bluekarin Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Anyone see the 'new' old Lego ad on telly today? I was watching it thinking "this is a bit familiar" only to just read it is the original Lego ad from 1983 Brilliant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Oooh - that takes me back! We always had Lego Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 So did we. Murder if you stand on a piece in your bare feet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmommasally Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 So did we. Murder if you stand on a piece in your bare feet. Likewise with Stickle Bricks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Oh I did love my Lego - so did my dad - he made some fantastic houses out of the bits. I used to wake up to little villages and sometimes a lighthouse - they did curved shapes in days of yore! Plus lots of different roof tiles - mostly blue. I had multi coloured buildings with yellow, white, red and black bricks. And then it was my brother's turn when he was old enough. Unfortunately he used to build them up and pretend to bomb them so bricks were scattered all over the place. Like Egluntyne says - ouch! By the time my two came along - wow! The things they could get - and little people too. I remember the Tommy Cooper one - that link was a nice reminder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 It was always popular I spent a lot of time making things. We had to be very careful walking around No1 sons creations they always seemed to crumble He also got a piece stuck up his nose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Palmer Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 So did we. Murder if you stand on a piece in your bare feet. We have a house swimming in Lego and YS has asked for more for Christmas. It gets out into the garden as well and he was running across the grass one day and landed on a Lego brick and got a really nasty cut on the bottom of his foot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 When we had the Duplo bricks for my 2 at first, dad always liked to build towers for our son. Unfortunately our DD had started to toddle and had a habit of wandering over to the towers and knock them down, laugh and toddle off again - which infuriated DS - even at that tender age! One day when visiting my folks dad did the usual towers and DS ran to the hallway and came back in such a panic "Erin's coming Erin's coming!" A bit like Corporal Jones in Dad's Army. Then in came her ladyship - evil look in her eye - something like the Staypuft man in Ghostbusters and tried to knock them down again. I can honestly say that Duplo and Lego managed to cause a lot of arguments when my 2 were little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 I had Betta Builda instead of Lego when I was little, mum bought a big bag of it from the market. The bricks were either white or clear and not thick like Lego. The doors and windows were all red and didn't open as the scale of them was smaller than the Lego ones. I loved it though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Goodness that takes me back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Did anyone see the lego house on the James May programme last night? Brilliant esp the interior designer - so funny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Good programme, I loved the wine glasses Yes the designer made it, so droll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henriette Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 I have just bought my little grandson some of the big lego for Christmas! Apparently he really enjoys playing with it at his creche. (I did enjoy hearing Tommy Cooper again - loved that man. So very, very funny.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 That did take me back. I remember the ad and I loved Tommy Cooper but didn't play with Lego. I did have a Meccano crane though When my daughter was little we used to visit Windsor Safari Park in the winter when you could have the whole place to yourself. That's all gone now .......... turned into Legoland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 The coolio-est!!! Is it me, or can you not get basic sets anymore? I remember a green board, some chunky windows, fat trees and fat headed people heads with "Ooops, word censored!"bly nipply ears rather than these new-fangled mini-figs or mini-figures that they do now. Can you still get sets like that? The ones where you used your imagination to build stuff on your green base rather than being told by the packet that it's a police station/rocket/pirate island? I love the idea of pick and mix lego (there's a Lego shop in Bluewater) but I do miss my old school fatter lego. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&T Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 That did take me back. I remember the ad and I loved Tommy Cooper but didn't play with Lego. I did have a Meccano crane though When my daughter was little we used to visit Windsor Safari Park in the winter when you could have the whole place to yourself. That's all gone now .......... turned into Legoland. Windsor Safari park was great! We went there for a cousins birthday, and my dad got stuck in the mud. He had to be towed out by a Zebra car. Best birthday EVER! (And no, my dad has never lived it down...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henriette Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 We can get them over here, so I would think somewhere supplies them in the UK. The ones I have just bought for my grandson are a slection of the large pieces in a plastic toy box with one little ready built person. I bought a green base as an extra. Can't wait to play with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggquisite Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 My OH's mum has just passed down to him all of his Lego from when he was a child...it's currently sitting in a giant box in the garage! I have a feeling I may lose him for a couple of days over Christmas So did we. Murder if you stand on a piece in your bare feet. Not unlike standing on a up turned plug! Ouch!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
