What is it with LEGO?
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I've seen a few threads on here and am quite mystified with it.
Am I in a minority thinking LEGO is a bit 'unusual'?
I know there are some pretty technical kits out there and I understand it's supposedly an investment...but really? Do you actually play with it??
I like buying it for my kids and like helping them put it together. I'm always impressed with the builds and how they come together but not sure I'd want to fill my house with it.
I note there is a group buy for a digger (age 11-16) at £170 and about 70 odd people have signed up to it!
Am I missing out on something or do you guys have too much time and money?
p.s I spend my time and money doing something much more mature like sim racing!
Am I in a minority thinking LEGO is a bit 'unusual'?
I know there are some pretty technical kits out there and I understand it's supposedly an investment...but really? Do you actually play with it??
I like buying it for my kids and like helping them put it together. I'm always impressed with the builds and how they come together but not sure I'd want to fill my house with it.
I note there is a group buy for a digger (age 11-16) at £170 and about 70 odd people have signed up to it!
Am I missing out on something or do you guys have too much time and money?
p.s I spend my time and money doing something much more mature like sim racing!
Edited by Rick101 on Wednesday 26th February 17:34
Rick101 said:
I've seen a few threads on here and am quite mystified with it.
Am I in a minority thinking LEGO is a bit 'unusual'?
I know there are some pretty technical kits out there and I understand it's supposedly an investment...but really? Do you actually play with it??
I like buying it for my kids and like helping them put it together. I'm always impressed with the builds and how they come together but not sure I'd want to fill my house with it.
I note there is a group buy for a digger (age 11-16) at £170 and about 70 odd people have signed up to it!
Am I missing out on something or do you guys have too much time and money?
p.s I spend my time and money doing something much more mature like sim racing!
So how many sim racing games do you have at how much each? Am I in a minority thinking LEGO is a bit 'unusual'?
I know there are some pretty technical kits out there and I understand it's supposedly an investment...but really? Do you actually play with it??
I like buying it for my kids and like helping them put it together. I'm always impressed with the builds and how they come together but not sure I'd want to fill my house with it.
I note there is a group buy for a digger (age 11-16) at £170 and about 70 odd people have signed up to it!
Am I missing out on something or do you guys have too much time and money?
p.s I spend my time and money doing something much more mature like sim racing!
Edited by Rick101 on Wednesday 26th February 17:34
just different versions of boys toys. In the same way that some men play with trains, some with cars, some with model planes etc...some do and some don't get it!Rick101 said:
Just the one, prob £1200 in or so, so far, not including PC. Lots more to do!
It's not a dig, just genuine curiosity as it seems very popular.
Ouch! thats 10 lego models or so It's not a dig, just genuine curiosity as it seems very popular.
Understood entirely, equally i don't get paying that much for the racing sim and quite possibly never will. Its just that while theres something to 'get' you either 'get' it or you don't. Us men should support each other in all our various toys, thus defending ourselves collectively against women with their shoes and handbags!
I think I'm an engineer now because I used to play with Lego. Quite often I'd ask Dad how say, a differential worked, or what on earth it was for - then we'd build something and he'd explain it. Perhaps I was always destined to be an engineer (I used to take everything to bits with no idea how to put it back together when I was little, just to look at things)
I still really like it because really I'm still a 10 year old kid inside, and now I have the disposable income to have the things I used to marvel at as a youngster (had a very good childhood but I couldn't have everything) that and finding solutions to things fascinates me, the big models often use very complex systems to transfer drive etc.
My Dad, now retired, recently started building all the technic sets I had left at home from a massive pile of bits and has built the supercar, V6 F1 car, logging truck etc and he loved it - I've got the more modern ones here.
I still really like it because really I'm still a 10 year old kid inside, and now I have the disposable income to have the things I used to marvel at as a youngster (had a very good childhood but I couldn't have everything) that and finding solutions to things fascinates me, the big models often use very complex systems to transfer drive etc.
My Dad, now retired, recently started building all the technic sets I had left at home from a massive pile of bits and has built the supercar, V6 F1 car, logging truck etc and he loved it - I've got the more modern ones here.
Mr.Jimbo said:
I think I'm an engineer now because I used to play with Lego.
Likewise! Also think it explains my interest in cars, and indeed anything else mechanical or electrical.Can't wait until my little daughter is old enough for Technic, we've started her early on Duplo, I've a huge box of Technic in the loft which I occasionally dig out for a tinker, which is probably deeply sad at 30 but why should I care?!
Remain a child at heart - building Lego Technic is, for me anyway, both enjoyable & theraputic.
Bought the crane in last years group buy & will probably partake in this years group buy as well. SWMBO doesnt understand the love people have for Lego but what does she know?
My Technic kits, some of which cover the dining room table & the rest live in their boxes on the dining room floor, are models & not toys to be played with (unless i choose to play with them.....) & are valued at approx £3k for insurance purposes.
My 8 year old son has his own Lego collection - little bugger should be asleep by now but no. He's building Star Wars kit in his bedroom!!!!
I bought the Millenium Falcon for £100 at the back end of last year. Decided to build it so it is in colour coded tubs now, on the table, waiting to be assembled.
No idea though where it will go when i have finished it. SWMBO doesnt know how big the kit is. Yet.....
Bought the crane in last years group buy & will probably partake in this years group buy as well. SWMBO doesnt understand the love people have for Lego but what does she know?
My Technic kits, some of which cover the dining room table & the rest live in their boxes on the dining room floor, are models & not toys to be played with (unless i choose to play with them.....) & are valued at approx £3k for insurance purposes.
My 8 year old son has his own Lego collection - little bugger should be asleep by now but no. He's building Star Wars kit in his bedroom!!!!
I bought the Millenium Falcon for £100 at the back end of last year. Decided to build it so it is in colour coded tubs now, on the table, waiting to be assembled.
No idea though where it will go when i have finished it. SWMBO doesnt know how big the kit is. Yet.....
As a kid I loved Lego but that was pre-technical Lego days. To make an ship or car or battleship you had to use your imagination. Eventually I had a small suitcase full of the stuff and would build all manner of things. I never really got technical Lego because there is no imagination used and building the thing is far too easy so I couldn't see the point. So, original Lego yes, Technical Lego no.
RichB said:
As a kid I loved Lego but that was pre-technical Lego days. To make an ship or car or battleship you had to use your imagination. Eventually I had a small suitcase full of the stuff and would build all manner of things. I never really got technical Lego because there is no imagination used and building the thing is far too easy so I couldn't see the point. So, original Lego yes, Technical Lego no.
You don't have to limit yourself to the base model with Technic, you can build whatever you want within reason, just like with non Technic sets. RichB said:
As a kid I loved Lego but that was pre-technical Lego days. To make an ship or car or battleship you had to use your imagination. Eventually I had a small suitcase full of the stuff and would build all manner of things. I never really got technical Lego because there is no imagination used and building the thing is far too easy so I couldn't see the point. So, original Lego yes, Technical Lego no.
I feel the same way, although I'd never knock anyone for playing with Lego. My Dad thought I was a lightweight for preferring Lego to Meccano, which he used until retirement to help resolve engineering problems he's encounter at work.
Yertis said:
He also thought Airfix kits a bit pointless, on the basis that they didn't actually fly. Balsa and japanese tissue for him all the way.
Ah now you'll start me on a trip down memory lane. I used to build Airfix all the time but I also loved building the Keil Kraft balsa and tissue cover aircraft. Best of all you could get a miniature jet engine (Jetex) which burn a block of propellant and made them fly... sort of. It was actually incredibly difficult to get the jet fighters trimmed to fly on the Jetex engines because you'd trim them by gliding them by hand and then when you lit the Jetex they would take of like a screaming bat! Climb 50' and usually loop back into the ground at full tilt. In the end I started building jet propelled boats which were more stable! Jonny_ said:
Mr.Jimbo said:
I think I'm an engineer now because I used to play with Lego.
Likewise! Also think it explains my interest in cars, and indeed anything else mechanical or electrical.Gassing Station | Scale Models | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff