# Feed your LEGO addiction
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 24, 2002, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778 "2002-03-24T00:50:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/1 "2002-03-24T00:50:17Z")
You WILL waste too much time at [this](http://www.lego.com/build/brickbuilder/brickbuilder.asp) site.
Please don’t hate me. 😉
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### Author:  [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/2 "2002-03-24T01:00:32Z")
Sorry, but… eh.
It’s neat, but it’s no substitute for smooth, cool plastic in your hands.
And it doesn’t seem to have any little people.
I’ll stick to the real thing, I think.
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### Author:  [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/3 "2002-03-24T01:29:34Z")
Anyone else wish Lego would ditch the Star Wars and Harry Potter crap and just go back to making Town, Space, and Castle sets?
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### Author:  [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/4 "2002-03-24T01:46:30Z")
I hate all the “theme” legos, like the Star Wars and Harry Potter stuff. I went to the Lego outlet up in Dahlonega/Dawsonville GA a couple of weekends ago and all they had was that stuff. Didn’t buy a darn thing.
I agree FisherQueen, but it could be a quick substitute at work when I get the Lego jones going on.
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### Author:  [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/5 "2002-03-24T01:47:11Z")
Geeze, NO…I LOVE the Star Wars stuff! The Lego Emperor is just too darn cute!
Plus, love the Mindstorms R2D2…don’t tell me you’ve never wanted to own your own R2. 😃
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### Author:  [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/6 "2002-03-24T01:50:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> _Originally posted by ElwoodCuse_
> **Anyone else wish Lego would ditch the Star Wars and Harry Potter crap and just go back to making Town, Space, and Castle sets?**
Oh yeah. It seems like the pieces made nowadays are so specialized that you can only really use them for whatever set they came in. Give me everything up to, and including, the old “expert construction sets”.
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### Author:  [@Kloudes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kloudes)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/7 "2002-03-24T03:34:36Z")
As a huge LEGO fan, and a huge Star Wars fan, I’m inclined to say… the two shouldn’t be mixed. Sure, it’s cute, but you really can’t interchange the parts. As was mentioned, everything is to specialized. I like to let my creativity run rampant, isn’t that what it’s about?
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### Author:  [@Jonno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonno)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/8 "2002-03-24T07:39:56Z")
I find that all the theme sets just let my imagination get even weirder than before. Just get some normal Legos, then one random box from every theme series, mix all the pieces up and go wild. 😃
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### Author:  [@Trucido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trucido)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/9 "2002-03-24T08:32:45Z")
The castle-theme series rocked my world. I was one well-equipped little medievalist. At one point, I had a truly massive castle that was a couple of sets fused, complete with those grinning little yellow heads piked on the gate, and a couple of siege engines. You can melt-down all the rest, for all I care.
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### Author:  [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/10 "2002-03-24T11:37:53Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by ElwoodCuse \*
> \*\*Anyone else wish Lego would ditch the Star Wars and Harry Potter crap and just go back to making Town, Space, and Castle sets? \*\*
A pleasant prospect for the purist, but the sad fact is that it doesn’t sell. Harry Potter is probably what made LEGO’s profit last year, and they’d been running in the red for some years before that. There’s plenty of copycats making interlockable bricks out there - LEGO must innovate or die. But some of the youngsters will catch the bug from Harry Potter, I hope!
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### Author:  [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/11 "2002-03-24T15:41:11Z")
Obviously i’m a Lego fan. Let me say, anyone who says the pieces are too specialized these days to make anything other than the box model clearly hasn’t tested this hypothesis. Yes, there are some pieces that are a bit harder to use, but in general it’s mostly the same pieces as before. And you CAN still get a bucket with just generic pieces in it. If you’re jonesin for some Lego you have no excuse. Feed the need.
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### Author:  [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/12 "2002-03-24T17:33:51Z")
I loved the old castle sets - millions upon millions (or so it seemed) 2x1x1 blocks. And about a dozen specialty pieces. all needing to be put together …
then they changed so that its 6 specialty pieces, which is no where near as cool.
Sadly, the lego buying public must like the new kind better. Stupid children, ruining perfectly good toys. 😉
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### Author:  [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/13 "2002-03-24T18:26:47Z")
My only regret wiht the website:
No doors or windows. I’m trying to build a house, and I need my windows and doors!!
Or are they some place I haven’t looked yet?
PD. When I finally own my own house, I will have a spare room with all my LEGOS and finish building my LEGO town. A room my kids won’t be permitted to enter.
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### Author:  [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/14 "2002-03-24T20:51:55Z")
Sorry to be the lone dissenter, but…
I just bought a set with a Yoda figure today. And it rocks my world.
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### Author:  [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/15 "2002-03-25T00:24:49Z")
Didja know there’s a Biblical Legos set?
[www.thereverend.com/brick\_testament/](http://www.thereverend.com/brick_testament/)
OK. It’s not a real set, but it should be.
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### Author:  [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2002, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/16 "2002-03-25T13:36:56Z")
If you watch much TV, look for the video Fell In Love With A Girl, by the White Stripes. You can also find it on [MTV.com](http://MTV.com). It’s animated totally in LEGOs. Coolest video ever!
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### Author:  [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/17 "2002-03-25T16:24:12Z")
Anyone got the _Holy Grail_ dvd? It comes complete with a whole bunch of extras including the Camelot song…
IN LEGO!!
You might as well kill me now, I will never see anything quite so cool for the rest of my days
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/18 "2002-03-26T15:52:29Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Funky McDuck \*
> \*\*You might as well kill me now, I will never see anything quite so cool for the rest of my days \*\*
You mean [this](http://www.lego.com/eng/studios/screening/movie.asp?title=montypython)?
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### Author:  [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feed-your-lego-addiction/99778/19 "2002-03-26T16:02:51Z")
Two Christmases ago, the hubby & I purchased two vats (and I do mean VATS) of generic LEGO for his niece and nephew who, until that point, had never experienced the joy of LEGO - spending most of their time on the computer or playing with Pokemon.
LEGO was a revelation to them - they loved it. This year, we bought them Tinker Toys. The old wood kind. 😃
When I was a kid, my brother and I would build big brick cars and send them flying at each other. Whichever lasted longest won. We broke a whole lot of bricks that way.