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I love the stuff! What stinks is the specialized parts, and the lack of toy store stock also. The cost is a bit ripe too. LEGO Mindstorms 2 is about $350AU for the basic kit. I'll buy it one day. Like when I was a kid there was this Formula 1 car (I think) with a V6 or V8 in it. I though it rocked, only at $200AU at the time there was no way my parents would buy it. That was like a week's wages! I would like to start a store in a big city that sells JUST LEGO! Then franchise it internationally.
First, I need to pay bills...
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Quote:Like when I was a kid there was this Formula 1 car (I think) with a V6 or V8 in it. I though it rocked, only at $200AU at the time there was no way my parents would buy it.
If you mean the V8 Supercar, HELL YEAH! I got that kit and its the best one Ive owned. 4 speed V8, 4wd, 4 wheel steering, rear engine with engine hood that opened, and a realistic drivetrain with 3 differentials, independant suspension, adjustable wing mirrors(hehe).. the list goes on.. :D
That was like Technic nirvana
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Lego is awesome! Apparently, the levels from metal gear solid were created using lego. 
I wholeheartedly agree on the "specialized parts crap" that everyone is talking about. It takes away the imagination, the need to improvise in order to create what you need. I loved lego, and I would spend days on end building stuff. I can't count the number of buildings i created using lego, only to destroy them afterwards by lego war-vehicles. For some reason the building's defenses were always inferior.
Lego is so expensive though, so i never had very much... I usually ended up going for the megablocks alternative, which is a cheaper version of lego: cheaper materials and it uses so many specialized parts that it isn't funny. Furthermore, if i bought anything, it usually was the buckets of bricks, since it was so much cheaper than the sets. I only really got sets during christmas or birthdays.
I never really got too much into the technic stuff. I had a kit of technic parts, but i didn't like it as much as lego.
As for them entering the pc/console market, heh... They shouldn't of tried. Those games were terrible.
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Quote:anarky Wrote:Like when I was a kid there was this Formula 1 car (I think) with a V6 or V8 in it. I though it rocked, only at $200AU at the time there was no way my parents would buy it.
If you mean the V8 Supercar, HELL YEAH! I got that kit and its the best one Ive owned. 4 speed V8, 4wd, 4 wheel steering, rear engine with engine hood that opened, and a realistic drivetrain with 3 differentials, independant suspension, adjustable wing mirrors(hehe).. the list goes on.. 
That was like Technic nirvana
Quote:...Formula 1 car...
But agreed. 
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Quote:KiZ Wrote:anarky Wrote:Like when I was a kid there was this Formula 1 car (I think) with a V6 or V8 in it. I though it rocked, only at $200AU at the time there was no way my parents would buy it.
If you mean the V8 Supercar, HELL YEAH! I got that kit and its the best one Ive owned. 4 speed V8, 4wd, 4 wheel steering, rear engine with engine hood that opened, and a realistic drivetrain with 3 differentials, independant suspension, adjustable wing mirrors(hehe).. the list goes on.. :D
That was like Technic nirvana
Quote:...Formula 1 car...
But agreed. :)
>anarky
Well, you did say "I think", and anyway, its secondary model was an F1 Car. :P
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I voted no because even though I know what they are, I prefer K'Nex :wink:
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I never liked K'nex much. You can't be as creative with them as
you an with LEGO. :wink:
LEGO is way more customizable :roll:
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wtf? :???: I've been extremely creative in a k'nex session one time.. you should've seen me. we got some pictures, but I think they were destroyed when the apartment burnt down.
anyways......
i know k'nex aren't the best for making buildings/harry potter scenes etc, but since i mainly use it to make vehicles i like it a ton more. Also, if you build a vehicle or something you can abuse it pretty bad and it won't shatter a million pieces.
oh, probably technic is also a ton better for vehicles, but since I never got technic, well I like the next best thing to me, k'nex.
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Quote:but I think they were destroyed when the apartment burnt down.
Damn, I would hate to lose any of my worldly possessions.
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I have 3 bed sheets full of Lego, I just pull them out when the power's out, turn on the monitor using the UPS and the whitescreen lights the hole basement <- First smiley in like 2 weeks.
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