Has anyone seen the Legos version of Episode III? I can’t say for sure until 2005 but I would be willing to bet that it’s better than whatever Lucas gives us.
I was a very destructive child with my lego’s.
I would spend hours, building huge boats half the size of my bathtub, populating them with lego people…
And bomb the ship.
Or spend hours building huge airplanes out of legos. Filled with people. Only to send it, soaring, down the stairs into a massive air disaster.
“Look mom, It’s flight 427!” I’d yell,
And the lego plane would soar down the stairs, then hit the steps, and basically explode. You would see this huge debris field at the bottom of the stairs (I had a lot of lego’s, my planes were around 2 feet long) with miscellaneous unidentifiable plane parts strewn about. A piece of fuselage here, a bit of tail here, Little bits of wing…
Lego men, strewn about the hall, with looks of mortal dread on their faces.
Then I would rebuild the plane, and do it again.
Same with the ships.
Me and my buddy would also build huge battleships out of legos, and float them in his kiddie pool. Then we would proceed to bomb each other with salvo after salvo of matchbox cars. With each hit, the ships would take damage, you won when you destroyed the bridge, or managed to either sink the ship (The openings on the bottoms of the legos hold air, but the bricks themselves are heavier than water) or break it up into tiny unrecognizeable pieces.
Many times, we staged the Bismarck vs Hood battle, or built a lego Titanic, or Lusitania.
Demented children we were. And I never, ever, built what was on the box. I bought the kits to have specialized blocks, so I could make my own creations.
I miss my legos 
Great mines think alike, modro!
Me and my friends did all that until we discovered M80s (and eventually BlackPowder, etc). We’d build sky scrapers and blow them up. We eventually got so good at the design of the buildings and the placement of the explosives that we would (usually) only destroy a couple blocks each time…
I miss my pre-teen years
I’m with you on this one. We had a large, generic set as kids. You could make anything with it (we made a few things that we couldn’t show Mom!).
The theme kits, with all of the specialized pieces that you can’t really use for anything else, just dull the creativity.
Dude!
That thing is awesome looking!
I’d sell my body for that thing.
Didn’t you say you were getting me one for christmas?
I’m pretty sure you did.
I appreciate it dude!
Indeed they do! I liked to crash planes, helicopters, cars, you name it. All built with regular blocks and no special pieces (although you might call the wheels and “axle blocks” special pieces). I also built real floating boats and floated them in the bathtub, seeing how much stuff I could put on it before it sank.
Same here man.
My 'rents were too poor to get me the kits anyways, so Me and my brother had the buckets of non-specialized pieces. Every Christmas for a few years, we got more buckets, allowing us to build even bigger stuff to destroy.
You guys have me seriously missing my Legos
why not divert some of your porn n’ beer fund and buy some then?
Because, I don’t have a porn n’ beer fund.
I’m 20, so no beer, and have the 'net for porn.
I LIKED some of the specialized stuff, especially the castle-style sets (with catapults and stuff) and the pirate style sets (Lego cannons!) with, of course, cool Lego men.
Hey, I can understand the generic vs. kit arguments. But forget Star Wars-- this is the coolest kit ever:
http://www2.dystance.net:8080/~markl/lego/10020-large.jpg
I have one waiting patiently for me at home, a reward for finishing the semester.
Don’t worry, welby, I’d only break your heart and run off with your Lego collection.
I wonder which would be worse? Losing you or losing the Lego collection?
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modro no offense man, but it was you who promised to get it for me. Right after we drank that fifth of vodka and just before I puked and passed out. Don’t try and slither out of it now you cheap bastard.
The Legos, dude. Girls come and girls go, but Legos are forever.
Oh gods…one of my true weaknesses in life…lego.
I cut my lego addiction cold turkey. Took my box of 50,000 legos and threw it away (I had to have my mother get rid of it, donated to a charity). That was 10 years ago and I still think of all the cool pieces I had and the stuff I built.
It’s scary to think that now I have the money to buy lego (as a kid I did everything I could to scratch together enough money for legos) I could rebuild my collection pretty quickly. Too bad my SO would probably consider me nuts and send for the kind people in white lab coats.
I have resisted digging out my old legos, but I have some cool stuff. I have one of the pirate ships, 3 castle sets, and enough Lego men to start a small war. And I always am tempted by the toy aisle.
No need to justify MindStorms… just go get one! They are awesome. The only trouble I have with mindstorms is deciding whether I want to build the robot or program it first. If you get into Mindstorms, I strongly suggest buying the accessory pack with the remote control, and getting an extra motor or two.
My favorite Mindstorm website is no more (www.lugnut.com… now just a series of stupid popups), but you can still find the Lego Rubik’s Cube Solver here.
I would also strongly suggest buying some small segmented containers and a tackle box or two to keep your gears and small bits organized and off the floor. You can’t build mindstorms with the traditional “all legos in a big bucket” approach.
I believe you forgot one minor detail.
When you puked, you did so, all over me. Before you passed out, as you were helping me pick partially digested bits of food stuff out of my hair, you said you would make it up by buying me the Star Destroyer set for Christmas.
Surely, you haven’t forgotten. I’d been looking forward to it since New Years
I’m still trying to figure out what to do with my spare MicroScout–do I put it back in R2D2, or is there some ACTUAL use for the darn thing?
I find the legos thing really really weird; You’re right, it is Lego; “It’s raining, why don’t you get the lego out?”.
…however…
This might just be one of those situations where usage makes it valid (on that side of the Atlantic anyway).
I have a huge stack of Lego that I bought for the kids (well, I bought for myself, but they can play with it if they are good) - eBay is a fantsastic place to pick it up, although it often needs sorting(teeth marks) and washing(put it in a pillowcase, tie with a cable tie and throw in the washing machine (on a cool wash with no spin) when you buy it second hand.