LEGO Creator HelicopterAuthor: jawapro
Date: Tue 26/05/2009 09:15 PM
I finally put together the Lego Helicopter I got for Christmas (thanks Grandma!).
As stoked as I was to get some Lego given to me again - I wasn't that terribly excited by the set itself. I sort of considered Lego Creator to be similar to Lego BASIC sets. Lots of standard bricks, designed to get your collection started rather than being overly usefull and exciting on their own.
Turns out I was wrong. The Creator sets might be grouped with BASIC in the catalouges, but they are much more exciting (not that there's anything wrong with BASIC sets - you can always do with extra basic bricks).
Lots of town sets etc these days are cut down on brick numbers, and come with more larger specialised bricks. Instead of building a canopy for a truck - it's a one-piece now etc. That's very annoying, as you can't build much else with it.
The Creator sets fix this - they are full of lots of little pieces. And what's more - the instructions that come with them are for pretty cool sets too. They make use of some quite cool building techniques and styles. I learnt a couple of new techniques (espeically regarding some newer style pieces I've never used before).
If you had two of these sets, you'd have plenty of usefull pieces to build heaps of different models. Far more than you could with the same value of town sets. Unfourtuantly, I'm the sort of person who likes keeping my sets complete (not intact - but complete) - so I'm not sure if I could bring myself to mixing and matching too much.
All in all - it's far better than I originally expected. Plus - it's the first time in a fair while I've just sat down and played with Lego.
Thanks Grandma!
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