Lego: C/D, S&D

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also great for building rockoperas around the house

― ducklingmonster, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

search: technic and duplo

destroy: nu-lego!! esp. the programmable 'mindstorms' cuz i know some of the ppl who developed them and it suXor

― geeta, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Uh huh.

― Tim, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

i spose one could map the Dumming Down of yoof-cultch and the hypermediated short-attention-span innernet generation to the advent of those annoying already-built-walls in modern lego. also, the new Attack of the Clones and Harry Potter legos are the SUCK.

― petra jane, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I still have boxed sets of the first Technical lego car, and the first tilting train set (circa 1983) and the big early 80's spaceship. I was very anal as a child. Though I prefered the 'build it yourself' stuff to the crafted pieces; it took all the fun out of it to have pieces that couldn't really be used elsewhere. Shame. Young people today have no sense of application.

My abiding memory of a family holiday to Belgium in 1979 was losing a piece of a space scooter; it was one of the 'special' pieces and I was never able to replace it, so the space scooter could never be finished again. It taught me the value of loss and it's role in the creation of desire, like any good Lacanian could tell you.

The lesson was reinforced when I lost one of the tiny cogs that made that car's differential gears work properly. I think my parents might have hoovered it up, as they had a bad carpet for lego, patterned as it was in such a way as to make small pieces invisible. Everyone I have spoken to who had that car lost one of those cogs. There should be a support group for us.

― Nathan Barley, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

The yellow castle destroys main street.

― matthew m., Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 10:34 (10 years ago) Permalink

My son has just been given some Stickle Bricks for his (second) birthday, and they're great. Probably better suited than lego to little hands, and I'm enjoying them even more than him.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 12:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

Sticklebricks, classic or dud?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 12:54 (10 years ago) Permalink

I feel so sad I missed this thread the first time round! I absolutely adore legos and would have happily sacrificed the rest of my toy collection to get more of them. It was not to be though -- because then, as now, they were awfully expensive. Not that I was particularly lego deprived, but I always craved more.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:08 (10 years ago) Permalink

if you call them lego not legos, it sounds like yr getting less so = less expensive

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

Lego Loss

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:15 (10 years ago) Permalink

My son has just been given some Stickle Bricks for his (second) birthday, and they're great. Probably better suited than lego to little hands, and I'm enjoying them even more than him.

Does Duplo still exist?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

the lego, the superlego and the lid

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:21 (10 years ago) Permalink

I don't know anything about Duplo, Matt - never had it as a kid. Is it a kind of Lego junior?

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:33 (10 years ago) Permalink

Yes, Duplo is just like Lego except that the blocks are much bigger and easier to take apart so that they are suitable for smaller kids to play with. As far as I know they still exist, I still see Duplo sets in the toy store.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:38 (10 years ago) Permalink

the entire cosmos in fact fits inside a single unit of monoplo

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:39 (10 years ago) Permalink

Legos were and are expensive? How weird, I never knew.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:53 (10 years ago) Permalink

I remember a phase where I'd get given second-hand lego sets for christmas and birthdays. They were all from my cousin, whose parents thought was now Too Old For Lego; and my parents couldn't afford to get me new sets.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:03 (10 years ago) Permalink

legos are the perfect toy

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

I loved Lego.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:54 (10 years ago) Permalink

Until that fateful day...

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

Lego = classic, until stepped on with bare feet, which renders them infinitely DUD...at least until the swelling goes down, then they are once again classic.

Legos were the thing that united all of my toys as a child; thanks to legos, I managed to incorporate GI Joes, Transformers, hot wheels, Gobots, micromachines, etc, etc into one gigantic massive all-inclusive toystravaganza. My parents still have never forgiven me for that particular mess.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

Has anyone here been to Legoland?

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

two: copenhagen and carlsbad

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:08 (10 years ago) Permalink

Classic. Search: Everything I build with them. Destroy: Everything you build with them, because I need those pieces, fucker.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

I usually destroy whatever I build within ten minutes of building it.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:59 (10 years ago) Permalink

Seach: Lego pr0n!

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 04:35 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mathlego.htm

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

two: copenhagen and carlsbad
three: Copenhagen, Carlsbad, Windsor, shurely?

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

http://www.cca.org/dave/gallery0.html

My dad's Lego art.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

That is awesome.

― beanz (beanz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

That is awesome.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

i prefer his t-shirt

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

I was talking about his beard.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

He really should have turned on anti-aliasing.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

(that is pretty fuckin' cool)

but is there even any question about Lego being Classic? PLZ!!

