Comments on: Happy Birthday LEGO! http://www.johntopley.com/2008/01/28/happy-birthday-lego/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:37:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Ian Nelson http://www.johntopley.com/2008/01/28/happy-birthday-lego/#comment-18696 Ian Nelson Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:21:17 +0000 http://www.johntopley.com/2008/01/28/happy-birthday-lego/#comment-18696 Oh, I love<strike>d</strike> the 8860 Car Chassis! Christmas could not come soon enough that year. I still have it up in the loft, just waiting for the day that Benjamin is old enough to appreciate it... Oh, I loved the 8860 Car Chassis! Christmas could not come soon enough that year. I still have it up in the loft, just waiting for the day that Benjamin is old enough to appreciate it…

]]> By: John Topley http://www.johntopley.com/2008/01/28/happy-birthday-lego/#comment-18697 John Topley Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:24:37 +0000 http://www.johntopley.com/2008/01/28/happy-birthday-lego/#comment-18697 You've still got it? No way! You must let Benjamin build it on his own though without too much help from his father! ;-) You’ve still got it? No way! You must let Benjamin build it on his own though without too much help from his father! ;-)

]]> By: John Conners http://www.johntopley.com/2008/01/28/happy-birthday-lego/#comment-18725 John Conners Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:50:20 +0000 http://www.johntopley.com/2008/01/28/happy-birthday-lego/#comment-18725 I too had that exact car chassis! I can see a pattern emerging... I also had a helicopter if I remember correctly and the gearing was really cool! Such a shame that too many kids play computer games instead of learning to build things - the sense of achievement I got building a car was matched only by the amount I learned about mechanics while doing it. Pressing a bunch of buttons to drive a car around a track or move a virtual character around a virtual world hardly comes close! I too had that exact car chassis! I can see a pattern emerging…

I also had a helicopter if I remember correctly and the gearing was really cool!

Such a shame that too many kids play computer games instead of learning to build things - the sense of achievement I got building a car was matched only by the amount I learned about mechanics while doing it. Pressing a bunch of buttons to drive a car around a track or move a virtual character around a virtual world hardly comes close!

]]> By: David Billings http://www.johntopley.com/2008/01/28/happy-birthday-lego/#comment-35558 David Billings Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:44:23 +0000 http://www.johntopley.com/2008/01/28/happy-birthday-lego/#comment-35558 I worked my butt off all summer when I was 13 to save to buy the 8860, my first and only Technics. I gave it away to a friend before I moved overseas, and I wish I hadn't because now I have kids. Lego really needs to put that one back in production, it was fantastic. I don't give a hoot about their $499 Millennium Falcon that has almost no moving parts, and the latest Mindstorms don't have a whole lot of parts that aren't computer things. I worked my butt off all summer when I was 13 to save to buy the 8860, my first and only Technics. I gave it away to a friend before I moved overseas, and I wish I hadn’t because now I have kids. Lego really needs to put that one back in production, it was fantastic. I don’t give a hoot about their $499 Millennium Falcon that has almost no moving parts, and the latest Mindstorms don’t have a whole lot of parts that aren’t computer things.

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