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R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:50 am

It's LEGO's 50th anniversary!!! Wooooooooooooo!!!

Makes me want to go out, and "buy Aug" so more LEGOs.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:32 am

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!

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:23 am

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.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:33 am

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.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:57 am

Here is that command center: http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?q=6970_1&v=z

And the research station: http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?q=6927_1&v=z

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:59 am

Nice. I'll have to see if I can find the ones we had.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:05 pm

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)

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:06 pm

LEGO people are always so happy to be doing whatever it is they're doing.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:36 pm

Ahh yes, the Surface Explorer, I had me one'em too...

spidermonkey · Post by **spidermonkey** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:36 am

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...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:43 am

Filthy one-dot legos!

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:36 pm

One-dot Lego McNobody...

adapted from Space Ghost's wonderful

Six-piece Chicken McNobody...

spidermonkey · Post by **spidermonkey** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:23 pm

I've figured out what one-dot legos are meant for...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:13 pm

HAW!!!!!!

Post by **enderzero** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:59 am

Oh Haw!!

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