Category: Miscellaneous

It’s my birthday in 2 days, so get those gifts rolling in. However, at the risk of jinxing myself, I doubt anything will surpass an early gift I received this past weekend from Jim & Joyce:

That’s right! This baby has 3500 pieces (99% grey it seems!), measures 19 inches in diameter when complete, and will probably take me anywhere from 20 to one million hours to assemble 🙂

From a secret source I have also come into possession of a Lego curio:

< Set 722, from 1982 In very fine condition to boot... Details to follow...

When we were kids we had enormous amounts of Lego. And I mean crazy amounts. There were a few kits in particular I have very fond memories of, and one of them would surely be this one:

< From 1983

It is obviously a fire station, but back in 1983 when I got it for Christmas it was oh-so ‘high tech’ (for Lego), featuring such things as the slide-away garage doors and the opening windows. I really loved this kit, and would eventually know how to make it without even needing the instructions.

Today, in my travels, I came across this kit in the Christmas clearance ‘sale bin’ at Wal-Mart:

Lego has done a different fire station every few years since 1973. I think there are about 7 or 8 of them now, and this is the latest. It goes without saying I bought it, and I’ll put a short entry up when it is made. But even now, just by looking at the box, I doubt it has the magic of the original (even though it does seem to be much closer in spirit to the 1983 classic than, say, the 2000 offering).

A somewhat terse, but visual, guide to our upcoming trip.

More details to follow…

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