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Originally posted by Havell@Dec 15 2005, 08:43 PM
I am the proud owner of 5 crates of lego at the bottom of my cupboard.
Anyone remember Lego technic? It was regarded by many as inferior to other sets such as Meccano but it was really good and offered lots of versatily. Onew of my happiest childhood memories was when I made was about 5 or 6 and made a machine that would travel back and forth along a pice of string steched across a room, I had hours of fun making that go backwards and forward, backwards and forwards...
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Not only do I remember it, I still buy as much of it as my wife will let me. The Lego catalogs are a love/hate thing, as I dearly love to find out what new sets are out there that I cannot afford. Sadly, being a parent, i do not have time to play with the Lego that I have. Last Christmas, I took the plunge and bought a MindStorms set (more technic than you can shake a stick at, with a Lego microcontroller to drive your robots), but they discontinued the remote control before I could buy it (much wailing and gnashing of teeth).
I could spend over a thousand dollars on various sets, if I could get away with it. I want the Technic crane, the Imperial Star Destroyer (over three thousand pieces!), the Death Star, the jawa sand crawler, the (sadly discontinued) Technic back hoe, the various designer sets, and the list just gets longer.