Lego technic is back!

I was under the assumption that the technic line was discontinued around 2000 when Bionocle came out. Or maybe the store around me just stoped carrying them. Any way my favorite line is back. Time to start playing again

Uh oh...

a good excuse for daddy to buy presents for the kids ;). My daughters will likely grow up to be gearheads. Gearhead girls with a very proud father.

Clem

I played with Legos all the time when I was a kid. I still want this kit sooo badly!:

Technic Supercar FTW. It also came with instructions on how to turn it into a Formula 1-style car. Sucks that these kits are so rare nowadays.

Are those pop-up headlights? That kit is frickin sweet!

V-8 engine, independant suspension all around, pop-up headlights, 4-wheel drive and steering w/ 3 differentials, 4-speed H-gate transmission, etc., etc. Read about it here:

http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~dulcaoin/reviews/noframes/8880-2.html

I found one for sale on eBay... Australia. The guy won't ship to the US, either.

I found the super car in britan on ebay, waiting on a shipping quote to the states before i bid

Let us know how it goes!

Technic never really left. Some years kit were better than others. Remember LEGO Model Team? I lusted over that big rig.

I now have a bid in on the super car, but the listing is up for 5 more days

ArtOfRuin wrote: I played with Legos all the time when I was a kid. I still want this kit sooo badly!: Technic Supercar FTW. It also came with instructions on how to turn it into a Formula 1-style car. Sucks that these kits are so rare nowadays.

Here's one on ebay.

^^ thats the one I'm bidding on

I promise not to bid on it. Although, it is very sweet... maybe I'll just bid a little... j/k

I had this one:

It even had a working gearbox, if I remember right. I reworked it into a kick-ass dune buggy. As you do with that kind of car.

What I like about it is the lack of special for-this-kit parts. Check out the kitchen faucets reused as spark plugs!

as far as i know technic never went away

Keith, you had the granddy of them all. That bugger was one of the first $100+ kits, if I remember correctly. Wonder what a complete kits worth nowadays?

We built this one in 2005:

OK technically not Technic but this thing is begging for some R/C parts! 1:9 scale Ferrari F1 - 20" long and 7" wide

http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=8157&cn=112&d=70

And yeah, Technic never went away, must have just been your local stores.

I want to figure out how to build this

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/fully-automatic-lego-uzi

A fully auto rubber band gun

Appleseed wrote: Keith, you had the granddy of them all. That bugger was one of the first $100+ kits, if I remember correctly. Wonder what a complete kits worth nowadays?

I was lucky enough to be traveling with my parents through Europe for several months in 1984 (I think), including a stop in Legoland. So we probably picked that kit up at the source. I remember a rack where you could buy individual Technic pieces, either at Legoland or in some huge German toy store. Technic hit Europe before it got to Canada, so I was ahead of the curve! I learned a lot from that stuff, like how a differential works. My friends would come over and play with Lego, and while they were making houses I'd be making functional double-wishbone suspensions.

I still have all the components of the kit, I'm sure. Maybe even the destructions. But not the packaging, so the collectors won't be interested.

If I had a kid, I'd be combining Technic and Mindstorms.

I had this Model Team set:

I need to go through all of my Legos at my dad's house... I have thousands upon thousands of pieces. Definitely one of my best memories throughout my childhood.

Anyone like LEGO robots? Not the gimpy Mind Storms one, but full on Japanese style super seizure sci-fi robots? Look no further:

http://www.mechahub.com/

new technic off roader

http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=8297&cn=57&d=70

only $120

although, i picked this one up at the GM carlisle year before last

NEENER NEENER NEENER! best $38 i ever spent!

(it was an unopened kit and it was FUN to build, i didnt realize how much i missed legos)

oh golly, i want this one SOOOoooo bad.. a more detailed version of the one i have...

http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=8674

lego ferrari F1 with working suspension!

must start hunting for this for myself!

Ahh, taking me back to my youth. I have a theory that the two most common denominators with engineers (or tinkerers in general) in my age range are a childhood (or adult) interest in Legos and MacGyver. I loved Technic and I always wanted to build the Dragster one. My mom insisted I save my old Legos since I played with them so much so I gotta pull those out. I'm glad I have a son now as he is the perfect excuse to buy some of this stuff. ME: Our son would love the Ferrari F1 kit MY WIFE: But, he's only 1!

It's never too early to start! My son is now 7 and probably has more Legos than I ever had - not that I encourage or enable him or anything. I do keep my Technic and the "family" Mindstorms sets separate though.