Lego Technic Series FTW

[NFS4]

I used to play with Legos quite a bit as a child and into my early teens (primarily with the Technic series). After that point, I started getting into more detailed modeling with 1:24 and 1:25 scale model car kits (I was quite the fan of Tamiya and Fujimi kits).

I still find the time every once in a while to work bit by bit on my Fujimi Porsche 356, but I no longer have the patience for the gluing, painting, and hours of painstaking work that I used to put into the kits as a teen.

So what's a guy to do who still wants to build, but is too lazy to paint and glue? Go back to Legos again! I stumbled across these two sites dedicated to Legos and started researching the latest kits:

http://www.technicbricks.blogspot.com/
http://www.brickset.com/

I just received the Telescopic Handler and am like a kid in a candy store reliving my childhood

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I plan on picking up three or four more Technic sets to decorate my study in our house -- the fiance will just have to live with it

Anyone else still into Legos at an "advanced" age?

 

[theflyingpig]

My first war machine was built of legos. It will not be the last.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
My first war machine was built of legos. It will not be the last.

Stewie, is that you?

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: NFS4


I just received the Telescopic Handler and am like a kid in a candy store reliving my childhood

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Anyone else still into Legos at an "advanced" age?

When I was a kid, I was a Lego nut. I mean just buckets of them and I used them every day. When Technic came out, I was in my glory, building all sorts of crap with the motors and gears. Cars, cranes, whirling death machines, you name it. Now, I'm 25 and I'm praying my daughter takes an interest in Legos (she's 2 now) so I have an excuse to help her with some models It's bad enough I'm still into diecast models and watch the original Transformers movie from time to time, I might send my fiance off the deep end if I came home with Legos In all honesty though, I've eyed a few sets while bringing my daughter to Toys R Us...we both have fun going there

 

[LordMorpheus]

So I've got a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. I've been accepted to pursue a Ph.D. at UIUC, Cornell, and Stanford (no funding there, though).

Everything I know about engineering I learned from technics. Everything from school is just about filling out the details.

The guys that invented legos deserve nobel prizes.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: NFS4


I just received the Telescopic Handler and am like a kid in a candy store reliving my childhood

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Anyone else still into Legos at an "advanced" age?

When I was a kid, I was a Lego nut. I mean just buckets of them and I used them every day. When Technic came out, I was in my glory, building all sorts of crap with the motors and gears. Cars, cranes, whirling death machines, you name it. Now, I'm 25 and I'm praying my daughter takes an interest in Legos (she's 2 now) so I have an excuse to help her with some models It's bad enough I'm still into diecast models and watch the original Transformers movie from time to time, I might send my fiance off the deep end if I came home with Legos In all honesty though, I've eyed a few sets while bringing my daughter to Toys R Us...we both have fun going there

You can't fight the urge

I think I'm gonna get this one when it's released in the summer. It looks like a beast

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MBEV...J-eEg/s1600-h/8258.gif
http://technicbricks.blogspot....-8258-crane-truck.html

Damn thing has a working V8 engine :Q

 

[Zim Hosein]

Subscribe to Lego Magazine and both you and your fiancée will hate me, but it's worth it NFS4!

 

[geno]

I was reading about that and wondering just how much something like that would cost. That has to be one of the most complex boxed Technic kits I've ever seen! When I first saw it, I was convinced it was a crazy one-off someone had built. Usually the Lego replicas of the real life versions aren't so accurate as this model (think the F430 kit and so forth). It's not a cartoonish take on the real thing, but an attempt at making a Lego model and actual legit scale model!

Be sure to post pics of the telescopic handler as it's built / finished

geno - official member of the AT "I'm a big kid and don't care" club

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Subscribe to Lego Magazine and both you and your fiancée will hate me, but it's worth it NFS4!

Done

 

[Viper GTS]

I started on Construx, had some Capsela, & then Technic. Probably got the most use out of the Construx & Technic, I never really had enough Capsela to really do a whole lot.

Fun stuff, all of it. Went from there to bicycles, but discovered computers before I was old enough for a car so I ended up a PC guy.

Viper GTS

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
I started on Construx, had some Capsela, & then Technic. Probably got the most use out of the Construx & Technic, I never really had enough Capsela to really do a whole lot.

Fun stuff, all of it. Went from there to bicycles, but discovered computers before I was old enough for a car so I ended up a PC guy.

Viper GTS

Ohh, I remember Capsela -- I had a few sets of those as well, but I was more interested in the Technic stuff.,

 

[NFS4]

Three and a half hours into the build, and through two of the three 64+ page instruction manuals

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[destrekor]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Three and a half hours into the build, and through two of the three instruction 64+ page manuals

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that's a lot of instructions!

I loved my Lego days. Bought into the Lego Mindstorm when it came out too, and remember being so pissed when V2.0 came out with a much better brain.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have a huge container filled with knex in my closet. I still get the temptation to take them out sometimes, but my parents would really think I'm weird.

Legos were fun too. I miss those days tbh, I used to have the whole basement to myself and was mad when my parents wanted to redo it.

Now I have all my servers down there. LOL

 

[RedCOMET]

I owned a few technic settings back in the day. I had a Crane, Front End Loader, Motorcycle, and an Airplain, Pretty basic stuff.

The crane and front end loading took the longest time to build. I should probably set them back up one of these days when i go home to my parents place.

I was tempted to buy those huge ass star wars models that came out... the massive replicas of the SSD, Death Star, X-wing... but the $$ wasn't there for me to do it... and I think my GF would see it silly has having all those around.

I miss my legos

 

[randay]

omg can i play too?

 

[CrimsonWolf]

I still remember my first Technic set.

Super Car

:heart:

 

[BassBomb]

I've got the lego two truck

 

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: CrimsonWolf
I still remember my first Technic set.

Super Car

:heart:

YOU HAVE THAT???? i want that so bad

 

[imported_Champ]

ages 10 to 16...sorry but I dont think you fall into that group

find a new hobbie!

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: NFS4
the fiance will just have to live with it

Didn't know you switched teams...congratz on still being engaged perpetually.

 

[Bignate603]

Ferrari 1
Ferrari 2
Ferrari 3
Ferrari 4

I'm 25, married, and work as an aerospace engineer yet my mother still gives me stuff like this for Christmas. She knows me way too well.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Bignate603
Ferrari 1
Ferrari 2
Ferrari 3
Ferrari 4

I'm 25, married, and work as an aerospace engineer yet my mother still gives me stuff like this for Christmas. She knows me way too well.

I got that set last week. I'll build it later...

But I just finished the Telescopic Handler

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[NFS4]

Originally posted by: BassBomb

Originally posted by: CrimsonWolf
I still remember my first Technic set.

Super Car

:heart:

YOU HAVE THAT???? i want that so bad

$260 for a sealed box :Q

Most of the discontinued Technic sets, at least the good ones, are between $150 - $350.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Bignate603
Ferrari 1
Ferrari 2
Ferrari 3
Ferrari 4

I'm 25, married, and work as an aerospace engineer yet my mother still gives me stuff like this for Christmas. She knows me way too well.

I got that set last week. I'll build it later...

But I just finished the Telescopic Handler

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I was a little disappointed that I had to pick yellow or red. I would have preferred to have a set of two.