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grepin, i'm gonna order the Front Loader sometime this weekend. i'm through the first book of the Handler and my fingers hurt like hell, only thing worse is my back. maybe i'm just remembering wrong again, but these seem much more complex than even the big sets i remember in my early teens. oh, and 8462 is amazing. that, a enormous bulldozer and a crotch-rocket that i've seen (don't know the numbers on the latter two) are also worth ordering to me. thanks for the help. paul_delahaye: i thought i had down all the reasons to not let her, but we have another hahaha! actually i'm really lookin forward to it, which is surprising for me. Edit: i just finished building it. yes, i stayed up all night doing it on and off haha.

thanks for all the info, everyone. i just got back from the Lego Store. they had the Telescopic Handler on sale for $63... for 1100+ parts, i figured how could i go wrong. they had the Snow Groomer too, which i had never seen in person before. i shoulda gotten both, but i need to save money for my trip to Canada next week. i'm not sure what you guys are talking about with "studless building", i assume you mean there's no studs on the beams and other parts, but if i remember correctly, they were never that integral in the older models. i could definitely be wrong as i haven't built a Technic set for damn near 15 years, i'm actually really excited to get this started. btw, Blakbird, i love your Technicopedia site, i found it a few weeks ago before i found my way here. lookin at all the sets from the early 90s gives me an insane amount of nostalgia... thanks for all the hard work you put in there. Edit: good lord there's a lotta bags in this box!

thanks a bunch. i'm gonna go today probably, i'll let you know what i get, i like those a lot, hopefully i'll have a moment of inspiration.

what a great review. i'm very much on the fence on which large set i'm gonna get and i think this may have put me over the top. i'll let you know. thanks. for the help.

a corkboard is a fantastic idea, i never woulda thought of that. i'm gonna swing by Target tomorrow and pick one up, thanks. and thanks for the time info. we had the same problem with the coding on the music site i mod on, needless to say, we also gave up on it.

first and foremost, a small annoyance. i can't get the damn time to be correct on here. it's constantly an hour ahead (right now it think it's 2am, not 1). i clicked off the DST options and everything, it just pushed it another hour ahead haha. do i just have to give up and set myself in a different time zone that i'm actually in or is there a fix for this? secondly, i asked something similar in the Technic forum, but maybe more people will see it here: i live in a small apartment (that'll get even smaller when my girlfriend moves in towards March). i've been puttin my sets together on my bed and my small laptop table until now, but tryin to do it with the Green Grocer has proven to be chickenfuckingly frustrating (losing pieces, shit rolling everywhere, etc etc etc). any suggestions on how i can make a workstation that isn't permanent? i'd love to still be in my bedroom and near my computer when i build. any clever ideas that anyone has are very much appreciated.

for me it was somewhat serendipitous. i had gone to my parents house and my mom had very randomly found an old printed Lego piece (like a dashboard tile) in my old closet and gave it to me. i really racked my brain tryin to figure out which set it came off. that night, after i had finally given up, there was someone on NPR talkin about Lego and how the company has continued to grow strongly as the rest of the toy market loses even more money. also, in late August, maybe early September, they opened a Lego Sore in the only mall that i actually like, the Garden State Plaza. every time i went to that mall with my girlfriend i always wanted to go in and check it out, but i figured i wasn't gonna buy anything so wat was the point. so the next day (after the NPR story and the found piece) i had to go to the GSP, as it was right before Christmas. i actually decided to go into the Lego Store and holy shit, i was blown away. i had no idea that Lego had such great stuff again. pretty much the only time i looked at what Lego had to offer since i was a kid was when i received a random catalog in 2002. everything there seemed too... basic and gimmicky would be good words i guess. when i saw the Green Grocer and Fire Brigade, all the Star Wars and Indiana Jones stuff, and especially when i saw the massive, badass new Technic sets, that was it, i was put over the top. i bought a small set (the Mini Telehandler) to see if i would really have fun building it, and i'll be damned, it was not only more fun that i could have imagined, but i really believe i had a better time doin it at 28 than i did when i was a kid. my girlfriend loves that i have a new interest and that it's not baseball related haha. we're gonna build some of the larger sets together. i can't wait.

my oldest happens to also be the first Lego set i ever received. it had been my cousins, but he never opened this one (apparently he lost it on Christmas morning 1982 and when he found it when i was 5, he was 16 and hadn't cared about Lego for a while). i opened it, put it together, and an obsession was born. like 99% of every set i've owned, i still have it somewhere in storage. this set was an integral part of every major city, town, farm, train, whatever i made when i was a kid. hell, i even remember bein in Kindergarten and being so excited to get home to play with it and the fire station i had from that same year. http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=6681-1 and the fire house, also from 81. Edited for spelling errors, as always. derp.

that would be so incredibly ace. and one a very select group on unique Technic sets.

