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Uh oh, got a 503 error on that post, though it went through. I remember some recent troubles related to that.
By the way, did you make that picture?
Yes. I did that Photoshop in 2018.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I had to add something to this gingerbread town.
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Those are fun.
Star Wabs Assemble!
https://youtu.be/OPnys-pfPSQ
Makes me wanna Photoshop another Lego set. :bigyello:Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
@Peter - My son (who is 8) nearly died of laughter when he saw your "Salvaged Death Star" box.
He kept saying, "that can't be real, omg"
It's certainly a good idea, though. One of the complaints I have with the direction that Lego has gone is that they make too many models. The whole point of Lego is to see what you can do with your imagination, rather than just putting together some model. There need to be more, "a whole lot of random pieces" kits out there. It seems like that's all I had when I was growing up. The kid with the most pieces won, not the one with the most models.
Kits have there advantages. It makes all kids capable of making cool things with Legos. It makes it easier for the parents to participate. This way everyone gets a participation award. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
When I was a kid, I use to love building my own pirate ships with Legos. I don't mind models, but large sets of random pieces is better. That's how I started my kids out when they were as young as yours. Before we brought Star Wars sets, me and my kids built our own space ships with retractable landing gears and slide and pop-up canopys and sliding doors. We actually built a Star Destroyer. It was huge, but it wasn't exact, using different colored pieces. Had alot of fun with that thing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
In Germany we can still buy sets with tons of random pieces. If there's something we need that's not included in these sets, well for my family, Legoland was close by to buy whatever we needed from their shops.
Yeah, and it's a good thing that Legos float, because one hit from a Lego cannonball and those ships tended to fall to pieces. Eight of them, to be exact. They fell into pieces of eight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Porter
My response was always, "Arrrrgggh!", but that was mostly because my Lego parrot would fall off my shoulder.
Ahh, a way to reinforce the Lake Wobegon Effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I'm sure if I would've placed any of my builds in water, it will sink without a single strike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I preferred Meccano to Lego - with screws and nuts and metal plates and gears and screwdrivers and spanners and chains and motors and ... I thought Meccano had gone but I see that it's still around. I've still got my old sets from the 60's and 70's. I spent many happy hours building cranes, bridges, engines, landmark models (favourite Blackpool Tower) etc. Ah, those were the days...
I vaguely remember that. I thought it went away decades back.
At one point, Lego also had extensive gear options. I don't remember pulleys, but there were certainly gears of many different sizes. You could create some really complicated moving designs that all shared one awesome feature: They fell apart as soon as you moved things.
As it turned out, Lego connections didn't really handle torque all that well.
So did I - but apparently not.Code:I vaguely remember that. I thought it went away decades back.
https://www.meccano.com/en_gb
I've heard of Meccano, but during my Lego days, I always wanted to have something from Erector, which Meccano absorbed in 2000.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2kaud
I see some of the Meccano stuff when I go to the Walmart. I never bought it for my son though. It looks like it's very cheap material to be honest.
I don't know what it is like now - but back in the day (60's and 70's) it was all metal and very sturdy - held together with proper metal screws and nuts using metal spanners and screwdrivers. The only plastic seen were the trays the various parts were stored in.
To me, this is Meccano. A motorised crane...
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I don't know about motorized cranes, but I encountered a sandhill crane once. It was pretty well constructed.
We have plenty of egrets here.
While my kids were into Legos and Playmobil, I showed them how to build a police station/hospital out of cardboard and small pieces of wood. Both sides have 2nd floors which wasn't part of the orginal box, with only one staircase, an elevator, and a bridge. I'll explain more about it's design as soon as I post a photo.
I wonder if anyone builds stuff out of big piles of Starburst or Now-And-Later candy?
You'd need some sort of glue that works on waxed paper, or maybe unwrap them and lick them to stick them?
Yeah, after reading your first line, I knew what the 'glue' should be, but you covered it in your second line.
Seems like I heard a story about a witch who built a house with those kinds of materials. It didn't end well for her. Diabetes, I think.
Nah... it was heart disease. Ginger is beneficial in small amounts, but she was living in it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Her own damn fault!
Ginger is fine in any amount, but I still prefer Mary Ann.
My Great Blue Heron chases away our Egrets - eats whatever it wants!Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
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A couple blackbirds help rid my garden of earwigs roaming around in the morning. They also come around when I work in my garden, hoping I would come across maybugs for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
We thought about building a pond once, but dropped that idea due to major mosquitoe problems, birthed from our neighbors pond.
Thank god affordable portable wireless telegraph machines weren't mass produced for the public! :bigyello:
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Oxford University, Diseases of Modern Life article:
"The Victorians had the Same Concerns about Technology as We Do"
https://diseasesofmodernlife.web.ox....ology-as-we-do
That GBH looks like it had a frog in its throat.
I'm still baffled as to how they did the tickers for the stock market through those things.
Poorly.
I would assume that it was essentially a typewriter with a reduced set of keys (you need far fewer) and no moving carriage (the paper was one character wide, essentially, so each key stroke advanced the paper like a carriage return...without a carriage to return).