What were your most impressive LEGO creations?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Inspired by the favorite toys thread some time ago, I wondered what some of the LEGO fans actually built with their sets. Some of my best creations were as follows:

Gear Powered Windmill. This stood about 3ft high with 4 large blades on top of a tower. The blades were powered by a row the those yellow gears on the turntables going across the tower at the top and down the tower to the base. As you turned the crank the blades would slowly spin, you would have to be careful and build up the momentum slowly or the blades would fly apart.

Rocket. About 4ft high with 4 swept back fins at the bottom and a smaller set of 4 at the top. It was extremely heavy and fragile and you really could not play with it or move it around too much.

Moonbase. My brother and I had many large sets about 4000 pieces all together and wanted to make something to use every piece in the box, so we decided to make a moon base like ALPHA from Space 1999. After about a week we did succeed in using our basement floor and every piece. The base had many buildings connected with corridors, launch ramps with little fighters, landing pads with various spacecraft my friends made, laser gun batteries, the reactor building and we used all the wheels for various moon buggies that serviced the base. After about a month my dad was fed up with all the space it took up and we had an epic battle that destroyed the installation.

Submarines: We had a pool so my friends and I built submarines to take in the water, they did float and we would dive bomb them jumping in the water next to the assembled fleets. We did tend to loose a lot of pieces and to this day I still find an occasional block in the yard.

I would be interested in the creations of other LEGO builders.

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I made a car that could smash my buddies car into little bits…it was only 4 flat pieces and one of those curved piece and 2 sets of wheels…but it kicked ass. Couldn’t afford a full set of lego.

Shit, that sounds pathetic…LOL

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I’ve built:
– a working submarine (hollow with a balloon inside to control bouyancy)

– a helicopter about 2’ long with side doors that opened and closed

– an airplane 2’ long with retractable landing gear, opening bomb bay doors, and could actually drop things

– a crane with a boom 3’ long that would lift about 5 pounds, with gears and pulleys from the “Technic” sets so that the operator didn’t even have to touch the “cable” (20 lb fishing line)–just turn a handle and up it goes

– a 4’ tall oil derrick that actually had a turning shaft down the middle, thanks to the Lego electric motor kit

– a “windmill”, made by putting the electric motor atop the oil derrick (see above) with the output pointing out the side, turning blades that were up to 5’ tip-to-tip

– a remote-control truck, with the motor kit, about a foot long

– something vaguely resembling an '80s Camaro, about a foot long, with working doors

– various airplane and boat degign studies (no nifty moving parts), 6"-3’ long

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Icerigger, awesome fuckin thread. We need more threads like this!

I have a medium sized suitcase full of pieces, a 5 gallon tub about half full, and a few other sets not mixed up together. I’ve got alot.

I built a solid 18" robot once with moving ankles, knees, hips, rotating midsection (only rotated about 90* all in all to seem realistic), rotating and bending shoulders, elbows, and wrists, opposable thumbs, a rotating neck (about 180*), and the head could be removed by sliding a pin out (actually a Lego antenna) and sliding the head forward, it became a fighter ship. The acutal “control pod” of the robot was in his chest, with windows for visibility, and it had doors in the back with ladders down a leg. In the stomach was an ‘engine’ of sorts, basically it was a Lego engine block with all kinds of mechanical and electrical smooth blocks stuck on it, surrounded by screens, vents, the rubber tubes, grates, stuff like that. The entire body could separate above the ‘engine’ for ‘service’. Fuckin a, it was awesome.

A car vaguely resembling an 80’s early 90s Mustang GT with opening doors, convertible top, and opening hood and trunk.

A huge Medieval panorama taking up my entire desk top with sword fights, magic spells, dragons, castle seiges, horse jousting, Viking raids, all kinds of stuff. Every few weeks I’d rearrange the Lego men to advance the battle scene.

More later

I remember there being a kids’ museum in Omaha with a Lego room. It was about 30’ by 30’ with bins around the whole outside filled with Legos, and a huge flat table in the middle surrounded by Lego bins. I only got to play in it once for about 20 minutes when I was a kid, but it was Heaven. Does this exist, or was it a wonderful dream?

–Tim
–Tim

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My sister and I liked to build bases for the “Star Wars” rebels. Nothing gargantuan like some of the projects described thus far, but we were always pleased. Our bases always had a computer room, medical center (my sister grew up to be a doctor), huge jails, and docking bays for ships we never bothered to actually build. And we always included “Star Trek”-style transporters with those small arc-shaped pieces.

