Non-motoring > My kids LEGO was not like this ! Miscellaneous
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New Fri 28 Sep 12 21:40 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - henry k

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUtS52lqL5w&feature=youtu.be

Thank goodness.
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New Fri 28 Sep 12 21:47 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - Focusless
Very impressive!

But... how many 1000s of different parts have they used to make that? T'weren't like that in my day lad...
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New Fri 28 Sep 12 22:00 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - Zero
Thought it was wonderful, then realised some of its not possible.

2:50, trucks cant run up hill AND down hill.
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New Fri 28 Sep 12 22:03 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - Focusless
Motorised?
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New Fri 28 Sep 12 22:32 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - Zero
Doesn't look like it.
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New Fri 28 Sep 12 23:50 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - bathtub tom
Some sort of inertia motor?

It looks like a motor's spinning something (flywheel).
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New Sat 29 Sep 12 01:29 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - Armel Coussine
>> Motorised?

I don't see why not. There's room for a motor in the base of the truck.

The whole thing is powered of course, perhaps by many motors. Never mind a bit of faking, it's still wonderful, even if lego is a bit after one's time.


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New Sat 29 Sep 12 09:11 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - Cliff Pope
>even if lego is a bit after one's time.
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I was the last of the Meccano generation. I've never quite shed the feeling that being metal Meccano is somehow more real, but I have to admit Lego is pretty good, and much more versatile.
Did anyone watch the James May programme on the real Lego house? Very silly, but good fun, like the gian train set.
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New Sat 29 Sep 12 09:47 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - diddy1234
the Lego Bugatti veyron was more interesting
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New Sat 29 Sep 12 11:25 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - swiss tony
>> 2:50, trucks cant run up hill AND down hill.
>>

I think, the bays have a pushing mechanism - there is a set of levers in them, and the track is on the level....
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New Sat 29 Sep 12 12:06 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - devonite
It looked quite impressive! - but "what" did it actually do? did it finally sort the balls or what!
600hrs and all the "brain-work" seems wasteful if all it actually did was to move balls from A to B, which could have been done by emptying the box of balls in the right destination originally!
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New Sat 29 Sep 12 12:21 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - Zero
>> It looked quite impressive! - but "what" did it actually do? did it finally sort
>> the balls or what!
>> 600hrs and all the "brain-work" seems wasteful if all it actually did was to move
>> balls from A to B, which could have been done by emptying the box of
>> balls in the right destination originally!

peasant.
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New Sat 29 Sep 12 12:22 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - devonite
;-)

Now the Lego Airport, that was impressive really!
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New Sat 29 Sep 12 13:31 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - Ian (Cape Town)
My kids have Lego, and enjoy it a lot.
However, there is two factors of Lego which will remain the same no matter how complicated and complex they make the stuff...

1) the kids will always find a way to do things differently, and throw away the instruction book after they've made the 'on the box' model, and create their own ideas and themes
2) the stuff will still hurt like b*ggery when you step on a bit at 3am on your way to the loo.
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New Sat 29 Sep 12 16:25 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - Badwolf
That video is truly amazing, and has inspired a feeling of deep jealousy in me!
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New Sat 29 Sep 12 16:50 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - VxFan
>> That video is truly amazing,

Puts Honda's Cog to shame.
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New Sat 29 Sep 12 16:56 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - No FM2R
I loved Lego when I was young. Some time between me playing with it and trying to introduce my children to it, the whole thing had changed with loads of special bits to make specific models with, and special kits and not much in teh way of imagination.

Strangely they never got into it, even the younger one who as a toddler loved Duplo.
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New Mon 1 Oct 12 11:56 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - Mapmaker
It seems to me that most toys today require no imagination. And accordingly it is no surprise that children get bored with them very quickly indeed.

The box that the new washing machine came in was probably our favourite toy...
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New Mon 1 Oct 12 12:48 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - henry k
>> The box that the new washing machine came in was probably our favourite toy...
>>
My two would second that. An old sheet can be turned into a tent etc.
KISS i
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New Thu 1 Nov 12 10:50 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - Mapmaker
www.artinfo.com/video/the-page-turner-how-to-do-simple-task-in-a-complicated-way/755631

Well worth a look...
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New Thu 1 Nov 12 13:50 
 My kids LEGO was not like this ! - devonite
Poor old Hammy!! - now he needs to invent a Hair-comber!
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