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Title: Do you still play with legos?
Post by: lordofthegeeks on July 09, 2007, 02:20:00 am

I am A lego lover And am 16 so yeh Im weird.

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Post by: Ragol666 on July 09, 2007, 02:42:00 am

I don't play anymore, but I still have them.

There is people who play lego at 60 years old. :-P

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on July 09, 2007, 02:45:00 am

I know that. The thing is most people drop playing them around 12-14.
:knight:

:chainsaw:

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Post by: MechaTech84 on July 09, 2007, 02:46:00 am

i just recently got mine out again... like the day before yesterday.... It's as if you guys knew everything about me.... AAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Quit stalking me!!!!!!!!

And on a lighter note: I got them out with intentions to sell them really cheap on ebay, then I looked up the prices and I have about $700 worth of legos, when I bought them I probably spent only $300 (over a period of years, I'm only 15 and haven't had them out in about 3 years).... I WILL be rich!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

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Post by: rivereye on July 09, 2007, 03:12:00 am

cool

I still have my legos, and toy around with them some, but I prefer to play around in Blockalnd.

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on July 09, 2007, 03:20:00 am

It is Because I do Bwa hahahah
:bow:

Bow and beg me for mercy :bow:

I love legos
if your a lego club member on lego.com goto my club page rover16
and make me a budddie

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Post by: Delnar_Ersike on July 09, 2007, 03:23:00 am

Well, I have a ton of Lego's and even made a few models for my school projects. However, my most prized Lego piece is the RCX 1.5 from the Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System 1.5 I bought for $86 on eBay. Of course, I had to replace one of the motors, but it was still a great deal. Right now it's inside a wired remote for an all-Lego helicopter I made w/o any instructions. My only three problems with that Lego Chopper are:

The back propeller might be a little hard to control, as the gear ratio is pretty low and the propellers are kind of small.
The main propeller's gears might melt because of the friction from the 16:625 gear ratio I implemented (For every 16 turns the 9v motor does, the top propeller turns 625 times).
The stupid frikken' software won't install on my XP laptop (it was made for 98 and ran on 2000, but it wouldn't run on XP even in compatibility mode) and I can't get the newer software anywhere for free.

Maybe when I return from Budapest in August I might be able to take a few pictures of the chopper.

So...am I a geek or am I a geek? :P

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on July 09, 2007, 03:31:00 am

Nah I have a nxt But I love it

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Post by: MechaTech84 on July 09, 2007, 03:33:00 am

you are both a geek and a geek imo... but that's just me....

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Post by: Delnar_Ersike on July 09, 2007, 03:52:00 am

Hehe, that's not what I wanted to point out to say I'm a geek. It's that I actually built a chopper out of Lego pieces that might be able to fly. In fact, I researched helicopters and their methods of flying before I built it and the only two things that might stop the chopper from flying are weight and friction in the 16:625 gear ratio between the motor and the propeller. The friction might be a problem, but I made sure the chopper is perfectly balanced between lightness and stability by moving some of the heavier materials (such as the RCX) to an outside controller attached to the chopper via very long cables.
Though NXT is great in the sense that it has a sound sensor and a color sensor as well as built-in rotation sensors to the motors, the kit's price is more than three times as much as the RIS I bought on eBay and most of the wires aren't backwards-compatible to the RIS or to normal Lego parts (the RIS has wires who's ends can be clipped onto normal Lego pieces just like any other piece).

Oh, and to add to the geekiness factor, I'm thirteen.

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Post by: MechaTech84 on July 09, 2007, 04:26:00 am

maybe we should ask lord geeky (jk) over there if he classifies you with the geeks....

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Post by: tenniskid493 on July 09, 2007, 07:36:00 am

sorry..i couldn't resist choosing the last one :D

my lil bro does and sometimes i help him, but no I don't on my own anymore

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Post by: trevmeister66 on July 09, 2007, 07:53:00 am

man i haven't taken out my legos in forever. I dont play with them anymore (obviously, i just made that first statement), but a about 5 years ago it was all i played with.

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Post by: spengo on July 09, 2007, 07:58:00 am

Hells yeah! Legos own!

Why isn't there an "awesome! of course I still play them" 19+ option? I'm still only 18 but I anticipate continuing on with lego awesomeness until old age! Also, what's the deal with don't tell your gf? I have a gf and it's not like I have a problem with people knowing I play with legos... Hell, I'm proud of it!

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Post by: Radical Pi on July 09, 2007, 09:17:00 am

I haven't played with my legos in a long time... But I wouldn't mind pulling them out for a go

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Post by: Speler on July 09, 2007, 09:46:00 am

I would play with them, but I gave them away years ago.

