bannedfromHandV Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 (edited) 9 minutes ago, BOF said: Mate of mine 'for teh lulz' got me a Villa lego bus after I passed some comment on the Villa Park lego stadium before Christmas. I now have a bus in a box that I will never make sitting in my room gathering dust. This is what he wanted. The bastard. And I doubt it was even particularly cheap. Wait, there’s a villa park Lego set?! I’m on it….. edit - just checked and it’s £103, I’m out. Edited April 27, 2022 by bannedfromHandV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted April 27, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 27, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: No, that's something else, that is Rebekah Vardy suing Colleen Rooney for accusing her of leaking something to the media. It seems to be an extremely stupid and counterproductive thing to do, too - for example this stuff has emerged from it: Side note, but '(The Sun said they already knew about the arrest because someone at the police station had told them)' suggests absolutely nothing has changed since Leveson. Thanks mate, my life is whole now after knowing this Jesus wept Edited April 27, 2022 by Follyfoot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted April 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2022 On 26/04/2022 at 10:13, Seat68 said: Let's see those **** from over the Atlantic come over here and call it Legos. I'm on it!. And while I'm at it, I'll add an "s" to the end of Math. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 On 27/04/2022 at 12:02, mjmooney said: We're straying into the 'Hobbies' thread a bit here, but whatever. Aesthetics aside, I agree that using Lego (or Meccano for that matter) to build something to your own design is possibly more satisfying than simply assembling and painting an Airfix kit (the Lego set that is used to construct a specific lumpy and angular item is different - that's the worst of all worlds for me). I think that's why, as a kid, I quickly progressed from assembling 'out of the box' to doing kit conversions (e.g tank to self-propelled gun on the same chassis) using plastic card and other improvised components - and ultimately to scratchbuilding, to scale plans (all models now sadly gone). As an adult, the nearest I get to it is small DIY projects (another thread, again), where I have to come up with my own design, e.g. this cupboard/shelves unit. The doors were stock components, everything else is MDF. Tell you what Mike, done a grand job there! you can’t even tell it’s Lego at all! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I agree,as I posted a couple of pages ago I used to give my Airfix kits battle damage or weather them ( adding dirt/grease etc ) IMHO it turned them into models worth keeping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted April 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2022 On 27/04/2022 at 04:02, mjmooney said: We're straying into the 'Hobbies' thread a bit here, but whatever. Aesthetics aside, I agree that using Lego (or Meccano for that matter) to build something to your own design is possibly more satisfying than simply assembling and painting an Airfix kit (the Lego set that is used to construct a specific lumpy and angular item is different - that's the worst of all worlds for me). I think that's why, as a kid, I quickly progressed from assembling 'out of the box' to doing kit conversions (e.g tank to self-propelled gun on the same chassis) using plastic card and other improvised components - and ultimately to scratchbuilding, to scale plans (all models now sadly gone). As an adult, the nearest I get to it is small DIY projects (another thread, again), where I have to come up with my own design, e.g. this cupboard/shelves unit. The doors were stock components, everything else is MDF. Are those all Bob Dylan CD’s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 30, 2022 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2022 1 hour ago, il_serpente said: Are those all Bob Dylan CD’s? Dylan CDs circled: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 30, 2022 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2022 Oh, and the box sets at bottom left, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted April 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2022 16 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Oh, and the box sets at bottom left, too. The remainder being hip hop, I assume. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted May 4, 2022 Moderator Share Posted May 4, 2022 On 27/04/2022 at 11:26, mjmooney said: I had exactly the same problem with Meccano that I did with Lego - it may have been fun to construct, but the end product always looked crap - in this case holes, rather than pimples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 4, 2022 Author VT Supporter Share Posted May 4, 2022 4 minutes ago, BOF said: That looks really good...until you zoom in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted May 4, 2022 Moderator Share Posted May 4, 2022 2 minutes ago, mjmooney said: That looks really good...until you zoom in. I wasn't arguing I was against Lego remember? Just it looks cool. And nothing's ever improved by zooming in 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted May 4, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted May 4, 2022 1 hour ago, BOF said: I wasn't arguing I was against Lego remember? Just it looks cool. And nothing's ever improved by zooming in My cock is. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Hmmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 2 hours ago, mjmooney said: That looks really good...until you zoom in. All Lego builds look good ( from a distance ) Its when you zoom in that you realise its made of little blocks,and to make matters worse, none of the blocks have letters of the alphabet on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 When the 25-30 regulars in the Gresford thread are finally gonna get bored. I know I don't like the thread but **** me it's like a drug, reading some of the opinions. Never known anything like it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted May 5, 2022 Moderator Share Posted May 5, 2022 Whether you liked his music or not, Freddie Mercury was a phenomenon. What I often wonder is, how and why was he unique. He had a good throat with a good voicy thing. As do plenty of others, but why was he unique? Why isn't there another Freddie Mercury somewhere. I hope at some point there will be. Also, whiskey is really strong. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitvilla Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 On 27/04/2022 at 02:58, BOF said: The thing that irks me with Lego's success is that it was so inferior to Mecano. It's dumbed down Mecano. Maybe that was too tricky for smaller kids. Maybe the genius of Lego is that its difficulty rating sits perfectly between the toddler aged Duplo (which Lego now own too) and the older Mecano (well, older once kids became less independent generationally), and by the time the kid theoretically should be 'growing out of' Lego, they have them invested. Which leads me to ... the other thing that irks me (while I'm at it) is that even Lego's attempt at Mecano, the 'Tecniks' or whatever it's called, where you buy say a helicopter etc, you can only really effectively make that one product out of it. You get the specific bits for that one creation. Which flies (boom boom) completely in the face of Lego being a clean sheet of paper for creation. So to summarise, you've either got an inferior product or a very hard and fast set of instructions for one thing. And then there's the price ... Lego. Fair play to them. If people will buy shit then sell them shit. Broadly agree with this. I would add for me Lego and Meccano really did not compete, Lego was more structural while Meccano was mechanical. I remember preferring Betta Bilda to Lego; Betta Bilda was more limited in some ways but houses actually looked like houses. Civil engineering I suppose. I grew up to be a chemist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted May 5, 2022 Moderator Share Posted May 5, 2022 4 hours ago, fruitvilla said: Broadly agree with this. I would add for me Lego and Meccano really did not compete, Lego was more structural while Meccano was mechanical. I remember preferring Betta Bilda to Lego; Betta Bilda was more limited in some ways but houses actually looked like houses. Civil engineering I suppose. I grew up to be a chemist. I think we can dispense with your opinion then 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted May 5, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2022 22 minutes ago, bickster said: I think we can dispense with your opinion then Ouch. Giving him a taste of his own medicine there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted May 5, 2022 Administrator Share Posted May 5, 2022 8 hours ago, fruitvilla said: I grew up to be a chemist. That's a bad break. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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