OI! Leave that turkey alone, there\'s something far more important going on this weekend...namely my 10 000 post party :D. Yep, purely in the interests of science, furthering the wonderful fraternity of the rotary community, and most importantly, crushing Brett\'s futile efforts to reach 10k first underfoot lol, one has reached the landmark of 10 000 marvelous, informative and witty posts on this fine august forum :o *ahem*
The perfect antidote to the Queens speech, cold sprouts, bland turkey, random long lost aunties, lovely knitwear and foul catpee aftershave presents and pretending to actually like and tolerate your family, and all the other torture you\'re forced into at Christmas, come join the 10k post party, debauchery and filth obligatory. No-one leaves until they\'re either blind or lost the use of their legs through booze :D.....so quite a lot like Christmas dinner now I actually think about it :(
Party on dudes :rollin Be excellent to each other :Ladys-man
Well done :D
Tis the Party Season !
Shaun
I obviously dont need a pass to present my friends.....but a 10k party is something to celebrate.
So......here are my white bikini clad mates, who just happen to be perfectly formed.
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lol congrats nik!
nice quotes form "brainiac science abuse" and "bill & ted" lol
Congratz Nik, we should comPile a "best of" from your posts :D
Niks too busy listening to these girls!
Steady on Danny boy - family forum an all :Thumbs-up
Well done on 10k fella :Santa
next mark is 20k... try and get that before christmas 2011!
So who\'s buying the drinks??? :Party Wodka and lots of it please....Nik da..I\'ve left a bottle of gin on the table for u...good work dude!! :D :Thumbs-up
And I thought I was the man when I hit 1k, good work!
Bit wobbly now! Had to fight my way out of a mound of wrapping paper and three-year old\'s toys back here for a dose of sanity! :rollin
actually, some of those toys for three year olds are great fun nowadays :o
Wait till he\'s on Technic Lego Nik, then let the good times roll!
Lol, actually I still have a load of Lego Technic from when I was younger stored for when the li\'l un\'s old enough fo rme to justify playing with it again...errrrm, I mean helping him with it :o.
Mind you, have you seen the fduking prices of some of it nowadays :eek:? Jeeeeessssuuuss! And there\'s me needing to save an extra 27 grand for tuition fees for him, too :mad:!
Tell me about it, all the three boys are on it now, our eldest got a crane it cost something like £80. I purely speculate as I was crying into my battered bank account when the wife came back from christmas shopping and couldn\'t hear her due to my own sobbing. And to top it all off my youngest is a girl and has just got into Sylvanian Families, now that .... seems too be more valuable than gold, £15 for a picnic hamper gimme a break!
Happy Christmas btw lol.
Congrats on your 10k post dude. They\'ve all been brilliant in far to many ways for me to list :D:D
I\'ve got a couple of days off now so i\'ll have to have a drink in your honor :Party
Adam
P.S. As for you having some Technic lego.... whats sets would you have by chance? :D
Lol can\'t remember now, my youth was a long time ago now :(. I remember having a big car chassis set that had a working engine and everything on it (not working as in you filledit up with petrol, working as in you could see the bits whizzing about inside). That was mega expensive and had an insturction book like a phone directory, now sadly missing. I had a few smaller sets but cant remember what, all the instructions are long gone and its all jumbled up it a massive box. It all belongs to Mr C now but he loves people to help him with it, I\'m sure he\'d be more than happy if you want to come round and play with it :rollin
Quote from: Nik da Greek;734339Lol can\'t remember now, my youth was a long time ago now :(. I remember having a big car chassis set that had a working engine and everything on it (not working as in you filledit up with petrol, working as in you could see the bits whizzing about inside). That was mega expensive and had an insturction book like a phone directory, now sadly missing. I had a few smaller sets but cant remember what, all the instructions are long gone and its all jumbled up it a massive box. It all belongs to Mr C now but he loves people to help him with it, I\'m sure he\'d be more than happy if you want to come round and play with it :rollin
EPIC :)
I had (have) that set too ... Best. LEGO. Ever.
Having engineers as parents, Lego (& Mecano) was a popular toy in our household - no arguments from me there.
My boy is just starting with Technic stuff now... he loves it :) Time to call my parents, and get them to find all my old Lego sets!
BTW, for all of you with Lego (of all kinds), that is missing instructions, or just in need of a nostalgia blast, go and check out: www.peeron.com (http://www.peeron.com) pictures of sets, inventories of bricks, and most importantly scans of many of the instructions booklets!
Nik, you will be requiring this page:
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http://peeron.com/inv/sets/8860-1
and
http://peeron.com/scans/8860-1/
DrDan.
