Classic LEGO at school!

[Emperor Claudius Rome]

On Thursday, I was at this thing at my school called think bowl. And we were in a room where the special need kids would usually be during normal school time. I noticed some LEGO in the corner, and as it turned out, it was classic! There was an Astronaut, a Fabuland guy, and a Forestman. Turns out, they belonged to the teacher, Mr. Alguire's kids. He said that he gave a huge box to another teacher (who I thinks gone) and says if he finds more, he know where to forward them!

Has that ever happened to you?

[Commodore Hornbricker]

Yes very recently in fact. I was at the post office mailing some Lego to fellow member (one of the prizes I donated to the Tournament of Retribution) and the older guy working behind the counter helping me told me he had a big box in his garage he'd had since he was a kid. I paid $40 for 20+ lbs of 1970's lego that same afternoon. Kind of made me believe in karma.

Edited November 24, 2009 by Commodore Hornbricker

[Yeow]

When I was in second grade (1997-1999 ish), if you got a 100 on a pre-spelling test taken on Monday, you didn't have to take the real one on Friday. I used to get a 100 a lot, and instead of taking the test, I'd get to chill in a play corner of sorts that had toys. One of the tubs had a bunch of minifigs and pieces from the Dragon Knights era.

Edited November 24, 2009 by Yeow

[Pirate Pete]

Very recently, I was doing some errands for a 2nd grade teacher when I noticed that there was an unmarked bin on one of her shelves. Being the snoop I am, I decided to take a look. I found out that it was full of clasic lego bricks and minifigures. Because I had been in her class, I asked if I could stay just a bit longer to play. It kind of felt strange, you know, asking to stay longer to play. But it turned out that she liked Lego too, so we sat and played with Lego for about a half an hour. It was a very memorable time!

[just2good]

In my LEGO Robotics class (every day) we have a box of classic LEGO! From Fabuland to Beville, Knights to Forestman, Model Team to Town, Pirates, and many more! And we also have alot of awesome baseplates...

[jonwil]

At some point in the past (memory is hazy on the details) I was in a school class where there was one of those large denim type sacks full of classic space that the kids played with.

[Sisco]

I was in my Literature class, and I looked over onto one of the shelves and saw a MOC of a house! I looked closer after class, and saw the red classic space man, dragon knight, and Blacktron Minifigures! I asked my teacher who made it, and it turned out it was a sophomore named *can't publish name*. It appears I have a fellow TFOL at my school!

[MrTools]

I was in my Literature class, and I looked over onto one of the shelves and saw a MOC of a house! I looked closer after class, and saw the red classic space man, dragon knight, and Blacktron Minifigures! I asked my teacher who made it, and it turned out it was a sophomore named *can't publish name*. It appears I have a fellow TFOL at my school!

Off Topic

That is cool, wish i could see something like that at my school, i would make something to display in a teachers classroom (i have plenty of teachers who would enjoy a model on display) but, i would be worried that parts would go missing. (last year i made a model for a project and all the weapons went missing.)

On Topic

I guess you could say i got lucky once, i helped a friend with his art homework and he gave me a bucket of old LEGO in return. However none of it was really anything of high interest.(basic old bricks)

In my LEGO Robotics class (every day) we have a box of classic LEGO! From Fabuland to Beville, Knights to Forestman, Model Team to Town, Pirates, and many more! And we also have alot of awesome baseplates...

Wait, what is a LEGO Robotics class sounds interesting, the only interesting class i get to take is science fiction where we watch the Terminator.

[JimBee]

I remember in kindergarten, there was a little Lego table with some old Sytem and Duplo pieces in it, and even some Fabuland! I remember building trains with those Duplo blocks.

More recently, I'm taking a class dealing with engineering basics, and towards the end of next semester we get to build with some sort of brick system- similar to Lego but more on a professional level. I forgot what they're called, something to do with the word "modular"... believe it or not, they're more expensive then Lego!

[Xenophilius Studz]

Cool. I wish my school had more TFOLs. Right now its me and a couple friends. Two of my friends made pyramids for a Egypt project, and I'm making a Indiana Jones movie for it in stop-motion with my collection.

