10% off retail...you save $4.05! Embark on a thrilling journey into the world of chaos! Learn all about chaos, the chaos theory, and the butterfly effect. Then, get hands-on and build pendulums that move in complete, continuous chaos! What do a railway station, a galaxy far far away and Hogwarts have in common? The town of Springfield has just joined the list of toys that you really should have grown out of, as we are invited to say Hi-Diddly-Ho! to the Lego Simpsons House. Complete with mini figures of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and Ned Flanders, this is sure to be one for collectors, and is the result of a deal between the Danish toy maker and Twentieth Century Fox to mark the 25th anniversary of the famous cartoon. In addition, a special episode of The Simpsons is being made featuring the cast in Lego form. As somebody with a midly unhealthy obsession with these little plastic bricks (as an example, sat on my desk is a book called Beautiful Lego), my colleagues on Telegraph Men asked me to come up with a list of the five best Lego models ever.
Such a thing would require a frightening amount of legwork for somebody who is actually at this moment supposed to be writing about cars and so I have instead created a slightly different, less well researched and entirely self-indulgent alternative: My top five Lego models of all time. Consider it a starting point for your own suggestions, which I invite you to add in the comments section. 1. Any Lego Railway circa 1980s Building the tracks was fiddly beyond belief, and we were forever losing the rubber bands that sat around the wheels in order to provide traction, but once the railway was up and running it provided my siblings and me with hours of entertainment, not to mention the most wonderful sounds and smells. Ours had working signals and endlessly modified carriages, and with all the extended family around for Christmas one year, served the vital role of distributing condiments between tables. Of such moments are childhood memories made. 2. Lego Skull's Eye Schooner Long before Lego branched off into film franchises, some of its most creative sets were those featuring medieval castles, space stations and the exploits of pirates.
The Skull's Eye Schooner was a highlight, complete with canons (from which you could fire little plastic balls), winches and even a shark, ready and waiting to devour those made to walk the plank (a flat, fat-sixer if memory serves). Mum sold our Skull's Eye Schooner when us kids moved out of home, no doubt for somewhat less than the £150 a good example commands on eBay today. 3. Lego Death Star Despite numerous unsubtle hints, I have not yet been sent a Lego Death Star to review, and thus naming it as one of my top five Lego models ever should rightly be considered as tenuous. However, you only need to look at the pictures (not to mention the £275 price tag) to know that this is a formidable set, a point backed up by the fact that it takes 3,803 pieces to build and comes with 24 mini figures. One day I will build it - it is my destiny. 4. Lego Technic Arctic Rescue Unit I’d wager that of all my choices, this is the one people would regard as the weakest. It is, after all, a fairly simple model, not all that expensive back in the day and with no real innovation as far as features were concerned.
However, as a youngster obsessed with anything that had wheels, set 8660 provided incredible value for money. For a start, there were two vehicles - the six-wheeled rescue van itself and a snow plough that sat in its rear compartment. Plus, there was a set of skis and not one but two Technic figures, who even got their own helmet. This was a set that, in the mind of a 12-year-old boy, was prepared for every situation the living room could throw at it. 5. Lego Technic Unimog Nine-and-a-half hours. That’s how long it took me to build the Lego Unimog. By the end of it my back was burning, my eyes were bloodshot and I’d lost any concept of what was going on in the outside world. More than 2,000 pieces went into it (another reason that leads me to believe the Death Star must be quite a challenge), and the result is as much a mini engineering marvel as it is a toy. An electric motor activates a pump so that you can pneumatically control the rear claw, at which point you will be genuinely baffled that it was in fact you who built the various gears and linkages that make all of this work.
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