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I pwnd U · Dec 30, 2005, 05:42 AM // 05:42

wow lincoln logs i totally forgot a/b those. those things are amazing. i love lincoln logs... they are uber cool! or were anyways when i was in 3rd grade.

Ultimate Warrior · Dec 30, 2005, 05:49 AM // 05:49

I used to play with lego alot, Im very creative when I want to be. In fact, I still have a big bucket full of lego.

Arturo02 · Dec 30, 2005, 06:48 AM // 06:48

I also agree that the old legos were better. When I was growing up, me and my friends used to try and build the Star Wars stuff from the old legos. We managed to build an ATAT Walker, it was about 2 and a half feet tall. But you couldn't move it much. If you did, it would start falling apart lol.

We used to make all kinds of crazy spaceships with legos, but I don't know if you can do that now. Today, you just buy the lego kit and used the specially formed parts and you have the toy version of whatever. It's more like putting together a model.

Now, to be fair there have always been lego kits, like castles, and houses, and other stuff. But it was basic and the parts could be used with other kits, and also there were the loose packs they sold. The loose packs were where you just got a bunch of legos, all kinds of different size pieces and shapes.

I'm just glad I still have my old legos, so if I ever have kids I can give it to them so they can experience true toy fun

Arturo02 · Dec 30, 2005, 06:50 AM // 06:50

what about tinkertoys? or the erector sets?

lyra_song · Dec 30, 2005, 06:57 AM // 06:57

I love love love Legos.

I feel a weird love/hate with the trend the parts are going to.

On the one hand, we are losing "simplicity" because some parts being made are too specific for one use.

On the other hand, we are getting more detailed and elaborate pieces thats useful for other designs.

I'm particularly interested in these two sets:

Because its a HIND!!! O.o >.< Lego NEVER EVER EVER made military stuff unless it was Sci-fi related. This is weaponry. I love how they used structural arches to make the rear rotor assembly (normally used in buildings). Very clever.

also from this theme set:

This one im VERY interested in the red/tan plates that make up the top part of the armor plating. Its a nice shape. ^^;

This is how i shop for LEGOs...i look at sets and pick and choose what parts interest me >.> The rest of the bricks i buy in bulk. ^^;;

Sometimes i get a cool bonus like find a kind of piece that i never expected thats fairly unique to a few sets (Like the gear/tooth assembly from the Ice Station Odyssey) and the sliding segmented garage door parts (No longer in production BTW)

Sol_Vie · Dec 30, 2005, 07:03 AM // 07:03

I'm sick of seeing everything made extreme. They did this to Looney Tunes. *sigh* Damn you marketing strategists!

Xue Yi Liang · Jan 01, 2006, 04:08 AM // 04:08

The old legos were about being creative - I used to be crazy about them when I was a kid. With rubber bands my brother and I made working single-shot pistols that shot the square 2x2 blocks. My brother built a version that had a working trigger mechanism. With the right rubber bands and design you can get good velocity (welt-inducing).

Another time we built these lego "battleships" (looked more like battle platforms) with working rubber band guns on the deck. We'd take turns firing legos at each others ship to break off towers and take out the weapons and ammo "bin" .... not very sophisticated by today's standards but a hell of a lot of fun making new designs.

I don't know how many times I accidentally stepped on a piece with my bare feet .... owie!

Xue Yi Liang · Jan 01, 2006, 04:15 AM // 04:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by MCS

I played with legos, when I was 7

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I never understood the huge obsession.

If you had a whole lot of legos back then you'd make all sorts of things ... if you only had a few it's hard to get worked up over them.

Maybe you can explain the obsession with that Thomas Train thingie ... my 2 year old nephew can't get enough of Thomas ...

Guillaume De Sonoma · Jan 01, 2006, 04:19 AM // 04:19

I remember trying to use every piece of the kenex from the orange box to build one giant car/automobile. Or trying to build the biggest possible structure with all the lincon logs you can get your hands on. Good times.

Xue Yi Liang · Jan 01, 2006, 04:22 AM // 04:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guillaume De Sonoma

I remember trying to use every piece of the kenex from the orange box to build one giant car/automobile. Or trying to build the biggest possible structure with all the lincon logs you can get your hands on. Good times.

nice "soot" avatar ... Miyazaki-san is a genius.

