MAF General Chat

[Barison82]

Nice! You should put it up on eBay but add 10x value tax to it and someone might buy it. Maybe give it for free if it happens to be us

Nah I’m too attached to it I’m afraid. Not letting this go

 

[thiscooldude]

May as well make an MAF Discord!

Edit:https://discord.gg/P7WDBwPjFX

 

[pons399]

You guys do realize we are a bunch of grown-ups playing airport with ultra-delicate toy airplanes, right?

I shamelessly admit to playing around with my NGs, just as I did with my Matchboxes as a lil kid.

 

[OscarBravo992]

I shamelessly admit to playing around with my NGs, just as I did with my Matchboxes as a lil kid.

Gosh, you’re bold. I’d be too scared of breaking mine, they stay in their cabinet, protected from my clumsy hands.

 

[SmallTimeAviation]

I shamelessly admit to playing around with my NGs, just as I did with my Matchboxes as a lil kid.

But making sound effects is going too far... right? Asking for a friend.

 

[thiscooldude]

Who else remembers Model Aviator Forums eh? They got the acronym before us.

 

[Jazajia]

I think its about time we rename this thread to "MAF General Chat"

That I can do. However, we will need to wait until spring break for Connor to show up and move the thread to the propper section.

 

[Tropicalista]

Lol Sento che per me collezionare modellini di aeroplani ora è un'evoluzione rispetto al collezionare auto di Hot Wheel da bambino.

And the Micro MachineS? Only me was child in the 90's?

 

[pons399]

But making sound effects is going too far... right? Asking for a friend.

Uuh, not really tbh...

Gosh, you’re bold. I’d be too scared of breaking mine, they stay in their cabinet, protected from my clumsy hands.

That's a valid concern, I only fiddle with less treasured models or those I have multiple copies of.

 

[Aviation Enjoyer]

Nah I’m too attached to it I’m afraid. Not letting this go

Aw man. Oh well at least you love your toys! My toys back then got the treating of being in a war zone despite being fully loaded with civilians...

 

[Aviation Enjoyer]

Uuh, not really tbh...

That's a valid concern, I only fiddle with less treasured models or those I have multiple copies of.

Thats lame to be honest. All toys can't be discriminated to being in the hands of a playful person right?

 

[pons399]

Thats lame to be honest. All toys can't be discriminated to being in the hands of a playful person right?

I'm too bored to totally eschew playing with models, but also too cowardly to mess around with my most beloved ones...

 

[Tropicalista]

Penso che sia giunto il momento di rinominare questo thread in "MAF General Chat"

..it was done by a moderator/admin... looks like someone is checking

 

[thiscooldude]

Would love to get a PAL dc8

 

[Aviation Enjoyer]

I'm too bored to totally eschew playing with models, but also too cowardly to mess around with my most beloved ones...

I see. I like to do stop motion with anything that is worthy of being on camera. So I usually pretend my models are going to Kai Tak both ways (even the US narrow bodies, but Delta MD90s had gone there before).

 

[Barison82]

Aw man. Oh well at least you love your toys! My toys back then got the treating of being in a war zone despite being fully loaded with civilians...

I found that 1975 Lego set in a charity shop for 50p I knocked a good few toys around as well, just like any other kid would. However by the time I was 12 I started looking after them a bit more, the Lego Airport Shuttle being the first set I kept together carefully in the original box, and still have it to this day. It was a big deal purchase for my 12th birthday back in 1994, it cost £100 which back then was a fair bit of money to spend on Lego...it was the very last one in the shop, the set had actually gone out of production that year. Too many memories still attached to this stuff!

 

[OscarBravo992]

However by the time I was 12 I started looking after them a bit more, the Lego Airport Shuttle being the first set I kept together carefully in the original box, and still have it to this day. It was a big deal purchase for my 12th birthday back in 1994, it cost £100 which back then was a fair bit of money to spend on Lego...it was the very last one in the shop, the set had actually gone out of production that year. Too many memories still attached to this stuff!

I’m in awe. A sealed airport shuttle costs a pretty penny nowadays!

 

[Aviation Enjoyer]

I found that 1975 Lego set in a charity shop for 50p I knocked a good few toys around as well, just like any other kid would. However by the time I was 12 I started looking after them a bit more, the Lego Airport Shuttle being the first set I kept together carefully in the original box, and still have it to this day. It was a big deal purchase for my 12th birthday back in 1994, it cost £100 which back then was a fair bit of money to spend on Lego...it was the very last one in the shop, the set had actually gone out of production that year. Too many memories still attached to this stuff!

Wow I didn't know that airport shuttle set was from 1994. And 100 pounds doesn't seem too bad for the average lego set. Especially if you somehow manage to not break it. I think the only 2 lego's that are intact from my slightly younger days is the Porsche lego technic set and a private jet that came with a Limo and some cursed tug. The Porsche was more like my dad's property and the plane is more like one of those old birds you'd find at a plane graveyard. Sadly other than those 2 anything older than 2019 would've been broken by me.

 

[Barison82]

I’m in awe. A sealed airport shuttle costs a pretty penny nowadays!

I know, I’ve seen that Madness!! Especially if there are people shelling out crazy figures for an unopened set, which means it will have to stay unopened, otherwise they’ll have lost a few grand there straightaway! It’s crazy!

 

[Barison82]

Wow I didn't know that airport shuttle set was from 1994. And 100 pounds doesn't seem too bad for the average lego set. Especially if you somehow manage to not break it. I think the only 2 lego's that are intact from my slightly younger days is the Porsche lego technic set and a private jet that came with a Limo and some cursed tug. The Porsche was more like my dad's property and the plane is more like one of those old birds you'd find at a plane graveyard. Sadly other than those 2 anything older than 2019 would've been broken by me.

Yeah that set was in production for only 4 years, 1990-1994. It was deleted when they rebooted their entire range that year, and dropped the ‘Legoland’ identity, becoming instead Lego ‘System’. Given what that set goes for now, that was a pretty good price Keep hold of those 2 sets you have, they may end up doing better than gold!