If anyone has lego pieces (I don't want the ones that make something) Please pm me...
Childhood memories of LEGO and (Toys).
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Lots of boxes of them for sale on kijiji. (and not the kit stuff).
TheDirty
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It took me a while to find something recent that just had blocks. My two kids never got into it for some reason. It's tough to get them into Lego when there are plenty of toys and computer games that don't require any work.
174Racing
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Yeah! Meccano was awesome!!!! Played with it for hours....
Thanks Turbodish.... you just reminded me how much being all growed up sucks!
rmemedic
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Very similar idea to that. I found it, it's called construx:
I had this particular model:
http://www.thisoldtoy.com/fisher-pr...pics/Instructions/FPT14766-MN6312-INSTRUC.JPG
And then a generic set of just girders, panels and connectors to make whatever you could imagine! Even had a little astronaut and a power pack to make stuff that moved!
Wow, totally forgot all about all the cool stuff I used to do with it!
You can always go back!
The thing with Meccano was the sheer range of various girders, plates, wheels, axles, gears, that came with it. You could literally build just about anything at all with the stuff.
Back then that's what people did for hobbies - they built things with their hands. Meccano, Lego, Kenner, craft and bead kits, modelling clay, soapstone, etc were great for kids on up through adults. Model cars, planes, ships whether built from plastic or metal kits or from scratch using raw blocks, ticks and boards of balsa wood, room-sized model train layouts complete with landscaped mountains and towns, flyable control-line airplane models, remote control miniature power boats, etc. People built them with their own hands for fun, then they played with what they built, and then they built some more.
These days, kids' fingers tend to work joysticks and keypads. If the power were to go out tomorrow, those kids would be screwed! Come to think of it, so would many of their parents too.
The old Meccano Magazine used to be a great source of ideas for not just Meccano addicts but for any kind of modelling hobbyist. Page below is from http://meccano.magazines.free.fr/html/1967/6705/67050034.htm , and there are hundreds more spanning seven decades at http://meccano.magazines.free.fr/
OpenGambit
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I had this...
Haha I had that too. I remember that helicopter being hrs of fun.
I wish I saved it... I know the bottom part is some where in my old room. I liked putting people in jail, still do
Hmmmm I loved bikes back then too
a year or two ago i gave a couple thousand dollars worth of lego that i inherited to my friend's kids. had a couple of the build a robot kits.
OpenGambit
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I wish I saved it... I know the bottom part is some where in my old room. I liked putting people in jail, still do
AHHH the good ol' days. No responsibilities!!! Just Lego Knights riding helicopters to board pirate ships and no one to be like "hey that doesn't make any sense..."
Going to look through my old stuff tomorrow and see what I can find. My nephew loves my brothers old cars and makes his mom buy him little cars every time he sees them. He can play with them for hours. Knows all the makes by symbol too.
You sir, are an idiot.
Growing old is mandatory, growing up is not. I honestly feel like I'm less mature now than i was 5-8 years ago. I just have more money now.. it's a good combination. Giving me control of a Superbike is like giving a monkey the keys to an amusement park.
CanadianBiker
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I had Lego and Meccanno and loved them.
Back in about 1965, I was on Romper Room for a week and much to my parents' chagrin, I spent most of that week playing with Lego. Every time the camera aimed at me, my head was buried in a box, trying to dig out the elusive piece I needed for whatever I was building.
I had the BEST childhood.
Thanks Mom and Dad.
Back in about 1965, I was on Romper Room for a week and much to my parents' chagrin, I spent most of that week playing with Lego. Every time the camera aimed at me, my head was buried in a box, trying to dig out the elusive piece I needed for whatever I was building.
I had the BEST childhood.
Thanks Mom and Dad.
vrus
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I had this...
I had this too!!!
I had this bad boy:
My mother kept my old lego, a big bucket of it. My brother and I would play with it for hours - it was lego or books on rainy days for years and years.
One Christmas a couple of years ago, she wrapped it up and gave it to my son as a Christmas present, and she didn't tell me she was doing it. Opening up that bucket, raking my fingers through the pieces to get to the bottom, brought back all kinds od memories. The sound AND the feeling of going through a bucket of Lego is unique, and unmistakeable.
It was great fun looking for my "favourite" pieces - the ones that I would always build into my planes. And most of them were still there!
With any luck, that bucket, plus the bucket my son now has, will go to my grandchildren.
One Christmas a couple of years ago, she wrapped it up and gave it to my son as a Christmas present, and she didn't tell me she was doing it. Opening up that bucket, raking my fingers through the pieces to get to the bottom, brought back all kinds od memories. The sound AND the feeling of going through a bucket of Lego is unique, and unmistakeable.
It was great fun looking for my "favourite" pieces - the ones that I would always build into my planes. And most of them were still there!
With any luck, that bucket, plus the bucket my son now has, will go to my grandchildren.
