LEGO Discussion Thread

[Dsanders 5,747]

Welcome to the LEGO discussion thread! Here you can share your experiences from your childhood, all the sets and themes that you used to (or still) love, and if you're an avid hobbyist, you can share some of the stuff that you're looking forward to.

 

You can also share awesome pictures like this:

 

 

So epic!

 

 

For me, this franchise was the best thing to have ever happened  to my childhood. It made my childhood livable and I still to this day embrace the nostalgia! It's been about three years since I've had a LEGO set but recently, I have decided to try to pursue this fascination of mine once more. Honestly, I would love to have several sets to keep on display in the future, even when I get married and have my own family.

 

 

This thread is dedicated to anything LEGO! 

[MozillaToast 233]

Unfortunately I've been told I'm 'too old' to play with lego. I have many fond memories like remaking (and destroying) my lego star wars stuff. I do unfortunately retain the memories of standing on the little claw ones when in my bare feet :'(

[Rebel the Wolfgirl 5,601]

Since we're talking about LEGO, I figured I'd post this little beauty:

 

[Admiral Regulus 2,769]

Unfortunately I've been told I'm 'too old' to play with lego. I have many fond memories like remaking (and destroying) my lego star wars stuff. I do unfortunately retain the memories of standing on the little claw ones when in my bare feet :'(

 

Haha, me too, basically...

 

I have an entire ~0.1 m³ (~3 cft) treasure chest overflowing with Star Wars Legos. I had the Star Destroyer, the AT-ST, the self-moving AT-AT, the AT-TE, the LAAT Gunship, the X-Wing, Y-Wing, B-Wing, A-Wing, TIE Interceptor, TIE Fighter, Jedi Starfighter, Naboo Starfighter, Droid Carrier, Wookie attack set, Jabba sail barge set, and probably another bunch more that I'm forgetting. I collected so many of them from 2005 to 2010, during the post-RotS period.

 

Anyway, the point is, I still have all of those... but I couldn't take them with me when I moved out of my parent's house. I don't have enough space in my apartment to store so many Legos. I used to have so much fun setting up battle scenes with all of those... hell, I even wrote my own Episode 7-9 trilogy. It's kinda depressing now that I think about it. I miss being a kid. xD

Edited January 3, 2015 by Regulus

[vivishy 1,032]

I've never had the opportunity to play with legos when i was younger because my mom believed in gender stereotypes and told me that it was a boy game. As soon as I move out I am so getting a lego set. 

[DubWolf 17,254]

I was a lego fan since I was 3 or 4. The oldest Lego set I recall I had was a Johnny Thunder plane, and then a Res-Q jeep. I mainly collected Star Wars and Bionicle, or anything with aircraft. I even build a few things from scrap. I'll post some pics later.

 

I still have a good collection in my room, although who knows if I'll eventually sell or donate some of them. Pull an "Andy", if you know what I mean ? (That was a good movie ;u; ).

 

It's unlikely, but maybe someone will recognize me by the name of Saturn2.0 (or -XYZ) when I was in the Lego.com forums.

 

Sadly, many of my sets have fallen apart and pieces have been lost and scattered, so they are lost. Fortunately, the pieces I did find eventually made way into some of my original creations.

Edited January 4, 2015 by JingleWolf

[galaxysquid 2,122]

My stepdad has recently been building a ton of Lego sets. He was building a castle this morning... I wonder how it's going so far. xD

 

I love Legos. I love the movie too. :3 

[Misty Rose 3,216]

You already know that I'm really interested in having some cool Lego sets in the future For the others posting, I never got to have my own Legos when I was a kid Only my cousins had some Lego Star Wars stuff -_-

[Dsanders 5,747]

Since we're talking about LEGO, I figured I'd post this little beauty:

 

 

Thanks for sharing. That film was very entertaining and interesting It seemed like some sort of Twilight Zone episode.

 

 

I've never had the opportunity to play with legos when i was younger because my mom believed in gender stereotypes and told me that it was a boy game. As soon as I move out I am so getting a lego set. 

 

Wow, I'm really sorry that you had to deal with that. Apparently MLP:FIM was not the only franchise that suffered from being categorized by gender -_- But yeah, I would definitely encourage you to buy a lego set once you move out. You're never too old for LEGO. Plus, it is a really easy hobby to start. Even if you have a severely limited budget, you can still manage to buy a number of small LEGO CITY sets for less than $10. Here are some good examples:

 

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Fire-Motorcycle-60000?fromListing=listing

 

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Fire-Chief-Car-60001?fromListing=listing

 

 

 

The oldest Lego set I recall I had was a Johnny Thunder plane

 

Don't even get me started on Johnny Thunder ... 

 

Orient Expedition was and will always be my favorite LEGO theme!    

 

Oh how I really wanted to get those big sets, like Scorpion Palace, Temple of Mount Everest, and Dragon Fortress 

 

 

I really missed out    Gosh darn you for being so damn expensive! 

[Ziltoid the Omniscient 286]

Havent built legos in a long, long time. Used to have a decent collection. No sets really. Just random pieces. Also was more of a K'Nex person anyway. (Do they even still have K'Nex anymore?)

