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Frank Lloyd Wright Lego sets

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Originally Posted by js4design
i have to agree. i saw this in person and the fact that is isnt inhabitable is a deal breaker. thing built from legos that arent in the scale of the lego universe bother me more than they probably should
Man, you guys are weird. Not inhabitable by little plastic men?? Id get it just for the coolness of it, not cause it works in my make belief lego world.
Originally Posted by kwilkinson
I loved building **** with legos. Obviously, as a kid, you just had an assload of random lego pieces that you built whatever you wanted with. Along the same lines, did anyone here play with Knex? I swear, between Legos and Knex I never had time for anything else.
KNEX - Yes. I had the rollercoaster set, I do believe. Not this exact one but one similar:
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yes, big timer. The worst part was those little green nubs about 1/4" long you had to put in and take out of the 8 spoke hub thing. Killed my poor little fingers Ok,Im really considering getting one of these sets now. It would look awesome in my small, cramped,messy, ikea and target inspired room
 

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Originally Posted by Davidko19
KNEX - Yes. I had the rollercoaster set, I do believe. Not this exact one but one similar:

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yes, big timer.

The worst part was those little green nubs about 1/4" long you had to put in and take out of the 8 spoke hub thing. Killed my poor little fingers

Ok,Im really considering getting one of these sets now. It would look awesome in my small, cramped,messy, ikea and target inspired room


What's realy freaking sad (and I'm being completely serious here) is that I would probably have a harder time building that **** now than I did when I was 8. Seriously, back then, if you'd give me 8,000 separate Knex pieces and a drawing of the final product and I'd have it figured out in 30 minutes. Nowadays, give me a bookshelf from Ikea, where I have to screw the shelves into the body, and I'm confused for 3 hours.
 

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Originally Posted by kwilkinson
What's realy freaking sad (and I'm being completely serious here) is that I would probably have a harder time building that **** now than I did when I was 8. Seriously, back then, if you'd give me 8,000 separate Knex pieces and a drawing of the final product and I'd have it figured out in 30 minutes. Nowadays, give me a bookshelf from Ikea, where I have to screw the shelves into the body, and I'm confused for 3 hours.

That's because when you were 8, you had your parents to help you. Now that you have to do it yourself, your lack of intelligence has been highlighted.
 

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Originally Posted by GQgeek
That's because when you were 8, you had your parents to help you. Now that you have to do it yourself, your lack of intelligence has been highlighted.

Who the hell had their parents help them build Knex and Lego ****? WTF man.
I've just gotten more and more dumb as more and more info has invaded my brain space.
 

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Originally Posted by kwilkinson
Who the hell had their parents help them build Knex and Lego ****? WTF man.
I've just gotten more and more dumb as more and more info has invaded my brain space.


I think the source of this phenomenon has to do with the content of your avatar.
 

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I had Knex too. Knex was more for tinkering, while lego was more about imagination.

I built a knex van by my own design and would crash it into walls and down the steps to see where it would break first. I'd note the stress points and modify it to be stronger. It went through a lot of revisions. I was very scientific about the whole thing.

I wish I had fun like that now
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I'll second the size complaints. Anyone picked up a lego box lately? I had one of these architectural sets in my hand recently and the box was so tiny and so light I literally questioned for a while whether the box actually contained legos or whether it was just a display box, or had some card in it you had to mail away for the actual legos.

These models are teeny. Pretty cool, but for the $$$... I'll pass.
 

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Originally Posted by tagutcow
Here's the lego police station I had as a kid:

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The dimensions of the baseplate are 32 pegs squared. That's twice the area of the Fallingwater model. These lego men would be gigantic in comparison!


Originally Posted by Davidko19
There is a store by me that specializes in legos. I have NO idea how he stays in business though. Not a lot of margin in selling 10 cent pieces of plastic




Dude... I asked for the $100 pirate ship as a kid and totally fucked it up. All the ropes and stuff were so complicated for an 8 year old. So everything eventually went to the spare parts tub and I just played with the pirates

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Wow. The pirate ship I remember quite easily. I think it came with a good guy or two as well, or perhaps I had that already, but I gave the pirates all the rifles and the good guys all the pistols so the pirates could win every time. But it sat on the top of my bookshelf long after I had quit playing with it, so it came back quite easily.

The police station, on the other hand, was a complete deja vu. That set hadn't been together in so long I would have never remembered it without that picture.

Anyone else forgotten about the gas station?

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I was too poor for Lego. Seriously.
 

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Originally Posted by xert
The police station, on the other hand, was a complete deja vu. That set hadn't been together in so long I would have never remembered it without that picture.

There are design flaws with the police station. Namely, you have to take a helicopter to get to the second story.

Anyone else forgotten about the gas station?
There were several gas stations. I had this Shell station:

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I also had a Legoland hospital. I don't know if I had this monstrosity in particular (all my Legos are now with my niece and nephew), but I do know I had those doors and the railing trim:

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I grew up in a time before the Lego universe splintered into all these little specialized groups. I had some of the space stuff and some of the medieval stuff, but the standard "Legoland" sets were my favorite.
 

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Originally Posted by HORNS
I was too poor for Lego. Seriously.

The more specialized the Lego sets got, the more expensive they got. In the mid-'80s, I don't think there were any Lego sets that cost much more than $20.
 

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Originally Posted by tagutcow
The more specialized the Lego sets got, the more expensive they got. In the mid-'80s, I don't think there were any Lego sets that cost much more than $20.

What did I know. My dad told me that packaging/boxing popcorn and Elmer's glue was just as good.
 

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