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Posted May 01, 2012
My nephew is finally nearing the age where he can leave behind the rather dull Duplo and move on to the most brilliant of toys: Lego. I let the Easter bunny give him a nice police van with burglar on a bike as a try out and he absolutely loved it which made me wonder if maybe I shouldn't dust off my old Legos.

A week later, and I went to pick up a big wooden plate which my father made some 28 years ago where base plates are nailed onto it to create a nice street with a fire station and a police station at the edges. Sadly enough, tons of dirt and grime are coating the thing and a lot of the buildings are incomplete not to mention broken parts (because "someone" = gf of my father let a 4 year old with destructive tendencies play with it a few years ago she admitted).

So I embarked on a quest to see the entire Legoland town becoming rebuilt, hunting down the special bricks on a site called Brick Link and trying to recapture the town I played with as a kid (albeit a bit more accurate since our mother threw away all the early blueprints right after it was built - tssk tssk mothers). And really, I'm all addicted to Legos again! I want to replace the faded and yellowed bricks with newer ones, make them look as colourful as I remember them as a kid so I can offer the entire town to my nephew when he's a year or two older.

So, are there any other Lego enthusiasts out there? I'm sure there are!
Posted May 01, 2012
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Red_Avatar: I want to replace the faded and yellowed bricks with newer ones, make them look as colourful as I remember them as a kid so I can offer the entire town to my nephew when he's a year or two older.

So, are there any other Lego enthusiasts out there? I'm sure there are!
you can leach the staining out of lego using the same technique you use to de-stain old computer cases...
Post edited May 01, 2012 by wodmarach
Posted May 01, 2012
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Red_Avatar: So, are there any other Lego enthusiasts out there? I'm sure there are!
I do love Lego, although mostly Technics. I don't own any of it anymore, although my son has a ton of it, mostly not Technics.

I'd love to have a shitload of Lego, but I have neither the space, nor the funds for it. It's insanely expensive, especially here in Denmark, which is paradoxical since it's a Danish company.
Posted May 01, 2012
I never cared for normal Legos as a kid, but I really liked the Technic series. The detailed instructions and the mechanical parts like gears and engines made it much more interesting. I don't know how old your nephew is, the Technic series might still be too advanced or maybe he doesn't want to use instructions and rather builds whatever comes to mind. Brick Links even has a few links to sites with Lego instructions in case you have the parts but don't know what to do with them.
Posted May 01, 2012
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wodmarach: you can leach the staining out of lego using the same technique you use to de-stain old computer cases...
Can we assume that the percentage of the population involved in de-staining old computer cases is very low? Why not just tell us?
Posted May 01, 2012
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wodmarach: you can leach the staining out of lego using the same technique you use to de-stain old computer cases...
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Wishbone: Can we assume that the percentage of the population involved in de-staining old computer cases is very low? Why not just tell us?
I'm quite interested myself. This is plastic, however, and I'm not sure any de-staining methods work on plastic. I've looked around and the only advice I got, was to wash it in a pillow case but that doesn't reduce the yellow taint.
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Wishbone: I do love Lego, although mostly Technics. I don't own any of it anymore, although my son has a ton of it, mostly not Technics.

I'd love to have a shitload of Lego, but I have neither the space, nor the funds for it. It's insanely expensive, especially here in Denmark, which is paradoxical since it's a Danish company.
Technics is cool but I never really got it because it was so expensive. As a kid, we got tons of Lego over the years because of how much we loved it. I remember us being 9 and taking a box with it in the car where you had a pile of bricks and could build what you wanted.

It's not so expensive if you buy it second hand, though. I mean, I'm rebuilding the town using very common bricks and using the unique ones I still have left from when I was a kid to cut costs. I think it will cost me €100 to redo most of it and we're talking about some 20 cars and 10 buildings.
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Posted May 01, 2012
I have feeling this topic will need this link at some point.

http://www.brickset.com
Posted May 01, 2012
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wodmarach: you can leach the staining out of lego using the same technique you use to de-stain old computer cases...
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Wishbone: Can we assume that the percentage of the population involved in de-staining old computer cases is very low? Why not just tell us?
http://www.exisle.net/mb/index.php?/topic/59657-de-yellowing-plastic-the-stain-isnt-permanent-after-all/
Posted May 01, 2012
Ah, Lego. My brother and I loved Legos when we were younger. Well, actually, we still love them, though I don't mess around with them much anymore. My brother does occasionally. Our favorite Lego line, though, was, and, OK, still is, Bionicle. It ended a while back, but I still think it's awesome. It has quite a detailed universe for being aimed at youth (I say "youth" because I don't think "kids" is quite accurate; many teenagers liked Bionicle as well).

I was never very creative with them, but my brother built some pretty cool stuff. It was usually multi-colored, though, because we never had many pieces of the same color.
Posted May 01, 2012
I once made a robot combat suit for a lego man, and it actually transformed into a fighter jet. Had to improvise with the hinges and joints. I broke, melted, and fused together pieces which were never meant to work together, and adjusted the tension on pen springs to create more thrust for its functional projectile missiles...

Legos are amazing. I was obsessed a little, and I cheated a lot, but legos sure did bring out my creative side.

I was so happy when games like Lego Star Wars came around. Legos + the Force. Mmmm...
Posted May 01, 2012
I have a whole box of Lego's in my room. I don't play with them anymore, but I have them on hand when my nephews come to visit. It's nice to see them play with their imagination like I had.
Posted May 01, 2012
I used to play Lego, but that was when I was young enough to bug my parents to buy one set every 5 years or so. Now, I'd rather spend that money elsewhere, like gaming :P

That being said, I'm ready to pick up a specialized set just for this:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/JoshuaACNewman/mobile-frame-zero-rapid-attack
Posted May 01, 2012
I used to love the mini lego boxes with the cannibals and their bone on their hair and all :)

I also had a medieval theme based lego set, with horses and everything.

God, it was so great !!!

I used to play a video game called Lego Island 2, it was great ^^
Posted May 01, 2012
By the way, there's such a thing as Lego Digital Designer which has tons and tons of different bricks. It's possible to rebuild nearly all of my old sets using that except for the rare bits. The only negative is that you can't add custom decals because Lego is afraid people will use copyrighted or X-rated stuff. Although, it would be hard to resist making a bordello in Lego if I could, Duke Nukem 3D style ;)
Posted May 01, 2012
I'm a bit into LEGO, but I'm probably into the Technic stuff rather than System, moreso the action figure lines that they've came out with in the past two decades. (BIONICLE and Hero Factory)
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