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Title: Legos
Post by: Pete on December 25, 2012, 10:57:59 AM
These take, like, rough ridin' 8 hours or more to put together.  And guess what?  If you think you can cut corners on the stuff that's merely aesthetic, you are wrong...because guess what, again?  That rough ridin' block is almost certainly critical to the entire god damn thing fitting together!

eff YOU, LEGOS!  YOU ARE WAY rough ridin' HARDER THAN YOU WERE WHEN I WAS A KID, AND YOU GOD DAMN KNOW IT!


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Title: Re: Legos
Post by: EMAWmeister on December 25, 2012, 11:04:01 AM
Ts and Ps, Pete.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: Willesgirl on December 25, 2012, 11:05:37 AM
Why do you have to put it together? Can't the kids do it themselves? :dunno:
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: Pete on December 25, 2012, 11:06:41 AM
Why do you have to put it together? Can't the kids do it themselves? :dunno:

Not when you are a jackass and ignore the age direction on the box.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: ChiComCat on December 25, 2012, 11:28:17 AM
Love Legos.  My nephew and I were rocking them out a couple days ago.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: kso_FAN on December 25, 2012, 11:29:25 AM
Taking 8 hours to build is one thing, wait a couple days until they take them all apart and build something else.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: kso_FAN on December 25, 2012, 11:31:10 AM
I do love the Lego video games though. My boys are conquering Lord of the Rings right now.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: pissclams on December 25, 2012, 11:31:27 AM
can't imagine putting together monster fighters legos, now- a tiefighter? X-wing? m falcon or death star ? Let's chat.
Title: Re: Re: Legos
Post by: kso_FAN on December 25, 2012, 11:52:04 AM
can't imagine putting together monster fighters legos, now- a tiefighter? X-wing? m falcon or death star ? Let's chat.

My house has done mainly Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Lord of the Rings/Hobbit.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: slobber on December 25, 2012, 11:59:05 AM
My son tears through these things. He did the death star by himself over the course of 4 nights during a school week...at age 7. He doesn't take after me.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: Dugout DickStone on December 25, 2012, 12:59:44 PM
Lol, my 2 year old knocked out the Death Star during her nap.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: Pendergast on December 25, 2012, 01:04:12 PM
Watching them slowly die and dissolve into the giant bucket'o'legos is the worst part.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: slobber on December 25, 2012, 01:21:55 PM
Lol, my 2 year old knocked out the Death Star during her nap.
Congrats! Does she take after you?
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: Dugout DickStone on December 25, 2012, 01:33:06 PM
Lol, my 2 year old knocked out the Death Star during her nap.
Congrats! Does she take after you?

She is a major badass so absolutely
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 25, 2012, 08:59:07 PM
Too expensive IMO
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: Asteriskhead on December 25, 2012, 09:03:41 PM
I think some of my lego masterpieces are still intact on the top shelf of my closet at my parent's place.
Title: Re: Re: Legos
Post by: michigancat on December 25, 2012, 09:25:40 PM
Too expensive IMO

They're really expensive. But so much fun.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: Brock Landers on December 26, 2012, 09:30:18 AM
When I was a kid I thought the space Legos were the best (they were).  As I got older I started to enjoy the town Legos a lot more.  I  built this town that was run by a crime syndicate.  The boss or his goons would drive around to all the businesses of this town and do shakedowns and collections on the business owners.  Then they would drive over to the Police Station and pay off the Police Chief and then take some drugs from the evidence warehouse.

I think this change in my Lego enjoyment happened right after I saw Goodfellas.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: TheHamburglar on December 26, 2012, 09:56:31 AM
There really is nothing better than Legos.  Everytime I walk by them in a store I get the urge to buy the biggest set they have.  I just want to put them together.  Then again, I also enjoy assembling modular furniture. 
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: star seed 7 on February 13, 2019, 03:09:12 PM
I was at target last night and impulse purchased the dva/rein Lego set and put together dva when I got home. Very fun.

Now trying to decide if I want to spend a few hundred on a large set..
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: nicname on February 13, 2019, 03:50:30 PM
I was at target last night and impulse purchased the dva/rein Lego set and put together dva when I got home. Very fun.

Now trying to decide if I want to spend a few hundred on a large set..

It appears we have a budding Lego-maniac on our hands!
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: star seed 7 on February 13, 2019, 04:03:29 PM
When I was in grade school my mom donated all my legos to some poor family  :bawl:
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: DQ12 on February 13, 2019, 04:08:34 PM
When I was in grade school my mom donated all my legos to some poor family  :bawl:
Ooo let's see pictures!  I assume they're default skins?

Title: Re: Legos
Post by: star seed 7 on February 13, 2019, 04:20:24 PM
Yeah, defaults. The bastion one looks really cool
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: cas4ksu on February 13, 2019, 04:24:50 PM
i never played with legos as a youth.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: XocolateThundarr on February 13, 2019, 04:39:54 PM
I almost bought some of the architecture and technic sets a while back.  I think putting them together would be good stress therapy.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: steve dave on February 13, 2019, 04:56:11 PM
Lego sets and puzzles are very relaxing and centering. Like, you can be all stressed out and then you put that thing together and it chills you TF out. Also drugs does this.