I had that set twice when i was a kid. Loved it and have been tempted into buying it again but to get a 100% complete one off ebay can cost up to £60-70 now a days
Adam
Probably cheaper than it was to buy it new, IIRC they were like 30-40 quid back in sorta 1982 or whatever, so that must be the equivalent of at least 60 quid today! Dan, those links don\'t seem to work, just freeze up. Maybe I\'ll try again later whent he internet\'s less popular :Giggle
Glad I\'m not the only one with a dark Lego past hahaha. Meccano was the ...., too, I\'ve got a big boxful of that for Mr C to inherit once he\'s a bit older as well :yes
Quote from: Nik da Greek;734430Probably cheaper than it was to buy it new, IIRC they were like 30-40 quid back in sorta 1982 or whatever, so that must be the equivalent of at least 60 quid today! Dan, those links don\'t seem to work, just freeze up. Maybe I\'ll try again later whent he internet\'s less popular :Giggle
Glad I\'m not the only one with a dark Lego past hahaha. Meccano was the ...., too, I\'ve got a big boxful of that for Mr C to inherit once he\'s a bit older as well :yes
Yep - the links are slow... just have a little patience, the server is probably being hammered to death by the MRC-Secret-Lego-Lovers-Society :)
Likewise Meccano is "in reserve" - small fiddly bits, although my boy has coped extremely well with the Technic 8048 Buggy, which has quite a few intricate pieces. It even has a "working" version of one of those odd "piston engines"... they\'ll never catch on - imagine turning lateral motion into rotational motion, surely that can\'t be mechanically efficient ;)
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DrDan.
Yeah, speaking of inefficient, you know I never twigged when I was little but that Car Chassis set is cleary based on Dr Ferdinand\'s best Beetle, what with that boxer engine hanging outside the wheelbase like that :rollin Ridiculous, it\'ll never catch on :Nono!
I shall persist with the links though I\'m not sure if enough of the components survive to build the entire thing again. Hmmmm, be fun trying though ;)
I won my first Lego Technic kit in a drawing competition- it was the 6wd snow truck thing with quad steer and complete with lanky Technic legomen skiers. Then I think I had the big red car with pop up headlights and moving engine bits, followed by smaller ones I can\'t recall and my last couple were the JCB with working pneumatics and black log truck with on board compressor. Kept my dad busy for yonks!
Thats all been handed down to my eldest now but that crane he got is awesome.
Lego technic was THE best toy ever!
I remember always wanting the pneumatic sets, but could never afford them! I had a technics digger and helicopter that were my favourites :) Engines, where you could see the pistons moving seemed like pure magic!
I must have been a very geeky child as I remember spending what felt like years (read a couple of days) trying to work out how to build a gearbox. I did manage a 3 speed working box, which I connected upto the movIng pistons. I was so proud of my self, haha.
Lego ????
Am I showing my age if I mention Meccano ??? :Laugh All those little nuts and bolts.............probably where my interest in \'fixing stuff\' began !!
Well done on so many posts Nik, I\'ve only read a fraction of them being a newbie.:god
I\'ve just sold a technic set on ebay as it wasn\'t in very good condition and incomplete. It was set 853.
It was the first technic chassis set (the one before the big black bettle type one... 8860 which i\'d love so much to have again)
I still have set 8448 which i think was the last great car they did.
Speaking of toys we had as kids, i\'m seriously considering getting myself a Tamiya rc car, just to have something to build up and play around with. Not to bothered about racing it about, just like the building bit :D I used to have a Monster Bettle (sorry Nik.. another bettle :p), Terra Scorcher, Impreza (hangs head in shame) and the huge Clod Buster. I always dreamed of having the top of the line buggy called the Avante and as luck would have it Tamiya are going to re release it again just how it was (with a couple of small improvements) this coming february. Me thinks i might just have to get one :D
Adam
Y\'see, I\'m with Al, though not quite so old lol! I had Meccano and that was where my love of engineering came from. When I was little Lego was the old skool big brick stuff, I was sorta too old to get much benefit from the Technic stuff cos it only just started really taking off as I was getting too old to play with it (or to admit playing with it to my peers lol). The new Meccano is great, you get allen-headed bolts as well as the scredriver and old square spanner jobbies which makes it a bit easier for little clumsy fingers. Mr C has a new tiny Meccano helicopter we bought him :). Never had a remote control car, though always wanted one. I used to like making military model kits especially tanks, and cars and bikes too. I just like the little details. Still do on life-size toys like RX-7s too :o