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In case you haven't Googled today...
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:50 am
by R3C
It's LEGO's 50th anniversary!!! Wooooooooooooo!!!
Makes me want to go out, and "buy Aug" so more LEGOs.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:32 am
by McNevin
To celebrate Lego's 50th engadget has a "best lego sets in history" article.
http://gizmodo.com/349929/best-lego-sets-in-history
Oh how I wanted the galaxy explorer... If only I could have made a lego starship big enough to hold the explorer in its cargo hold!
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:23 am
by R3C
We had the space-station with the two blue-clear pod things on the moonscape platform. It was quite cool. We also had several of the rovers with the dual baloonish tires x6, the bendy claw thing on the back, and the communication dish on the top, which we referred to as "The Scrambler"
We still have most of the parts from every set we ever had.
The Galaxy Explorer is a little sparse on the front end for my liking. I think I would have elongated the cockpit area, and then plated it with the smooth-topped flat pieces.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:33 am
by McNevin
Looking back the galaxy explorer is somewhat dated, but 6 year old McNevin thought it was the coolest thing ever!
I had a moon station thing, with a tram that went out to the spaceship launch pad, it was quite neat, ill try and find a pic. That was my greatest space set. Well that and the 2 part vehicle, that could drop its dockable research station and continue exploring. Ahhh the engineering feats of legos.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:57 am
by McNevin
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:59 am
by R3C
Nice. I'll have to see if I can find the ones we had.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:05 pm
by R3C
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6880 (Had a couple of these.)
Our base was like this:
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6930 Except ours had two of the blue things, and looked a little more refined in general. Couldn't find the exact one on the site. (may not have a pic for it or something)
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:06 pm
by R3C
LEGO people are always so happy to be doing whatever it is they're doing.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:36 pm
by McNevin
Ahh yes, the Surface Explorer, I had me one'em too...
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:36 am
by spidermonkey
Of course the claw end of the Surface Explorer was vastly more useful than the shovel end, which could really only pick up tiny, one-dot legos...
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:43 am
by R3C
Filthy one-dot legos!
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:36 pm
by R3C
One-dot Lego McNobody...
adapted from Space Ghost's wonderful
Six-piece Chicken McNobody...
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:23 pm
by spidermonkey
I've figured out what one-dot legos are meant for...
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:13 pm
by R3C
HAW!!!!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:59 am
by enderzero
Oh Haw!!