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- Awwzm, on 11/10/2009, -2/+228They need to make that into a poster.
- nsharp1861, on 11/10/2009, -1/+223Thirty years later and still the same. Can't improve on perfection.
- freezo1994, on 11/10/2009, -3/+132reminds me of this:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2664/3765915771_1bf ... - jerryjamesstone, on 11/10/2009, -2/+97That is awesomeness!
- jrm125, on 11/10/2009, -0/+88Amazing how much of my childhood is based on this document.
- BeShirtHappy, on 11/10/2009, -0/+87How could you ever stop lovin' Lego?!?!
- wcollier, on 11/10/2009, -0/+83Term: 14 years.
*****' Megablocks. - acebrickman, on 11/10/2009, -0/+53it's all the "specialty" pieces that are pre-made, instead of letting the imagination run free!
- doobiebrother, on 11/10/2009, -0/+41The blueprint of my childhood :)
- thebeginning, on 11/10/2009, -0/+39Such a solid design. All the knockoffs always seemed like total crap.
- tgc1, on 11/10/2009, -1/+37Megablocks don't have the quality of old Lego. New Lego on the other hand... i'm not so sure of. Feels cheaper for some reason.
- capheine, on 11/10/2009, -0/+34What, you didn't have any pilots flying your spaceships? My spaceships would ***** you up - most of them had one guy doing the flying and two guys manning the guns.
- fischius, on 11/10/2009, -1/+35*Lego walks into a room of megablocks*
Megablocks: "killl meeeee"
*Lego starts to cry, starts flamethrower* - evil-doer, on 11/10/2009, -2/+34Lego.
- nepidae, on 11/10/2009, -1/+31Too bad they aren't made of an easily washable material.
- NJDevils30, on 11/10/2009, -0/+26Regardless of what the Coca Cola lettering is put on its still almost exactly the same font
(except for the Coke one of course)
There's a huge jump in the Pepsi one - UselessTrivia, on 11/10/2009, -0/+26Because they killed off all the space lines to make room for Star Wars legos, which completely blow, except for a couple of the massive 500 dollar collector sets like the Millenium Falcon and the Corellian Cruiser.
The lego star wars sets ruined all of the creativity in Lego. Every set was made with brand new set-specific blocks that were rarely useful in constructing anything besides what they were designed to create.
This trend is thankfully starting to reverse itself, as the new Space Police sets seem to have brought back the old-style design aesthetic, where the structural pieces were largely generic minus a handful of pieces that would be unique to a collection but not to a single set, and any truly set-specific pieces tend to be cosmetic decorations.
The unique-to-set pieces were bad because unless you bought multiples of a single set you never had an opportunity to collect multiple copies of that particular block which makes it damned hard to be creative and build original designs. Those pieces just get left out...not useful for anything unless one is enough for what you had in mind. - fluidfoundation, on 11/10/2009, -0/+23Perfection.
- larsonc, on 11/11/2009, -0/+20Just gonna throw this out there (I don't mean to spam): If anybody has a Lego Technic 8880 Supercar and wants to sell it, hit me up. I've been trying to get a hold of one for ages, and I can't seem to find one.
- GoodbyeHorses87, on 11/10/2009, -0/+17my friends and i used to build lego cars and have a competition where we'd drive them really fast into walls and whoever had the most pieces left on their car won. good times.
- snagglefoof, on 11/10/2009, -0/+15No, it is pictured.
- brsteve88, on 11/11/2009, -0/+14@UselessTrivia
Couldn't have said it better myself. Star Wars, Harry Potter, all those just sucked. Now back in the days of the Dragon Knights, Spyrius, and Explorien legos, that was great. - J0hnnyBlaze, on 11/10/2009, -0/+13so they were no longer under patent in 1993?
- wozup, on 11/10/2009, -0/+12I used to have literally thousands of lego pieces, I loved them. One day my cat got locked in the room where I kept my huge bin, and every lego I had...he took a big piss all over them.... :(
- Atario, on 11/10/2009, -1/+12Soooo...these have been out of patent for a long time now, yes?
- Balanced, on 11/10/2009, -2/+13No, because my creative stuff was much better than the prepackaged designs.
- UselessTrivia, on 11/10/2009, -0/+11No, they just didn't want to have knock-offs being produced.
At this point Lego is such a cultural icon that even the image of a lego figure could be legitimately trademarked, and I'm sure it already has.
So even though it's possible for third parties to make lego-compatible pieces, they can't really copy that signature style. - boozedrinker, on 11/10/2009, -0/+10I'd give anything for a vector PDF of that I could print out....
- Shadowhawk109, on 11/11/2009, -0/+9http://cgi.ebay.com/Lego-Technic-Black-Daytona-Sup ... <- that wasnt too hard...
- centran, on 11/10/2009, -0/+9That is a patent! Not some crudely drawn stick figure and then a footnote saying little dude made of plastic. Anybody making little tiny dude made of plastics now has to pay me.
- snotrokit, on 11/10/2009, -0/+9Damn i love Lego. I love it even more now that my kids have reached the age where they can play with them, and they love them too! We play Lego A LOT! :)
- tavisjohn, on 11/10/2009, -0/+9Too bad you did not put them in a fabric bag and run them through the dishwasher!
Lego is dishwasher safe! - bigdnl, on 11/10/2009, -2/+10That's mind blowing. I guess they wanted to improve ingenuity for the U.S.
- MaxterICC, on 11/10/2009, -0/+8your mom's easy to please.
- Diosjenin, on 11/11/2009, -0/+8@brsteve88: Don't think I've ever seen or owned a more awesome mainstream LEGO set than the Explorien Starship. Holy balls, that thing was *incredible.*
...hey, here's the full building instructions!
http://www.peeron.com/scans/6982-1
God, I love the Internet. - lennyp75, on 11/11/2009, -0/+8Calm down.
- piieerrrree, on 11/10/2009, -12/+20Legos FTW!
- catvllvs, on 11/10/2009, -0/+7When they sued a Spanish company that made a great castle building set using interlocking blocks. That company went out of business.
I loved my castle set :[
***** Lego. - eskalationdk, on 11/11/2009, -0/+7Go Denmark!
- InMSWeAntitrust, on 11/10/2009, -0/+7and the facetious comment of the day goes to....
- Xomaniac, on 11/11/2009, -0/+7Sorry but... what!?
- ryanonfire, on 11/11/2009, -0/+7You could buy all the pieces separately and then build it O.o http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/8880-1
- firebhaal, on 11/11/2009, -0/+7pepsi primed in 73
- AlanLivingston, on 11/10/2009, -0/+7My spaceships used mind control. The "pilot' sat in his living room and was able to control the ship remotely. Didn't need a pilot in the ship. It was awesome.
The gunner was kind of slow and would often try to take over control of the ship from the pilot. This often caused the ship to fly into the edge of the universe and shatter...
At this point, the pilot and gunner would descend upon each other in a rage until the General separated them... That part generally wasn't so awesome. - bcrazzle, on 11/10/2009, -0/+6And since then my life's never been the same.
- abstracthuman, on 11/11/2009, -0/+6http://libraries.mit.edu/about/curious/slinky-pate ...
- thecoinman, on 11/11/2009, -1/+7i think he was trying imply that his post was a link to the poster....as a trick....but ultimately it was just a fail.
- bencanfield, on 11/10/2009, -2/+7Still the same..? When I had Legos they weren't all custom pieces that could really only be used for one set.
- chunkybeefstu, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5***** MEGA BLOKS!
- prattmic, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5Not perfect, but certainly higher quality: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=vf17AAAAEBA ...
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