Lego: C/D, S&D

you've helped me through some tough times and got me laid on more than one occasion. happy birthday lego, you rulez!

got me laid on more than one occasion

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lololololol

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YAY LEGO! MAYBE SOMEDAY YOU, TOO WILL PREFORM FAVORS FOR ME!

http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/06/deathstardiorama.jpg

I agree with all the sentiments contained in the picture above.

Minifigs:

http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/06/10188-0000-xx-33-3.jpg

More here.

I can't believe it. Nobody choked on a real block after this became available yet? You'd expect hundreds to be dead by now.

http://www2.kelloggs.com/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?product=8213

I had these in America and tried (unsuccessfully) to build things out of them.

http://www2.kelloggs.com/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?product=5470

Belgian waffles don't contain 98% of the chemical crap listed here, how come anyone's still alive in the USA?

Ingredients
ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), WATER, VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN OIL, PALM OIL AND PALM KERNEL OIL WITH TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID FOR FRESHNESS), EGGS, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CONTAINS TWO PERCENT OR LESS OF EGG WHITES, SUGAR, SALT, CALCIUM CARBONATE, WHEY, SOY LECITHIN, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, NIACINAMIDE, REDUCED IRON, YELLOW #5, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), THIAMIN HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B1), RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2), YELLOW #6, VITAMIN B12.

yeah, they were pretty gross.

reposting for otm
http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/06/deathstardiorama.jpg

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/2875/legogalcy8.jpg

People are strange...

finally a grand moff tarkin minifig

LEGO secret vault contains all sets in history

I couldn't actually read that, the writing is so awful

And then it hit me. Lift off. Godspeed. Boom.

A wave of emotions took control, hitting my head like a Lego Airbus 380. Dozens of images started to appear in my head, Polaroids of Xmas and birthdays that I thought were faded, completely fresh, color-corrected, and restored by the damn Lucasfilm for a Blu-ray re-release.

seriously what the fuck

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/niemann/posts/2009/02/17beer.jpg

I LEGO N.Y.

http://brickarms.com/

Brickfest is going on in Portland this weekend

asked this on the spaceship thread and thought I'd try again:

OK, need help. I used to have a couple lego style toys. I don't think the blocks etc were compatible. They were major ships (naval and civilian) that were in a smaller scale than most lego things. A destroyer was 6 to 8 inches long and it came with a small helicopter. Anybody know the brand? It seemed almost fancier than lego. Any ideas?

― Spencer Chow, Friday, December 21, 2007 3:55 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Also, the "studs" had a recess unlike lego. The ship models were only four studs wide. The bows of the ships were fully formed with a bow "cap" that would have the name of the ship.

Anyone??

figured it out! TENTE.

how are they quality-wise? I can't believe none of the knockoffs are able to get close to lego-quality. it's just plastic right?

The bricks need to be made to an accuracy of three thousands of an inch.

http://www.cooltoyreview.com/story/front/D23_Expo_LEGO_To_Produce_Disney_Sets_126435.asp

Disney-licensed lego are coming.

stolen from stevem

http://www.barnabygunning.com/index.php?type=show&p_ID=37&i_ID=427

life size lego house

wow! dismantled yesterday :-(

LEGO ROCK BAND is coming

with LEGO BOWIE and LEGO IGGY

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Lego-david-bowie.jpg

lolz @ eyes

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6238/legoiggypop05xlarge.jpg

I don't know what else to say other than we live in a world where you can purchase official sets based on Frank Lloyd Wright creations:

http://www.yatzer.com/assets/Image/2009/may/frank_Lloyd_Wright_lego/frank_Lloyd_Wright_and_lego_yatzer_4.jpg

I don't understand why the batman kits are all, like, 3 times more expensive than any other kits of equivalent size.

nerd market

I kind of like the idea of the plodding, boring, barely rewarding labour of putting together a Frank Lloyd Wright Lego. It seems like it would be relaxing and kind of keep me busy for a while. I could have the TV on in the background... Put a pot of coffee on... I wonder how much it costs and how long it would take me to build?