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 21 August 2004 23:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

here is a picture of that artist in between ian johnson and jon williams.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 23 August 2004 00:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

omg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 23 August 2004 01:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

dude actually looks like a law school professor i had. does he live in the philadelphia suburbs?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 23 August 2004 01:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

ian johnson in having his face almost totally obscured in a picture shocker

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 23 August 2004 01:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm like the man in the iron mask, emily.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

jon still looks like a queer

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

eisbar's still a prick omgwtf shockah!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

i'm a prick & proud of it.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

i had tons of lego as a kid. my first was one of those basic early 80's sets. then i got the big spaceship from that time - the big one, but not the GIANT one. I think it was called Starfleet Commander or something. the one i wanted for the longest time and finally got was the Blacktron command base or something. it was this huge black space station built on two of those 12" plates and has this thing that opened up and a spaceship flew in and out of it. I've spent years of my life on lego.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

i work for the company that makes their online catalog
http://shop.lego.com/catalog/OnlineCatalog.asp

i was just in montreal last week, where lego was building the "world's largest millipede"...it was pretty awesome.

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Surely all of you fans have seen the Lego Factory.

I've been trying to build Mies' Barcelona Pavillion but I'm stymied by the lack of decent windows in the default brick set.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

I should tell my brother about this.

― youn (youn), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

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811 virtual pieces later

(Virtual) Lego Falling Water (21005)

― koogs, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Free lego in The Sun again every day this week (starting today, but I only just found out about it, bah).

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/free-lego-toys-offer-is-back-2011-10-06

― JimD, Saturday, 8 October 2011 18:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

lego shop on thursday had the new volkswagen camper van (10220), which looks nice. and the enormo super star destroyer (10221) in the window.

― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2011 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

― Primm Slim, Robot Sheriff (kingfish), Saturday, 29 October 2011 18:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

series 7 in the shops today.

female swimmer, inca?, rabbit, bride, Poseidon, scotsman, skydiver, future soldier, tennis, tarzan, hippy, computer spod, valkyrie, black knight, rock chick, female hobbit?

― koogs, Thursday, 5 April 2012 12:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

(noticed today, might've been there for a while)

― koogs, Thursday, 5 April 2012 12:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Never got the Roman soldier from the last run. Got everything else so quickly I got bored of looking.

Waiting for the Monster Fighter sets

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Thursday, 5 April 2012 12:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

i just seemed to get female astronauts and aliens in the last lot. and a minotaur with only one horn 8(

future soldier looks a lot like a reaction to the halo minifigs that you can also find places.

― koogs, Thursday, 5 April 2012 12:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, he's full-on space marine. Combine some of him with lady astronauts and you'll have a full platoon of mixed-gender squaddies.

You get one of those Halo minifig baggies? They're some chintzy-ass construction

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

no. did pick up a couple of the playmobil packs for a friend's kids. they are same price despite containing about twice the plastic (and are split between male and female, ninjas in the one, princesses in the other) (ok, not that simple, the female ones contain vampires and lara croft etc)

― koogs, Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

finally got some today, incl a Roman Soldier(thus completing my Series 6)

― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Sunday, 15 April 2012 21:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh dude that soldier is cool

― markers, Sunday, 15 April 2012 21:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

he's the rare(st?) one from that run

Wow, they wrote bios for every one:

http://minifigures.lego.com/en-us/Bios/Default.aspx

― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Sunday, 15 April 2012 21:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Monday, 16 April 2012 08:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

lego GAMEBOY transformer. including cute lego Duracell batteries!

http://www.geekologie.com/2012/03/impressive-lego-game-boy-transformer-plu.php

― PSOD (Ste), Sunday, 22 April 2012 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

(and check out the abandoned victorian house further down, I had to look closer at the tree. wow)

― PSOD (Ste), Sunday, 22 April 2012 16:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/05/british-birds-made-of-lego/

― koogs, Friday, 11 May 2012 16:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151171726438403.449607.6665038402&type=1

Lego Hobbit sets are out, meaning that for the first time ever, you can have Sylvester McCoy in Lego form(eventually)

― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:42 (5 months ago) Permalink

what the eff

http://theloneranger.lego.com/

http://brick.jamescook.nu/?p=2038

LEGO The Lone Ranger 79106 – Cavalry Builder Set
LEGO The Lone Ranger 79107 – Comanche Camp
LEGO The Lone Ranger 79108 – Stagecoach Escape
LEGO The Lone Ranger 79109 – Colby City Showdown
LEGO The Lone Ranger 79110 – Silver Mine Shootout
LEGO The Lone Ranger 79111 – Constitution Train Chase

― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Sunday, 9 December 2012 21:45 (5 months ago) Permalink

Yeah that's pretty surreal, can't honestly imagine anyone giving a shit.

This though: http://m.io9.com/5966902/serenity-lego-set-is-now-a-reality

― JimD, Sunday, 9 December 2012 22:59 (5 months ago) Permalink

I kind of think the opposite - it'd be a stick-on for a video game, and the actual lego falls back out of that.

― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:11 (5 months ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Friday, 3 May 2013 06:19 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

(tonearms are wrong, i guess the picture has been flipped)

― koogs, Friday, 3 May 2013 06:53 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

series 10 of the minifigs are out btw.

― koogs, Friday, 3 May 2013 06:55 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

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