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Post by: Fallen Ghost on July 09, 2007, 12:15:00 pm

yays, I'm not alone!

Well, I played mostly when I was younger (3-14), so I wasn't exactly as mechanically aware of what I was doing, but still managed to do a landing gear like on planes (aka F-18/SR-71), you know, with all the strange mechanisms that hold everything...

I've accumulated a big bunch of Legos by now (>= half a cubic meter, of all kinds), so probably worth alot of $$ by today's standards

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Post by: trevmeister66 on July 09, 2007, 01:08:00 pm

are legos really worth alot these days?

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on July 09, 2007, 02:00:00 pm

yes they are. As for any coments on the girlfriend I am sorry I It was (jk) about that part I was coming up with fun answers.

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Post by: spengo on July 09, 2007, 05:25:00 pm

I dunno how much legos are worth used, but looking at the lego catalogs they sure cost a buttload new!

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on July 10, 2007, 12:22:00 am

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I dunno how much legos are worth used, but looking at the lego catalogs they sure cost a buttload new!

yes they do. I Have a good suplly but my little bro is stealing mine.
hes only 4. :(

But my 13 year old bro is not playing with them much anymore so i am good.
:knight:

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Post by: Ragol666 on July 10, 2007, 12:23:00 am

they are expensive, but i used to buy big pack of legos instead of models to build, because they were much cheaper. I always built towers with this (3 feet high at least)

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on July 10, 2007, 12:29:00 am

thats a Good Way to go. But sometimes you have to get the model for some of its awsome custom peices.

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Post by: Delnar_Ersike on July 10, 2007, 01:08:00 am

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thats a Good Way to go. But sometimes you have to get the model for some of its awsome custom peices.

...like the RCX in the RIS system, the Pneumatic system in some Lego Technic models, the Medieval stuff from Knights' Kingdom sets (the original, not the stupid new ones with the scorpions and the knights in purple armor). In fact, I even have two pairs of suspension springs I got from a very rare Lego Technic Motorcycle set...and it was for free from a garage sale!

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on July 10, 2007, 01:13:00 am

Thats awsome see were on the ball.:)

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Post by: Delnar_Ersike on July 10, 2007, 01:24:00 am

Too bad I don't have the pneumatics. :(

But at least I have ~20 kg of Lego bricks to replace it, and a special Motor house thing that can record any input from the motors (you rolling it around on wheels, for example) and repeat the action almost perfectly over and over again. Oh, and I have more than 100 minifigs.

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on July 10, 2007, 01:26:00 am

stop your making the poor alian jelous.
nah go ane.
I Used to have the tie fighter advanced pro model kit so i have grid walkway pieces.

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Post by: Delnar_Ersike on July 10, 2007, 02:06:00 am

I'm considering taking apart that giant wizard castle siege landscape when I get home, I don't really need it anymore since I only needed it ~three years ago for a 5th grade extra credit project. The only problem is I don't know how to get the marbles out of the counterweight of the trebuchet I made for the undead army laying the wizard castle under siege. Do you have any ideas, cause those marbles are lodged in pretty tight...

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on July 10, 2007, 02:25:00 am

just take apatr the legos.
if you glued them good luck.
I love boulding catapults. thems fun

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Post by: Fallen Ghost on July 10, 2007, 04:13:00 am

Too bad you guys all have high tech legos, I just have a box with full of low-level gears and stuff, but no pneumatics or motors. I bought them mostly in garage sells (whatever "vente de garage" is in english), massive sack for 5$.

7 foot long airplane with landing gears, variable geometry wings and big kinda working engines someone?

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on July 10, 2007, 04:14:00 am

Garage sale. Also You can have fun with any amount of legos.
I payed legos all the way home from tennessee

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 31, 2007, 04:26:00 pm

Old memories ^^ I had those and i think i still have most of the pieces

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Post by: Netham45 on July 31, 2007, 10:10:00 pm

of course. Lego's pwn. But I loose the pieces too fast. :(

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Post by: JonimusPrime on August 01, 2007, 01:51:00 am

I still have mine and me and a friend are working on building a uber mindstorms robot.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 01, 2007, 01:55:00 am

I wish i took a pic of that huge tower i built back then (12 inch x 6 x 40 approx)

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on August 01, 2007, 12:34:00 pm

dude post your mindstorms roboton the beta blog on mindstorms.com

Also Check out my robots on there search rover16
They are awsome XD

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Post by: bfr on August 01, 2007, 01:30:00 pm

I remember at a camp for robotics, there were different Mindstorm competitions. One was to make the robot that could pull the most weight, and when two robots were faced against each other, which one would pull which. My friend and I won. Our robot was so amazing...we called it the "Sears Tower" (because it looked like it). I think I took a picture of it, but I'm not sure where it is.

