Regression? Yes, please.

[ganimede]

When James May did his recent pimp my Lego show where he used it to make a lifesized house, I've had the urge to get mine out of the attic. It's been up there for far too long. I relegated it there when I no longer had space for it in my bedroom and also when I thought I was too old for playing with such things. However, I have come to realise

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[hobbitblue]

yay lego - James May has a lot to answer for, really must finish my meccano car... Wow, that's a lot of lego, don't think I ever had that much and yay TARDIS, very nifty (and cool photos too, hee! :) )

[ganimede]

It's the result of a couple of years worth of presents! I remember getting a couple of the medium sized boxes which makes a difference. You need a fair amount really to be able to make decent stuff.

[hobbitblue]

I had enough to fill a 4 litre ice-cream tub and then some more in a bucket, I *think*, mainly remember the tub cos I learnt to say "Blast!" as a wee 'un when my dad tripped over same, sending lego and nearly himself flying and commented accordingly! I never seemed to have enough to make anything fancy, but then I mainly made houses and stuff, not much imagaination where blocks were concerned, sadly..

[ganimede]

Nothing wrong with making houses and stuff! I did that as well, although I tended to make enough for a smallish town complete with post office and a cafe and then just play with that for a while till my mother got fed up of me taking over the dining room floor with it. One of the books I have has instructions for a typewriter which I made once so that was a nice change. I'm currently eyeing up the instructions for an old 1920s style car but I don't have some of the necessary pieces :(

[hobbitblue]

Heh, thinking back, they were sort of boxy and I always underestimated how much lego I'd need, compared to how much I had, so they were sort of half-completed, though they did have gardens, those flat green pieces.. an entire town is fab, the car sounds good too, I wonder if you can buy specific pieces from lego rather than having to get whole sets which may or may not have the correctly shaped bricks included?

[ganimede]

You can buy individual pieces from Lego, they vary in price but they're usually between 10-30p. And then there's £4 for postage added on top :-/