[Sigma 768]

Now that I've grown up some and know a good bit of math, I should buy a whole bunch of legos and get started on a big project. Especially since I've learned about this special kit called LEGO Mindstorms.

[DamienTrivahn 50]

As a kid, my favorite sets were the vintage (well they're vintage now) pirates, medieval and space. Pirates and Medieval were my top favorites, and still are

 

also here are two sites I have found very useful and awesome:
letsbuilditagain.com - a great site to go to if you have lost or damaged your lego instructions and would like to get a new instruction manual so you can build your sets again

bricklink.com - a great site to go to for either full sets or spare parts. Prices are very reasonable and the sellers are just hobbyists or collectors, there are no businesses or corporations tied in with this site..as far as I know

[SparklingSquirrels 21,332]

I have a couple of old Harry Potter lego sets that I used to play around with. I got a little bored with building them how the instruction manual said, so I took them apart and just built my own stuff instead.

[Thuja 3,659]

I miss the lego dinosaurs they used to have, they were my favourite.   

 

[Guest]

Come visit LEGOLAND in Billund, the oldschool place. 

Us danes take great pride in LEGO, lol. 

[Dsanders 5,747]

Come visit LEGOLAND in Billund, the oldschool place. 

Us danes take great pride in LEGO, lol. 

 

I've heard that there is a secret LEGO place in Denmark that contains every single LEGO set that has ever existed. Please tell me that this is true

[DamienTrivahn 50]

@Dsanders it is most likely true, as Denmark is the birth place of Lego, hence why they take so much pride about it. I still think that if Lego had allowed us Australians to play Lego Online, then they would have more than enough subscribers and they wouldn't have had to shut it down

Edited January 5, 2015 by DamienTrivahn

[Guest]

I've heard that there is a secret LEGO place in Denmark that contains every single LEGO set that has ever existed. Please tell me that this is true

 

I'm not quite sure if I'm allowed to disclose that information. 

[Lordav 3,427]

Good god... Lego... i still have mine in a cupboard somewhere... I got em old city, star wars, pirates, dino attack, exo-force, creative, technic, atlantis,,expedition(or somethin), Alpha team, castler,

from all years... 1999-2008.... seen a lot of how lego evolved... i was like a lego addict.. i am still keeping them (had to much fun to sell them )

 

=)

[An Unknown Pony. 370]

Finally a LEGO Topic  ,i like to collect LEGO sets(mostly LEGO City)(i'm abit old for this) and rebuild LEGO stuff into what i want,Recently i just build a mini-figure sized Lego vending machine.

[Samurai Equine 51,079]

Oh man, I LOVE Legos!   I wasn't very creative with them when I was younger, but I still loved them none the less. Probably would be a lot more creative with them these days.

 

It's even better now with all the movie tie-in sets and what not! Lego is finally making all the sets I wanted to see when I was younger! But it wasn't so bad back then...

When I was younger, my best friend at the time and I shared two HUGE buckets of Legos! There wasn't hardly ANYTHING we couldn't build!

 

...Also, is it just me, or have Legos gotten more expensive lately? 

 

I remember having lots of bigger Lego sets back then. I bought the first X-Wing Star Wars set, the first Millennium Falcon set, probably a few other Star Wars sets here and there, a jet fighter plane set, a bunch of random sci-fi themed sets, and lots more... Not sure how my mother would have been able to afford them if they had the same prices as bigger sets these days. Seems like the popular sets people are buying these days are the smaller sets, the ones with 1 figure and like 5-10 lego pieces. You can hardly do ANYTHING with those sets, but it's pretty much all you can afford if you're low on money.

 

Still, I wouldn't mind getting into Legos again. Building things is always something I've been good at. That's why I like jigsaw puzzles and model kits. 

[chirox the pony 1,336]

I used to be a lego fan, well I sorta still am, these I buy sets from only one theme (that being bionicle), but I used to be big into the regular lego sets when I was younger (lost interest when I was 14). 

[Teen Buscemi 135]

YAY! LEGO THREAD! (I've found my new home!)

 

O-okay...I think I got all my excitement out...

 

Does anyone have problems with Mini-figures sides cracking,because that has happened to all of my newer Figs (all of my old ones are fine just a lil' loose on the arms) 

Edited January 18, 2015 by (Marvel) Razzledaz

[ponylaces 1,870]

Before I start..

 

I've always loved LEGO. I started buying the sets when I was about 7, so I have a ton right now. My mom got me this huge book filled with LEGO ideas, so I also build original stuff. LEGO City and LEGO Pirates were my favorite sets, and I also have a shitload of minifigures.

 

Speaking of the minifigures, my dad and I were the masters of feeling the blind bags. We knew every single character by just feeling the pieces. I ended up collecting all of the series 10 figures, and I have some more minifigures from previous series and LEGO sets.

 

I also went to Legoland Florida in 2012, it's really awesome. I bought a nice little box to store minifigures in. It's pretty neat, so maybe I'll post a picture of it sometime.

 

TL;DR version: I love LEGO!

[Vox 870]

I loved LEGOs as a kid, i have at least 400lbs of  bricks and misc items in huge chests in my closet, maybe one day i'll bring em out and build a storm shelter with them 

Edited January 18, 2015 by VoxPolice