[Misc] Do you remember small boxes of Lego bricks

[Dave the OAP]

When you were a kid, at Christmas getting a Lego box with windows, doors, bricks and roofing. It was fabulous and not that pricey.... now....

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/...AoQzxNFihA03W83z7YFbMu1PLkqGb5OjhvDVhJy8WETqg


£650!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[maltaseagull]

I am old enough to remember the one before Lego!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayko

 

[Is it PotG?]

This one's cheap as chips



Over $4k ffs

 

[beorhthelm]

When you were a kid, at Christmas getting a Lego box with windows, doors, bricks and roofing. It was fabulous and not that pricey.... now....

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/...AoQzxNFihA03W83z7YFbMu1PLkqGb5OjhvDVhJy8WETqg


£650!!!!!!!!!!!!

not a small set though, some 5k pieces in those sets.

 

[schmunk]

£8.99 - 123 pieces - seems pretty good value - https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/bricks-and-ideas-11001

 

[Dave the OAP]

not a small set though, some 5k pieces in those sets.

Very true. I never really understood the Lego technic set and these ones that actually build 1 kit....when my mum and dad bought me Lego and Meccano, it was to use your imagination to build all sorts of things you think of...for a kit, I used to be given airfix model kits

 

[dejavuatbtn]

I had a set of these rubber bricks back in the 50s.

 

[Palacefinder General]

I am old enough to remember the one before Lego!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayko

I thought it was going to be Betta Bilda (or Better Builder)

 

[Dave the OAP]

I had a set of these rubber bricks back in the 50s.
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Wow..my Dad has those.

Do you remember the minitrix(?) car and road system that worked with HO OO model railways?

I always wanted one of them but it was always a bit too expensive. I believe they were around in the 60’s

TRIANGLE Minic motorways. That was it

 

[Klaas]

When you were a kid, at Christmas getting a Lego box with windows, doors, bricks and roofing. It was fabulous and not that pricey.... now....

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/...AoQzxNFihA03W83z7YFbMu1PLkqGb5OjhvDVhJy8WETqg


£650!!!!!!!!!!!!

I get the impression it won't be kids playing with that. Well, not in the age sense of 'kids' anyway.

 

[Paul Reids Sock]

not a small set though, some 5k pieces in those sets.

£8.99 - 123 pieces - seems pretty good value - https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/bricks-and-ideas-11001

Good points.

I went through a similar thing to the OP a while back as my kids are of Lego age. Started trying to understand why the prices had risen so much and came across an interesting (depending on you definition of interesting I guess) article that reviewed the sets over time and said Lego is pretty much the same price it has always been when you consider the cost per brick. Instead it is the sets that are growing in complexity and number of bricks leading to a perceived increase in costs


On second thoughts it probably wasn't that interesting...

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Whilst LEGO was good and provided me with hours of fun in the 1960s, MECCANNO was the boys real-deal of the day back then ...

 

[Is it PotG?]

The world's largest tyre manufacturer, or they were.

 

[schmunk]

The world's largest tyre manufacturer, or they were.

Also the world's smallest tyre manufacturer...?

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Lego was brilliant when all you had was the little white bricks, windows and roofing, back in the 60's I'd sit for hours building crap!

 

[zefarelly]

We still have a LOT of lego, old and new, my lad has Star Wars and technics stuff, but we probably spent more time building cars, trailers, motor homes houses etc.

We tried meccano but very fiddly. I had it as a kid too, I don't honestly remember much about it, scalextric and lego were the top toys for indoors.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Whilst LEGO was good and provided me with hours of fun in the 1960s, MECCANNO was the boys real-deal of the day back then ...

My dad was a mechanical engineer and used to make brilliant things with meccanno ...always remember we made a dockside crane with all the cantilever controls and counter weights for lifting “ cargo”. Used to love Sunday afternoons by the fire making stuff with my dad.

Funny how things bring back long lost memories. Even at 61 tomorrow , I still look back on times together with my late dad.

As Zef said though, scalextric and latterly subbutteo was my favourite “ toys”

 

[Wozza]

When you were a kid, at Christmas getting a Lego box with windows, doors, bricks and roofing. It was fabulous and not that pricey.... now....

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/...AoQzxNFihA03W83z7YFbMu1PLkqGb5OjhvDVhJy8WETqg


£650!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's for collectors or obessives (4784 pieces), not kids (it's 16+).

Lego major on licensed sets these days because of all the cheap/Chineses competition (I think their patent expired?), but licensed stuff is way more expensive as Disney etc get a big cut.

 

[Gazwag]

The lego shop in New York outside of the Rockefeller is selling a Millennium Falcon kit for $799.99

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Wow..my Dad has those.

Do you remember the minitrix(?) car and road system that worked with HO OO model railways?

I always wanted one of them but it was always a bit too expensive. I believe they were around in the 60’s

TRIANGLE Minic motorways. That was it

No, bit outside our budget. I think even these rubber bricks may have been second hand. I do remember them starting to rot a bit, so bits broke off rendering them pretty useless. Lego was a significant improvement.