lego thread

[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 is a little closer to Lego I would like to play with.

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

[Frieda]

Originally Posted by 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?

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. 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. 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

[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.

[Tunesmith]

Just watched this awesome video:



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.