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Sockser posted:IIRC, Znap was closer to Construx As an adult, Construx sucks. But as a kid, being able to build structures larger than yourself was an incredible feeling.
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My biggest complaint with Contsrux is that no one ever had enough of them to build much of anything, because they weren't very common presents. In the 80's if anyone was going to get a kid a construction toy, 9 times of 10 it was going to be a box of lego. So it usually ended up someone had a few scattered construx pieces mixed in with the tub of lego, and they did nothing but get in the way.
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xzzy posted:My biggest complaint with Contsrux is that no one ever had enough of them to build much of anything, because they weren't very common presents. In the 80's if anyone was going to get a kid a construction toy, 9 times of 10 it was going to be a box of lego. That sounds about like my experience.
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Jul 28, 2013 03:28
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xzzy posted:My biggest complaint with Contsrux is that no one ever had enough of them to build much of anything, because they weren't very common presents. In the 80's if anyone was going to get a kid a construction toy, 9 times of 10 it was going to be a box of lego. That's what I've noticed when I get tubs of childhood Lego from people. There's almost always a few pieces from some other building toy mixed in. A couple of small Construx beams or stars, some K'nex beams, some guns from an action figure, a few broken Transformer bits...then the one from the unlucky kid that's 80% megabloks. I had a Lego incompatible clone set in my Lego box for years, although it was mostly connected together in a lump so I could easily avoid them. I only recently extracted all of those pieces and tossed 'em.
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Jul 28, 2013 03:36
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xzzy posted:My biggest complaint with Contsrux is that no one ever had enough of them to build much of anything, because they weren't very common presents. In the 80's if anyone was going to get a kid a construction toy, 9 times of 10 it was going to be a box of lego. Look at all these poor kids. I had 4 60 gallon garbage cans full of Construx. Every one of my relatives knew I loved the poo poo so they bought me sets all the time. I think I had every single set except for a Dinosaur set. They had a parts expansion builder set that had like 300 pieces in it for a deal price, my Uncle bought me 5 of them for a birthday once. I used that stuff to build bases for MOTU, GI Joe and once a properly scaled Metroplex for my Transformers. I sold all of it to my boss a few years ago because he had 4 kids and he swore they'd love it. Found out recently they traded all of it for a loving Wii U.
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Jul 28, 2013 04:51
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Jul 28, 2013 07:48
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Captain Foo posted:240 gallons?! Yes. The bigass blue Rubbermaid bins. My brother had a bunch but when he decided he liked Playmobil better I got his bin. My buddies and I once built a huge sewer play set for our TMNT guys. Construx was the best supplemental toy ever. Somewhere my mother has pictures of the TARDIS Police Box and control column I built as well as a Dalek my little sister could roll around in.
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Jul 28, 2013 08:08
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I need to see pictures to fully comprehend the scale we're talking here to be honest.
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Jul 28, 2013 08:43
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Rhyno posted:Somewhere my mother has pictures of the TARDIS Police Box and control column I built as well as a Dalek my little sister could roll around in. I'm going to need to see those pictures - that sounds absolutely insane and brilliant.
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Jul 28, 2013 11:18
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MaliciousOnion posted:Just received this for my birthday That bridge is on display at Myer in Pitt Street Mall, Sydney.
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Jul 28, 2013 12:14
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ITT Lego nerds learn the wonders of what happens when you get more than a paltry amount of Construx and start buying that poo poo up on ebay like it's crack. My favourite thing was building armour and weapons I could wear. We're talking helmets and bad rear end laser gauntlets covered in mini missiles, here. Iron man didn't have poo poo on my gear.
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Jul 28, 2013 16:02
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Lofty132 posted:I need to see pictures to fully comprehend the scale we're talking here to be honest. PriorMarcus posted:I'm going to need to see those pictures - that sounds absolutely insane and brilliant. I have one of the Dalek that I posted in a DW thread like a year ago but I can't find it in my images folder. The others are still somewhere in a photo album at my mother's.
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Jul 28, 2013 17:29
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Safety first! Industrial 02 (POV) by Captain^Foo, on Flickr
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Jul 28, 2013 23:33
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Captain Foo posted:Safety first! 
