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Legos! (Nostalgia)

ggvicviper

ggvicviper

The Barky One
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Jul 16, 2011
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I'm feeling both creative and a bit nostalgic this holiday season. I started remembering the greatest toy I had as a kid - Legos. Never can I remember a toy so creative or imaginative. I started looking at some of the old ones online and it brought back memories.

Which were some of your favorite sets growing up? I liked the space sets, racing sets and castle sets. I especially remembered building my own starfighter for a class project of mine in grade school.
 
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bassteban said:
I'm OLD school- pre *set* era- we just got a big ass box of square/rectangle/SOME sorta brick shape. I remember how excited I was when we got wheels
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I had a few giant buckets of those, playing with those for hours on end fuelled my love for building and design and is a direct reason why I am doing what I am doing now in life. When I got the sets, I would build them once, then take them apart and redesign them.

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My first set was part of the old Pirate series. It was a mini raft kit that came with a guy and a shark (IIRC). I remember it being my first set because I actually ended up building it during a blackout, and I had to use a flashlight to see all the parts :) My favorite set of all time is the Star Wars Master's Set Tie Interceptor. You can even put a Star Wars action figure inside of it!
 
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i_got_a_mohawk said:
I still find it wierd when Americans talk about Lego. Lego is used as a mass noun practically everywhere else. Legos just sounds wierd :p

On topic, I think I still have some Lego in my parents' attic :D
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Thank god it's not just me. There is no such thing as Legos. It is LEGO.

I had Lego as a kid through the 70's, then for my 10th birthday I got my first set of 'technical' Lego. A racing car with gears, rack and pinion steering and suspension. It looks pretty tame to some of the stuff you can get these days. I even treated myself to a big JCB digger a few years back.

Nowadays, Lego seems to just cash in on franchise after franchise...
 
#18
BenBL said:
We had little kids over at my house a couple of weeks ago and my mom got my old Lego sets out for them to play with, needless to say I had more fun than they did
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LOL! Im not super old school, but when the licensed stuff started coming out like Star Wars, I was already in high school.

I'm a child of the late 80s thru mid 90s. I had a big red box of basics, where all of the stuff would end up going once I took it apart/put them away.

We Americans refer to LEGO not only as the company, but as the individual bricks we used to build, hence why we often pluralize it.
 
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Tituscrow said:
Nowadays, Lego seems to just cash in on franchise after franchise...
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Sort of... I certainly see what you're saying there. I was never cool wight the licensed stuff so much or the other stuff like the video games and all the nonsense they came out with to cash in.

The older stuff was more imaginative, but they still have some of the older themes in new sets. I had to buy a space set for my gf's nephew Christmas Eve. It was kinda cool looking too.
 

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