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[fisheyes]

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Fuck yes. This was my favourite set. The big one that would make sounds and stuff was also awesome. Blue aliens vs red aliens, then all would turn on all my humans. So awesome.

Also rad - Aquanauts / Aquasharks, Pirates (really liked the big brown boat), Adventure (really the Sphinx set shown in here with the hidden pit of snakes) and Cowboys / Indians (really liked the set shown in here with the exploding door).

EDIT: This one:

The back thing took batteries and made takeoff and laser noises and stuff. Pretty damn cool.

 

[Yes Boss!]

If I had to pick one it would be the second Technic chassis. This is the one for me.

 

[Hero]

This thread is awesome. I loved LEGO.

 

[shibbs]

Oh man, this thread takes me back. So many great lego sets.

One I haven't seen yet:

 

[Whimsical Phil]

LEGO fans owe it to themselves to track down a copy of this book.

It's an 800-page guide to every LEGO set ever made. For each set, it shows a picture of the box (well, a few sets are missing the picture), the set number, the number of pieces, the year of its release, the continents it was released in, and how rare it is.

Such a fantastic resource, and it's chock full of memories.

It was available for a while on LEGO's online store, but they don't seem to carry it anymore. Luckily, I was able to snag it there when it was still available. I believe I paid about $30 for it.

 

[KennyLinder]

Shit! Locate, need to locate!

 

[meteos1]

 

[Oozer3993]

My parents preordered that for me for my birthday when I was, like, 12. It wasn't out yet when I turned 12, so my mom stuck a picture of it in a box and gave me that to let me know. I saw the picture and freaked out from pure joy. It friggin' comes with Biggs! How awesome is that!

 

[Dilli666]

Ok guys, you just made me buy my favourite sets from ebay again

I always loved this one:

The "Spyrius"-series had awesome features on most of their sets. That thing could split in the middle to release the little explorer-mobile.

Oh, and the orange chainsaws from the "Ice Planet"-series were a blast with an UV-lamp nearby.

 

[WEGGLES]

Oh, and the orange chainsaws from the "Ice Planet"-series were a blast with an UV-lamp nearby.

:lol

This thread has brought back so many memories.

Has to be my favourite. (I have a soft spot for "mobile bases")

And the last thing I needed was to be reminded I'm now more than able to afford all the sets I thought were bad ass while flipping thru the lego club catalogue as a kid,.:lol

 

[Messypandas]

I got this when i went to Lego Land windsor:

Bitch works aswell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiMF-ubjvjA

I also had a robotic programmable R2D2:

 

[Dan]

God, this thread is really making me miss my LEGO town that I carefully designed. In our basement I had about a 5x9 foot wood table dedicated solely to it. The monorail and airport were the centerpieces, with the shuttle launch, gas station, pizza joint, hospital, police station, fire station, a custom park I made, docks, etc. Everything was laid out with roads, landscaping, civilians, etc. I'd comb over the LEGO catalogs and try to figure out how I could best improve my city with whatever funds I had.

I was so sad to have to dismantle the whole thing when we moved, even though I was 16 at the time I was quite proud of it.

 

[jon_irenicus]

This is giving me a sort of "Hill Valley" vibe:

 

[mrklaw]

The family of 3 classic space ship designs of the 70s:

small: 918 Space Transport

medium 924/487 Space Cruiser

large 928/497 Galaxy Explorer

Nice I think I had the big one.

I'm never selling the lego my kids have now. When they grow out of it I'm putting it in the loft until they have kids.

 

[KennyLinder]

God, this thread is really making me miss my LEGO town that I carefully designed. In our basement I had about a 5x9 foot wood table dedicated solely to it. The monorail and airport were the centerpieces, with the shuttle launch, gas station, pizza joint, hospital, police station, fire station, a custom park I made, docks, etc. Everything was laid out with roads, landscaping, civilians, etc. I'd comb over the LEGO catalogs and try to figure out how I could best improve my city with whatever funds I had.

I was so sad to have to dismantle the whole thing when we moved, even though I was 16 at the time I was quite proud of it.

Got photos? Sounds great!

 

[sharkmuncher]

This was one of my favorite set when I was a kid.

The big space ship could be separated in two modules to form two smaller ships with the help of those two orange glassed command centers in the front. Plus, there was a big ass giant missile hidden in the middle of the first part of the ship!

Those where the good times :'(

YES! I still have this all put together in my parent's basement somewhere. I might have to snap a few pics next time I'm at home.

 

[Bricfa]

I fucking loved Rock Raiders.

