Lego Prius!

[debos]

after some recent cleaning, i came across all of my old legos. in finding my long lost childhood love, i decided to give it a try and see if i can now replicate my new love, my prius! ill get some photos up soon, but if theres any other lego nerd in the crowd, give it a shot.

[Prius 07]

what kind of MPG are you getting on it and is that by using P&G?

BTW sounds like fun, pls post the pictures

[Sheepdog]

Im so old I never had lego's. I had Lincoln Logs!

[Godiva]

Hey!

They still make Lincoln Logs. We had a set of the original ones made of wood. And tinkertoys with all wood parts. And our plastic legos looks like little bricks and while they stacked, they didn't stick together. So when you knocked the wall down, it scattered all over. We had little plastic doors and windows that would swing open. Unfortunately, never had enough legos to finish the house and add a roof. Never had enough Lincoln Logs either. I guess my parents never felt the necessity of buying a second set of anything.

Our erector set had little nuts and bolts you had to tighten with a wrench to build anything too.

[JimN]

Originally Posted by Godiva

Hey!

And our plastic legos looks like little bricks and while they stacked, they didn't stick together. So when you knocked the wall down, it scattered all over. We had little plastic doors and windows that would swing open. Unfortunately, never had enough legos to finish the house and add a roof.

I had American Bricks, which seem like what you described but they did interlock. The "set" contained red bricks for walls and somewhat thicker white bricks for the concrete foundation. There were white plastic doors and windows. There were some green light cardboard sheets for roofing.

[Godiva]

I coulda sworn they were legos. They were thinner and were textured around the edge to look like bricks and the top had 8 bumps and the bottoms 8 holes. This would have been very early 60s.

[hyo silver]

Are you sure you're not thinking of Elgo? They were textured, as you say, but Lego were smooth. Here's a link to a page of Elgo American Brick creations. Does this look like what you remember?

[Godiva]

Yes. The windows and doors look the same. And there were some wedge shapes for a roof. I have no idea what we were supposed to be able to build. There weren't enough for the Honeymoon cottage.

They came in a round cardboard container with a metal lid.

Found them:



Wow. I wonder if they're still up in the attic. Had no idea there were that valuable. Hope my Mom didn't sell them at a garage sale for $1.00.

[geeky teacher]

I was always fascinated by the little french doors and windows that had hinges. They were sooo exotic and cool! I didn't care if there were only enough "bricks" to make two tiny walls and no roof. Such simple pleasures...

Speaking of hinges, do you remember the hinged walls of Fort Apache? I coveted the horses and itsy bitsy pistols. I think there was a dying horse on its knees in the set too, and I don't mean one that had its front legs chewed off by the dog or a sibling. That seems kind of wierd now.

Long live Creepie Crawlies from the Thing Maker!

[hackIT]

When I was a kid, we were so poor that we only had 2 toys to play with:

1) Rocks
2) Dirt

And we liked it!