# LEGOS! Yeah Baby! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 23, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593 "2003-04-23T14:54:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/1 "2003-04-23T14:54:58Z")
So I was in the gas station waiting in line and noticed a display of Lego stuff for sale. 2 kits for a dollar! 2 KITS FOR A DOLLAR? Hell yeah baby. So I bought all four of the kits, featuring the ultra bad ass : [Jack Stone](http://www.lego.com/jackstone/) [The Super Glider](http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?prod_id=4612) [The Turbo Chopper](http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?prod_id=4613) [The Ultralight Flyer](http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?prod_id=4614) [The Red Recon Flyer](http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?prod_id=4615) Now they’re all assembled and sitting in my cubicle at work. I am the envy of my co-workers, and I _should_ be, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/2 "2003-04-23T14:59:38Z")
Love 'em. I used to build houses and forts for my pet mice out of Legos. Did you know the distance between the little pegs on a Lego brick is the exact same width as a mouse terd? ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/3 "2003-04-23T15:06:55Z")
Fight the ignorance, baby, and tell us WHICH GAS STATION! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/4 "2003-04-23T15:27:08Z")
Have y’all seen the mini-Star Wars sets? Tiny little AT-STs, snow speeders, Jedi Starfighters, Slave I’s, pod racers, X-wings and tie fighters! Get all 4, and you can put together a Tie bomber. ---
**Author:** ![lauramarlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lauramarlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lauramarlane)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/5 "2003-04-23T15:33:17Z")
I rediscovered the joy that is LEGO when my son got the Hogwarts Castle for Christmas. I was only going to help…a little…just with the trickier parts. I put the whole damned thing together and loved every second of it. My SO would come in periodically and say “you know that’s David’s toy, you should leave it for him.” I’d just nod and say “yep, just gotta finish this one last thing.” Then it was done. And I did a damn fine job, too 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/6 "2003-04-23T15:33:54Z")
**welby** , that is an amazing deal! Lego bricks were my favourite toy as a child. I still love 'em. I keep wishing I could run into a deal like that. Anybody got Lego you wanna sell cheap? 🙂 -wolfstu, who wishes he had his collection here right now. ---
**Author:** ![thi6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@thi6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thi6)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/7 "2003-04-23T16:32:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lauramarlane \* > \*\*I rediscovered the joy that is LEGO when my son got the Hogwarts Castle for Christmas. I was only going to help…a little…just with the trickier parts. I put the whole damned thing together and loved every second of it. My SO would come in periodically and say “you know that’s David’s toy, you should leave it for him.” I’d just nod and say “yep, just gotta finish this one last thing.” Then it was done. And I did a damn fine job, too 😃 \*\* I have that set, as well as all the other Harry Potter Lego sets. I can’t even claim I got them for my kids, because I don’t have any, and I certainly don’t plan to let them have the Legos when I do have children. Step away from the Legos. Step AWAY from the Legos. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/8 "2003-04-23T16:42:54Z")
I had a friend in college who used to build whole cities of the future out of nothing but white Legos. I never worked up the nerve to ask him what he did with all the other colors… ---
**Author:** ![lauramarlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lauramarlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lauramarlane)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/9 "2003-04-23T16:49:11Z")
My sons are incredibly protective of their completed legos. They are treasured and played with very carefully. Sometimes their obsession with the order of their legos frightens me, other times it appeals to the librarian in me. ---
**Author:** ![JanetReno.is.hot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JanetReno.is.hot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JanetReno.is.hot)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/10 "2003-04-23T17:24:40Z")
As a child i was addddicteteed to legos. i now beleive that during the manufacturing process they lace the legos with crack. that way it is obsorbed into the skin when played with. the user becomes addicted, and has to buy more. AT INSANE PRICES :eek: ---
**Author:** ![furthur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@furthur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furthur)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/11 "2003-04-23T18:38:34Z")
And now there’s a whole industry of legomation, or brickfilms, as they are called: [http://wdln.tv/Lego.htm](http://wdln.tv/Lego.htm) > **[Lego® stop motion animation videos & movies | Brickfilms.com](https://brickfilms.com/)** > > The oldest and best website for LEGO stop-motion animation movies! Eventually, Legos will evolve into actual living beings. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/12 "2003-04-23T18:54:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by furthur \* > \*\*Eventually, Legos will evolve into actual living beings. \*\* And the hairstyling industry will collapse into oblivion. The play _Sheer Madness_ will make absolutely no sense, and the mitten industry will dominate the glove industry like nobody’s business. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/13 "2003-04-23T18:56:36Z")
I won’t go into my Lego[sup]TM[/sup] rant here, but I will say that I recently got the box of all my old Legos from my dad’s house, and am looking forward to a long weekend sometime soon of immense pleasure. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/14 "2003-04-23T19:29:35Z")
I got the advent calendar last Christmas (a new toy, every day!), and now I’m on their mailing list… it’s wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/15 "2003-04-23T19:55:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by furthur \* > **And now there’s a whole industry of legomation, or brickfilms, as they are called:** I made a stop-motion lego film for a junior high “gifted” project about 10 years ago or so. I used our camcorder, improvising on the stop motion by just pressing the button twice rapidly (but not TOO rapidly :-)), then moving the characters, etc. The camera had an “audio dub” feature by which I added the soundtrack. The video was cool, but choppy at about 1-2 frames per second (limitation of the advancement of the video tape during the rapid button presses). I really should try it again now with my digital camera and computer! Except now it’s hardly cool anymore since everyone’s doing it :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/16 "2003-04-23T21:15:07Z")
oooooooh…[Legoland California](http://www.lego.com/legolandnew/california/Default.asp?x=x)! You can play with THOUSANDS of Legos there! It’s only 15 minutes from my house. Let’s have a LegoDope! ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/17 "2003-04-23T21:33:31Z")
I still have my entire assembled Lego collection; unfortunately, all of the models (with the exception of four large vehicles on display in my bedroom) are packed up in boxes on top of the refrigerator in my parents’ garage. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/18 "2003-04-23T21:39:20Z")
Am I the only one who owns [the biggest, baddest Lego set of all time?](http://www.starwars.com/collecting/news/2002/09/news20020923.html) ---
**Author:** ![lilbtagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/19 "2003-04-23T22:15:21Z")
I looooooved Legos as a kid and just bought the 4 little Star Wars sets last week to build myself a TIE bomber. 🙂 The only complaint I have is that Legos seems to be dumbed down now. The castles are made of big sections put together, instead of hundreds and hundreds of tiny pieces, like back in the day. I suppose it’s safer for kids that way, but I always knew not to put them in my mouth 🙂 - Gina, who wants desperately to go to Legoland, CA ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593/20 "2003-04-23T23:17:05Z")
I’ve had Legos since I was three. When I was sixteen I gave my collection to my cousin. Ten years later he returned them. I still have them. Sometimes I buy more. 🙂 In 2000 I finally made the Pilgrimage: Bus #250 from my Pasporta Servo lodging to the Copenhagen train station, train to Vejle, bus #244 to Billund. It was worth it. And **MaxTheVool**? I’m _jealous_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-yeah-baby/170593.md?page=2)