DeBriquesEtDeBlocs Posted March 28, 2009 Posted March 28, 2009 (edited) Heya ! So here's my story : I was born in 1983 in France. In 1989 me and my parents went to live in New Caledonia (French Pacific island) and during our stopover at Honolulu, I got my first lego set (as far as I can remember) the Moon Rover 6874. I really loved legos as a kid. I remember one morning of Christmas, I entered the living room and my dad said "Hello, have you slept well ?" and suddenly I ran to see what was my present, the invader 6894. In my memories I was pretty good at lego, I liked my own creations, especially when I looked at the asymmetrical and color-mixed models that other kids were building... Anyway... in 1999 I came back to France. But a little while before, I gave away half of my "old lego", sorted, and stored parts of the most recent models and forwarded them to me by boat and kept them boxed until this week (march 2009) ! About 3 years ago I thought that it would be cool for people to sell instructions for sets they created themselves (I wanted to make such a website as my occupation is webdesigner) - at that time I didn't know that I wasn't the only one "not just playing with lego" but that there was a huge community making awesome stuff. Then I discovered brickshelf.com, and rediscovered it last week along with other cool sites, including lego.com and that was how I found out that lego bricks had changed a lot ! I saw bionicles in store but now there seems to be many many cool new parts. And I also rediscovered LDD and found out about lego factory's gallery - this is what motivated me (nearly forced me in the middle of the night) to get my lego box from the attic and rebuild everything. It took me 2 days and here are the sets I still own from all the ones I owned So now I want to do 2 things : get my hands on the parts I've never seen before, and build a big realistic black car. As you can see my most recent set dates from 1994 ! that's 15 years ago ! I really want and I'm impatient to check out the new parts but there have been so many sets released that I don't know what sets to buy to get a good range of the new parts and their possibilities without spending too much money. I think I can start by spending about 200 Edited March 28, 2009 by DeBriquesEtDeBlocs Quote
Majek Posted March 28, 2009 Posted March 28, 2009 Nice to have you here DeBriquesEtDeBlocs. Welcome to EB. build a big realistic black car okay, than i suggest this: 4896 Roaring Roadsters (http://www.peeron.com./inv/sets/4896-1) 7784 - I know It's Batmobile, but this set contains many good black parts (http://www.peeron.com./inv/sets/7784-1) Quote
DeBriquesEtDeBlocs Posted March 30, 2009 Author Posted March 30, 2009 Well thanks EVERYONE for the warm welcome and all the help... Quote
Asuka Posted March 30, 2009 Posted March 30, 2009 Hello and welcome to the a little heavy-footed side of the brick. I guess you should ask your black-car-parts-which-sets question in the Technic, Mindstorms & Model Team subforum if it´s going to be a detailed model, or just in LEGO Trains & Town if it´s supposed to be in MiniFig size. However, like Majek said, the UCS Batmobile´s a pretty cool and (now) well-priced set for beautiful black parts for sure. Quote
Zorro Posted April 2, 2009 Posted April 2, 2009 Welcome to Eurobricks, I hope you enjoy it here! Quote
Jipay Posted April 5, 2009 Posted April 5, 2009 Technic sets have changed a lot since you've played with them. Now it all depends on what you're into. There's a wide collection of great sets. i'd recommand one ro 2 star wars sets, aswell as one or two indies. You definitly need a café corner and green grocer aswell. They're expensive but will set you up to date with the latest building techniques. Quote
barry Posted April 5, 2009 Posted April 5, 2009 welcome! i only got back into lego after a 15 year dark age! i was an eighties lego head aswell! you've made the right decsion, (although it might hit your overdraft for a month or two)! much better elements, more colours... but you might be disapointed with the new hinges ! i think your gonna have some good fun and a smiley face quite often! lego troopers to the parts bin! Quote
KimT Posted April 6, 2009 Posted April 6, 2009 Welcome to Eurobricks. Glad to have another joining member come out of his Dark Age. Quote
Holodoc Posted April 6, 2009 Posted April 6, 2009 Hello and welcome to Eurobricks! It´s always nice to see an AFOL coming out of his dark ages. Black cars you´re looking for? There are only a few sets containing these. If you are able to get one of the World City Police and Rescue line from 2003 (off ebay for example) then this would be an alternative to the mentioned sets. The sets are not the best Lego ever released, so they shouldn´t be too expensive. (And the set 7033 contains 3 chrome gold 1x2 tiles ) Quote
legotrainfan Posted April 6, 2009 Posted April 6, 2009 Hi and welcome! Since you're also looking for grey parts, I want to inform you that the grey (light and dark grey) you used to know does not exist anymore. Now there's only bluish grey and dark bluish grey available. For old grey and bricks in general you could also check bricklink.com in case you don't know it yet. Quote
DeBriquesEtDeBlocs Posted April 6, 2009 Author Posted April 6, 2009 I guess you should ask your black-car-parts-which-sets question in the Technic, Mindstorms & Model Team subforum if it´s going to be a detailed model,or just in LEGO Trains & Town if it´s supposed to be in MiniFig size. I posted in Technic, Mindstorms & Model Team Quote
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