https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/18895-314-police-boat-review/
We also had some police sets, not the station but smaller sets of the same era.
https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/370-1.jpg?200908260719

Tom Mann Centuria

JupiterKid wrote: »

That was the original, first LEGO castle. It came out about 1978/79 when Legoland Town and Space were launched.

Here it is...

That's the very one I had, and have gone full on nostalgia mode, quite emotional, thanks (I think). I'd say I wouldn't have got that until 1980 or 81, but if they retired sets as quickly as they do now maybe I'm wrong.

I do remember my dad and mum helping me make it and then I dropped it.

Rhyme

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

That's the very one I had, and have gone full on nostalgia mode, quite emotional, thanks (I think). I'd say I wouldn't have got that until 1980 or 81, but if they retired sets as quickly as they do now maybe I'm wrong.

I do remember my dad and mum helping me make it and then I dropped it.

Lego sets took a long time to retire in the 80's and 90's. The Mission Commander set (6986) came out in 1989 and I remember getting it for Christmas in 1991/1992.

I parted out the Yellow Castle (375) set last year on Bricklink. Fantastic set, plays well and looks even better. If I can get my hands on the stickers, mine will be complete

Sleepy

We had a very lego Christmas in our house... so much so that some of it still hasn't even been opened!

The eldest got 10253-1 Big Ben from Mrs Sleepy which has to be one of the most beautiful Lego sets I've gotten to (help) build. Took about 8 hours in total and was the highlight. His Dad (Santa this year) got him 31313-1: Mindstorms EV3 which we built and programmed in an afternoon. There's lots of other options for him to complete and I think the real playability of the set will be in coding it to do different things. His little sister, our youngest, got him 75530 Chewbacca too.

She herself got 31069 Modular Family Villa which I hope we'll be building this weekend. They each got the 40254 Nutcracker in their sock from Santa and my mother had the 40233 Snow Globe from last year for the eldest.

We took the kids to London for a few days last week where we got to visit the Lego store and Hamley's which has an impressive lego selection too. I picked up the unique minifigs in both (the Royal Guard in Hamleys and "Lester" in the Lego Store). The kids did some of the build a mini-figs each too but due to flying carry-on only and already having the 40220 London Bus from Hamleys in Dublin, we didn't bother with anything larger...

All of which means I haven't so much as gotten to open my own Christmas present: the 21309 Saturn V!

tedpan

Sleepy wrote:

We had a very lego Christmas in our house... so much so that some of it still hasn't even been opened!

Any photos of the progress?

Oafley Jones

Rhyme wrote: »

Lego sets took a long time to retire in the 80's and 90's. The Mission Commander set (6986) came out in 1989 and I remember getting it for Christmas in 1991/1992.

I parted out the Yellow Castle (375) set last year on Bricklink. Fantastic set, plays well and looks even better. If I can get my hands on the stickers, mine will be complete

Looking on brickset I was surprised to see that lots of the sets I received in the 80s were released two or three years before.

Sleepy

tedpan wrote: »

Any photos of the progress?

I'll grab a few when I get home tonight

The nutcracker and snow globe were disassembled and packed away with our other Christmas sets last night though!

Delboy5

Ship in a Bottle...

https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/0666289b-0289-4e14-a646-4f422da59a16?cmp=Other-GLO-Ideas-OTC-Jan-18-Reveal-POST-SocialMedia-ShipInABottle-CO-LEGO-

Oafley Jones

Delboy5 wrote: »

Ship in a Bottle...

https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/0666289b-0289-4e14-a646-4f422da59a16?cmp=Other-GLO-Ideas-OTC-Jan-18-Reveal-POST-SocialMedia-ShipInABottle-CO-LEGO-

Old fishing store and Saturn V not only captured the essence but improved on their initial designs... that ship is so much worse than the original entry. I can understand them cutting back the size, but was that really the best the could have come up with?

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/eca1b08b-1b29-46a6-97a1-9b2580e1dce2

robinph

That is nothing like the submitted idea of the ship in a bottle. The submitted idea was just a bit extravagant though and probably has 5 times the number of clear bottle pieces as the final design which was never going to happen.

shotgunmcos

After picking up 3 ideas sets from last year (Old Fishing Store, Saturn V and Women of Nasa) I think my wallet is safe from ideas this year. Tron Legacy is cool but not my thing either.

Rhyme

shotgunmcos wrote: »

After picking up 3 ideas sets from last year (Old Fishing Store, Saturn V and Women of Nasa) I think my wallet is safe from ideas this year. Tron Legacy is cool but not my thing either.

...unless the Voltron set re-emerges from Lego design Hell.

Sleepy

I suspect that there may be an element of sizing being considered for the Ideas range. From what I've seen, Wall-E did exceptionally well and that may have been due, in no small part, to it being an affordable set.

kevmcdonnell

Maybe one for those who like lego and ice pilots

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikeymcbryan/custom-dc-3-lego-piece-set

mloc123

Latest childhood build... 4554

Missing a couple of pieces... Not worth brick linking, maybe

mloc123

Started to build my Brick Bank last night... Makes a change from piecing our old sets. Incredible detail on the baseplate tiling alone.

Greg81

I am thinking to pull the trigger on Porsche 911 GT3 RS 42056. Argos got it for €237. Do you think is a good price? Lego store got it for €299

mloc123

Greg81 wrote: »

I am thinking to pull the trigger on Porsche 911 GT3 RS 42056. Argos got it for €237. Do you think is a good price? Lego store got it for €299

I picked it up in Argos for around 200e even about 6 months ago... It has been below 200 before also. At 237 it is an "okay" price but not the best you'll get.

http://checkargos.com/product/6074315

shotgunmcos

+1 I got it for around 200 delivered from Amazon last summer. If the €30-40 doesn't matter get it but it won't retire too soon (maybe end this year if another UCS style car emerges in the summer) so if you just keep an eye on Amazon, LEGO online and Smyths you could get it ato a better price.