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― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 12:54 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

Lego Loss

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:15 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

the lego, the superlego and the lid

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:21 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:39 (twenty years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:53 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

legos are the perfect toy

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

I loved Lego.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

Until that fateful day...

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

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 (twenty years ago) link

Has anyone here been to Legoland?

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

two: copenhagen and carlsbad

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:08 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:59 (twenty years ago) link

Seach: Lego pr0n!

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 04:35 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

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

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link

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

My dad's Lego art.

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

http://www.cca.org/dave/images-art/face7cme.jpg

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

That is awesome.

― beanz (beanz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

That is awesome.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

i prefer his t-shirt

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

I was talking about his beard.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link

He really should have turned on anti-aliasing.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

(that is pretty fuckin' cool)

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

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 21 August 2004 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

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

http://www.cca.org/dave/images/draper-dave.jpg

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 23 August 2004 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link

omg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 23 August 2004 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 23 August 2004 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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

jon still looks like a queer

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link

eisbar's still a prick omgwtf shockah!

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

i'm a prick & proud of it.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:56 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

two 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 (seventeen years ago) link

I should tell my brother about this.

― youn (youn), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

was looking for a picture of the new Biggest Lego Pirate Mast In The World
but found a bunch of other stuff as well so:

Lego Pirate Ship Mast Thing
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/where.s-jack-sparrow%3F/arrrrgh-pirate-ship-mast-worlds-tallest-lego-tower-265480.php

Lego Difference Engine
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/lego-difference-engine-153485.php

Lego Knitting Mahcine
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/lego-knitting-machines-whats-next-the-matrix-148215.php

Lego Escher
http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/ascending.html

― koogs, Thursday, 7 June 2007 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I just seen this at Metafilter but it's too cool not to repost here:

OMG YOU GUYS LEGO ESCHER

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 8 July 2007 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link

er... 8)

― koogs, Monday, 9 July 2007 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link

lol...i totally didn't see yr post yesterday. i swear it wasn't there. i'm sure i searched the whole thread.

i had a big hangover, aight?

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 9 July 2007 08:48 (sixteen years ago) link

No. No it's not alright. Poor Koogs having his thunder stolen. Shocking.

― kv_nol, Monday, 9 July 2007 11:04 (sixteen years ago) link

WAHT IS IT MADE?

― Hurting 2, Monday, 9 July 2007 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Giant Lego man found in Dutch sea

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link

Payback for the Vikings.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link

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oh i forgot about the structure on the left, doh

― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link

lol i got too focused on how to avoid that floating grid piece

― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link

Ok so I forked out the £2, seems only one side has that vertical tile structure - which I didn't figure on at all. Makes things a lot easier.

― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link

(although looking at the top, I really should have got that)

― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link

I shouldn't try lego before bed

― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link

Wow. I think this is the most engaged anyone has ever been with a question I've asked on ILE/ILM!

I also stumped up the £2 and ordered most of the pieces for around £9.50 - there were a few pieces that didn't appear on the Lego website but its a present for someone with a child who has Lego so I am hoping that they have some pieces they can improvise with.

Again, thanks.

― djh, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link

Cool, and somehow I got the price right even though I couldn't even build the flaming thing myself!

At least I know what I'll be attempting to build in Minecraft this weekend.

― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link

you may think I'm getting too obsessed with this cool building, I'll only start worrying if I attempt to build the thing out of my mashed potatoes and garden fencing.

― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link

here's how I did it:

http://fac123.net/pix/trellick_design.gif

― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link

Yep.

I used a 2x2 corner tile around the base of the laundry tower, rather than a 1x2 and a 1x1. Saved me about 10p. 8)

― koogs, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link

six months pass...

Where's good in the UK for buying Lego?

Wanted to buy this as a present but Lego aren't shipping to the UK at the moment, and it is double everywhere I have looked so far.

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/batman-40386

― djh, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link

i'd offer to pop to westfield's lego shop for you and have a look (given it's about 10 minutes away) but i guess they're non-essential and closed.

― koogs, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link

Ha!

Yes, non-essential in the scheme of things.

― djh, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

🔊💩🔊 pic.twitter.com/OBrrzIezku
— Louie Mantia, Jr. (@Mantia) October 16, 2022

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link

five months pass...

Neat camera idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olgAcvamS80

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link

very nice! not cheap I guess

― StanM, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link

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