A Great Gift

First of all, I apologize for not posting lately, but I haven’t had a camera handy to take pictures of my MOCs so that I can post them here.  Also, my Motorized Ringo Starr made it to the finals in BBcc #59 and will be at BrickFair.  Voting will be held there, so feel free to drop by and cast your vote!

Last week, for my church, was Vacation Bible School.  Volunteers manned the stations and projector, youth helpers were overwhelmed by the craziness that is 3rd graders. I, myself, signed up for audio and visual, and am I ever glad I did.  (yes, this does tie into Lego)

On the first day of VBS I  learned that I would be doing photography.  The man I would work with, a particular Mr. Tucker, was a very kind person who did almost all of the church picture-taking.  He coached me through the picture-taking process and loaned me his best camera.  It turns out there’s more to it than just pressing the button.  (Gasp!)  I enjoyed my job thoroughly, however, and am convinced that at least one or two of my approx. 150 pictures weren’t terrible.  (Mr. Tucker was convinced that my average was higher than that.)

The next day Mr. Tucker showed me his generosity by giving printouts of every picture I had taken the previous day, as well as a disk copy.  I was very thankful.  But his generosity didn’t stop there, for the next day he duplicated the feat and brought a tin of vintage Legos.  ( I had told him earlier that I usualy only used cameras to take pictures of my Lego MOCs.)  You had better believe that I was extremely grateful. 

There was a story behind these Lego.  Mr. Tucker had bought a Znap set out of curiosity some time ago and loved it.  He then bought another Znap set and a Cyberslam set to expand his collection.   Eventually, however, he stopped playing with them.

About a year ago, disaster struck.  The Tucker’s house burned down.  And yet, despite this, the Lego survived, to be passed onto me.

When I looked in the tin I thought, at first, that it wasn’t Lego because I was not familiar with the Znap system.  But it was, two complete Znap sets, both with a 9-volt motor each.  They proved very fun two play with and easy to build.  The large pieces allow cool creations to come together very quickly.  They are fully compatible with the Technic system.

It also included the Cyberslam set Spyder Slayer.

This is a wonderful set!  The instructions tell you how to build a very fun creation full of playability and 3 configurations for the “Spyder”.  But it also has MOCing elements that are to die for:  Two rare technic figures, lots of teal, some purple, and a 9-volt motor!  Thank you, Mr. Tucker!