#244

Fun fact- I went to get the set from my parents yesterday and found everything smashed up… Mbar that one coach, the double decker one. That has been built for over 20 years - probably near to 25 years - and still looks fucking great. Haha.

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#245

Hang on, I have that train at home! I hope my parents have kept it!

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#246

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#247

Damn

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#248

I feel a bit bad for posting it up just after your train. It’s a model that came out this month, although somehow Mrs Z got her hands on it two days before launch for my birthday.

Really detailed model. :+1:

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#249

the pantographs are insane.

i’m not into the modelly logo (yet), just still stuck on remixing the old System stuff i had as a kid…

though that train? oh boy.

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#250

There’s a nice interview about it here:

#251

Having finally reorganised and sorted through my desk and bookcases, I made the Lunar Lander set that I got last year.

When I get an opportunity, I’ll be picking up the childhood lego that’s still at my parents’ place.

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#252

I have this one from 1991. Fucking amazing set.

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#253

me too!

also because lego were out of stock or werent able to get it to my parents in time for christmas they included a bunch of free railway track pieces :smiley:

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#254

Lunar Lander is my favourite build ever

#255

How have people here approached moving their lego when moving? Do you keep all the original boxes and put them back in there?

#256

I’ve never had to move with more than a small box of lego - the majority of my stuff is still at my parents.

I do have just about all of the original boxes and instructions, but I don’t think I’ll take them apart if they’re still assembled. When I do eventually pick them up, I’m fortunate enough to be able to place them in cardboard boxes and load them into a car.

#257

Yeah, I really liked it too, even though I struggled to differentiate between dark grey and black in the instruction booklet.

Lego House was fun to make, too. Like a tessellating puzzle.

#258

Have this issue all the time with sets. The printed colours don’t represent the physical colours that well at all.

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#259

Carefully put them in cardboard boxes that are good fit size-wise. Stick a bit of crumped newspaper around it for padding. Carefully drive it to my dad’s a few weeks before moving, then pick it back up a few weeks after. Accept that there’s always going to be some putting back together to do.

That Crocodile locomotive is brilliant! I don’t think I’m going to buy one, although I am really tempted. However if they did the Manchester Metrolink T68s in a similar vein it’d be a shut up and take my money situation.

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#260

i put bigger models in pillow cases and then into a big plastic box. they were mostly fine

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#261

We’ve covered this before. What you need to solve this problem is an eleven-year old.

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#262

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#263

My solution is don’t move house

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