LEGO Memories

Share some of your past experiences with anything LEGO!

I remember the livingroom filled with LEGO, and me and my brother were just messing aroundā€¦ So long ago.
~sigh~

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My first lego set.

I had no idea how to build it, and it was glorious.

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I remember Christmas of 2006, I got Vezon and Fenrakk and all the inika as well as the playsets, spent all day building them, it was awesome

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Ah

I remember the days I used 2x2 bricks stacked on eachother as Star wars characters until I heard of ā€˜minifigsā€™ and setsā€¦

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That sounds like the best day ever.

Coincidentally, an episode of Spongebob came out that year calledā€¦

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In 2013, when I started to become a serious LEGO Star Wars collector, I had my heart set on buying the Ewok Village set. Well, as i was only 14 years old, earning money was difficultā€“but I finally earned $250.

Unfortunately, my family was experiencing some money issues, and they needed some extra moneyā€“so i gave them all my $250. Months passed, and my parents couldnā€™t pay me back. I remember begging for the set, but they just couldnā€™t afford it.

And then, one day after walking home from school, my dad told me to clean the bathroom. I walked in, and saw the Ewok Village sitting on the sink.

Memoriesā€¦

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I remember on Christmas of 2006 when my brother and I were first getting into bionicle we each got one set, I got Avak and he Mataro. I took Avak outside onto our second story balcony and shot him off over and over again with a disc shooter.

Then in 2007 my older brother and my dad went to the toy store for his birthday and he picked up, Mantax, Carapar, pridax, and kongu for me with his extra money and put them next to my bed when I was asleep. That was quite a surprise when i woke up.

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On Christmas 2007, my dad have gotten me all of the Phantoka sets plus Toa Ignika, and I thought I was the first kid in the world to get them. I wasnā€™t very smart.
Also, my brother and I used to sit in our room, building MOCs together. They were are simplistic, just different variation of the inika build, but we had a lot of fun: coming up with stories, setting up huge battles, and my brother, being a teenager at the time, built guns for our characters, and We would set up these giant firefights. Weā€™d make the canisters cover, and we always had a lot of fun. It is my fondest memory of him and I. Since heā€™s an adult now, and he is in the Air Force, I donā€™t see him much, and he doesnā€™t care about Bionicle. Though, when he finished high school, he did keep two MOCs we built together. One was his self MOC, and the main villain of our stories.

I remember another thing: While my dad was in Iraq, he sent me Matoro, Nuparu, Hewkii, and Jaller Inika for my birthday. I was really surprised the morning a big box was left on my front porch for me. I played with them all the time until he came back, and I drew a crude picture of Hewkii that he keeps at his desk to this day.

Edit for Double Post- Indi

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I always built and to this day I build my Bionicle original sets with my dad. I built LoSS with a lots of cheers, and even Roodaka was built with dad. I really love this kind of co-op building :smile:

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I remember i was with my friend searching in garage sales and we found a huuuge bin of bionicles for 20$.

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My first Bionicle set (Iruini and Norik) were given to me on Christmas from my grandparents. I had told them I wanted Transformers and, seeing that the toa could fold back into their canisters, bought me these ā€˜Transformersā€™.
My return to Bionicle after a long hiatus was when I was about to list my Bionicle parts on Ebay and when I looked up what a reasonable price would be I was redirected to the Bionicle Subreddit. It just so happens that that was the day when Lego.com redirected the Bionicle search to ā€˜This page is still being worked on.ā€™

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-Building my first BIONICLE set
-Going out and buying my Matau Hordika from Walmart
-Opening up Jaller Inika and getting 2 masks
-Finding Raanu in a store in 2012
-Looking up BIONICLE videos and finding the initial 2015 leaks the day TTV put the video out
-Getting a large BIONICLE parts lot from eBay and building the Toa Mata from it
-When BIONICLE 2015 was announced
-Seeing the word BIONICLE in a store for the first time in 5 years
-Buying a BIONICLE 2015 set and building it

And finally
-Finding the 2015 display that we saw at the time of SDCC, at Walmart


Yeah I was never really into system as you can see.

