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slowmotion

slowmotion

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Very good. I think the noise would drive me round the bend though.
 
T

TVC

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Very nice, but I'm afraid I'm a bit of a traditionalist and have to put on my flat cap and say, it's not proper lego like when I w'er a kid.
 
T

TVC

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slowmotion said:
Lego? It should have been Meccano, surely?
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I had both, and lots of each.

My greatest achievement was a NASA style Meccano centrifuge for my Action Man, it had a 4 foot swing and snugly fitted in my bedroom. Just as I got it up to full speed my dad walked in to investigate the noise, and went completely ape about how dangerous it was. Looking back it was pretty lethal with me hunched in the corner of the room, Scalextric transformer glowing, and Action man whizzing past my head at 30rpm. Years later though, he did admit he was pretty impressed by my Engineering prowess.

Arch: I had a Lego Technical Set, but I do think it is when imagination started to become replaced by realism.
 
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661-Pete

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Aye, this ain't how I remember Lego. This is how I remember Lego:
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And I too was a 'Meccano kid'. I only wish my Dad had had the dosh to get me up to set 10 (he stopped at 7 :cry:).

I wonder how long the machine in the video, will run until it runs out of balls? There appears to be some 'leakage', especially in the grabber stage right at the start... Or do they 'cheat'? :evil:
 
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661-Pete

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My favourite Meccano achievement was a fully-mobile Dalek, which I constructed during the screening of the first-ever Dalek series back in early 1964. How's that for quick-off-the-mark? It was a faithful replica: I even concocted the sink-plunger bit (out of a rod and small pulley), though I couldn't do the flashing lights on the 'head' (I only had a clockwork motor. My dad said I wasn't to play with electrics: too 'dangerous' :sad:). I was immensely proud, but after a few runs the clockwork issued an almighty twang!! and scattered bits of spring and cog wheel all over the floor. After that my Dad refused to buy me another :cry:. So it was down to pushing the thing by hand from then on...
 
T

TVC

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Just to make my point, here is a Spaceship built with an expensive Lego kit.

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Here is a spaceship built and played with using imagination.

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Guess which I think is best.
 
summerdays

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
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Bristol
Wow - my son wants that first set!!! I would like to have seen a wide shot of the whole layout as well (well I think he would have any of that lot). Maz I'm impressed - what sort of age is your nephew?
 
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Arch

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
The Velvet Curtain said:
Just to make my point, here is a Spaceship built with an expensive Lego kit.

Militarized-X-wing-in-Lego_2-600x450.jpg



Here is a spaceship built and played with using imagination.

20080905-lego-spaceship.jpg



Guess which I think is best.
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I think you're confusing Lego types. Are you saying there's no imagination in the video I posted? Technic is nothing to do with lacking imagination, it's to do with having the right bits to make mechanical devices - gears, levers, belts, motors. It's just like Mechano, but with plastic pimples to connect instead of nuts and bolts. The Star Wars fighter you show isn't Technical Lego, it's a kit, and I agree, it's rather dull stuff, until you use it in other models. I had a couple of space kits, and the bits soon got absorbed into the general biscuit tin of Lego bricks, and incorporated into all sorts of things.

I'd have loved some Technic as a kid, although I don't know if my imagination was up to getting the best from it, I quite like following instructions.
 
Maz

Maz

Guru
summerdays said:
Wow - my son wants that first set!!! I would like to have seen a wide shot of the whole layout as well (well I think he would have any of that lot). Maz I'm impressed - what sort of age is your nephew?
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I think he was about 16 when he made it. If I'd built a clock like that, I'd want to keep it, but he dismantles his creations to make other things!
He's also made:
A table-tennis ping-pong ball serve returner
An anotomically-accurate robotic motorised arm and hand
A chocolate/sweet vending machine (designed to accept silver coin payments only, and rejects any coppers you put into the machine!)
Upright 2-legged walking robot.
 
Shaun

Shaun

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Moderator
Arch said:
Seen on YACF and shamelessly nicked:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=rWd3vgLaA_M

Brilliant stuff. I'd be chuffed to have made any one of those sections....
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Excellent ... best fun I've had on a dinner time in ages ... lol

I had buckets of the stuff when I was a kid ... professional lego engineer I was!!!

It ended up in those tall ice cream tubs and got handed down to my brothers over the years (with bits going up the hoover everyweek to the point there was only a small half-box left when my youngest brother finally grew up and binned it. :thumbsup: ).

Cheers,
Shaun :biggrin:
 
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