Ultimate_Gaara · Jan 01, 2006, 10:48 AM // 10:48

Back in my day we had to use our imagination, we didn't get the glory of a "this is what you have to build" booklet or box... things like this just seem more like a chore than fun...

I pwnd U · Jan 01, 2006, 02:00 PM // 14:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xue Yi Liang

The old legos were about being creative - I used to be crazy about them when I was a kid. With rubber bands my brother and I made working single-shot pistols that shot the square 2x2 blocks. My brother built a version that had a working trigger mechanism. With the right rubber bands and design you can get good velocity (welt-inducing).

Another time we built these lego "battleships" (looked more like battle platforms) with working rubber band guns on the deck. We'd take turns firing legos at each others ship to break off towers and take out the weapons and ammo "bin" .... not very sophisticated by today's standards but a hell of a lot of fun making new designs.

I don't know how many times I accidentally stepped on a piece with my bare feet .... owie!

that is very creative of u2, i doubt anyone else thought of that idea. quite impressive actually. either of u decide to be an engineer of some sort? cause thats brilliant specially if u figured out how to make a working trigger out of legos. thats pretty freaking amazing.

Xue Yi Liang · Jan 01, 2006, 04:42 PM // 16:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by I pwnd U

that is very creative of u2, i doubt anyone else thought of that idea. quite impressive actually. either of u decide to be an engineer of some sort? cause thats brilliant specially if u figured out how to make a working trigger out of legos. thats pretty freaking amazing.

I'd have to credit my older brother for that one. My weapons were of the "thumb-release" variety.

My brother also had several prototypes that had a hollow barrel through which the projectiles were shot - I don't think he ever got it to work reliably without the lego getting snagged in the bore, though. His most successful barreled design fired flat pieces that were angled diagonally in the bore.

I recall I made one with multiple rubber bands and to fire off a series of legos in sequence or all at once in a shotgun fashion, though.

Funny you should mention "engineer" - I went to study Physics at UC Berkeley and worked for the US Dept of Energy in high temp superconductivity research. I later went to med school and am now a practicing physician.

My (older) brother studied finance and networks.

I'm supposedly "the smarter one" but he's definitely the wealthier one (lives in a $3 million dollar house with his wife and kids ... and doesn't even have to set foot in his office). My neice and nephew have some legos to play with .... now that you mentioned it I probably ought to get them a whole lot more legos!

Guillaume De Sonoma · Jan 02, 2006, 02:18 AM // 02:18

I love these bad boys

COunt it If it GoEs · Jan 02, 2006, 02:21 AM // 02:21

ahh..legos...good times good times

nightrunner · Jan 05, 2006, 08:11 AM // 08:11

Yay legos... I used to have battles with all the little figures, and make guns for them. But one day I accidentally put the head of a pirate on a ninja's body... and came up with the most deadly warrior to walk on the face of the Earth. A pistol toting, katana swinging, shuriken throwing, rum guzzling super-soldier!

Naprius · Jan 05, 2006, 08:19 AM // 08:19

a friend of mine once made a gun of lego, that shot toothpicks with air pressure

that thing totally rocker..

*pumppumppump* *bang!*

Lou · Jan 05, 2006, 04:40 PM // 16:40

I made a parrot out of the old Lego's once. Had to get my parents to order a whole bunch more but I made the bird 4 feet Tall. Which was probably taller than me at the time.

labsenpai · Jan 05, 2006, 04:58 PM // 16:58

Back when I got my first digital camera, I tested close-up shooting with some LEGO. Here's my ninja siege engine!

Maxiemonster · Jan 05, 2006, 04:59 PM // 16:59

Lego is ruined now. It used to be the greatest gift for birthdays and christmas because you'd be busy building things with every new part you got.

Now you just get huge things with 5 parts, that only fit into eachother, you can put the 5 parts together, and you're done. The only thing you can do with is throwing it in the cornor.

I still have a huge (seriously huge) box of old lego, and I'm never going to throw it away. I hope my kids will love it if I ever get kids, because I'm not buying them any retarted lego!

@ labsenpai, haha, I love the dragon arms stick out on the side

Got those same skeletons and ninja somewhere