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Title: Re: Legos
Post by: star seed 7 on February 13, 2019, 05:24:25 PM
Steve dave, what if I told you both legos and drugs were in my chill zone last night?
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: nicname on February 13, 2019, 05:38:56 PM
When I was in grade school my mom donated all my legos to some poor family  :bawl:

When I was a kid my dad sold my NES to my neighbor.  :curse:
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: steve dave on February 13, 2019, 05:47:12 PM
Steve dave, what if I told you both legos and drugs were in my chill zone last night?

ICE CHILL


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Title: Re: Legos
Post by: star seed 7 on February 13, 2019, 07:24:41 PM
4 Dlew12

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Title: Re: Legos
Post by: mocat on February 14, 2019, 08:49:04 AM
my parents are moving out of the house i grew up in and i recently took all my legos. my goodness i was very into aviation as a young lad  :lol:
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: mocat on February 14, 2019, 09:05:41 AM
well this website is amazing

https://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/ (https://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/)


my parents are moving out of the house i grew up in and i recently took all my legos. my goodness i was very into aviation as a young lad  :lol:

i irl had (have!) all these

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(https://www.toysperiod.com/img/cache/f9/800x600/d4e4o5g414p4n5x5m444v2s294q2q2w214i4w5d41433v234t20314x2.jpg)

(https://www.toysperiod.com/img/cache/b5/800x600/d4e4o5g414p4n5x5m444v2u2e4r2q2w214i4w5d41433v234t20314x2.jpg)

(https://www.toysperiod.com/img/cache/c1/800x600/d4e4o5g414p4n5x5m444v2t2c4r2q2w214i4w5d41433v234t20314x2.jpg)

(https://www.toysperiod.com/img/cache/97/800x600/d4e4o5g414p4n5x5m444u2y284x2q2w214i4w5d41433v234t20314x2.jpg)

(https://www.toysperiod.com/img/cache/d6/800x600/d4e4o5g414p4n5x5m444w2q2a4q2q2w214i4w5d41433v234t20314x2.jpg)


i was always jealous of the kids that had elaborate castles and whatnot
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: DQ12 on February 14, 2019, 09:47:10 AM
those are great.  does baby d.va fit in her mech too?
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: star seed 7 on February 14, 2019, 09:47:51 AM
Yes she does
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: _33 on February 14, 2019, 10:05:39 AM
A couple months ago my kids and I made a stop-motion video with legos.  It took like 4 hours and then was 5 seconds long.  It was very bad.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: KST8FAN on March 02, 2019, 06:49:23 PM
Picked this up at the toy show over Presidents Day weekend.   Put it together today.  Great therapy for 4 hours.


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Title: Re: Legos
Post by: DaBigTrain on July 25, 2021, 03:26:03 PM
Picked these up today. The legos store is dangerous

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Title: Re: Legos
Post by: star seed 7 on July 25, 2021, 03:37:46 PM
Yeah it's easy to rack up a large bill. The lunar lander and iss ones are two of my favorites.

There are a lot of custom lighted displays and stuff on Amazon if you're interested in that.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: _33 on July 25, 2021, 05:21:53 PM
Do you guys watch lego masters?  My family loves it.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: wetwillie on July 25, 2021, 05:24:40 PM
I buy lego sets near retirement and hold them for 12-18 months then sell them for lots of profit
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: steve dave on July 25, 2021, 05:24:43 PM
Do you guys watch lego masters?  My family loves it.
Mine does too


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Title: Re: Legos
Post by: cfbandyman on July 26, 2021, 11:23:59 AM
Picked these up today. The legos store is dangerous

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210725/9b0d0696051b08a016e32791275e35fa.jpg)

Space shuttle doesn't fit my collection as well, I do have the ISS, but boy howdy do I love the Saturn V I got

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Title: Re: Legos
Post by: star seed 7 on October 07, 2021, 07:32:15 PM
Boner alert

https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/1446113247342383110
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: CHONGS on October 07, 2021, 07:42:31 PM
I made a bird tonight
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: SkinnyBenny on October 07, 2021, 11:41:33 PM
Lil SB is obsessed with Winnie the Pooh and also Legos so naturally I am a superdad and spent a pretty penny on the Lego 100-acre Wood. And my goodness the whole thing from beginning to end was heartwarming.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: Stupid Fitz on October 08, 2021, 08:36:33 AM
I don't have that creative part of the brain but admire those that do. I have to follow the instructions step by step or my kids lego sets are jacked. I almost inevitably mess up or there are lost pieces and I end up in a fit of rage and have to basically start over because my stupid brain can't just look at it and figure it out. I am jealous of those that find this stuff relaxing.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: mocat on October 08, 2021, 09:00:33 AM
it would be impossible for me not to give that thing irl sea trials
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: star seed 7 on October 08, 2021, 09:02:28 AM
This constructioncat built a hydro crane and an excavator last weekend  :Carl:
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on October 08, 2021, 09:03:52 AM
I don't have that creative part of the brain but admire those that do. I have to follow the instructions step by step or my kids lego sets are jacked. I almost inevitably mess up or there are lost pieces and I end up in a fit of rage and have to basically start over because my stupid brain can't just look at it and figure it out. I am jealous of those that find this stuff relaxing.
Same for me. My kids can assemble complicated sets effortlessly.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: star seed 7 on October 08, 2021, 09:20:33 AM
it would be impossible for me not to give that thing irl sea trials

