Lego

By Punning Pundit, in X-Wing Off-Topic

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Fun fact: the E-Wing is the only Small-based X-wing Minis game which I don't have as a Lego. My actual first memory is of Lego. I was 2, and it was Christmas.

I've been reading a fair bit of commentary about Lego getting more expensive, which has always seemed a bit weird to me. My experience as a teenager saving my allowance for Lego was that sets generally ran ~$0.10 per piece. And my experience today is that a set runs... roughly $0.10 a piece. And hey! Someone did some math to figure out that I'm basically right.

I like being right:

http://goo.gl/w3XGJs

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Asuming those numbers are correct :P

I still find lego kinda expensive: yeah 0.10 per brick aint much, but even the small sets clock in over a 100 pieces, so it adds up.

I sold all my LEGO to a very good friend of mine who's a massive lego fan. But the week after, those monster hunter sets came out and i picked up a few of the smaller sets. (gotta have lego!)

Found some nice lego channel on youtube.

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I think lego is kinda lame now days. Sure you can build true to movie ships and stuff but its not the same as the space lego stuff that came out in the late 80s - late 90s. Blacktron 1&2, Space Police 1&2, Unitron, M-tron, Ice Planet, Exploreons, Robo Force, Spyris, Aquanaughts, and Deep Sea divers will always be the most epic.

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I think lego is kinda lame now days. Sure you can build true to movie ships and stuff but its not the same as the space lego stuff that came out in the late 80s - late 90s. Blacktron 1&2, Space Police 1&2, Unitron, M-tron, Ice Planet, Exploreons, Robo Force, Spyris, Aquanaughts, and Deep Sea divers will always be the most epic.

Concerning the '80s space sets- http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Benny-s-Spaceship-Spaceship-SPACESHIP-70816

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I think lego is kinda lame now days. Sure you can build true to movie ships and stuff but its not the same as the space lego stuff that came out in the late 80s - late 90s. Blacktron 1&2, Space Police 1&2, Unitron, M-tron, Ice Planet, Exploreons, Robo Force, Spyris, Aquanaughts, and Deep Sea divers will always be the most epic.

Concerning the '80s space sets- http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Benny-s-Spaceship-Spaceship-SPACESHIP-70816

It looks kinda cool. Its that a lego Pony unicorn standing next too the tron spacey?

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I think lego is kinda lame now days. Sure you can build true to movie ships and stuff but its not the same as the space lego stuff that came out in the late 80s - late 90s. Blacktron 1&2, Space Police 1&2, Unitron, M-tron, Ice Planet, Exploreons, Robo Force, Spyris, Aquanaughts, and Deep Sea divers will always be the most epic.

Concerning the '80s space sets- http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Benny-s-Spaceship-Spaceship-SPACESHIP-70816

It looks kinda cool. Its that a lego Pony unicorn standing next too the tron spacey?

Kitty!!!

But Benny's spaceship (spaceship spaceship) is a loving tribute to those awesome sets from the 80s

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I think lego is kinda lame now days. Sure you can build true to movie ships and stuff but its not the same as the space lego stuff that came out in the late 80s - late 90s. Blacktron 1&2, Space Police 1&2, Unitron, M-tron, Ice Planet, Exploreons, Robo Force, Spyris, Aquanaughts, and Deep Sea divers will always be the most epic.

Concerning the '80s space sets- http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Benny-s-Spaceship-Spaceship-SPACESHIP-70816

It looks kinda cool. Its that a lego Pony unicorn standing next too the tron spacey?

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Fun fact: the E-Wing is the only Small-based X-wing Minis game which I don't have as a Lego. My actual first memory is of Lego. I was 2, and it was Christmas.

I've been reading a fair bit of commentary about Lego getting more expensive, which has always seemed a bit weird to me. My experience as a teenager saving my allowance for Lego was that sets generally ran ~$0.10 per piece. And my experience today is that a set runs... roughly $0.10 a piece. And hey! Someone did some math to figure out that I'm basically right.

I like being right:

http://goo.gl/w3XGJs

Similar first memory: Christmas, I was a year and a half old. Didn't get Legos until later, though.

I don't own a ton of them, but definitely tens of thousands of pieces. I buy almost exclusively Star Wars (nominally for my daughter, but we know better). I have a Venator, a Y-Wing, an A-Wing, the B-Wing set from around 2000, an AT-ST, the UMHC and probably dozens of smaller sets, many from Clone Wars.

Here is your technically-not-an-E-Wing:

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Jek-14-s-Stealth-Starfighter-75018

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A friend of mine got the SSSPPAAAAAACCCCCCEEEEE ship T-shirt along with a copy of the Lego movie game. She gave it to me. :D

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This forms a loving backdrop to casual games:

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I think I might turn my AT-AT and TIE Advanced into a dice tower/token holder/template holder/damage deck tray.

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Found some nice lego channel on youtube.

Jang is the BEST!

Fun fact: the E-Wing is the only Small-based X-wing Minis game which I don't have as a Lego.

Totally jealous. I always had my eye on the TIE defender, but never bought it. Now I spend most of my money on this game instead of LEGO. But my brother in law just bought my family the LEGO Death Star, which is AWESOME!

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I look forward to when my nephew is old enough to get the Lego sets. Though, Jurassic Park Legos may tempt me to get them.

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The wife and I love lego. On the dining room table at the moment we have a 3foot by 6 foot town called 'Brickville' that starts off at one end as a beach shore going up to a mountain range at the other with lots of shops and housing in the middle.

We're waiting for the 'pet shop' modular buiding to arrive that we ordered to finish off the town then we'll probably photo it all, break it down and leave it for a few months and then rebuild it again one day.

Lego is really an investment as long as you keep the boxs and instructions. Especially limited sets like the modular buildings.

Those are about £120 when they come out but the ones that came out four or five years ago can fetch up to £500 on ebay.

The thing is *every* lego set is in effect 'limited edition' and runs for about a year or two, then a new season comes out and they dont make the old ones anymore, you have to get them on ebay and usually they sell for more than they did new if intact and with box and instructions.

We had a lego themed wedding, it was pretty cool. We had a lego space station, or pirate island, or fire station etc as the centre piece on each table at the wedding breakfast rather than flowers.

Each guest got a random minifigure bag model on their place marker at the table.

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I got the lego super star destroyer for my birthday a couple years ago. Looks so awesome by my fireplace.

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I have a ton of Lego's from back when, half of my old stuff is a complete set of Mtron and blacktron!

As for new stuff, I have probably 20 or so random sets in a box, and in a separate box the pinnacle of Lego fun - the recently released Master Builder Academy sets. Can't tell you how badly I wanted something like that long ago! They are easily the best sets I've ever seen.