hey guys, i'm new here and i have a couple questions for anyone with any insight. just refer to whichever you're answering by number: #1. what's the best current "large" set to pick up? i'd classify large as anything over 500 pieces, bacially something that i can kill a night or two workin on. which leads me into... #2. i've only recently gotten back into all of this, but i feel like i've missed out on so much. i'm looking through BrickLink for older Technics, but i have no diea where to begin. i loved Technics when i was 14 or so, but i've gotten nothing since. so basically, same question as above, except what do you guys say are some of the best larger sets from 1995-2007 or so? preferably something that doesn't cost a huge premium on sites like BrickLink, unless it's very worthwhile. #3. i've bought a few smaller sets and yesterday i got the Green Grocer. i'm puttin it all together on my bed and the small table i usually have my laptop on... and it's drivin me crazy. i can imagine it'll be even worse if i try this with a Technic set. i live in a small apartment and i don't have much room for a real workspace (i'll have even left when my girlfriend moves in around late February), what can you guys recommend as a good work area? even if it's not a permanent table or corner. in fact, even better if it's not haha. #4. maybe this is all in my head, but it seems to me that Technic stuff isn't as "respected" as all the other Lego lines are. i don't understand why. i mean, Technics are my favorite, no question, but i also love Town stuff, especially City. i also like some of the Star Wars sets (though i've never seen the movies). i even like the Agents 2.0 stuff, wish they still made it. what's the problem with liking both? but yea, i guess my question is basically this; is this just my perception, or do other people see it too? and if you guys agree, what do you think leads to the dislike for Technic? ok, that's everything. i had a fifth question, but forgot and i babbled too much as is hahaha. any help is appreciated. i love this site so far, everyone seems awesome. i'm a mod for a punk forum and i hate to say it, but i think i'm gonna have a lot more fun here.

holy shit, that's incredible! that's a fantastic collection.

crawej21, can you post some shots from rear-quarter and top-down angles please. i've been lookin everywhere to see how it'll look overall. my local Lego Store (in the Garden State Plaze, right over the Bridge in Jersey) has this truck and the Telescopic Handler for just $15. i'm really torn on which to get.

i'm building the Green Grocer as we speak and i'm gonna get the Fire Brigade (which my girlfriend wants to help with). these sets are incredible and make me so happy i've come back to Lego recently.

fantastic review. i really want this set, shame it's sold out everywhere at the original price.

great review. i don't have much interest in Atlantis whatsoever (though i love the minifigs), but this set looks really sweet. if i get any Atlantis stuff, it'll be this.

i'm also a mod on a Punk forum, so i'm used to very long-winded posts. i'll get to work on that review.

ok, let's see, where to being? my name is Justin, i'm 28 and i just recently (like within the last 3 weeks) got back into Lego. like most of you prolly were, i was obsessed as a kid. i moved from the classic sets to Technic when i was 12 or so and gave up on Technic at 15, even though i still loved both deep down, i had too much else to do, particularly playing baseball and meeting every girl i possibly could haha. for years and years i never thought about Lego, not even noticing new sets that were out. then, right before Christmas, i was back at my parents house and they found an old Technic piece. i have no idea why, but it piqued my interest to the point where i looked online for what the new sets were like; i was pretty impressed. i went out to Toys 'R Us and bought a small set and put it together and, honestly guys, i think i had more fun building it at 28 than i ever did as a kid. i started looking for what other Technic sets i wanted and decided to just go to the Lego Store in the Garden State Plaza (in Paramus, NJ, about 10 minutes over the George Washington Bridge from me)... well, i went in to look at Technic sets, but i wound up looking at so man Start Wars and City sets and just couldn't stop myself from spending $130 on assorted stuff... i think i had even more fun putting my City sets together than i did with the Technics. i started to look for reviews on the internetses and that's how i stumbled onto Eurbrocks. i've lurked a lot as a guest here and i gotta say, you guys do a great job. some random facts about me: besides my newfound affinity for Lego, i also LOVE baseball (particularly the New York Mets) and music (particularly all things punk, pop-punk, pop-hardcore and, my favorite, skatepunk). i play a lotta PS3, right now i'm all about Bayonetta... and between all these things and my girlfirend (who i love even more than Legos (is that blasphemous? haha)), i wouldn't have time for any other hobbies if i wanted to. other miscellanea: born in the Bronx, grew up in North Jersey til i was 17, since then i've lived in seemingly every apartment in the Bronx, New Rochelle and Yonkers, NY. i also talk too much (and have a dirty mouth, though i've been controlling myself here), as you may have noticed haha. i'm also looking to sell a lot of my older stuff that i don't have any sentimental attachment to. almost all of it from 1986-1990. feel free to ask if i have anything you want, cause odds are i do. i hope i can contribute to this forum as much s everyone else seems to and i look forward to getting to know you guys. oh, and i took a shitload of pics when i was putting together the Combine Harvester (7636). i wanted to write a review of it but i noticed there was one already up. is it frowned upon to put up a second one of would that be ok? Edit: wow, i REALLY talk too much haha.