I haven't played with legos for 22 years, but...

[seremtan]

Was it lego that produced a monorail kit? The carriages sat on a thin vertical strip of the plastic. I remember it being modular so you could build whatever track you liked, and it had up and down sections, the whole works.

no just a old-fashioned steam train style thing on two rails. i got old very quickly as i recall

[shadd_]

i built a spaceship with lego and flew to uranus.

[obsidian]

not blocky enough.

that's what I don't get with legosss they are meant to be put together into whatever your imagination wants, yet everylittle thing has it's own special parts, as a matter of fact this open wheeler is probably 98 percent of unique parts you'd never see in another package

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make that 100%

Nah, most of those are Lego Technic parts, used to make all sorts of working engines, pistons, cranes, etc. Makes normal Lego look like Duplo. I've seen most of those parts in a number of other Lego Technic models and you can use them for a number of different applications if you're creative.

I wish I could work as a Lego kit designer. That's like a dream job even if they just paid me with food, lodgings and all the Lego I could ever play with.

[obsidian]

hm.. on the topic of old toys. Does anyone remember of a set of plastic figures and vehicles where a lot of magnets were involved (like on the soles of feet etc). I seem to remember the scale of it being somewhere between lego and playmobil (in terms of the figures).

also... Manta Force anyone?

Wasn't that MagnaForce or something. I think the good guys were called StarCom or something.

I have this little guy. I have him stuck upside-down on my ceiling.

[Ezekiel]

i knows you all had one of these

I remember having those at nursery, there were only two so there was quite a bit of fierce competition to get one when playtime started. There were quite a few instances where people were thrown out of their cars by other kids in bizarre hijackings in the yard. Pity we didn’t have Grand Theft Auto to blame it all on back then.

also... Manta Force anyone?

Was Manta Force the series of toys where you could get people (white suits, purple suits…) and robots with blades and scythes on their arms?

[Tormentius]

i knows you all had one of these

Heh. My son has a similar one that he uses all the time.

[vesp]

Starcom! yes!

and yeah, manta force were the little purple/white/red guys etc. There's some on Ebay (apparently it's a "vintage" toy now)

starcom.. brilliant

[losCHUNK]

i knows you all had one of these

I remember having those at nursery, there were only two so there was quite a bit of fierce competition to get one when playtime started. There were quite a few instances where people were thrown out of their cars by other kids in bizarre hijackings in the yard. Pity we didn’t have Grand Theft Auto to blame it all on back then.

that my friend was a cozy coupe, the most bad ass car a todler can get

and mine died from being left next to a gas fire

someone please get me a pic of those wolfrace bikes (or whatever they are, you know em, the xr3i of pushbikes with the cool sound box)

that is the best bike i ever had, its still alive today in the possesion of my cousin

[plained]

wow yea that car is a real example of what lego has become.


great toys in this thred

when i was a kid i had this stuff to constuct model buildings, it had like white plastic structure stuff that was 1"1/2 and a bunch of cosmetic facades for the exteriors, hehe i combined it tastfully with my legos

[Qr7]

i knows you all had one of these

Oh hell yeah

I broke my leg in one of these things... fucking toys


oh and i still have my fast traxx batteries pretty much shot though.