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Demon
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 Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject: I'm tempted to not pay for a tune and get this instead... |
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yeah, if you thought I was bats**t insane before... 
http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=10179&cn=416&d=322
almost tempted...
should be doing my tune in June (yay rhymes!) ... but thats a serious thing to think about for me...
I mean... honestly... who else is really going to be able to say... "Yeah, I spent $600 on a single lego set, AND IT RULES!!" 
that thing is insane though... nearly 5200 pieces...
I wonder if they'd be willing to make a 1:18th scale GTA or Z28 ... that'd be fun... 1200 pieces or so... you know we'd all buy the things... |
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Sellmanb
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| That's pretty slick! Can you imagine having the job of making the original models, and labelling and counting every lego block so they can mass produce those? Insane I tell you. |
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Al Hasse
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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I used to have a whole pullman suitcase full of those things when I was in grade school. They weren't so specialized as they are now, but they kept me occupied.
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aaron_sK
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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Man, Lego's aren't about the sets, they're about building random stuff out of a pile of parts.
BTW, Demon, when I was about twelve I actually built a third-gen Camaro out of LEGO's. It was pretty crappy, and only about 10 inches. I still have it sitting on a shelf with a bunch of other crap. |
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Demon
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| aaron_sK wrote: |
Man, Lego's aren't about the sets, they're about building random stuff out of a pile of parts.
BTW, Demon, when I was about twelve I actually built a third-gen Camaro out of LEGO's. It was pretty crappy, and only about 10 inches. I still have it sitting on a shelf with a bunch of other crap. |
certain lego's, I understand the sets... mainly, the harry potter and the star wars sets... you don't want to know how close to complete my collections are for both of those...
but as for the rest, I wholeheartedly agree, random stuff is the best... I used to have so many random sets of castles, knights, dragons, pirates, woodfolk, wolfpack, etc mishmashed together I'd have vast expanses of lego mutilations (dragons eating soldiers, pirates eaten by sharks, monkeys pecked apart by parrots, horses in traps in woods, knights down trap doors impaled on spears, etc) ... probably 5ft x 5ft when all was said and done... I loved it...
but same goes for the rest too, I loved just building things and letting them set for years... I wasn't as into the futuristic or modern legos... I usually ended up going for the fantasy stuff (which probably explains my huge fascination with Harry Potter, not to mention the shelves and shelves of fantasy books I have both down here and at my mothers) ... only sci-fi ish legos I got into were the star wars...
I just love toys... almost as much as I love video games... hell I've got an original gold cartridge Zelda sitting on a shelf, in a case, sealed in its factory packaging ... thats pretty sad, once i put it into text. but I have it dammit. |
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Xophertony
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| i alwasy licked the TECNIC legos. the ones that you could use to say... build a 4X4 rig with fully articulating suspension. fun shizzle. i also had the more "toyish" legos when i was younger, the knights and pirates and "ice patrol" and stuff. |
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Demon
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Xophertony wrote: | | i alwasy licked the TECNIC legos. the ones that you could use to say... build a 4X4 rig with fully articulating suspension. fun shizzle. i also had the more "toyish" legos when i was younger, the knights and pirates and "ice patrol" and stuff. |
why on earth would you ever lick Lego's?
I have the programmable R2-D2 technic...  |
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iansane
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Xophertony wrote: | | i alwasy licked the TECNIC legos. the ones that you could use to say... build a 4X4 rig with fully articulating suspension. fun shizzle. i also had the more "toyish" legos when i was younger, the knights and pirates and "ice patrol" and stuff. |
I remember the first time I saw the technic stuff, it was a $100 F1 car. Oh man that thing was badass! |
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Demon
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| iansane wrote: | | Xophertony wrote: | | i alwasy licked the TECNIC legos. the ones that you could use to say... build a 4X4 rig with fully articulating suspension. fun shizzle. i also had the more "toyish" legos when i was younger, the knights and pirates and "ice patrol" and stuff. |
I remember the first time I saw the technic stuff, it was a $100 F1 car. Oh man that thing was badass! |
you mean this one?
http://www.lego.com/eng/racers/products/ferrari.asp?product=f8674
I bought one for my Ex (the one I moved down here for) and another for myself, the one for myself is still sitting in a box though |
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iansane
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh hell no, that thing is so much nicer than that one I remember. I'm talking designed in 91ish |
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Demon
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| iansane wrote: | | Oh hell no, that thing is so much nicer than that one I remember. I'm talking designed in 91ish |
that one is a challenge to put together ... but looked amazingly good when finalized |
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aaron_sK
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| iansane wrote: | | Oh hell no, that thing is so much nicer than that one I remember. I'm talking designed in 91ish |
That was the "SuperCar"
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/8880.jpg
I remember those ads from way back. |
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blue89
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:02 am Post subject: |
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Technics RULE! I used to build all sorts of stuff. I had the electric motor, all the suspension, and the pnuematic set. I even built an open rear-end just to watch the spider gears start going when you did a one-tire-fire....
I was a bit of a geek..... |
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85 T/A WS6
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 9:12 am Post subject: |
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Can it still do the Kessle run in 5 parsects? 
We have the first gen Mindstorm and looking at getting the next generation set.... the NXT:
http://mindstorms.lego.com/default.aspx?domainredir=www.legomindstorm.com
Never too old for toys I say!
Erector sets were the rage for me and of course Hotwheels. Tinker toys were up there too.
I re-lived most of the youth experiences through my son, who is now 17.
We do play WOW together now, Im a lv 70 Hunter and he is a 70 mage 
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83Z28BlackBetty
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 9:53 am Post subject: |
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 All i have to say is do your car up right man. Think of where you'll be in 5 years and whether or not you will look at that thing on your shelf and kick your own ass or not. If not, then go for it!
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Xophertony
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 10:44 am Post subject: |
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i remember tinker toys. they kicked ass. and sorry about the misspellings. i went over that post like 4-10 times re-reading and correcting. i was still a little feverish last night  i think i am mostly better now though  he "tecnic" = technic |
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chevymad
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| Another guy with Erector sets. I had alot of pieces in mine. I also had a few lego sets.. like a farm tractor with working hydraulics and motor with pistons. I had no where near the lego's my friends had though. They had those big banana boxes full of em. |
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Demon
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| 83Z28BlackBetty wrote: | All i have to say is do your car up right man. Think of where you'll be in 5 years and whether or not you will look at that thing on your shelf and kick your own ass or not. If not, then go for it!
~JAKE |
i can do both... you really don't want to see my hotwheels or lego collections over all... or even my boba fett / darth maul specific collections... lego's, comics, action figures (70's and 90's, and 00's),... hell I've even got a boba fett signed and numbered movie prop helmet ...
god I suck |
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Xophertony
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| i always wanted a full set of storm trooper armor that i could actually wear (not just the decorative kind)...... you know, for Halloween.... and nothing else... |
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83Z28BlackBetty
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Xophertony wrote: | | i always wanted a full set of storm trooper armor that i could actually wear (not just the decorative kind)...... you know, for Halloween.... and nothing else... |
like this guy i found just walking around at my school? This guys has invested over $1,100 in this suit. NUTS!!! but he did get the ladies...he had groups running after him wanting to take pictures with him. SOOOO random
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