LEGO offers Pick-a-Brick

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
The Beta-1 Command Base was my first big Space Lego set, if I recall correctly. Still have it, along with the rest of my Space Lego.

I loved that set, never had it myself though. I had quite a few of the sets in that series, who often ended up doing battle against the original castle sets. Anybody else remember the movie Unidentified Flying Oddball? I re-enacted that movie many times as a kid.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Anyone remember the original Blacktrons? (The ones that were actually black.) Those things were freaking awesome. Also the old-school space sets were always monorail heavy which was awesome. I remember the downfall of legos was about when they released the Ice space series. Those were still pretty good, but from there it was definitely down hill. I remember making an X-Wing from those... long before they released these Star Wars legos that are practically pre-built for you.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: GoodRevrnd
Anyone remember the original Blacktrons? (The ones that were actually black.) Those things were freaking awesome. Also the old-school space sets were always monorail heavy which was awesome. I remember the downfall of legos was about when they released the Ice space series. Those were still pretty good, but from there it was definitely down hill. I remember making an X-Wing from those... long before they released these Star Wars legos that are practically pre-built for you.

Blacktron II + Futuron + Space Police + MTron

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: GoodRevrnd
Anyone remember the original Blacktrons? (The ones that were actually black.) Those things were freaking awesome. Also the old-school space sets were always monorail heavy which was awesome. I remember the downfall of legos was about when they released the Ice space series. Those were still pretty good, but from there it was definitely down hill. I remember making an X-Wing from those... long before they released these Star Wars legos that are practically pre-built for you.

Blacktron II + Futuron + Space Police + MTron

Eh... see those are the ones that were mostly white w/ secondary black and had the neon green shielding. They were okay, but the original all black w/ secondary gold ones were better.

EDIT: THIS is it. Thing was freakin' awesome.

EDIT2: I also remember building the Behemoth from WingCommander III using the Ice legos + others. The Capital ship that was supposed to take out the Kilrathi Homeworld. ^_^

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: Cooler
They are missing 98 % of bricks they use to make on that page. If they had all of them I would be in heaven as I could rebuild a few of my old Lego space models that are missing pieces .

Good point. There are A LOT of pieces that I would like to see them offer, mainly from all the space sets... wings, windows, engines, etc.

I loved the TOWN & CITY sets... Some of the space and pirates were great too, and I remember when Aquaraiders came out =]

 

[Kaido]

This guy has made some pretty impressive stuff - check out his Mecha section:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/mladenpejic/Mecha.htm

 

[Shawn]

Holy crap. That is awesome! I still have all my old legos in a box somewhere but I'm missing several pieces. I'd be able to rebuild everything with these spare parts. Awesome!

 

[dethman]

my favorite set!!!

http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?q=928_1&v=z

 

[mercanucaribe]

http://www3.sympatico.ca/mladenpejic/MTP.htm

 

[Juno]

whoa, i used to have those when i was little. i was such a spoiled brat with like 10 sets. right now, i only have two sets i haven't torn down (both active since '96.)

 

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: sniperruff
poor nanny

http://shop.lego.com/Product/Factory/Pr...d=334f9cfb-c79d-4b40-ad73-fc2cbd434bc2

odd.

 

[Amused]

When I played with legos they had no "kits." Why not just build a model?

Legos in my day required your own imagination. You got a set with various bricks, plates, mats and some specialized parts like windows, rounds and roof bricks and no pictures or instructions to follow. You then used your own imagination to design and build anything you could dream up.

It disturbed me later when I saw that the vast majority (all in most stores) of lego sets were no longer like this, but were just models requiring no imagination at all.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: sniperruff
poor nanny

http://shop.lego.com/Product/Factory/Pr...d=334f9cfb-c79d-4b40-ad73-fc2cbd434bc2

Ha ha. Nice

 

[dethman]

Originally posted by: Amused
When I played with legos they had no "kits." Why not just build a model?

Legos in my day required your own imagination. You got a set with various bricks, plates, mats and some specialized parts like windows, rounds and roof bricks and no pictures or instructions to follow. You then used your own imagination to design and build anything you could dream up.

It disturbed me later when I saw that the vast majority (all in most stores) of lego sets were no longer like this, but were just models requiring no imagination at all.

because sets allowed for the added benefit of marketing to a larger audience and would make lego more money. they served both those with imagination (who would never follow the instructions and i knew plenty of kids like that) and those who enjoyed playing with the preset models.

 

[deerslayer]

Man, I miss playing with my LEGOs. I might have to bust them out someday when I'm really bored.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Amused
When I played with legos they had no "kits." Why not just build a model?

Legos in my day required your own imagination. You got a set with various bricks, plates, mats and some specialized parts like windows, rounds and roof bricks and no pictures or instructions to follow. You then used your own imagination to design and build anything you could dream up.

It disturbed me later when I saw that the vast majority (all in most stores) of lego sets were no longer like this, but were just models requiring no imagination at all.

because sets allowed for the added benefit of marketing to a larger audience and would make lego more money. they served both those with imagination (who would never follow the instructions and i knew plenty of kids like that) and those who enjoyed playing with the preset models.

Oh, I understand the marketing reasons for them. What I lament is the near total displacment of general parts sets.

What is disappointing is they used to have huge sets of just basic pieces for sale everywhere. Sets that fueled the imagination and sparked creativity.

I never see those anymore.

 

[dethman]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Amused
When I played with legos they had no "kits." Why not just build a model?

Legos in my day required your own imagination. You got a set with various bricks, plates, mats and some specialized parts like windows, rounds and roof bricks and no pictures or instructions to follow. You then used your own imagination to design and build anything you could dream up.