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Trying to hang some of the Bohrok in their cannisters

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  1. Inheriting my cousinā€™s old Bionicles
  2. Having mismatched parts and pieces before realizing what was going on (the best example is using Toa Onewaā€™s mask in place of Tahnokā€™s missing shiled and calling it a video camera. donā€™t worry, as far as i know all my sets are now complete [except Gali Mataā€¦])
  3. Seeing the commercials for the Glatorian sets and getting on the bandwagon.
  4. Around 2010, trying to buy Tahu Mata online to get all six Mata, but then having my parents call it a waste of money.
  5. A year or so later, trying to buy Tahu again and it worked this time!
  6. Making a silent vow never to buy Bionicle again to avoid weird looks from my parents.
  7. Completely ruining that vow last year when Onua and Kopaka Nuva showed up at a garage sale (I can tell you a funny story about Kopaka Nuvaā€™s maskā€¦).
  8. Hauling all my Bionicles to drama club practice so I could set them up with a friendā€™s collection. A few nights later I traded my Rahksi Guurahk for his Turahk and Thok.
  9. Getting a bunch of money last Christmas and doubling my collection.
  10. Bionicle 2015 tho
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I remember a pretty dark room in a small apartment. I was seating on a floor, messing with Lego. I built a wall, and a guy with a surf was riding on it. I think I was three years old.

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(I could easily take an hour or so listing all of my LEGO memories. Iā€™m going to stop myself at mid-2011 so as not to clutter everything, but still, a very long post. May continue this eventually.)

  1. Messing around with a couple of TECHNIC/System hybrid pieces, that I donā€™t know how I obtained, that were my first real (non -duplo scale or larger) LEGO bricks

  2. Not buying a book packaged with LEGO bricks in favor ofā€¦ a LEGO video game (I got that set eventually)

  3. Failing to be able to build the Guarded Inn, Set #10000, on the first Christmas Day that I got LEGO

  4. Reading my first LEGO catalog, that I eventually threw away

  5. Building a bunch of mini models that had a vague resemblance to the minigames of LEGO island 2

  6. The first Racer sets I took with me as my family moved out of our old house

  7. Returning the EXO-Force Grand Titan and some Visorak because I wasnā€™t collecting those at the moment (sheds tear)

  8. Failing to build the 2006 Batcave

  9. Looking nearly everywhere in an attempt to find where exactly I lost the Alpha Team Diamond Tooth minifigure (never found him)

  10. Every time I got a new Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze set (to recap: Chill Speeder my mother got me when she was out shopping, Scorpion Orb launcher on a target trip, Blue Eagle as an eighth birthday present that I sorta knew was coming, Ice Blade and whatever that drill vehicle was called shipping to my house that same day, Mobile Command Center as compensation for having a marginally smaller room than my sister, Blizzard Blaster for Christmas, and Ogelā€™s Fortress for my ninth birthday)

  11. Playing with the three Bonkles I owned (2 copies of Piruk and Defilak) while on vacation

  12. Getting the Aqua Raiders shark attack set but not being allowed to open it until the following day

  13. Getting the first wave of Indiana Jones sets but being unhappy because the largest set wouldnā€™t ship until April

  14. When that set finally did arrive but I was unable to build it because I had pneumonia

  15. Building the Mobile Command Center from Agents, which stayed together for about two seconds before falling apart, and reordering the ā€œbowedā€ TECHNIC beams

  16. The first few times I got Bonkles as birthday presents

  17. When a new friend was over and we built microscale racers (Still have a few of those intact, I believe)

  18. When I made a New Yearsā€™ Resolution to keep the (Rock Raiders-styled) MOCs I built on January 1st intact for the whole year (I succeeded)

  19. Playing with Ninjago sets with my Sisterā€™s OC

  20. Endless hours of Ninjago Spinners

  21. The times when I would take apart all of my Inikabuild MOCs and create an entirely new army

  22. The very first versions of my BIONICLE TRPG

  23. When I got into EXO-FORCE posthumously and built my first Mechs

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I remember going to walmart to get a set in, 05-06, I think I remember the voyatoran being out, but I also remember them having visorak out on a shelf so Iā€™m not sure what year it was, but Iā€™m leaning towards 06,

I walked down the isle

gahlok and nuhvok were on the shelf
in 06

I was ecstatic

I explained to my mom how odd it was to see them on the shelf years after they were released and she agreed to get them for me.

gahlok is still on my shelf.

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I remember the first time I built a Bionicle set all by myself.

It was the Tarakava set I got from my dad for christmas, I learned to do it all by myself because it didnā€™t have any socket joints, which I didnā€™t have the strength to put together.
I was so proud to show my mom the cool thing I had built all by myself; I was like 5, I think.

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This is my first set ever.

I got it from my parents when I was about tree years old because all the older kids loved Lego and build great things and I think my parents wanted me to become a master builder.Unfortunately, parents have never heard of DUPLO. The worst thing was that I could not connect the parts in accordance with the instructions. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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