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[Highpower]

(08-30-2017, 10:18 PM)f350ca Wrote: REALLY hate to admit it but I was pre Lego,

(Silently waiting for comments from Mayhem...)

Yep, Erector sets, Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, Chemistry sets, playing cards in the spokes of your bicycle (until you got upgraded to a Mattel "V-RRoom"), the "Visible V-8", Revell model kits of all kinds, Cox .049 line control airplanes ..... <sigh>

Most of all I remember the Lionel Train set that was huge! I don't remember the gauge but I remember the engine & cars were long and heavy. The controller unit was basically a quad variac that must have weighed 20 lbs. Wow - what that set would be worth today if I still had it.

And yes, back when I was a kid Japanese cars were considered junk. In my teens I was strictly a "Chevy man". Swore I would never be caught dead in an "import". As an adult I ended up working for two different Japanese car companies that were outselling American cars like crazy at the time. Go figure.

[Pete O]

I have a colleague the same age as me who has never given this stuff up- he collects, buys & sells vintage and collectible toys of all kinds. He's always bringing stuff like old train sets into work and tinkering with them, if I'm rostered with him I tend to be the one that ends up fixing his stuff. Sadly, he doesn't think my meccano set is worth much.

[Mayhem]

I've seen them before Randy but then again I've used slit lamps before

[Highpower]

I hate those things. At least being stuck on the business end of them anyway.

[schor]

(08-30-2017, 10:18 PM)f350ca Wrote: REALLY hate to admit it but I was pre Lego, my kids had boxes of it though. I did have a building set that used bricks but they were polyethylene hollow things, don't recall the name. Another set that had I-beams and columns and panels that snapped onto them to make buildings, again can't recall the name. And of coarse  Mechano sets (that English equivalent). Im sure all the gears and pulleys led to my demise of becoming an engineer. Can't imagine the hours I spent building things with that Mechano set.

Pre lego? How old are you? Lego came out in the 30's.

I still play with lego, making ev3 robots and gbc's.

[EdK]

I think Erector sets are still made. It's called Viagra.

Ed

[wawoodman]

   

[Mayhem]

(08-31-2017, 11:52 AM)Highpower Wrote: I hate those things. At least being stuck on the business end of them anyway.

Toughen up princess

[f350ca]

(08-31-2017, 12:51 PM)schor Wrote:

(08-30-2017, 10:18 PM)f350ca Wrote: REALLY hate to admit it but I was pre Lego, my kids had boxes of it though. I did have a building set that used bricks but they were polyethylene hollow things, don't recall the name. Another set that had I-beams and columns and panels that snapped onto them to make buildings, again can't recall the name. And of coarse  Mechano sets (that English equivalent). Im sure all the gears and pulleys led to my demise of becoming an engineer. Can't imagine the hours I spent building things with that Mechano set.

Pre lego? How old are you? Lego came out in the 30's.

I still play with lego, making ev3 robots and gbc's.

Really, never saw it when I was a youngen. Thought it was much newer.

[randyc]

Wikipedia (I think) calls 1947 the Lego rollout.