E2nO Posted April 23, 2012 Hi all, my name is Enno. I am from Germany and for our English friend: that is my given name - not an abbreviation of short for anything else. And it is pronounced like you spelling the letters "N" and then "O"). I also guess that you now don't need any explanation for my forum user name . I am mid forty and I do have two little children (5 & 7) who have just started to be extremely fond with lego (definitely attracted to the "City" Theme and Lego Railroad [which is a also City Theme ... as you all know]). As my daughter is also very attracted to computing, she got the WeDo (Lego Education) packages for Christmas. This was my first contact to Lego Technics parts! And I loved them. In my youth we had LEGO (what a surprise) but I was definitely more attracted to Fischertechnic as that time: Lego had no motors, no gears, no belts, no beams, no axles, .. you probably know what I am aiming at! And Fishertechnik had pneumatics (although I never had that, because prices where way out of bounds for me at that age) and electronics [but no computer interfacing]. So via WeDo I get to know LEGO Technics and from there to PowerFuction, Pneumatics and Mindstorms ... And while browsing the internet I came along the LEGO 8110 Unimog set. Nice: Lego Technics, PF and Pneumatics combined. Just for fun it took a look at the building instructions ... amazing all these gears. Then I wondered if that set can drive. And thus Google brought me to Eurobricks - and to the instructions how I can make it drive. And while reading through the more than 60 thread pages, looking at unbelievable MOCs I came along the "NXTified Unimog Video" ... and that was when I was done! (Actually I was probably done before ... ). I pretty fast learned what AFOL meant, what dark age referred to, what Bricklink is and how I needed to use ist and also that Eurobricks is really nice to read and look through. And then I learned that one need to post to get some more options ... guess why I am writing here. Still it took nearly two weeks to find out how to minimize the extreme financial impact on my savings account, especially as I could not do with only one set (remember: two kids - OK I agree: weak excuse ). So far I deem that I have been quite successfully with that (NXT for 222€ and 8043 for 124€ incl. shipping) - although it meant waiting for delivery in the first week of May. 139€ for 8110 is also OK ... considering it will be " to go" in the shop around the corner. I can recall having seen it for 133€ + shipping in the net - but I think I don't want to wait any longer than Monday! So that's my story. Sorry it became so long ... but I guess I am still over excited. Seeing the LEGO sun soon. Regards, Enno. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Blue Brick Posted April 24, 2012 Welcome to Eurobricks Enno. I hope you enjoy the community. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
E2nO Posted April 28, 2012 Thank you for your friendly welcome! And I am sure I will enjoy this community: there is so much interesting information here and so many breath taking MODs that I love looking at (being sure that I will never be able to achieve such a mastery level, but still can't get enough from looking at them). The 8110 is now presorted ... build will start this weekend! Cheers. Enno. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimH Posted April 28, 2012 Enjoy Building your Unimog. Its on my list of sets to get Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