It disturbed me later when I saw that the vast majority (all in most stores) of lego sets were no longer like this, but were just models requiring no imagination at all.

because sets allowed for the added benefit of marketing to a larger audience and would make lego more money. they served both those with imagination (who would never follow the instructions and i knew plenty of kids like that) and those who enjoyed playing with the preset models.

Oh, I understand the marketing reasons for them. What I lament is the near total displacment of general parts sets.

What is disappointing is they used to have huge sets of just basic pieces for sale everywhere. Sets that fueled the imagination and sparked creativity.

I never see those anymore.

though i agree with you, and believe lego has gone waaay down hill since i was a kid(with these crappy star wars kits), a general parts kit would never sell in this day and age.

maybe for the duplo line, but no 10 year old kid is going to want a bucket of bricks for his birthday.

he's going to want the monorail set.

whether that speaks to his imagination or creativity or not, i'll let someone else decide that.

 

[pontifex]

i have a lego pirate ship in my closet.
legos were indeed awesome

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Amused
When I played with legos they had no "kits." Why not just build a model?

Legos in my day required your own imagination. You got a set with various bricks, plates, mats and some specialized parts like windows, rounds and roof bricks and no pictures or instructions to follow. You then used your own imagination to design and build anything you could dream up.

It disturbed me later when I saw that the vast majority (all in most stores) of lego sets were no longer like this, but were just models requiring no imagination at all.

because sets allowed for the added benefit of marketing to a larger audience and would make lego more money. they served both those with imagination (who would never follow the instructions and i knew plenty of kids like that) and those who enjoyed playing with the preset models.

Oh, I understand the marketing reasons for them. What I lament is the near total displacment of general parts sets.

What is disappointing is they used to have huge sets of just basic pieces for sale everywhere. Sets that fueled the imagination and sparked creativity.

I never see those anymore.

though i agree with you, and believe lego has gone waaay down hill since i was a kid(with these crappy star wars kits), a general parts kit would never sell in this day and age.

maybe for the duplo line, but no 10 year old kid is going to want a bucket of bricks for his birthday.

he's going to want the monorail set.

whether that speaks to his imagination or creativity or not, i'll let someone else decide that.

They just need to make a major parts bucket that includes plans and parts for several different models, rather than one model that may or may not have enough parts to make something else interesting.

 

[dethman]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Amused
When I played with legos they had no "kits." Why not just build a model?

Legos in my day required your own imagination. You got a set with various bricks, plates, mats and some specialized parts like windows, rounds and roof bricks and no pictures or instructions to follow. You then used your own imagination to design and build anything you could dream up.

It disturbed me later when I saw that the vast majority (all in most stores) of lego sets were no longer like this, but were just models requiring no imagination at all.

because sets allowed for the added benefit of marketing to a larger audience and would make lego more money. they served both those with imagination (who would never follow the instructions and i knew plenty of kids like that) and those who enjoyed playing with the preset models.

Oh, I understand the marketing reasons for them. What I lament is the near total displacment of general parts sets.

What is disappointing is they used to have huge sets of just basic pieces for sale everywhere. Sets that fueled the imagination and sparked creativity.

I never see those anymore.

though i agree with you, and believe lego has gone waaay down hill since i was a kid(with these crappy star wars kits), a general parts kit would never sell in this day and age.

maybe for the duplo line, but no 10 year old kid is going to want a bucket of bricks for his birthday.

he's going to want the monorail set.

whether that speaks to his imagination or creativity or not, i'll let someone else decide that.

They just need to make a major parts bucket that includes plans and parts for several different models, rather than one model that may or may not have enough parts to make something else interesting.

that would be very cool, though likely prohibitively expensive.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Amused
When I played with legos they had no "kits." Why not just build a model?

Legos in my day required your own imagination. You got a set with various bricks, plates, mats and some specialized parts like windows, rounds and roof bricks and no pictures or instructions to follow. You then used your own imagination to design and build anything you could dream up.

It disturbed me later when I saw that the vast majority (all in most stores) of lego sets were no longer like this, but were just models requiring no imagination at all.

because sets allowed for the added benefit of marketing to a larger audience and would make lego more money. they served both those with imagination (who would never follow the instructions and i knew plenty of kids like that) and those who enjoyed playing with the preset models.

Oh, I understand the marketing reasons for them. What I lament is the near total displacment of general parts sets.

What is disappointing is they used to have huge sets of just basic pieces for sale everywhere. Sets that fueled the imagination and sparked creativity.

I never see those anymore.

though i agree with you, and believe lego has gone waaay down hill since i was a kid(with these crappy star wars kits), a general parts kit would never sell in this day and age.

maybe for the duplo line, but no 10 year old kid is going to want a bucket of bricks for his birthday.

he's going to want the monorail set.

whether that speaks to his imagination or creativity or not, i'll let someone else decide that.

They just need to make a major parts bucket that includes plans and parts for several different models, rather than one model that may or may not have enough parts to make something else interesting.

Bah, I grew up on the early 90's stuff, including the specialized bricks. I would get a set, build it, then tear it apart and use the parts for other things. Example: the "shipyard" city set came with special pieces that made a wharf. Those pieces later became the deck of a lego aircraft carrier. My best friend had the very monorail set in question, and we built a town with the monorail winding through it. I built a restaurant with a monorail station on the third floor.

"Special" pieces do not stymie creativity, so long as they still interconnect with the plain old blocks that still form the backbone of the toys.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

The local Fred Meyer's has an ad out advertising 20% off all of their Lego sets, and they forgot to include the disclaimer excluding MindStorms sets. I am tempted to go pick one up.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

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