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Post by: spengo on August 01, 2007, 05:37:00 pm

I still have the original robotics set. Version 1.0, ehehe ^^

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on August 03, 2007, 01:14:00 pm

I finnally got mine for xmas.
I had been asking for years. :)

But I love it. Also lego changed there website. Anybody notice or am I the only one goes there

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Post by: JonimusPrime on August 08, 2007, 06:59:00 am

well we are hoping to learn Java to program it but that may have to wait until we decide what to build.

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Post by: rivereye on August 08, 2007, 07:18:00 am

my recommendation for all you Lego people

http://tbm.pcloadletterwtf.com/index.html

I an on every so often and host a server, so you can see what I am up to.

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Post by: JonimusPrime on August 08, 2007, 10:18:00 am

I already have it Rivereye :P

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on August 08, 2007, 12:48:00 pm

My pc won't run it.
And my dad's pcs is down both windows xps :(

what happened is the power supplys failed.
ones a laptop and the charger died the other one a desktop.
I am sad

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Post by: Delnar_Ersike on August 17, 2007, 10:45:00 am

Yayz, I'm back home in Cupertino! Now I can take pictures of my Lego Mindstorms RIS Helicopter and my gigantic wizard's castle siege... if I can get them back together, that is. The only problem is my older brother took our digital camera and he's going to be in Hungary for another couple of weeks, so I'll have to take pictures either with one of my friends' digital camera or with my film camera and wait for the pictures to develop. I also realized a gigantic problem with my helicopter design and will try to fix it as much as I can (it concerns the diagonal position the main propeller needs to be in when flying, as I don't want to use another motor for directional control of the main propeller).

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 17, 2007, 12:06:00 pm

cool to see you back!

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Post by: Delnar_Ersike on August 18, 2007, 07:24:00 am

Well, after some... complications... concerning my little brother, the helicopter I spent so much time on was almost completely destroyed. :grr:

On the plus side, I realized a few fatal mistakes with the copter previously and was planning to rebuild it anyways. Right now, I could take a picture of the custom gear box I made for the rotor motor (haha, rotor motor, talk about rhyming!).

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 18, 2007, 11:30:00 am

:'( too bad it was destroyed :(

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on August 21, 2007, 01:20:00 pm

i just got a new kit :)

it cost me $5 Yay

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Post by: Delnar_Ersike on August 21, 2007, 03:06:00 pm

The rotor's motor house has been completely rebuilt and even reinforced (it's much stronger now, so it'll resist the friction much easier). I'll have to test it using an alternate programming method (as the CD that came with it has been scratched), but all of them are kind of hard to learn and I've been having installation issues.
In the mean time, I have completely restored my crumbling castle and even added a few more parts to it. However, I have lost some pretty important pieces, including a very rare pickaxe the war's third party is supposed to use to mine the minerals under the castle with. I have also decided to wait for my older brother to come with the digital camera, as he comes back on September 11th (a day before his birthday, and a pretty interesting day for most US Citizens as the mourn the lives lost because of some stock market manipulation conspiracies. I don't want to continue now, maybe when September 11th actually comes).

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 21, 2007, 05:27:00 pm

nice to see you back lotg!

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on August 22, 2007, 12:58:00 pm

My parents took cable modem with them on vacation :(

im going camping tomorrow. :)

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 22, 2007, 01:07:00 pm

ouch that sucks, x.x I hope you enjoy camping though, and i hope to see you back afterward ;)

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on August 22, 2007, 01:11:00 pm

I will spend a bit of time programing animal crossing ti
And Also i wil be working on the fishing for ac I'm thinking legend of the river king :)

ever play it?