[knuclear200x]

I rarely find classic pieces out in dirt lots in small amounts. Like the old-style wheels that was just a thick 2x2 block and a set of wheels pierced by a thin metal pipe.

[Raven Brickroft]

I remember in kindergarten, there was a little Lego table with some old Sytem and Duplo pieces in it, and even some Fabuland! I remember building trains with those Duplo blocks.

More recently, I'm taking a class dealing with engineering basics, and towards the end of next semester we get to build with some sort of brick system- similar to Lego but more on a professional level. I forgot what they're called, something to do with the word "modular"... believe it or not, they're more expensive then Lego!

I believe they're Modulex. And if I'm not mistaken, they are related to LEGO.

[JimBee]

I believe they're Modulex. And if I'm not mistaken, they are related to LEGO.

Nope, completely different than those or Lego. They don't use studs, rather sliding knobs and slots. And trust me, I don't think any school in the world is going to have a budget to support Modulex bricks.

[Lord Admiral]

Mindstorms/NXT is an excellent product for robotics class. The beauty of it is that you can build whatever type of robot you need with Lego bricks. There's really no need for any fancy manufacturing or any such. It is even possible to hook up custom inputs (sensors and stuff) and outputs (motors and displays).

I don't know how things are now, but when I was playing with it, the only drawback was its development environment. It was slow and childish, and otherwise not very nice to use at all. Real documentation was sparse, so that all the 3rd party software also was terrible. I remember thinking the whole process needed to be faster (to compile as well as to write to the brick). There also should have been bindings to languages that're more familiar to engineers (C, Fortran, Ada) right out of the box.

If that problem's solved, I think all schools should use Mindstorms for robotics/engineering class.

[Torax]

It looks like LEGO trades have also snuck into this topic, so I will share my story...

I traded my friend a PSP memory card for Naboo N-1 Starfighter With Vulture Droid. It was almost complete, the only piece missing was one of the long yellow antennae for the N-1 and the 'pre flick-fire' missiles for the Vulture.

Also, he said he would give me me a small/medium sized box of bricks if I helped him with a woodwork thing!

Or maybe sell it to me. He doesn't know the market prices.

[-The Hyphen-]

More recently, I'm taking a class dealing with engineering basics, and towards the end of next semester we get to build with some sort of brick system- similar to Lego but more on a professional level. I forgot what they're called, something to do with the word "modular"... believe it or not, they're more expensive then Lego!

We're using something similar in my engineering class as well.

Is this what you're thinking of?

Edited December 11, 2009 by -The Hyphen-

[Mörs]

I remember when I was in elementary school, there was a "knights day" where basically the whole school was filled with various drawings (by kids) of knights and other "medieval" items. One kid brought the KK1 castle and it was put on a table in a school corridor. The castle itself didn't really impress me...

The other day, there was a "futuristic" exhibition (supposedly predicting how life would look like in the 21st century), and somebody brought in the Terra Tracker from UFO.

[JimBee]

We're using something similar in my engineering class as well.

Is this what you're thinking of?

Yes! Those are the bricks I am talking about. We haven't really used them much yet, but I look forward to when we do. They aren't nearly as flexible as Lego (only come in block shapes), but I suppose they're not intended for play.

[Steel Dragon]

Back in elementary school the library was home to two Lego models: a Sopwith Camel plane (not very interesting to me at that age ), and a classic castle. a BIG classic castle. I'm not sure which it was, but I remember there being a door with a ghost behind it .

Anyway I asked the librarian for that set ALL THE TIME back then, but it was obviously very valuable and belonged to her son besides . The school has since changed buildings, and the librarian has since changed jobs. I just hope that awesome castle found itself a good home.

[gravysam]

Well...

my old friend had a couple of classic pirates.

i was very jealous (this was in 2008) and i always used to beg him for them...or to at least buy them off him...

one fateful day he CRACKED! and sold me about 5 medium size sets for £20!!!

BARGIN!!