No kitchens, though. And no bathrooms. Guess Princess Leia had to step outside to powder her nose.

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[ul]
[li]1/8 scale 1966 Mustang with removable cylinder heads and operable pistons[/li][li]1/12 scale replica of the NCC-1701 bridge to the specs published in those cool Franz Joseph blueprints (including the hidden walkway behind the control panels); yes, Kirk’s chair swiveled[/li][li]diorama of the playing of the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock (which took an ass load of those little Lego people, let me tell you)[/li][li]a white cat in a snowstorm[/li][li]functioning hydrogen bomb[/li][/ul]

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A mechanical stored-program computer. It added things up like a Babbage engine, only more crap.

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I made a rectangular house once, with a flat roof…

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I always built a house. I wanted to use the angled red roof tiles. And I was usually frustrated by the fact that I ran out of them.

Not one of my favorite toys for that reason, I suppose.

I was always more a Mechano Builder Set child.
I wanted things with levers and pulleys.

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Ummm…I feel insignificant…

I have a few ‘hover cars’. One was a police dune-buggy, but off came the wheels, and with some bulking up and misc. techy things it became a flying police car. Looks cool, I think.

The other flying car I’ve got was a big red truck. The wheels came off. Loads of bricks went on. Plenty of smooth plates, lights, and bars, too. Now it’s a bug, bulky police van/truck thing. Rocks, though. I love both of 'em. Incidentally, both of them are/were Technic kits.

One of the original builds that I’m very proud of is a cross between a motorcyle and a car. It’s a Town/minifigure scaled vehicle. In the rear is one of those cool red axle+spring/shocks. In the front is a tiny (what used to be the standard aircraft landing gear) wheel. It’s got a pointed ‘nose’, cannons, lights, cockpit & driver, control panel, and ‘engine’. It’s an all original, and it rocks. I wish I had a digital camera so I could post some pics…I might just scan 'em all.
-SSB

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a giant white cube. no shit.
GIANT, man…I ain’t kiddin’ around. it wasn’t the Pyramids or anything, but it was huge.
we’re talkin’ a BIG-ASSED GIANT cube here…ya shoulda seen it. unbelieveable.
e-frickin’-normous.

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That’s a… uh… big cube, man.

Anyone else build “Bashers”? The idea was to build a vehicle as strongly as you could, and slam it into another’s creation until one crumbled. You had to have

[ul]
[li]A driver[/li][li]A window or porthole so he could see[/li][li]A steering mechanism for the driver (just a steering wheel or joystick, didn’t have to work)[/li][li]A minimum of 4 rolling wheels[/li][/ul]

Last man standing won.

My uncle was a mechanical engineer or something like that. He’s never been beaten. I was always second behind him. One uncle built a pyramid one that everyone would just ramp over and slam into the wall. He was tough as shit to beat, but then I got the idea to build a low scoop on the front to slide under him and stabilize my vehicle so I wouldn’t ramp him, and he quickly crumbled. My greatest basher was all black. He had 16 wheels, 2 sets of 8 side by side, floor length reinforced sideskirts to protect the wheels, a front with a small convex shape near the bottom on the front to focus the blast, and was a solid brick of Lego plastic, save a single porthole running to a small opening in the middle where the man sat. He wore a crash helmet. Another winning design was one that forced a slight drift to one side or another by offsetting wheels, that way you’d catch the other guy at an angle.

Apparently, the kid who lived in the house before us died when he was pulling Legos apart with his teeth. Later I found out that the kid who lived in EVERY house on the block before the current occupants died that way. What an epidemic!

–Tim

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Oh, man. That last one gives the impression you’d bodily slam them together, that’s not right. You’d sit on the floor with about 4 feet between each other, roll them slowly forward to tap noses while counting to 3, and on three, roll them forward as hard as you can and let go so they slammed into each other unguided.

God DAMN that was a great way to spend an afternoon when you were 12.

–Tim

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I once built this awesome ED-209 looking creation after watching RoboCop 30 times in a row. The awesome thing about it was that it was built upside-down. I started building it and it just evolved into an awesome looking Mech.

I also remember this futuristic jet I built out of all blue and black pieces. It had 6 wings and a bunch of those little hoses everywhere. God, I loved that. I think I named it Starscream after the Transformer. Ahhh, the memories.