I'll stick with the slide rule (and your shuttle).

Looks like pure Retro! Great work on that liftarm.

Hey you know how you said you wouldn't be able to contribute much to the group? Well it doesn't matter! Just having you in my group would be an honour! Nice creation!

Title+main pic=large smile :D

I took a week-long vacation to Florida, and while I was down there I got to see a section of the launch from a beach. My grandparents (where I stayed) have no computer or WiFi, so I think I could relate to the 80's for those days. Love the front section of the shuttle here.

Yes, the shuttle. Build one myself back in those days. It was a colourful cuboid with cargo doors. Only half the size of yours. Sadly I do not have any pictures. The daughter of my girlfrind once asked 'Mommy, when you were a child were there still dinosaurs around?'. It sure feels like that.

Ha Ha.. great man! the epic 80 years. There was nothing out of Legos were playing games, there were very few pieces, and there were few who were horribly cubic. Fear! But now we're finally in 2000, and in the last 20 years, Lego, fortunately, has managed to become, what was magic, in special. The ship I would call it ... The Rubick 1 .... Ha ha... like the cube ... Great my friend

80'.., excellent work..! Something "new"...

Ha ha ha !!! you talk about some years I know by heart !!.... It was good years... The story of the yellow and blue lego remind me so many souvenirs. That's why I love your shuttle...

I am so jealous that you have pictures of ANYTHING you built as a child. Then again, you must have been so proud of this when you were finished, why wouldn't you take pictures?! LOL Great trip down memory lane...~H

genuinely old school, I love it. Sadly I don't think I have any photos of my childhood creations but in my world combining genres (I had the yellow castle too, my son now uses it as a place to put out fires with his Lego fire engines) was strictly forbidden so this wouldn't have happened. Find more from the past!!

I'll miss the shuttles greatly. They have always been my favourite NASA vehicle, as I grew up with them. Sure, Apollo was a huge milestone, but the shuttles have earned my respect.

While I grew up in the 80's, I somehow avoided the mullet and the flock of seagulls cut....but my trip to NASA space center in Florida was the highlight of my youth, I got a Challenger model and slept with it everynight. I watched Space Camp and hoped that would happen to me. Sadly, when the Challenger blew up I was crushed. But my love of the NASA program and the shuttles lives on. This MOC is great nostalgia....thank you!

So does that mean this is Spastle? Great work and thanks for the trip down memory lane.

ah the 80's, neon, mullets, the threat of nuclear war, great times, great MOC too!

How Lego has changed, this is nostalgia at its best, i would have loved to have played with this when i was younger, impressive build :)

hehe, fun build dude, real fun. Apparently NASA have retired the shuttle program to concentrate on real spaceships to explore other worlds. Thank God!!! What a job it would be to be on such a design team! I only regret we live in the days of pioneering a space program and will never see Western civilisations greatest achievements. Oh well, that's what sci-fi books are for! Cheers dude...

I, too remember the 80's: when frizzy hair and <gasp> mullets were cool! When you had to actually use a phone plugged into a hole in your wall at home to call somebody. Nice build and nostalgic pics.

Ahhh yes, the 80's. When if you wanted to know something you had to actually venture outside to this scary place called... the library... there you would be instructed to first, be quiet, and then to look at this ancient thing called a "book." Man those people in the 80's were weird... Fun build man! ~ Chris.

No internet?! SHOCKING! What did you guys do with yourselves?! You played.....OUTSIDE?! O_o

"looks like the empire state building" haha,... yeah, the good old days...what, early 80s ? I wasn't born yet :P

Nice, Dude! What a great decade, the 80's! Ever get your old piano key tie out, just for old times sake?

Go digging. I'm curious.

Cool stuff! ... now I have to dig the picture of the X-Wing I made with set #8845 http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=8845-1 back in the day ...

Pretty cool, it's neat to see creations from a while back. It's also cool to know you still have pictures of it.

:) so i see you built the empire state building with wings... quite nice (: