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I defy you to shift this to the video section.
Its just insane https://www.facebook.com/LEGOAustral...19491384/?t=15
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*No virginity was harmed during the making of this film.*
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Bloody hell thats a great effort.
My son Loooves Lego. Might get him to build me a Replica GT HO when he's older and more experienced!!! ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-629...gtho-iii/#info
This should give the young bloke a good start. |
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My kid has loved lego since he was 3. He now is almost 10 and goes hard on the more advanced technic. I do on occasion work for the lego australia office and as a grown man, their showroom is probably the one place where even i want one of most things. Its pretty cool. So my aunty is a peodiotrician. Or whatever they call the doctors for children, and she primarily works with underprivileged children. Now as a parent, i reckon the instructions in lego kits are extremely comprehensive and in picture form. My aunty uses those as a tool because they are great for development of young minds as they are so descriptive in a picture form. My young bloke reads and writes as he should, nothing wrong in that department, but with the lego he has this sense of wanting to achieve because he has built things correctly off the instructions and got it right before. Its a stark contrast to one of the guys i work with who accepts failure like thats normal and used to think theres always someone else who will fix it.
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He's fine when he's around me tho he's absolute angel not much trouble at all. But my god when he gets a new Lego kit its ON like donkey kong. He's presently building his own medium sized Lego City with biuldings and the Lego train sets around the outside on the top of his mums pools table. He seems to be a natural at it....Like me..... disassembling and putting things back together again!!! ![]() |
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did we finally find the car kmav drives
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It's the truth that many newer car interiors are almost like Lego in the way they go together and come apart, much less fragile than once (different plastics, better moulding tech) - could get the kids into cleaning up flood damaged cars, pulling them right down, washing all the bits and then building them back up.
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Anyone seen the new Lego Mustang recently released?
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https://shop.lego.com/en-AU/product/Ford-Mustang-10265
Great set to build, I’m currently trying to motorise and automate mine. |
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Reading Lego instructions maxe assembling flat pack furniture so much easier!
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Lego was a huge part of my childhood and I kept ALL of it and as the kids came along out came the Lego.
Interesting to read the comments on here and in particular the focus on the instruction booklets. My youngest boy would follow them to a T, and thats all great but I would always push the creativity of building without a set of instructions to follow. Get the basics of overlapping bricks for strength, etc and then build using the imagination. I'd sometimes give him some minimum requirements (eg. vehicle needs to be at least 20cm long, 3 axles, has to carry bricks and of course not break in 2). I see there is a show coming, Lego Masters. Not a fan of the host but I'll need to take a quick look at least I think ![]() |
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And your uncle who gave you a yo-yo and a hula hoop wonders why you never played with that?
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Hula Hoop - well if I went into someones yard to play and the adults weren't looking I would Frisbie it as far as I could over the neighbours fence - useless. If you couldn't build anything as a kid LEGO wasn't on top of your Christmas list I'm guessing. OK, maybe the LEGO Castle series. |
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I played lots with the yo-yo, round the world, walk the dog and so on. The hula hoop thing wasn’t my cup a tea. How did you go with the hoop thingy?
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Yo yos got banned when i was in primary school. They were the craze at the time, but there were a few to many epic sack whacks. Yeah, right in the aggots. Thinking back, whilst lego is awesome, from the parental side of things its deadly. Not the choking hazard, thats darwinism. But the 2am get out of bed to go to the toilet and step on a rouge brick. It wakes you up, but not in a good way. My current house and the prior place i rented have wood floors so the addition of the minor slide stepping on the painful rouge brick adds to the experience.
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It's funny this thread popped up actually.
Recently got the Porsche GT3 RS, pretty fun build! Built it in RHD too...prompted me to join a Technic FB group and it had a little nostalgic trip when seeimg the older kits posted etc. The prices for classic kits are nuts!
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When I was a lad Lego was only a dream from some nutter, immagine building something from plastic (what the 'ell was that) and a book.
With 2 brothers every birthday we would get the original metal Meccano sets, one mean uncle would open up the box first and remove all instruction books then give them to us six months later, but we build massive stuff, meals finished up being in the kitchen cause our modeldstook over family/dining room. Biggest was a 5' long aircraft carrier. Ahh memory lane how sweet it is
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Cool!.....but even the Lego McLaren is probably still outa my price range
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2 Christmases ago i bought my kid the technic bmw k1200 (i think thats the model) enduro bike kit. It has moving parts in the sence you roll it and the pistons move. My kid likes knowing how stuff works and whilst motors are a little more complex then a crank and pistons he had a somewhat at times frustrating time building it, i purposfully didnt help, look at the instructions i said a few too many times, once he was done he was proud as punch. There were so many cooler kits i could have got him, but i wasnt spending $300 on technic, so $80 was still not entirely cheap, but the kid doesnt know my thought process. I have got the little unit (not really that little, hes 5 foot and not evem 10 yet) into rc cars too. Probably not my finest financial decision, but a bit of fun. The 1/10 scale truck he has is very mainstream for a proper servicable rc car, parts are everywhere, hence why it was my decision, and the slot car sized carpet racer again parts are easy to get, and i was surprised at how well that thing goes. Granted i have had an off chops rc car before. And still have the brushless motor and esc and 11.1v 3 cell lipos for it, but whilst my kid has my wheelie bar fitted to his truck and various sets of wheels and tyres (road treads, sand, dirt track, off road etc) im not letting him modify the running gear untill he can handle the thing stock with the short gears fitted. Still does 45kmh though.
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The modern lego is rock hard plastic. I recall my lego as a lad being quite rubbery and more flexible - the larger pieces anyway. Am I mistaken?
When did it transition to the hard stuff we are used to today? I still have my set running around somewhere in a box at my parents shed. Probably been turned into a rat nest by now with the rest of my childhood stuff.
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Lego, Yo Yos, Hola Hoops?
Geez al we had was a piece of string and a few old boxes.... ![]() And Matchbox Cars.......
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matchbox cars! we were lucky to find the boxes...
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