 

[methane47]

Last Lego set I bought was this sexy devil!

and the ship at the back was detachable.. and it looked hella cool

Anyways before that When I was a kid.. I had that castle set with the plastic mountain base thingie... BUT me and my brother had tonnes of lego sooo what we'd do is take some wire frame and newspaper... We'd build a huge island (like the size of half a double bed) out of the wireframe/mesh... And we would take the news paper and stick it to the wiremesh with white glue... Then pain it green or whatever color.. And then get a blue sheet.. and put the island on the blue sheet... And we built two pirate ships... and We'd play like one was a group of pirates attacking the island... And the other would be defending the island with forts and cannons and junk on the island lol..

TONNE of fun.

 

[VAIL]

Working on this one now, too many great kits to choose from

 

[djtiesto]

When I used to play with legos, I would just use the generic blocks and attempt to make houses, buildings, etc... my brother was the one with all the kits, I remember him having the castle and pirate ship posted earlier in this thread... also these ones:

The pirate and the ice planet ones were always my fave...

 

[srst]

+

My dream set was the big ass lego truck and

 

[Dan]

Got photos? Sounds great!

I was wondering this myself when I wrote that up. I certainly don't, but I bet my mom does somewhere. I'll have to hunt around next time I'm home.

 

[Cindres]

Fuck me i must have had a lot of this shit, my dad liked it too.
I had that Destroyer Droid posted further up, and a Battle Droid (Its arm would flip back and grab its gun, and put it in the firing position).

I had the R2D2 droidworks kit, and a lot of technics stuff.

 

[camineet]

Forgot to post the all of the box covers for the 3-ship family of classic space ships of the late 70s

918 Space Transport (85 elements, released 1978)

924 / 487 Space Cruiser (155 pieces, released 1978)

928 / 497 Galaxy Explorer (325 pieces, released 1979)

I only had Galaxy Explorer in 1980 or early 1981, never had Space Transport or Space Cruiser.

There are lots of MOCs of larger/smaller versions of these, some completely to scale.

 

[Subitai]

OMG, this thread brings back the memories.


Anyway, the centerpiece of all my sets had to be this:

It was to be shared with my brother and sister, but I was the oldest and really was jerk about including them(damn, bad memories too). Anyway, my parents got us a lot of additional track and road base plates so there was a pretty good "train around town" effect.

Had a bunch of space and a couple castle too, but never got any of the pirates.

 

[Anasui Kishibe]

pirates/ castle/ forestmen set= best Lego ever

I was rather fond of City as well, but still

 

[krioto]

Ha ha - all you youngin's with your castle lego already half built for you!

Back in my day, we had to make our own horses - yes that's right!

 

[Jasup]

Ha ha - all you youngin's with your castle lego already half built for you!

Back in my day, we had to make our own horses - yes that's right!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...stle_375.jpg/200px-Yellow-Lego-Castle_375.jpg

aw fuck, I remember the yellow castle set(s?), my brother had these. And I still remember building the horses.

 

[robot]

Ha ha - all you youngin's with your castle lego already half built for you!

Back in my day, we had to make our own horses - yes that's right!

My first lego set - so awesome.

 

[MNC]

I got this when i went to Lego Land windsor:

Bitch works aswell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiMF-ubjvjA

I also had a robotic programmable R2D2:

Fuck yes! I have that Droideka, along with a Darth Vader, R2D2 without programmability. Although the Droideka is busted; the rubber bands have decayed too much so it's now just a cool statue.

 

[h0pper]

this is a great thread. props to OP.

as for me, I loved the pirate ship, although my parents never got it for me ;[

I loved the Wild West Legos too. Had quite a few others in here as well including the underwater series. Sharks were the bad guys to the Aquanauts, correct?

 

[Subitai]

Wow, found some serious trains :O

My set up was about half the size of this one:

Took it down and put around the tree one year like this too (no cat though):

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Bitch works aswell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiMF-ubjvjA

The set was awesome and did work well, but the rubber bands that came with it sucked ass and dry rotted after a few months. Or at least mine did. Now it looks decrepit.

 

[Captain Sparrow]

Awesome thread.

I had the biggest smile on my face when I saw the big aquanauts set on here. Then I remembered that I never got it for xmas

 

[elrechazado]

best lego set is big giant box of random legos. If I wanted models where I have to follow set instructions to make very specific things, I can build models.

Legos are awesome for the imagination and creativity of building your own things. Nothing has turned me off legos more than their move towards blocky modeling of licensed crap.

 

[crazy monkey]

 

[FrancisH]

I never had much lego when I was little, only a small box with really basic squares and stuff.

A friend of mine had boxes and boxes of the stuff so we used to play with that, man I wish I had lots of Lego back then.

Anyway I was out shopping with the GF and was she found me looking as a small Lego Castles thing with a knight guy and armour that cost about £2. So she bought it for me!

That was my day sorted.

 

[Ra\/en]

Lego was my favourite toy ever bar none. Not even video games could pry me away from the beauty of a new awesome Lego set. My Lego was the only toy I took with me when I moved out. I have an entire rubbermaid box full of the stuff. I'm never throwing it out or giving it away.

This thread brings a tear to my eye. (Almost!)
My parents were so good to me. I was lucky enough to have so many awesome sets.


I think I'm going to go play with it tomorrow. wicked.

 

[Cindres]

I got this when i went to Lego Land windsor:

Bitch works aswell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiMF-ubjvjA

I also had a robotic programmable R2D2:

Shit yes, i had botrh of these.
And a Battle Droid that grabbed its gun from its back.. i can't remember if he folded up though.

 

[vatstep]

Holy crap, looking through this thread, I am stunned at how many of these I had. Man, I was a spoiled kid. The nostalgia present here is ridiculous.

My all-time favorite. One of the few pictures I have of myself as a kid is of me holding it up triumphantly just after completing it:

There was also this one. I remember some kid in my class brought it in for show-and-tell. I felt so superior to him because my pirate ship had so many more pieces:

Of all the ones in this thread that I had, though, I think this one brings back the most memories. I can remember so well how cool I thought this one looked, and how badly I wanted it:

 

[ghostmind]

Having a child is a great way to revisit your LEGO passion. I'm just getting my son started with a couple of the new LEGO City sets:

 

[Spire]

Those were some of my main ones. I also had a set that had two forested towers connected by a plastic rope bridge (and came with a bunch of little Robin Hood dudes with bows) and a big space base with laser dungeon or something underneath it.

I recognize most of these other sets as well, mainly from all the daydreaming I did with the little paper catalog that came with the sets and had pictures of all the other ones. I fucking loved Legos when I was a kid, it was all I ever asked for for Christmas and my birthday. I had a pretty big collection, although sadly I think I left it behind in a storage room somewhere in my home town. This thread has been one sad nostalgia trip.

 

[Zeronax]

Dino Research Compound!

 

[Desperado]

Sigh. Fuck me... somehow, as I got older, my giant collection of LEGO disappeared bit by bit (garage sales? trashed? I have no clue) and by the time I realized, "hey, LEGO is still fucking awesome. I should go back and make some epic stuff from my old collection," it was all gone. So much of my childhood forever erased.

 

[sankt-Antonio]

i only got "lego technik" ... my dad wanted me to learn while i play .... nonsense...
but i loved the big black/yellow truck ...

Spoiler

and now i know why i study automotive engineering

 

[KAOz]

H

Fuck YES! Best pirateship ever! Best Lego set ever.

I also had the smaller ship, but that one, that one was the badass. Even kicked the shit out of the Monorail that I had;

 

[RichardAM]

Holy crap, looking through this thread, I am stunned at how many of these I had. Man, I was a spoiled kid. The nostalgia present here is ridiculous.

My all-time favorite. One of the few pictures I have of myself as a kid is of me holding it up triumphantly just after completing it:

There was also this one. I remember some kid in my class brought it in for show-and-tell. I felt so superior to him because my pirate ship had so many more pieces:

I bought both of these from ebay a few months ago- they're sitting in front of my wardrobe just waiting for a rainy day. Mummy and Daddy never bought me any Pirate ships when I was younger. :lol

Anyway, next month Lego are releasing this, their biggest ship yet:

Going to be fuck awesome.

 

[Ra\/en]

I bought both of these from ebay a few months ago- they're sitting in front of my wardrobe just waiting for a rainy day. Mummy and Daddy never bought me any Pirate ships when I was younger. :lol

Anyway, next month Lego are releasing this, their biggest ship yet:

Going to be fuck awesome.

wow... That actually... looks... Pretty cool! I'm so used to the new Lego with huge specialized pieces and a lack of focus. This looks like a nice change of pace.

 

[Fonds]

Unfortunately the ones that were my favorite were too big and expensive for my parents to afford.

I wanted the Black Knights' Castle SO MUCH when I was a youngin! There was a huge Lego display at a local toy store with the castle as a center piece and I used to go there and just marvel at its beauty.

Looks like it had a town whore as well.

Ooooh... I had that one... You bring tears to my eyes as I writhe in shame for throwing that lego set away.

 

[Parallax Scroll]

I'm sure there are plenty of cool sets out there, but the one I had the most fun with as a kid was the spanish imperial fortress (I think the set was called El Dorado Fortress) from when they first started doing pirates. I also had the like $90 bigass pirate ship, so I staged some cool battles with those. I remember I had one pirate figure set up with akimbo pistols and I'd pose him doing diving attacks with them. I was like 10. :lol

Edit: Oh yeah, the old school castles were definitely more fun to buildthan the pirate sets. I remember having King's Castle and Black Monarch's Fortress.

I had this big ass city I built that took up most of my bedroom floor. It was a bizarre combination of medieval sets, cops, racecars, and random buildings stuff built out of the generic multicolored bricks. The pirate ship would dock there sometimes and I'd set up the pirates getting drunk at the bar in town. Man, legos were the shit.