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Jul 29, 2013 12:44
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Is it possible to see the reverse?
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Jul 29, 2013 13:59
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The_Doctor posted:Is it possible to see the reverse? It'll have to be tonight. I'm curious how Foo did his. For mine it's a 1x1 brick with studs on two sides, on top of a 1x1 with studs on four sides, then black faucets coming out of that.
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Jul 29, 2013 14:16
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Is it the first of August yet? Feel like a kid waiting for Christmas, waiting on the BTTF set.
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Jul 29, 2013 14:57
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fuckin' a  PeePot posted:It'll have to be tonight. I'm curious how Foo did his. For mine it's a 1x1 brick with studs on two sides, on top of a 1x1 with studs on four sides, then black faucets coming out of that. sounds right, when I get home tonight I will post some reverse/exploded views
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Jul 29, 2013 16:51
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Captain Foo posted:
Could you post another view for this one too? I built all of the visible parts, but had trouble sticking them all together.
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Jul 29, 2013 17:51
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PeePot posted:Could you post another view for this one too? I built all of the visible parts, but had trouble sticking them all together. Sure thing. Need a specific view?
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Jul 29, 2013 18:22
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I got a couple emails about the S10 full case, but when I went back to that Fred Meyer, they were gone. Sorry dude/ttes.
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Jul 29, 2013 18:29
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Captain Foo posted:Sure thing. Need a specific view? Just curious what the back legs and rockets connect to. There was a part I'm surprised I didn't have, but I just checked BrickLink and they practically don't exist. The 2x1 slope on the back legs, and the Industrial-02 head, is new and only in 4 sets. I'm also surprised I didn't have any black droid arms with vertical grip, out of the dozens of droid arms I have.
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Jul 29, 2013 21:08
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Here's an interesting review of the BttF set. At the end he builds the original Cuusoo model and shows it side-by-side with the official Lego one. The Lego set is better than I thought, especially from different angles. http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=84806&st=0
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smackfu posted:Here's an interesting review of the BttF set. At the end he builds the original Cuusoo model and shows it side-by-side with the official Lego one. The Lego set is better than I thought, especially from different angles. Ok, I'm impressed. I was originally only going to buy this set for investment reasons, but after seeing how it compares, I actually want one to build and I think over time it'll be an excellent set that's fondly remembered. I'm just hoping they do a UCS version in the future.
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Jul 29, 2013 21:31
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smackfu posted:Here's an interesting review of the BttF set. At the end he builds the original Cuusoo model and shows it side-by-side with the official Lego one. The Lego set is better than I thought, especially from different angles. Yeah, I was disappointed when I saw the official Lego version revealed, but seeing them side by side I've no idea what I was thinking.
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Jul 29, 2013 23:09
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The BTTF set was a lot of fun to build. Nothing complex or difficult, some neat little designs for things like the gullwing doors. The only problem is it's not easy to fit the Doc inside and shut the door because his hair hits the doorframe before it's fully closed. You can't fit Marty and the Doc inside at the same time because the interior is only 4 studs wide, so their arms hit one another. It won't be hard to convert the bonnet into the original Cuusoo design either, it's a very simple understructure. 
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Jul 29, 2013 23:27
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I have money burning a hole in my pocket and I'm looking to add to my Lego collection. Can anyone advise me on the train sets specifically?
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Lofty132 posted:I have money burning a hole in my pocket and I'm looking to add to my Lego collection. Can anyone advise me on the train sets specifically? Do you want a fully functional train? Then your only options are the $180 7939 Cargo Train which has an engine, a flatbed car, a tanker car, and a vehicle car, or the $130 7938 Passenger Train, with two engines/passenger cars and a passenger car. Both come with a motorized train base, a remote, and tracks. There's a western coal-fired train set with 79111 Constitution Train Chase, with the engine, coal tender, minigun car, and freight car. It is not motorized. 9467 Ghost Train is a goofy set with a huge engine and 3 strange ghost cars. It is unmotorized and comes with no track. Finally, the $130 10233 Horizon Express is the enthusiast's train. It comes with no track or motor, but it can be converted (as can the other two unmotorized trains). It's got a well-designed TVG-like engine, a passenger car, and a dining car. You can also buy accessories like more tracks, a level crossing, a train station, and train motors & remotes. That's what Lego is selling right now; other recent but discontinued sets include a Maersk cargo train and a Toy Story western-style train. Go back even further and you've got the old style 9v with powered tracks and monorails (which are quite expensive to get a hold of these days). Older train sets jump in value; they're never terribly popular or produced in high quantities, so they tend towards rare.
