It’s pretty easy to ask about your current favorite Lego sets. But which ones did you like the most when you were younger? Post your favorite childhood sets and what you liked about them in this topic!
The Technic pullbacks are a ton of fun, I still rank them among my favorites. The quad was my first set with suspension, a working piston engine and a chain on top of just looking awesome. The backhoe has nice functions and is great for digging around in a pile of bricks.
The fire boat carrier looks cool and was among my very first Lego sets ever. I loved how the boat actually floats! The cat is plain adorable and has a really expressive face, and the mini emerald express was an easy winner because I was really into trains.
Lastly, I was a big fan of Cars and these sets were right up my alley. I enjoyed making all kinds of abominable mashup characters and creatures with their special parts and it was nice how they were the right size to work with my other diecast cars.
mask maker vs. skull grinder. i never got it at the time, but it’s 98% complete now from many used lots. I actually just got the mask of creation an hour ago!
Man, I love that era of sets. What theme was the submarine from? I remember the trident symbol being used in the Atlantis sets, but they had a red and green/yellow color scheme instead of just yellow.
That would be Aqua Raiders (2007), my favorite Lego theme after Bionicle. Not to be confused with Aquaraiders (1997), a subtheme/faction of Aquazone.
There was that contest on Lego Ideas earlier this year for making GWP style callbacks to ended Lego themes and I was planning on doing an Aqua Raiders one and ran out of time. Back in ye old Flash days, Aqua Raiders had a game where you drove/swam around killing the various sea monsters. When you did destroy them, they became bricks. And if you allowed the bricks to touch, they would revive as a hybrid monster. So what I was planning on doing with my entry was making the swap/clip feature of the Monkie Kid/Ninjago sets and remake the creatures in that style so the monster-hybrid feature was there.
I’ll still make it one day, but other projects have priority right now.
