lego thread

[Frieda]

since i can't do much else right now but sit down, i gave myself a little present...... lego! :D on sale from 100 for "only" 50 euros :eek:

i picked the collector's edition batmobile, been assembling for 2 hours and i now have this:

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/3302/legobatmobileprogress1jg2.jpg

it's going to be a monster. i love it :cool:

when it grows up it will look like this:
clicky (http://shop.lego.com/Product/AssetPopup.aspx?p=7784&AssetType=13)

anyone else into lego??

[trisherina]

I like the old days Lego, when it came in a flat blue and white cardboard box and had windows, wheels, and flat pieces as well as the usual bricks, and they weren't supposed to make anything in particular other than what was in your head. Lego that tells me what to do with it kind of bugs me, though I enjoy looking at stuff that others make this way.

Why do you have to sit down?

[trisherina]

This (http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=6167&cn=348) is a little closer to Lego I would like to play with.

eta: Though I like the "Emergency Rescue" set too! :)

[Frieda]

I like the old days Lego, when it came in a flat blue and white cardboard box and had windows, wheels, and flat pieces as well as the usual bricks, and they weren't supposed to make anything in particular other than what was in your head. Lego that tells me what to do with it kind of bugs me, though I enjoy looking at stuff that others make this way.

Why do you have to sit down?
oh i have those too, stored somewhere in my parents' attic. i used to build houses and airplanes and pirate islands and castles.

sitting down because of the achilles tendon injury.

[T.I.P.]

I used to build lego castles and spaceships - I spent hours at a time at it.

Then I got into building lego "dragster cars" with my pals. The idea was to build a car with a dragster-type design. Once all the cars were built, a competition began. Each car would "race" against another car. It wasn't really a race: the idea was to provoke a frontal collision between the two cars. The surviving car would go on to the next round.

We spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to organize the legos so that the car would remain in one piece during collisions, as well as designing better battering rams. One thing I remember was that if the battering ram in the front was too big, the car would lose its midsection resistance.

The ensuing battles were a lot of fun :)

[brightpearl]

My son loves lego stuff -- we have a few sets from Harry Potter and Star Wars -- but he's just six, so I still do a lot of the contstruction. I can do General Greivous' ship in half an hour now. :D His view of the proper use of lego things is very similar to TIP's, so it's a good exercise in the acceptance of impermanence for me...I can spend 2 hours putting together Hogwarts, and there'll be a "tornado" or a Voldemort attack...so I build them just to build them, and not to see them done.

When I've had enough of the really involved ones, we use a set that makes several red sports cars and act out a similar crash and burn scenario. Must be a common little boy thing. :p But I have fun, too.

As an aside, "Mega Blocks" look like Legos, but they are crap. The plastic bends and warps easily, and they never stay together, even without a tornado.

[Frieda]

big mf is finished but i still have some parts left :eek:

[T.I.P.]

^ classic mechanic's problem. It's scarier when it happens to you with a car that you're actually going to be driving. :p

[Tunesmith]

Just watched this awesome video:

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I also used to race lego dragsters, T.I.P. The long hallways of apartment complex where I lived for a month each year was the perfect arena to race them...at least until the old lady next door stepped on my creation when she exited the elevator.

My "wheel" pieces were taken away after that. :(

[trisherina]

I liked this story about a Lego artist (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/05/31/lego.artist/index.html), complete with gallery.

[T.I.P.]

^ very cool

[T.I.P.]

I also used to race lego dragsters, T.I.P. The long hallways of apartment complex where I lived for a month each year was the perfect arena to race them...at least until the old lady next door stepped on my creation when she exited the elevator.

My "wheel" pieces were taken away after that. :(

Ahh that familiar pain of stepping on a lost lego, in a darkened hallway in your socks. She wasn't in her socks was she ?

I'm sorry they took away your wheel pieces :-/

[brightpearl]

I count myself lucky when I am at least wearing socks whilst stepping on legos. And Matchbox cars.
OH! and pieces of pretzels.
Erector set screws,
the Green Goblin's pumpkin bombs...

[brightpearl]

Just watched this awesome video

My son concurs with the assessment of that video as awesome.

[Tunesmith]

Ahh that familiar pain of stepping on a lost lego, in a darkened hallway in your socks. She wasn't in her socks was she ?


She was. :rolleyes:

I can remember it vividly - it was the early morning, and she was stepping outside of her apartment to grab the newspaper. My lego vehicle swerved close to the door and came to a halt, and the next thing I heard was a *CRACK* and a shriek.

[Tunesmith]

I count myself lucky when I am at least wearing socks whilst stepping on legos. And Matchbox cars.
OH! and pieces of pretzels.
Erector set screws,
the Green Goblin's pumpkin bombs...

:eek:

I hope they're not real screws, as in "lacerations and a tetanus shot" screws...

[brightpearl]

^Real screws, but tiny, and no rust. I'm up to date anyway. Lots of barbed wire around here.

Hooray!
http://home.comcast.net/~kimsbricks/other/rhino/images/Rhino_Lft_1.jpg

[Coffee]

My lil bro created houses, mansions and castles and stuff with old school "block" legos as a kid...really good at it. He's a pretty successful architect now.