proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
I've had one set up and running in the loft above the garage since we moved into the house 12 years ago. They're a fantastic adults toy. Which one have you got or are you making your own track?
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Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
It's a Mini set - second hand, about 6 years old but is still sealed. Already bought an extra car, a Mercedes AMG GT3 and have pre-ordered a new Porsche 911 from Scalextric themselves.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Good stuff. I've built mine up over the years into a four track layout with a rally style to it. All bits of track, cars and sundries bought second hand from the legion of car shows I have to attend.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Eldest got himself one other week. He's 40 going on 12½.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
Dreadful weather where I am today, probably the worst day of the winter...
Pressure washer rain, with a strong gusty gale and rarely much above 3C. It made it to 4C for about an hour. Snow in the surrounding hills.
A day in the Shed with the fire blazing. Only brief forays back to the house.
I knocked the house heating times right back a few weeks ago, but I've had to relent and extend it back, for this evening, at least.
The back of the current weather event looks likely to pass here in about an hour. I will not regret its passing.
Without the new drain in the road eighteen months ago I would be having significant flooding today, so it could be worse...
Pressure washer rain, with a strong gusty gale and rarely much above 3C. It made it to 4C for about an hour. Snow in the surrounding hills.
A day in the Shed with the fire blazing. Only brief forays back to the house.
I knocked the house heating times right back a few weeks ago, but I've had to relent and extend it back, for this evening, at least.
The back of the current weather event looks likely to pass here in about an hour. I will not regret its passing.
Without the new drain in the road eighteen months ago I would be having significant flooding today, so it could be worse...
Cue
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Come on, you can’t tell us that and not show us
Personally I wanna have a Lego train set type thing going one day, I’m most definitely an AFOL, and proper big trainset setups do intrigue me so why not combine the two…
Noah
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Stepson got me into Lego a bit, not a fanatic like he is though. He has a lot of Lego train stuff & I used to play around with O16.5 narrow gauge stuff. Always reckoned we could combine it in a layout with Lego as standard gauge and the O16.5 as a narrow guage branch line with a mix of minifigs & O gauge people etc.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
Wandering into town tonight to do a small job, I came across an unoccupied building with the alarm activated. A quick check around the site led me to decide that it was very probably a false alarm, possibly being set off by today's violent weather.
Not having a phone on me anyway, I decided not to alert the cops about it, on the basis that they probably had better (real) things to do and, as it was their own alarm that was going off, they would probably find it when they popped in for a cup of tea at some point during the evening.
Thinking about it afterwards, the tools that I had in my pocket at the time would have looked potentially along the lines of 'going equipped', as the saying goes...
Not having a phone on me anyway, I decided not to alert the cops about it, on the basis that they probably had better (real) things to do and, as it was their own alarm that was going off, they would probably find it when they popped in for a cup of tea at some point during the evening.
Thinking about it afterwards, the tools that I had in my pocket at the time would have looked potentially along the lines of 'going equipped', as the saying goes...
Trumpet
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but was looking at the Lego in Lewis's in Liverpool the other week and it seems to have morphed into 3D jigsaws. I remember having an assortment of various sized bricks etc and making it up as you go along. I too had vast amounts which eventually got passed on to a nephew.
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Lego sell kits, lots of kits. But you can also buy bricks, lots of bricks and design and build everything yourself. It’s your choice.
Cue
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A lot of the adult stuff is more about making a certain model rather than being a play set
Personally I prefer that, I have 0 creativity for creating anything from a bunch of bricks
Mudgie
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Thehooperman
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Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
'Reasonably priced' isn't something you associate with Lego. Brand new, sealed retired* kits can sell for 2, 3 or even 4 times the retail price. I've been looking for the retired* Ferrari F40 kit which retailed at about £85-90. It's now selling for £250-£350 if it's an unopened kit.
*Lego-speak for discontinued.
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Well it’s arrived. It’s an old set (about 5 years old I think) but it’s still got the factory seals on.
Lucy
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Has anyone heard from @staffordjas ?!
littleme
250,000th poster!
I thought that today, nothing since she said son was taking her to drs/hospital.....
@staffordjas ........ Are you ok
@staffordjas ........ Are you ok
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