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 22, 2007, 01:58:00 pm

hmm no, i dont play fishing games, and I never fished either x.x

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on August 23, 2007, 08:26:00 am

its a mix between fishing and an adventure game :)

I think ac's fishing is to easy

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on October 02, 2007, 08:48:00 am

Sorry on the necro post but thius is the best topic to put it under.
http://www.mocpages.com/home.php/8436

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 02, 2007, 10:19:00 am

Nice ^^

One day I should try to make some kind of Lego game using RPG maker

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Post by: nitacku on October 02, 2007, 11:39:00 am

I used to have legos, but I'm not sure what happened to them :(

I've still got my knex though :)

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 02, 2007, 11:43:00 am

I never got too much into k'nex, I still have them tho, but I still have all my legos

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Post by: nitacku on October 02, 2007, 11:54:00 am

Do you think you would build with knex if you had the roller coaser set?
It's extremely addicting :P

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 02, 2007, 12:16:00 pm

well idk if it's avaliable here, they weren't very popular here so maybe they quitted releasing any in my area :(

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on October 02, 2007, 01:01:00 pm

My little bro had that set. then After he got bored I built a Building caplable of holding my 6' 6'' dad. It worked till he twisted and the conecters snaped loose on the sides :)

o

edit: I Put a link to omnimaga on there maybe you'll get some hits :)

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 02, 2007, 01:12:00 pm

IIRC the last time I put my knex in the closet (in a bag) I didn't even bothered destroying my models, so if I can find them again maybe there will be stuff that is still built :D

, I did a Dragon once with those

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Post by: JonimusPrime on October 02, 2007, 04:38:00 pm

I still have tons of my lego creations and still brag when I make a new one.

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Post by: Cadethian on October 02, 2007, 05:55:00 pm

I haven't played with legos in ages... last time I remember doing so was with all those harry potter legos... god those were fun...

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 02, 2007, 06:35:00 pm

I didn't knew there was HP legos o.o

at the moment I was doing lego stuff we were still playing with Dark Knight, Blacktrons, Ice Planet 2002, Space Rebels, then came a few other kind that I forgot about, and I stopped playing with them when I was 13, not so long after I got Star Wars legos (the very first ones ever)

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Post by: Cadethian on October 02, 2007, 06:37:00 pm

yeah, they had the hogwarts express, and the Great hall, and a bunch of stuff. I'm pretty sure I had something from Chamber of secrets, but all the fun stuff was based off the first movie.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 02, 2007, 06:49:00 pm

For me all I remember of legos is that :D

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Post by: Cadethian on October 02, 2007, 06:51:00 pm

I can remember a couple of those, but when I had lego magazine those seemed to be the old sets...

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 02, 2007, 06:55:00 pm

yeah most are from the early 90s. Blacktron and space police were new editions though, since they also existed in the mid 80s as well (altough blacktron sucked back then)

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Post by: Cadethian on October 02, 2007, 06:56:00 pm

I was born in 1989, so I guess it's right I don't remember those then XD

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 02, 2007, 07:13:00 pm

hehe, you were probably more of the end of "Lego System" era (when they started releasing star wars lego sets, to until bionicles sets and all that stuff). I wonder if they ever did Super Mario, Pok

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Post by: Cadethian on October 02, 2007, 07:21:00 pm

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hehe, you were probably more of the end of "Lego System" era (when they started releasing star wars lego sets, to until bionicles sets and all that stuff). I wonder if they ever did Super Mario, Pok

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Post by: necro on October 02, 2007, 08:35:00 pm

I am pretty sure they never did any video games...eh, i still have a thing of them in my basement but i don't mess with em.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 03, 2007, 02:30:00 am

Prbly they didn't either wanted to do video game stuff, or they couldn't because they could not get license for it. I am surprised though, considering how mario, zelda and pokemon are popular and lego have been around for ages

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Post by: lordofthegeeks on October 03, 2007, 03:53:00 am

they got the license for bob the builder :)

and they now make there own videogames (lego star wars)

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 05, 2007, 02:13:00 am

Yeah i know they did some video games. At a friend home I used to play a Lego Island called game, it was back in the 90s when 3D was starting getting used more on Windows 95

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Post by: Cadethian on October 05, 2007, 02:46:00 am

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Yeah i know they did some video games. At a friend home I used to play a Lego Island called game, it was back in the 90s when 3D was starting getting used more on Windows 95

I vaguely remember that....

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Post by: calc84maniac on October 05, 2007, 08:40:00 am

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Yeah i know they did some video games. At a friend home I used to play a Lego Island called game, it was back in the 90s when 3D was starting getting used more on Windows 95

I vaguely remember that....

I completely remember it! And own it! :lol:

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Post by: spengo on October 05, 2007, 09:07:00 am

I've played lego island! That was a weird game... you throw pizzas at bad guys. o.o

I think the best lego game ever made though was the original lego racers. It was like, mario kart but with legos. :)

I wish it had more than a 2 player multiplayer though.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 05, 2007, 11:08:00 am

In lego island I liked to ram into people with a car and break them in pieces