The video didn't even show one of the cooler aspects, the ship breaks into 3 sections so you can see the decks inside. How nuts is that?  :sdeek:
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: cfbandyman on October 08, 2021, 11:23:40 AM
Boner alert

https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/1446113247342383110

It's rough ridin' amazing, I am super tempted. The detail is really great
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: cfbandyman on October 08, 2021, 11:30:50 AM
I don't have that creative part of the brain but admire those that do. I have to follow the instructions step by step or my kids lego sets are jacked. I almost inevitably mess up or there are lost pieces and I end up in a fit of rage and have to basically start over because my stupid brain can't just look at it and figure it out. I am jealous of those that find this stuff relaxing.

Building sets with instructions is like super easy, even the adult complicated ones are relatively easy and lego has gotten so much better at it ove time. Bags with numbers, an instruction set you build in piecemeal in a logical order? When I was a kid it was just a grab bag of bags you you had to search, it made it much more difficult. The worst set I've built was the statue of liberty ones because all the green and like the same 5 pieces got hard after a while.

I think you just have to have enjoyed it as a kid. To me it's therapeutic, kinda like hand drafting. I think it's the ability to see tangible progress without a lot of effort that probably is the sell for me.

To me the hard part is if you want to make something new on your own, it's the real big step, to me lego sets teach you techniques. When you create something 50% of the battle when you have a giant box of legos is finding the right goddamn part, the other half is learning to implement those learned techniques on something new. Once you get good at it it becomes fun again but it is hard right out the gate. That is kinda the cool thing about like lego masters or the lego movie explore, the "follow the instructions" vs "figuring it out on your own", it's just a big part of life, and design in general.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: star seed 7 on October 08, 2021, 01:36:52 PM
The hardest part of building huge lego sets is that it rubs your fingertips raw
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: DaBigTrain on November 07, 2021, 05:09:30 PM
Got this today. According to the person who helped me they are discontinuing it soon, got the last one they had in stock. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211107/012c24fec5fef0f19e32b2672d61c246.jpg)
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: wetwillie on November 07, 2021, 05:58:17 PM
How much?
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: DaBigTrain on November 07, 2021, 07:26:13 PM
How much?

$350  :blindfold:

This crap is expensive.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: wetwillie on November 07, 2021, 07:41:55 PM
Yea I saw it for $350 on amazon and nearly did a double take, that’s one helluva set.
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: steve dave on November 07, 2021, 07:53:50 PM
I want to buy the home alone house so dang bad
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: cfbandyman on November 08, 2021, 03:43:25 PM
I want to buy the home alone house so dang bad

It's pretty baller
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: KST8FAN on November 17, 2021, 08:04:11 AM
https://theblockzone.com/products/1706pcs


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Title: Re: Legos
Post by: cfbandyman on November 17, 2021, 10:50:23 AM
https://theblockzone.com/products/1706pcs


Tom

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Not a lego but still, "lego like" it's pretty cool.

Sidenote, won't surprise me if lego does a John Deere or Case IH set at some point
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: Institutional Control on November 28, 2021, 09:00:03 PM
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Title: Re: Legos
Post by: GregKSU1027 on November 29, 2021, 10:03:03 AM
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Title: Re: Legos
Post by: pissclams on April 21, 2022, 07:46:05 PM
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/luke-skywalker-s-landspeeder-75341
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: Spracne on April 21, 2022, 08:55:00 PM
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/luke-skywalker-s-landspeeder-75341

So what's the straight goss? Should I buy this and leave it wrapped up in my root cellar?
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: star seed 7 on April 21, 2022, 09:19:20 PM
I bought this set recently to celebrate the great state of Kansas

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/sunflowers-40524
Title: Re: Legos
Post by: KST8FAN on August 10, 2022, 06:31:57 PM
https://youtu.be/uDkZPKCtHFY

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Title: Re: Legos
Post by: KST8FAN on February 16, 2023, 08:23:20 PM
https://www.brickfestlive.com/bfl-2022-2023#section-2152410000-135-167-189

Kansas City in June.


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Title: Re: Legos
Post by: cfbandyman on February 18, 2023, 03:35:32 PM
https://www.brickfestlive.com/bfl-2022-2023#section-2152410000-135-167-189

Kansas City in June.


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I probably won't be back that weekend but would be fun to attend