Mechanical faff. 
You would have thought that after having had toys like that you would have done something practical as a career 
Thats a shame. They have a little Plumber
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Meccano and Bayko were the way to go.
Needs bucket and am dram hobby on the side.
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I had Lego as a kid, but we were a bit skint so even then it felt quite pricey. Iâm the oldest of four. My sister was never really into it but as I was growing out of Lego my brothers (10 and 12 years younger than me) were growing into it. My mum kept it all and it was still being used to entertain my niece when she was young.
Meccano was a step up. The range of things you could build was smaller, but some of them were viable as useful real-world devices. I think my brother once built himself some sort of guitar pedal using it and I was surprised to find that many of the parts were Stores items when I first joined the lab I worked at.
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Meccano is where its at when it comes to construction toys. I had loads of the stuff as a kid (still have it now).
Adult Lego is a relaxing thing to do on a wet January sunday afternoon, but thatâs it really.
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Doesnât look that difficult. Itâs only got 6 parts
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Yeah I hear you the days of blocky multicoloured cars and moon-bases are long gone (well in reality anyway, if you want to make garish blocky creations then itâs minecraft these days).
For me the fall began when they introduced âtechnicsâ lego, you could build the 2 or 3 different things in the instructions but most of it was too specific for true creativity.
The final shot ot the head was the tie in / licensed kits, these HAD to include specific parts in order to be faithful to the subject matter. Canât have Yoda looking like Kermit the frog now can we?
This is probably the reason I no longer really enjoy Lego.
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Now the kids are older itâs mostly the one off sets they like to build and put on display.
When they were younger the basic stuff, like the city sets, got built and quickly dismantled and rearranged. Wr also had boxes of bits anyway that were mine, and then my cousins before me.
Oh and my son does the first lego league at stem club after school. They use Technics/mind storms to build robots and complete challenges at competitions. Great stuff.
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Sadly my wasteful halfwit brother binned-off our joint accumulation as he wonât have anything secondhand in the house, so my nephews were denied the random stuff. Irks me to this day, especially as what little family there is didnât have the cash to be forever buying them bucketloads of new stuffâŚ
Funny how things develop, Iâm now into the renovation of old toys particularly Mamod and some Dinky cars, rainy day occupational therapy. I suppose re-living a lot of my childhood in many repects, funny old thing nostalgia.
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Itâs not what it used to be
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I resisted that one
You deserve a smacked arse for that. Howâs that for nostalgia 
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My childhood Lego consisted of a half full shoebox of assorted 8x2, 4x2 and 2x1 blocks with two small flat bases. Consequently I thought Lego to be a bit shit.
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me too and it was great, I made all manner of space ships and bat shit crazy stuff.
no imagination?
Must be, after all basic Lego blocks fire the imagination so well thereâs simply no need for single purpose custom kits.
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