Anyone else doing lego or lego clone builds?

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Drnick:
I agree with jdbailey1206 :) especially the Bricumentary and toys that made us. Also if you can find it there has been 2 series of lego building challenges on UK TV :) Lego Masters, that's what it was called.

Thanks google :).

Mr. Peabody:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on January 12, 2019, 08:49:54 am ---Sometimes these kits are too complicated and destroys what Lego is supposed to be. Your interpretation of a said space vehicle and playing with that, or creating something new from standard parts. Now the bricks are only for the original model concept. Some are pretty sharp for small children. I got stabbed easily for not watching what I was doing. It's not mecanno or an airfix kit, but it's trying to be.I

I miss the simplicity of the 1980's space lego, trains and the original bricks we started from.

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As I recall, Lego was always a certain construction, and the commercials had a line about making your own design. That was the idea behind the product. We got a moon station kit in '82 or 3, and we built it one night (mostly, as we got stumped on the final bits....) and then......forgot about it for a couple years when I wanted my own version of the ship Voltron combo air ship. I made other similar things. All were pretty simple, none bigger than my hand. I built a small Enterprise-like ship, and imagined a dedicated version, without studs on the outer pieces/faces, which then I thought, 'why not just have a toy?.....'

I remember the blocks getting stuck so hard you needed two pairs of pliers to get them apart, but that in the later 80s they made them easier to come apart, meaning they fell apart easily as well.

Mr. Peabody:
Life size: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a25955039/life-size-chevy-silverado-legos/

The 80s Man:
Check out this ZRK/ LOZ/ Nanoblock arcade machine kit.

I'm thinking ordering one. I wonder if one could find a small digital picture frame to fit inside the mini cab to provide different background images.

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