I just had to have it

It was all about this for me, back in 1991.

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Yeah £350 is pricey. That car I just linked was £50 20 years ago, so that's about £100 in nowaday money. Sadly I didn't keep the box but I did have a nice red toolbox the type that an electrician would have used. Even more sadder, my parents gave all of my Lego away to my nephew while I was at uni. My 1980s Transformers too :mad:
 
That is pretty dull, cool but dull. Lego Imperial Shuttle is cooler, as is the Millennium falcon but that :( meh (cool meh, but meh)
 
I rescued my old lego from my parents garage when I visited them at Christmas. Not sure where the instructions are at the moment, (most are in the loft in my house in a box i think, although the I have the above car's instructions to hand).

Been moving them over into decent storage boxes at the moment before putting it away ... at the moment there's something like 4x 9ltr and 6x 6ltr boxes plus misc smaller ones ... that doesn't include some of the minifig scale starwars sets from the late '90's (xwing, tie, millennium falcon, snowspeeder, awing), and a few others, or the ultimate sets ...
 
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SB118 said:
meh, not "real" lego anymore, far to many specialist pieces moulded for just that model.
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Whilst I agree with that in general for other modern sets, that actually couldn't be further from the truth for these uber-edition Star Wars sets. If you look at them they are almost entirely made from clever use of standard old pieces. On the Star Destroyers only some of the panels are custom to give the right angle of the edges. Unless you wanted Star Destroyers looking like they had a bad case of jaggies, that was pretty unavoidable. There's hardly anything custom on the Falcon set at all.

I almost impulse bought that Super Star Destroyer over christmas when i saw it in the lego shop. It will indeed only go up in value. But the Super SD just never really did it for me - I much prefer the 'normal' SD and would give a kidney for that set. Might just have to drop an eye-watering amount of money on it one day, have my fun then sell it on. :)
 
SB118 said:
meh, not "real" lego anymore, far to many specialist pieces moulded for just that model.
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Where as in actual "this is fact" land, the opposite tends to be true :) Very few pieces are actual custom moulded, I'm always surprised by this when I'm making them. Even on that kit, zoom in and I can't even spot any custom pieces!

On an aside, I love star wars lego - although pretty much only the old stuff! Wish I could get hold of some TIE fighters :(

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Monkee's lego = teh awesome.

The "new" lego - not so much.

However, I'm a HUGE SW geek, but I couldn't warrant £350 on it.... I'll stick to Xwing vs Tie Fighter for my thrills :p


@Monseratt - I had the same car - loved it! Was great to build :cool:

I think I have about 30kg of lego in my parent's loft... We'll definitely need to buy a house with a loft methinks... :D
 
I think you've got to be about 8 years younger than me to really like the Clone Wars guff that came out. Some of the ship designs are okay (like the droid fighter I've got) but that's about it.

Although I've just seen that the lego store has Y-wings and TIE fighters.......... SO TEMPTED :(
 
SB118 said:
meh, not "real" lego anymore, far to many specialist pieces moulded for just that model.
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Another one that agrees with this..

The challenge of Lego was to make what you could out of the basic pieces.. Imperfections and/or realism wasn't really important. That was left to the imagination.
 
Nice :) Build log would be fun, let's be 'avin it.

This was my last piece of lego, bought with my birthday money i'd saved up when I was about 9. This car was awesome, reclining, moving seats, 3 working gears, flat 4 engine with moving pistons, rear diff, suspension... I absolutely loved that car - really hope my parents have it knocking about somewhere still, though there's a good chance it's gone now :(


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I am tempted by the new x-wing, tie and y-wing sets ... as well as the big imperial shuttle set.

My ones of these are the first gen lego star wars ones (grey x-wing, y-wing and Darth's tie in one set, tie fighter and small imperial shuttle). I need to dig the bits out for the top gun assembly on the Falcon as the bits for that are mixed in before I disassemble it and put it away.

edit: had dodgems car above too :)
 
I was very tempted by this model at xmas. The thing that I don't like about that star destroyer set is that for such a huge model there's only a tiny bit that you can put the figures in, and very little interior detail.

I prefer the sets that are designed to be played with for that reason lol.
 
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