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#2879100 4-Mar-2022 14:35

I have done few of archectural ones. London, NY, statue liberty and Trafalgar square.

Just started London red bus.

I just wait until the mood strikes me and spend an hour or two with music playing the leave them for weeks

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#2879106 4-Mar-2022 14:46

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Isn't it? I picked the T1 up for about $85 on one of those The Market specials a couple of years ago, and had wondered whether the current version is worth looking at.

Isn't as detailed as the T1.

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#2879107 4-Mar-2022 14:47

afe66: I have done few of archectural ones. London, NY, statue liberty and Trafalgar square.

Just started London red bus.

I just wait until the mood strikes me and spend an hour or two with music playing the leave them for weeks

Friend started red bus while I was visiting one night..... he gave up after 30mins, his eyes were going crazy from all the red bricks :D

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#2879109 4-Mar-2022 14:50

The kids and I have got an excessive amount of Lego in the house ;-)

Here is a photo of some of our NASA-themed sets:

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#2879111 4-Mar-2022 14:59

Help me understand where Lego has changed over the years

When I was a kid you had standard Lego bricks. They came in multiple colours and a few standard sizes and you used your imagination to make stuff with them. You could make almost anything you wanted, when finished tear it down and make something else. The possibilities were endless.

These days it seems you buy a kit and in that kit you are given everything you need to make one item? What do you do then, display it? Where's the replay ability in that? Where does imagination come into it?

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#2879114 4-Mar-2022 15:06

Senecio:

Help me understand where Lego has changed over the years

When I was a kid you had standard Lego bricks. They came in multiple colours and a few standard sizes and you used your imagination to make stuff with them. You could make almost anything you wanted, when finished tear it down and make something else. The possibilities were endless.

These days it seems you buy a kit and in that kit you are given everything you need to make one item? What do you do then, display it? Where's the replay ability in that? Where does imagination come into it?

You can still do that, this is my son's lego sets that he has kept built up and plays with often.

However, every now and then he'll pull them apart and then build something like this

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#2879126 4-Mar-2022 15:36

Yup, Ive thought that myself as well, but as mentioned, they still encourage you to build stuff yourself, hence the LegoMasters show - thats all built from imagination :)

I never had Lego as a kid, we just had these cheap plastic "blocks", still built all sorts of crap out of them but they were all 2x4 IIRC, so no fancy shapes etc like lego.

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#2879139 4-Mar-2022 16:13

Thanks to the Internet and websites like Rebrickable, you get endless new ideas to rebuild an existing set.

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#2879142 4-Mar-2022 16:24

Senecio:

Help me understand where Lego has changed over the years

When I was a kid you had standard Lego bricks. They came in multiple colours and a few standard sizes and you used your imagination to make stuff with them. You could make almost anything you wanted, when finished tear it down and make something else. The possibilities were endless.

These days it seems you buy a kit and in that kit you are given everything you need to make one item? What do you do then, display it? Where's the replay ability in that? Where does imagination come into it?

It hasn't changed. It always came in sets with a few "official" builds in an instruction manual. The only thing different now is that there's more variety of special pieces. That's a good thing, not a bad one.

You can totally still buy a set of random generic Lego bricks if that's what you want. Or hit up trademe/ebay, but Lego holds its value pretty well!

The other thing, I guess, is that maybe you get more people like me who are grown up and have disposable income but little free time. I enjoy buying a cool set and building it as per the instructions to display and look at. Is that a bad thing? I don't think so. Don't yuck my yum.

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#2879175 4-Mar-2022 17:00

xpd:

LostBoyNZ:

Does anyone have any recommendations display cabinets? Back when I worked at Dick Smith and we were closing, some people bought the glass cabinets for displaying Lego, I wish I'd thought of it at the time!

We got this cabinet from Crackerjack before Xmas, not sure if they still have them. (Update: Looks like they do - https://www.crackerjack.co.nz/glass-display-case-4-tier-black-uh2842)

Thanks very much, I'll check them out :)

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#2879226 4-Mar-2022 20:16

I'd love to get my hands on a few of these sets second hand, my Daughter is keen to try the Technics Lego Batmobile we saw the other day.

If anyone has any of these bigger more complex kits they would be prepared to sell for a reasonable price, I'd be keen potentially.

I'm keen to do one with my son and daughter (total 2).

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#2879227 4-Mar-2022 20:16

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I just wait until the mood strikes me and spend an hour or two with music playing the leave them for weeks

Yes, I like this method of playing with my hobbies, my wife not so much.

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#2879243 4-Mar-2022 21:26

Senecio:
Help me understand where Lego has changed over the years

When I was a kid you had standard Lego bricks. They came in multiple colours and a few standard sizes and you used your imagination to make stuff with them. You could make almost anything you wanted, when finished tear it down and make something else. The possibilities were endless.

These days it seems you buy a kit and in that kit you are given everything you need to make one item? What do you do then, display it? Where's the replay ability in that? Where does imagination come into it?

I'm with you. I didn't have many complete kits growing up, but had a huge box of random parts from friends and family which got fashioned into all manner of helicopters, aeroplanes, moon rovers, trucks - anything I felt like.

I used to mount motors, batteries and laser pointer parts and so forth to them. This was well before the days of Lego Mindstorm etc.

These days they are simply display pieces.

Didn't stop me going to Legoland in Japan - that was awesome!!

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#2879250 4-Mar-2022 22:11

networkn:

I'd love to get my hands on a few of these sets second hand, my Daughter is keen to try the Technics Lego Batmobile we saw the other day.

If anyone has any of these bigger more complex kits they would be prepared to sell for a reasonable price, I'd be keen potentially.

I'm keen to do one with my son and daughter (total 2).

The pirate ship you can see in my cabinet is a good for a few people to build together - its a Creator 3 in 1, so you can actually build 3 different things with the pieces (one at a time). Think it goes for around $130 new. I actually picked up a 2nd set so I can build the tavern for it.

XPD / Gavin

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#2879273 5-Mar-2022 07:45

My favourite at the moment the adults sets are incredibly detailed

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