Is LEGO jumping on the nostalgia bandwagon? I sure hope so. I was walking through Walmart (yuck) the other day to see if they've restocked any Hotwheels. Nope.
But then I see this in the LEGO isle. It must have been an online purchase return, because it ain't a regular item. Behold:
The want is strong.
The 80s called and wants their Lego kit back.
I always find a ton of cool lego sets i want, then i see how expensive they are.
In reply to Appleseed :
I think they just reissued that kit.
It's not a reissue, it's a reimaginin for their 90th birthday and is totally nostalgia driven. I was a lucky kid and had the original Galaxy Explorer. I may have even purchased it in Europe because the kit number on my instruction set isn't the US one. Naturally, I had to buy the new one. I need to get a picture of them together, but it's about 50% bigger.
First, I rebuilt the original from the original instruction set. I couldn't find the LL-928 panels (they're probably on something else right now) so I swapped in LL-918 instead.
New box, old instructions.
I'll get a pic of them together tonight.
Also, because I'm an enabler, Walmart.com has them for $75 instead of $100.
In reply to TJL (Forum Supporter) :
LEGO has always been expensive. But the play value is unrivaled. I have 40 year old bricks that I could slap on the new Galaxy Explorer tomorrow. Very few toys can claim such things.
Since you brought it up. Seen at the local car show.
Appleseed said:In reply to TJL (Forum Supporter) :
LEGO has always been expensive. But the play value is unrivaled. I have 40 year old bricks that I could slap on the new Galaxy Explorer tomorrow. Very few toys can claim such things.
The durability and casting accuracy is amazing, it's remarkable precision. Some of the old grey Classic Space got brittle - the big flat plates used to build the original Galaxy Explorer chassis, for example. But that's on its third generation of kid now.
So yeah, not cheap but that doesn't mean it's not a good value in the long run.
As promised.
I may have come from a different era, but the LEGOs I played with were not a model kit, but a bunch of different bricks with some ideas to make things.
We made a bunch of wild things with legos.
Expensive? My 52 year old brother states Legos helped him form his engineering mind at his mechanical engineer career.
Once he told me he had an idea and he went home and put a simple plan together using Lego's.
As a sibling I had to endure HOURS of him digging in his Lego suitcase looking for that one special piece he needed.
alfadriver said:I may have come from a different era, but the LEGOs I played with were not a model kit, but a bunch of different bricks with some ideas to make things.
We made a bunch of wild things with legos.
Still works like that. You buy a kit (it's always been packaged as kits primarily) and then you take it apart and build something else. Nothing stopping you from rebuilding the kit 40 years later if you want.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
I don't remember any of the model kits when I got my set. That's where I get lost.
They tended to be more basic - but there are still basic models. The Galaxy Explorers are good examples of the more (but not most) complex sets of their eras. Just Google all the different castles over the years. It's your memory that's telling you it was just loose bricks, not history :)
In reply to alfadriver :
Something like this?
Because those bricks still work on today's kits.
Still available, too.
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lego-medium-creative-brick-box-10696
In reply to Appleseed :
Yea, that. Well, a little more stuff in it. And I totally get it will work with the new stuff.
But IMHO having a model kit one assembles is not the same as a pile of bricks you make into many things. Just me, maybe.
At the same time, if I wanted a specific model to build, I would get a kit from REVELLE and glue it together. Which I had a lot of, too.
When I explain the birds and bees to my kids I reference Lego's and how they are designed to fit together in a certain way as God and Lego designed.
Now with all the changes in society with sexuality and genders I'm not sure this would be a good idea.
This comment will probably lock this thread.
In reply to alfadriver :
This is basically the plot of the Lego movie :)
Nothing stops you from tearing a kit apart and building something else. Maybe it provides an inspiration - I had the original "big car" Technic kit (kit 8860) which was a Beetle floor pan and drivetrain. I turned it into a cool dune buggy for obvious reasons. A model, torn down to component blocks, is no different than a pile of bricks so it doesn't limit imagination or possibilities.
In reply to Datsun310Guy :
Really? We're talking about toys here.
You might want to take a closer look at the variety of pieces available and how they are designed to hook together, as you may not be illustrating what you think you're illustrating with your example. Like people, they vary a lot but they can all be used to do cool stuff.
Keith - it's only a joke My apologies.
In reply to Datsun310Guy :
Careful with that analogy. I figured out how to link thin plates vertically when I was 6.
How else was I going to build tails for my airplanes?
It's one of those things I kid around with adults when they mention the birds and bees speech. I joke to get Legos and explain it that way. Male part, female part - you get it......
I never used the speech on my kids.
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