Atlantis - Lego?!

[Malamute]

It looks like Lego has now jumperd onto the Atlanits band wagon:

http://atlantis.lego.com/en-US/default.aspx


 How dare they copy us without asking first...

[Westfalia Chris]

Bah!  Kids have it far too easy these days when it comes to Lego, what with all those new-fangled special parts, curved (sometimes in more than one direction!  ) bricks, transparent canopies!

Back in my day, we had to approximate all curves either by slopes or steps, and I'll be damned if we weren't much more creative back then!

 

[Hammers]

Bah!  Kids have it far too easy these days when it comes to Lego, what with all those new-fangled special parts, curved (sometimes in more than one direction!  ) bricks, transparent canopies!

Back in my day, we had to approximate all curves either by slopes or steps, and I'll be damned if we weren't much more creative back then!

 

Aye, brother. 'Tis a sure sign of the decadence of our times.

[JollyBob]

My mum got me some Indiana Jones Lego for Christmas.... 

[myincubliss]

Bah!  Kids have it far too easy these days when it comes to Lego, what with all those new-fangled special parts, curved (sometimes in more than one direction!  ) bricks, transparent canopies!

Back in my day, we had to approximate all curves either by slopes or steps, and I'll be damned if we weren't much more creative back then!

 

I had this conversation with a five year old at work just before christmas, who took me literally when I said all we had were red 2x4 bricks, and we were happy with that...

[Lupus]

My mum got me some Indiana Jones Lego for Christmas.... 

My boys have a few of the sets and lots of Star Wars Lego..Its great i can play with Lego now without my wife moaning that i'm a kid

[Trencher]

Sure, those "new" sets look nice, and could serve as interesting templates for scratchbuilds.
Trencher jr. is keen on special bricks, but I showed him also how things were built back in my days.
Ah, building a gunboat, an SR-71 or a Catalina without any special bricks and getting the shape right was far more rewarding...

[Remgain]

I remember very well the excitement when the first wheels were released. About 45 years ago...
As well as a kind of "rotating plate", round, approximatively 4x4, white.
Do you remember it?

Marco

[Dr. The Viking]

Mind you it is still perfectly possible to buy the standard unfancy oldstyle LEGO(TM) bricks.

Cheers,

Thorbjørn in the land of LEGO.

[Malamute]

I remember very well the excitement when the first wheels were released. About 45 years ago...
As well as a kind of "rotating plate", round, approximatively 4x4, white.
Do you remember it?

Marco

Yep I remember those revolving plate things and the little rubber tyres on the wheels

[former user]

Back in my day, we had to approximate all curves either by slopes or steps, and I'll be damned if we weren't much more creative back then!

Luxury!
I had to sculpt my lego dollies of cardboard, but only if there was some left over from dinner, because we had to reuse the Pizza cartons as plates 

(sorry, don't know how to write Yorkshire accent  )

[rob_alderman]

I only had my dad's lego anyway, really.

I had a few bits and bobs from the carboot. I remember making a really good garage (petrol station) and my mum knocked it over and broke it.

Gutted.

[Doc Twilight]

At least your dad HAD a lego.

When a male of my family came of age, he had to hump his way to the cemetary, both ways uphill, and dig up an ancestor who might have owned lego. If he was lucky, he might find one or two blocks, usually those single bits. If he was unlucky, like me, he'd have to end up carving his legos from his grandfather's shinbones.

And that's the way it was. Transparent canopies indeed. We were lucky to get a discarded contact lense!

[fastolfrus]

Luxury!
I had to sculpt my lego dollies of cardboard, but only if there was some left over from dinner, because we had to reuse the Pizza cartons as plates 

(sorry, don't know how to write Yorkshire accent  )

No need to aplogise - you can't get a Yorkshire pizza yet :~}

[Red Orc]

It looks like Lego has now jumperd onto the Atlanits band wagon:

http://atlantis.lego.com/en-US/default.aspx


 How dare they copy us without asking first...

Well they'll have to wait in line for their maps like everyone else.

I think we can look on the Atlantis campaign as very cool if Lego want to do their version, don't you chaps? Or at least, timely!