Posted November 5, 20222 yr Hi, i'm Marco from Hamburg, Germany. Nice to be here in this creative and awesome community. In the 1990 i built a lot using lego. After a huge pause of just about 20 years, one single set, showing the capability of bricks, brought me back to the cult: Green Geckos "Fast RC Motorcycle" amazed me that much, it literally forced me to start brick building again. I had no idea how much Lego and especially Technic has changed during the past decades. As you can imagine if you quit with lego in the late 90s using Technic bricks. And reintroduce yourself to Liftarms and all this tiny solutions to connect axles and pins we have nowadays, it feels like a culture shock. I know i sound like ya grandpa, using his first smartphone. But that is how it feels at least to me. ;) I wish us all the best. stay healthy and safe. Marco Oh by the way: Me started a thread in the Technic area. Where you can find the newest creation of mine (a camera dolly based on 8880). You can get the instruction and Studio file for free on bricklink. Cheers.
November 6, 20222 yr 17 hours ago, pow said: In the 1990 i built a lot using lego. After a huge pause of just about 20 years, Same story here! Now i am addicted again Welcome to the forum!
November 6, 20222 yr Author 8 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said: Same story here! Now i am addicted again Hi @Yperio_Bricks I felt a little bit strange while writing the lines above. Good to know that i'm not alone with a huge pause. And i asked myself, what could be the reasons to pause on building. But if you take a look into the Technic sets produced between 1998 and 2004 you get the feeling that the developereds at lego get plagued by a) the technical transition (from brick to liftarm) and b) some kind of boringness. Wasn't that the time when lego nearly went bankrupt? Best wishes and thanks for the friendly welcome.
November 7, 20222 yr 13 hours ago, pow said: I felt a little bit strange while writing the lines above. Good to know that i'm not alone with a huge pause. I was born 1983 and played with Lego until i was 15 or 16. I played longer with Lego than my friends, but then had a huge pause until i bought my first sets in winter 2018/2019. So that's a 20 years pause too! And my dark ages were really dark. Never i would think about Lego or knew what sets they designed. For example i never knew about the modular buildings until 2019
November 8, 20222 yr Author As i'm celebrating my 27th birthday repeatedly since a few years. In that calculation i stopped building with lego at the age of five. that was somehow in 7th class maybe? ;) Just kidding i'm slightly younger than you and my last Technic set is the 8244 (Convertible car/helicopter from 1996). I don't know why i bought that set. Maybe that multi functioning thing triggered me. My nephew started playing with lego in 2005. He had some City Sets and of course a lot of Star Wars. I was impressed how detailed lego had become. Then he started coding and lost interest on the brick. My niece played with Lego Friends. She abandoned it a few years ago. Maybe her school mates bullied her. kids can be monsters. What's so cool about lego is, that every person uses it different. If you search rebrickable for "Porsche 911" you get hundreds of Mocs. And every set looks unique. It's amazing. Kids use it in so many ways. They play coop or for themselves. I can understand that people like to mind dive using lego - even at older ages. Lego is super versatile. BTW: As a kid i dreamed of proper lego buildings. Now i'm overwhelmed how huge these things had become.
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