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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2014 22:06:34 GMT -5
All right, I decided to start this thread for a few reasons. Reason one: The LEGO Movie. Reason two: LEGO TV shows, namely Chi-Ma and Ninjago. I actually hate both of them, but I know they have surprisingly big fandoms. Reason three: My favorite LEGO subline EVER that wasn't Ice Planet 2002 has come back from the dead.  Welcome back, Tahu. Anyway, this is the thread to discuss the most fun toy company ever. 8P |
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Post by Coaster on Sept 14, 2014 23:21:22 GMT -5
Dang, I haven't kept up with LEGO since, like... the mid-2000s. Such the old sets :U
(that said, Rock Raiders and Bionicle pretty much constituted half my pre-numbered-grades childhood, so. But for some reason the only Toa sets I got were the first ones and then I only got the enemies, for some reason
and I just remembered I made a bunch of them into this frost dragon looking thing that's been staring at my bed the past two years, I should post pictures)
Incidentally, still haven't seen either of those TV shows or the movie.
In fact, pretty much all I know about LEGO is pre-2005 xD
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2014 23:38:12 GMT -5
Incidentally, still haven't seen either of those TV shows or the movie. From what I hear, the movie is fantastic. The shows, on the other hand, are kind of "Totally Radical", especially Chi-Ma. It's pretty much a blatant Thundercats knock-off, and I'm surprised LEGO would stoop as low as to directly rip off someone else's show. Mixels (wacky little sets that you build into goofy-yet-loveable monsters) have a series of hort cartoons that's actually pretty amusing, and Hero Factory had a cartoon miniseries that was... Okay, I guess. Hero Factory was the successor to Bionicle back when Bionicle was cancelled. It actually had some pretty cool sets, and the new Bionicle figures are using the same system Hero Factory used, which is actually a really good build system because it's a lot hardier than Bionicle parts were. Bionicle ball-and-socket joints had a tendency to break, especially in the post-2005 years. |
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Post by Kozma on Sept 15, 2014 17:58:29 GMT -5
A LEGO club? Sounds interesting.
When I was a kid I had a lot of legos but I became disinterested in them for quite awhile while growing up. However, thanks to the Lord of the Rings sets and The Lego Movie I've started to develop a newfound interest in them. I enjoy building them and I'd likely get more sets but I really don't have any room to put the completed models. I could also look into that one website that rents them out but I don't know if it'd be worth the cost.
Anyway, I loved The Lego Movie but that's it as far as the films and cartoons go. I don't think I'll be getting interested in Chi-Ma, Ninjago or Bionicle at all but I'd love to join in this discussion if I could.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2014 13:16:15 GMT -5
The best scene in the Lego movie (for me at least) wa- *Benny crashes through the thread in his Spaceship, spaceship, SPACESHIP!* SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP!
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Post by Nut on Sept 18, 2014 15:03:44 GMT -5
The Lego Movie was fantastic, I loved watching all those brick "particle" effects.
Ahhh nostalgia, I used to get the Lego Magazine in the mail when I was a kid and I thought the Rock Raiders and Bionicle were awesome. The Bionicle comics came free with the magazine and I'd read them over and over, though I lost interest around the time they started making excuses to sell new toy designs, like the Toa becoming the Toa Nuva and then new characters being introduced. But I had a full set of the original six Toa.
I also really liked the Throwbots. They were more fun to play with than the Toa because they actually threw flying disks, but I only had three of them. My only Rock Raiders set was the Drill Dozer, but I would read those junior reader stories about them.
As for the actual lego bricks, I mostly built houses. Once I built a red truck that was... very simple and rectangular. I also complained a lot about the lack of color diversity in standard bricks, which I believe has since been fixed, at the apparent cost of ease of obtaining actual standard bricks (I go to a store now and it's like everything I see is themed sets instead of good old tubs of bricks).
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Post by The Scrac that Smiles Back on Oct 11, 2014 21:08:51 GMT -5
I loved The Lego Movie XD
But my Lego playing days were before the Bionicle stuff. My Lego sets are normal, Harry Potter, Life on Mars, and a bunch of medieval Lego stuff my folks bought from somewhere.
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Post by thedoggirl on Oct 18, 2014 21:58:41 GMT -5
I've never seen any of the TV shows, but I loved the Lego Movie. It was just too awesome! xD
When we were younger, my brother and I (and some of our friends) played with legos a lot. We'd build airports and cities and stores and cars and GUYS I FEEL LIKE BENNY RIGHT NOW. My brother had this cool western set with cowboys, a saloon, gold coins and (my favorite) horses. 8D
Also, I remember one time where I insisted my brother and I play with some of my thousand many dog figures (I was/am super obsessed with dogs) so we built fighter jets for my dogs.
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