Lego Store to open in Chinook Mall... Now Open.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse

Am I the only one that hates these set specifically meant to build something?

I hope so, because despite having a lot of sets growing up, we also ended up building random things on our own.

You can do both.

[Berger_4_]

Yeah, many an airplane was made using the pieces those two big blue windows were mounted on in the picture SebC posted. They made awesome wings.

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse

Am I the only one that hates these set specifically meant to build something? One of the best things about Lego is using your imagination to build a space station however you think it should be, not how the designers wanted it.

Just a giant bucket of misc lego please.

Totally agreed, but there's still reason to love the potential for us getting a lego store: they've usually got bins where you can just buy whatever pieces you want in whatever colour.

[Northendzone]

two years ago my son bought some 400 piece star wars x-wing fighter set. What a pain to build and it was not as sturdy as it could of been (i was stunned at the mistakes in engineering).

when i was a kid we free-styled it and my son can seem to grasp that concept.

[Buzzard]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

I grew up with Blacktron 2

The lego I grew up with :

[JimmytheT]

Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse

Am I the only one that hates these set specifically meant to build something? One of the best things about Lego is using your imagination to build a space station however you think it should be, not how the designers wanted it.

Just a giant bucket of misc lego please.

All I know is, that you are not the only person who hates Hulse.

[Canuck-Hater]

Originally Posted by SebC

Got this for a birthday a long time ago. Wait, ages 8-12? I'm pretty sure I was 6.

Man when I was a kid I always drooled at this one in the lego catalog, folks told me to save up, but there was no way I would ever afford it at that age haha.

[Tyler]

I wish they'd add an Apple Store so I don't need to drag my ass up to Market everytime my MBP breaks down

[Hack&Lube]

Lego Blacktron has nothing on Lego M:Tron

[TRIX]

just bought the fire station sets ~8-10 months ago...that was a fun night, just chillin building stuff, made the true hall, then said F this it's too smal and made my own hall 3 times as big with my old pieces in conjunction...also like the F1 stuff

the old stuff in a bin, never plan to get rid of it

good news!

[CaptainCrunch]

I remember after seeing Star Wars when I was 10, going home, dumping out my lego and making fleets of X-Wings, Tie Fighters, Y wings. They were pretty cool but horribly multicolored due to running out of white and black pieces early on.

When Battlestar galactica got huge, I built a Cylon head with a moving eye.

Those were the days.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Lego fans will certainly want to DL this episode of James May: Toy Stories. He builds a real life house (working toilet, hot shower, bed) out of 3.3 million bricks of Lego. The episode is wicked awesome for those of us who loved Lego, as is the rest of the series.






http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...use-wants.html

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

I hope so, because despite having a lot of sets growing up, we also ended up building random things on our own.

You can do both.

True, but from personal experience, it was so hard to do something yourself that looked as good as the prebuilt ones. It's all personality driven of course but I think your average kid will "follow the prebuilt kit" that looks awesome rather than cobble together his own crappy version.

The Simpsons tells all: see soapbox racecar derby episode...

[IliketoPuck]

I'll have you know that I made it into the official Lego magazine as a kid. Yep. I even got my own caption for the awesome super space truck I made.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Lego Blacktron has nothing on Lego M:Tron

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You've made my brother very happy. I had all the blacktron, he had the M:Tron, many Lego deaths happened that day.

[KTrain]

Originally Posted by Tyler

I wish they'd add an Apple Store so I don't need to drag my ass up to Market everytime my MBP breaks down

Looks like they are putting in an Apple store.

http://www.chinookcentre.com/en/cust...s/Default.aspx

[gargamel]

I always just had the random buckets of Legos, but I was too lazy to do much with them so I stuck with

Looking back on it, I have no idea how I stayed entertained by those for hours at a time.

[QuadCityImages]

Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse

Lego fans will certainly want to DL this episode of James May: Toy Stories. He builds a real life house (working toilet, hot shower, bed) out of 3.3 million bricks of Lego. The episode is wicked awesome for those of us who loved Lego, as is the rest of the series.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...use-wants.html

Agreed. That entire series is definitely worth watching. James May is great, whether it be on Top Gear or making giant things with the toys of his childhood.

[HalifaxDrunk]

For anyone like me who has misplaced any instructions from when you were a kid this site has pretty much every one. I have printed quite a few Space/Blacktron ones that I was missing.

My wife just shakes her head when I sit on the floor with my 3 year old son playing for hours.

Just use the drop down menu to navigate between the themes.
http://www.brickfactory.info/theme/index.html

[GreenLantern]

Oh Lego.. a huge part of my child hood.

This guy right here was a legendary part of many a battle in my bedroom:





That was definitely one of my favourite sets..



I was also huge into Castles and Knights genre, anyone remember when they released the new faction Wolfpack?



Got that one for my birthday one year, I still think it is so cool.

These pesky Black Monarch guys were all over the battle field as well:



LoL and this one I remember just because of the backpacks and quivers.