Monday, December 21, 2009

#8258, the huge !@#$ing truck

While I certainly miss the good old Technic Lego bricks with holes in them, the new system does have its merits. Sure, it looks like fat plastic Meccano, the amount of funky shaped specific pieces outnumbers the regular honest bricks and rods, but just take one look at this...

If that isn't freaking sweet then I don't know what is. It's powered (the supports and crane are motorized), huge, has 1877 pieces and took me hours and hours to build.
Where I come from that's called heaven.(don't mind the rest of the Lego, the plastic bags were enough to keep me occupied for nearly a day)

Sunday, December 20, 2009

An introduction and overview

About half a year ago I got my old Lego back from my parents place, and decided to put a few sets together again. Just for fun, relaxation and to have more junk decorating my living room.
I still had the instructions, some in rather poor state.. torn to bits, decomposed by old age or quite possibly mauled by rabid rodents. With infinite patience and bits of sticky tape I reassembled most of them and spent a few weeks sorting 3 huge tubs of mixed Lego bits by color.

Things have gone downhill from there...
I'll be uploading a picture of every set build, the set number and a bit of background info (if any) as I go along. I've also bought a few new sets since, so it'll be a trip down memory lane as well as an impression on how Lego has changed since I spent my younger years on the floor in a big pile of tiny blocks.