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Most hobbies that were strong with our generation are slowing dying.

LEGOS is the new and venerable hobby for the younger sets. My son and all the 30 and 40+ year olds are ate up with it. He has more Lego models now than he ever did growing up with us and he was really into them as a child. And, some others here at the business are even ate up with it more. Maybe they buy two kits and save one and these are not cheap kits. Big kits are now $600-1000 each.

There are Lego cartoon movies of many of the fantasy movies that have been popular over the past 4 decades....Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and many more. I watch them with my 2+ and 3+ year old grandchildren because they love them.

Legos is the Amazon of toys, a real phenomenon these days. I can't believe how they keep recreating themselves. They're some very smart cookies running Legos.

Few photos at our office building and in officers rooms.

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BH

[rogruth]

UP,
What kind of business is this?

[Roy]

LEGOS is the new and venerable hobby for the younger sets. My son and all the 30 and 40+ year olds are ate up with it.

Have your kids or grandkids built any of the Lego trains, like the Emerald Night?

[up148]

UP,
What kind of business is this?

We like to call it "aircraft demanufacturing" or "aircraft recycling", but down and dirty, we're in the aircraft salvage business. We buy flying corporate jets and turbo-props and dismantled them for their good parts (engine, radios, gears, airframe controls and much more). We purchase 20-25 aircraft each year which is all we can handle.

This is why there is a Lego crane, truck & trailer with aircraft load, near the receptionist desk in the front lobby. We haven't made a display for it, but one of the guys enjoyed building it up, so we want to be supportive.

Back when I started in this business in 1975, many of the employees built up plastic models of different aircraft that were on display around the lobby.

Times change.

BH

[up148]

LEGOS is the new and venerable hobby for the younger sets. My son and all the 30 and 40+ year olds are ate up with it.

Have your kids or grandkids built any of the Lego trains, like the Emerald Night?

My son got a Lego Train back in 1984-85, when he was 5-6, IIRC. Dad had to put it together since it was from Santa. What a monster...took hours. I taught him how to count the 'tits" on the blocks when he was 5-6 years old, to make sure he would choose the right piece. That's about all it took and he was off to the races. Now he's taught his 4 year old daughter the same trick and she loves it.

BH

[Roy]

Nice kit bash Roy.

Thank you, John. I'm hoping Lionel will wake up and finish the job they started, which ended up as their corruption of the post-Civil War rebuilt General. When I started to seriously look at the Lionel General, comparing it's measurements to the Grant O scale 4-4-0 drawing in the Model Railroader Steam Cyclopedia, I saw that about 3/4 of it is a 1/48 scale model.

I don't know the story of the Lionel General, but I'm aware that the Cowens sold out in 1959. I wonder if the project was orphaned, and left to others to complete? I'm not suggesting Lionel stop offering their original General, but rather, that they modify their tooling to also make the 1/48 model I believe was originally intended.

I've shown that the Lionel can motor and gears will fit a scale model, if the gear tower(a simple steel stamping) is redesigned. Because of the smoke unit puffer design, the Lionel General drivers are not quartered. My drivers are quartered, so I'll need to use a different puffer activator. Also, the Lionel drivers are coupled by way of an idler gear. They could be simply rod driven, which would allow fully spoked drivers. This will also require the final drive gear to be moved from the back of the rear driver to the rear driver axle.

[HONDO74]

UP,
What kind of business is this?

We like to call it "aircraft demanufacturing" or "aircraft recycling", but down and dirty, we're in the aircraft salvage business. We buy flying corporate jets and turbo-props and dismantled them for their good parts (engine, radios, gears, airframe controls and much more). We purchase 20-25 aircraft each year which is all we can handle.

This is why there is a Lego crane, truck & trailer with aircraft load, near the receptionist desk in the front lobby. We haven't made a display for it, but one of the guys enjoyed building it up, so we want to be supportive.

Back when I started in this business in 1975, many of the employees built up plastic models of different aircraft that were on display around the lobby.

Times change.

BH

Interesting, I worked for Airesearch Aviation Service Company in Calif for 15 years. We outfitted and put custom interiors in executive and corporate planes

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The chicken seems appropriately scandalized.

[Roy]

The woman, not so much.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The chicken seems appropriately scandalized.

Indeed.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The chicken seems appropriately scandalized.

Indeed.

Yes indeed, the look on its face is "Whatthe...is wrong with you, b***** .!"
or...
"There's something wrong with you."
or...
"You need help. Eat more beef."

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The woman, not so much.

Cute.
Oh, she's in her own world, that's for sure.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The chicken seems appropriately scandalized.

Indeed.

Yes indeed, the look on its face is "Whatthe...is wrong with you, b***** .!"
or...
"There's something wrong with you."
or...
"You need help. Eat more beef."

This is what comes from viewing too many "Eat More Chicken" commercials............

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yup. That's exactly the cultural reference I was making. Good catch!