I like my Lego

[Aspie_With_Attitude]

In the last six months I had been getting into Lego again. Being away from all that for more than 20 years made things spark again.

I'm glad these days there's so many adults are actually into Lego. I guess that why Lego never went out if business. As more adults get into Lego, the company makes more profit.

More about my passion in Lego is mentioned in the video at the top.

 

[Adora]

I like Lego and got into it a few years ago,my favourite lines are Lego Star Wars and Lego elves here are some pics of some of my sets along with one I am yet to build

 

[OlLiE]

for me it is lego technics

 

[Ezra]

Building something with Lego is very soothing. Smashing it to bits is very satisfying.

 

[MrSpock]

A friend's kids have Lego and I've played with it some again in the last few years. I couldn't see myself really getting into it with the Lego that they have though. But if you put me in a place with near unlimited Lego I'd happily spend a lot of time making working things with the technics parts. In the seventies I had the helicopter set (and quite a bit more), a friend across the street had the car chassis set. Those levers at the front of the cockpit on the helicopter actually controlled the pitch of the rotors through functioning swash plates.

852 Helicopter
853 Car Chassis

 

[Aspie_With_Attitude]

Here's my latest completed Lego set, I did a beach theme with my own custom made palm tree.

 

[Skids]

I started buying my kid the Lego friends sets and she's now got loads of them along with others such as Minecraft Lego and Lego City and i realized just how much i enjoy them, even as a 42 year old man.

I think i'm going to start buying sets for myself but man, they are sooooooooo expensive!

 

[flyingcloudkitty]

So many people, and yet so few! I almost never come across fellow Autistic Lego collectors. I have tons of Lego and use my twitter page to post Lego pictures. I specialise in female minfigs, armies, and custom 80's-style Lego spaceships. I've enclosed a picture of 1 of my 2 Lego Castle armies.

 

[tlc]

My first set was #722. I got it when I was 6 (1982), I remember because it said for age 7 and up. I collected many after that. I first got into the mechanical sets before they were called Technic, they were called Expert Builder. Though I thought the town sets looked cool, I didn't have the role playing mindset for the Legoland stuff. I preferred to build things that worked.

I was also in the Lego Builder's Club. I got magazines and things. There were quite a few adults even back then doing Legos and competitions.

Did anyone else think the plastic pieces in orange "Push-ups" made perfect fitting Lego wheels and axles?

In the early 80s, carmakers were widely switching to downsized front wheel drive platforms. I was both fascinated and obsessed with that. Since Lego didn't make CV joints back then, I came up with many different methods to make a front wheel drive lego car. Some with belts, some with u-joints, some even with rubber hose from a pneumatic set, I even thought about using a bendie straw. My preferred method I have in both the go kart, and the subcompact car I have built, with bevel and crown gears. The shifter isn't functional but the steering is. These pics are from nearly 30 years ago. A long time obsession was the GMC motorhome because it looked cool and was front wheel drive too. I built this method into some of those too. I used old transformers to give my vehicles a lot more power. I remember another time I made a clutch using a tire engaging with a satellite dish, pushed by a pneumatic cylinder.

I still have all my Legos in a box in the garage from when I moved. Before that, I would take them out every now and then, and my daughter and I would build things. The sets were always expensive, and I haven't priced sets in a long time. Also I preferred the older pieces where you had to make something from simple pieces, many of the newer pieces are just too fancy for me anyway. I think I figured I had accumulated about 2500 blocks. There was nothing like sound of the blocks in those perforated plastic bags, when shaking Christmas presents.

 

[flyingcloudkitty]

I once had 733, but I don't have it now. I do have these ones though! I loved the old polystyrene style boxes. Very oddly, there are people on the spectrum who hate polystyrene! I'm also lucky to have an unopened 725, but I don't have a picture of it.

 

[tlc]

My 722 set had a polystyrene box. But I pushed it across the kitchen floor like a toy car too many times and regrettedly wrecked the picture on the back. I remember the ads for 722 (red), 733 (blue), and 744 (yellow with gears).

I don't have the boxes to any of mine anymore, but I have most of the instructions in a big envelope somewhere. Along with some of the catalogs that came with the sets.

The subject of Legos came up on my college engineering class. The absolutely insane tolerances that have to be held for the plastic parts to fit together so perfectly every time. Especially since when they started making bricks, plastic injection molding was in its infancy. I was told that whenever a mold got retired, they disposed of it by integrating it into the foundation of the factory, so nobody could steal the engineering. Or something like that.

I had a defective block in my 722 set. It was a 1 x 8 thin red plate, it formed with too much shrinkage so it wouldn't fit on anything. I just kept it for whatever reason, and it's probably still in there.