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Picked up the BTTF set at the store for my wife while finally grabbing Arkham Breakout. It looks pretty cool! They didn't even have it on the shelf, the guy said they just got a few and were down to the last one when I asked about it.
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The_Doctor posted:Is it possible to see the reverse? 
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Jul 30, 2013 01:37
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I'm going to need more taps.
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Click for big:PeePot posted:It'll have to be tonight. I'm curious how Foo did his. For mine it's a 1x1 brick with studs on two sides, on top of a 1x1 with studs on four sides, then black faucets coming out of that.   PeePot posted:Could you post another view for this one too? I built all of the visible parts, but had trouble sticking them all together.  
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Pyroclastic posted:Do you want a fully functional train? Then your only options are the $180 7939 Cargo Train which has an engine, a flatbed car, a tanker car, and a vehicle car, or the $130 7938 Passenger Train, with two engines/passenger cars and a passenger car. Both come with a motorized train base, a remote, and tracks. Thanks for the detailed reply! I was quite set on a motorised set but the Horizon Express looks great. I was getting back into Lego when the Maersk Train was being released and the Emerald Night was still being produced, I wish I had bought them! (I bought the X Wing and Millenium Falcon instead). How easy is it to convert the sets? I've been mainly looking at Amazon, regarding discontinued sets is it better to eBay?
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Lofty132 posted:Thanks for the detailed reply! I was quite set on a motorised set but the Horizon Express looks great. I was getting back into Lego when the Maersk Train was being released and the Emerald Night was still being produced, I wish I had bought them! (I bought the X Wing and Millenium Falcon instead). Oh yeah, forgot about the Emerald Night. I regret not getting that one, too. The sets are all pretty easy to convert to motorized versions; I think they all have instructions in the book on how to do it. I know the Horizon Express and Maersk do. The motor functions are relatively cheap (I think the parts will run about $40 for the motor, remote, and sensor; the battery boxes are either cheap ($13 for AA) or crazy expensive ($50 rechargeable lithium plus $25 for the loving AC adapter)), too. Everything but the motor can be used for non-train stuff. Amazon used to be really bad for pricing, since bots would really jack up the price if they didn't find other items. It looks like it's gotten a lot better, at least after I spot-checked the Emerald Night and Maersk trains. Its third-party pricing is very similar to pricing on Bricklink and eBay. A lot of the cheaper entries on the sites are people who split up the sets into locomotive/tender and passenger/cargo cars, so people can add cars without buying multiple locomotives (or people trying to offset the cost of buying multiple sets for cars and selling off the locomotives). Kind of annoying to have to dig around to find the full sets.
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I feel a lot better about getting the DeLorean after that review. It's a friend's birthday gift and I didn't want to give them a substandard model.
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That reminds me, I bought a bag of bits recently that seems like it's most of a Santa Fe train car. Even comes with a couple of sticker sheets.
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Pyroclastic posted:Oh yeah, forgot about the Emerald Night. I regret not getting that one, too. Again, thanks for the help! I think I'll do some serious research before deciding what I want to do, including looking at people's train MOC's. The dream would be a sprawling set with multiple trains running on it, I'm even considering firing up LDD and attempting to build replicas of the trains I work with (Northern Rail Livery class 156, 153 and 142 for those interested).
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http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/tag/3956966757.html Where the heck do people manage to get 7000 of the exact same brick? Does lego occasionally unload unsold stock, or do people hoard this stuff from many smaller purchases?
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xzzy posted:http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/tag/3956966757.html It just says white brick, not that its 6x6.
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I found 10 random series three bags for £1 each in B&M Bargains today (UK) as well as a small Ninjago set for £3.99. Got 2 race drivers, one samurai, one tennis player, one alien, one Indian, one baseball player and three pilots. Not a bad haul for a random discovery.
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