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"Thomas de Groot" <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote:
> We, grumbling old men, lwe ived before your blessed Lego generation :-) But
> we had Schucco, and Dincky Toy, and Meccano, and Matchbox to play with!
Of these, "Matchbox" is the only brand I do recognize :) They weren't my
favourite brand of metal toy cars though...
> Ah!
> Those were the days! I also owned a kind of forerunner to Lego (don't
> remember the name just now) also with plastic bricks but a bit larger...
You're not talking about Duplo, are you? ;)
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High!
Samuel Benge schrieb:
> Good one! I'm pretty sure I had that very set... one of my first ones in fact.
> It was part of a larger set, back in... 1985 I think.
No, that would be probably some years too late - I had the same model
(Space Shuttle), but that was when I was 10 years old, i. e. in 1979/80!
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
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High!
clipka schrieb:
> My favourite has always been the big fat space cruiser from the first spasheship
> generation though. You know, the good old blue/grey ones, with those
> LL-designation bricks... they still knew how to build gread models from mostly
> standard bricks, back then... ah, those were the days...
Do you mean the LL 928 "Galaxy Cruiser" with radar station and moon
rover (storable in the back of the ship)? I had this too, as well as the
smaller LL 918 spaceship!
Oh, I wish I had the time to re-enact my childhood science fiction
fantasies with PoV-Ray...
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmx de> wrote:
> High!
> > It was part of a larger set, back in... 1985 I think.
>
> No, that would be probably some years too late - I had the same model
> (Space Shuttle), but that was when I was 10 years old, i. e. in 1979/80!
Now that you mention it: IIRC this was not only one of the few models I never
possessed, but also one of the very few that was re-issued some time again
later.
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Do you mean the LL 928 "Galaxy Cruiser" with radar station and moon
> rover (storable in the back of the ship)? I had this too, as well as the
> smaller LL 918 spaceship!
Yeah - exactly that one! It was called "Raumkreuzer" here in Germany.
I owned all three (well, together with my brother that is)... the parts and
instructions for the LL 918 and LL 928 are still in my possession.
Unfortunately I lost the instructions for the medium sized ship - and probably
so many of the tail-fins were broken that I couldn't build all of them at once
now.
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"clipka" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht
news:web.4959f733877dfbf31a6427600@news.povray.org...
> "Thomas de Groot" <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote:
>> We, grumbling old men, lwe ived before your blessed Lego generation :-)
>> But
>> we had Schucco, and Dincky Toy, and Meccano, and Matchbox to play with!
>
> Of these, "Matchbox" is the only brand I do recognize :) They weren't my
> favourite brand of metal toy cars though...
>
>> Ah!
>> Those were the days! I also owned a kind of forerunner to Lego (don't
>> remember the name just now) also with plastic bricks but a bit larger...
>
> You're not talking about Duplo, are you? ;)
>
>
Well, just a little OT here:
Schuco: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuco and
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Schuco_toys
Dinky Toys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinky_Toy
Meccano: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meccano
Matchbox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_(toy)
Thomas
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"Samuel Benge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> > HAH!
>
> Good one! I'm pretty sure I had that very set... one of my first ones in fact.
> It was part of a larger set, back in... 1985 I think. Legos are great :) It's a
> shame I gave them all away :(
>
> Sam
They say its never too late (to begin again) ...
I was imitating, see his Lego gally, driven by his removal of files.
Angles were the hardest.
Never fear, everything important can be found here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~openuniverse/
Started out in this life, playin' with Lego .... hmm ... must be gettin close to
the end.
the biggin with logo:
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biggin with photons
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Thomas de Groot wrote:
> "clipka" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht
> news:web.4959be41877dfbf3ab169ede0@news.povray.org...
>> (*... wanders off into nostalgic dreams...*)
>>
> We, grumbling old men, lwe ived before your blessed Lego generation :-)
Hah, I knew it :)
> But
> we had Schucco, and Dincky Toy, and Meccano, and Matchbox to play with! Ah!
> Those were the days! I also owned a kind of forerunner to Lego (don't
> remember the name just now) also with plastic bricks but a bit larger...
American Building Bricks? For building houses mainly? If so, we had some
hand-me-downs from our mother. Red and white blocks mostly, with
smaller, narrower pegs which didn't hold tight. We had a very incomplete
set though...
Sam
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clipka wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
>> High!
>>> It was part of a larger set, back in... 1985 I think.
>> No, that would be probably some years too late - I had the same model
>> (Space Shuttle), but that was when I was 10 years old, i. e. in 1979/80!
>
> Now that you mention it: IIRC this was not only one of the few models I never
> possessed, but also one of the very few that was re-issued some time again
> later.
This would explain why I had it as part of a larger set. There was this
small flyer, and a small rover with the smallest wheels Lego had to
offer. My flyer was white and grey, though. Legos remained my favorite
toy for years, from my first set when I was seven, clear into my teens
when other kids thought Legos were child's play. They didn't understand
that Legos give only what you put into them, that the lessons learned
are useful in other areas. *sigh* :)
Sam
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