Not Like Grandma's Lego Set

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 11/02/2020 at 14:36 • Filed to: None

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My grandmother, had a Lego set under the sofa, which she called a Davenport . Not a single piece of this kit would have been found in Grandma’s kit. My earliest recollection of that basic set would have been around 1969.

PS: This was a great activity during the Zoom meeting...

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/02/2020 at 14:40

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Legos have come a long way. She might have had that blue flat 2. But most of it was red and white . That set was well used, at least once a year.

jminer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/02/2020 at 14:49

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While I was at best buy last night for something completely unrelated I bought a Lego set. I look forward to building it at some point this week.

Lego has changed even a bunch from when I started building 30 years ago.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/02/2020 at 14:59

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Brick therapy.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/02/2020 at 15:11

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There may not have been any flats at all. And six square plastic buckets inside the box.

GLiddy > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/02/2020 at 15:14

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I remember our old Lego set had some blocks with sockets for the axles of the wheels. Seems we got two large diameter tractor-like wheels with gray removable tires, and maybe 2 or 4 smaller wheels. My younger brother removed the tires and chewed them...I guess its lucky he didn’t choke on the things. Certainly building vehicles from the old sets was a challenge.

facw > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/02/2020 at 15:16

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I was pleased when I bought and built the 911 for Oppohunt that there was at least a big 2x4 chunk block and a few other simple components in there. Granted, the sets I had as a kid weren’t composed of only the most basic elements, but there’s still a sort of rustic charm to those.

facw > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/02/2020 at 15:19

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Also talking about video L ego building, this would have worked out much better over Z oom, because then May wouldn’t have stolen one of Ha mmond’s pieces partway through, leading to frustrated defeat much later:

Also they probably should have gone with a simpler model...

facw > GLiddy 11/02/2020 at 15:48

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Personally I liked to chew on the Construx tires as kid:

Soft yet very durable rubber, and the clear ones (with glow-in-the-dark hubs) we even more appealing.

Wacko > facw 11/02/2020 at 16:15

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i remember those

facw > Wacko 11/02/2020 at 16:17

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My parents still had them in a tub in their garage until this summer, when they downsized, and alas, these didn’t make the cut.

shop-teacher > GLiddy 11/02/2020 at 19:12

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I actually bought some of those recently. I'll take a pic when I get home.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/02/2020 at 19:14

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Hmmmm, in class Lego building ... I could get down with that.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 11/02/2020 at 21:45

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  No, that was me doing that during online professional development.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/02/2020 at 22:18

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Gotcha. That I have done before. 

Jim Spanfeller > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/03/2020 at 01:05

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Upgraded:

shop-teacher > GLiddy 11/03/2020 at 08:59

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There is a Lego store called Bricks and Minifigs near me. They are a chain, so check your local listings if you have one near you. They have a bulk table where you fill up a bag of whatever you want. That’s where I found these.