whilst the story's real, that picture is a rendering, probably box art. the real version wouldn't have those lines between the cream bricks (which spoils it for me)

http://www.yatzer.com/1710_frank_lloyd_wright%27s_lego_architecture_sets

http://architecture.lego.com/en-US/Products/architect/Default.aspx

(there's a landmark series too - space needle, empire state...)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2522/3690179500_b7894ef1bd.jpg

I don't understand why the batman kits are all, like, 3 times more expensive than any other kits of equivalent size.

yeah the same to be said about the star wars stuff, ridiculously priced.

Seriously, "3 times more expensive" was a huge understatement:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-City-7235-Police-Motorcycle/dp/B0007LXVOO/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=toys&qid=1258706307&sr=8-12

VS

http://www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-Batman-Mini-Figure-The-Joker/dp/B000U8452Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys&qid=1258706285&sr=8-1

Just insane!

I've been on a lego kick lately, and some of the custom builds are pretty fun:

http://www.classic-pirates.com/contests/ptvii/parrots-perch-pub-black-rabbit.html

http://www.classic-pirates.com/wordpress/images/2009/11/PTVII-Black-Rabbit1.jpg

that's not really a valid comparison though. like comparing eggs with faberge eggs (ok, not like that at all). the batman stuff's a lot rarer.

i have a lot of the star wars lego and it was never that much more than similar sized sets. but then it was available everywhere.

It's fake rarity though, right? That stuff's all still in production, they just don't produce much of it. S'just frustrating when you've got a lego-loving, batman-loving four year old.

> they just don't produce much of it.

if this is true then they are idiots - all that extra markup is going into middlemen's pockets, not theirs. but it's Lego that people are getting pissed off at.

Em refused to let me buy the new mini Lego Millennium Falcon in Tesco last week, even though it was only, like, £15 or something. Cow.

Buy it for her as a present.

Lego is (the best toy ever BUT) kind of disappointing in that new sub-£20 Lego kits seem to be like 4 standard bricks and a giant clip-on all-in-one bit of plastic for the overall shape, and I just want to pretend I am 7 and in front of a giant bucket of a lifetime's accumulated Lego again with daydreams of infinite possibilities.

Was this always the way? I like to imagine that in the 80s you could buy e.g. space kits with hundreds of parts without needing to remortgage, but maybe parents had to haemorrage money to get me and my friends the vast Lego selections we all had.

I think there was definitely more middle ground between a cheap 4-piece set and giant top-of-range space station/galleon Christmas lust object, whatever the prices, though, and less resorting to "here is the all-in-one piece which resembles the picture on the box; now you may open the bag of two tiny headlights, one plain grey brick and one antenna to clip on".

(tempted to buy Mr Spacecadet that mini Falcon for Christmas but he is a cynical bugger re cash-ins and not particularly nostalgic for Star Wars despite 80s childhood, so I guess not ;_; )

by hundreds of parts I probably mean 30, which IS hundreds when you are 7, as proven by all the times I told my mother "whoa there are hundreds of ___!" and she would say "well why don't you count them" - she is a maths teacher, after all - and the answer was always about 30

this means I am nearly hundreds of years old and still talking about Lego

http://www.brickset.com/search/?subtheme=Classic&theme=Town

yeah most of the smaller sets are now just a few pieces of lego with a couple of specially made parts. The link above is a site with all the old cool stuff.

i've been into the technic stuff again lately, luckily that hasn't changed too much.

Great link! I was all set to go through and go "oh, I had that one and that one and..." but instead I am going "oh, huh, is that where that one brick with the stripes came from? could be, who knows...", since everything was dismantled after a day or two and thrown into the giant collection. I just feel sorry for the kids today, whose collections will be smaller and full of pretty useless half-a-triceratops mouldings

the mid-range star wars models were ok. not too many custom pieces (which is the price you pay for wanting it to look like an x-wing and not just generic, blocky spaceship, say*) and would take a good hour or two to put together. but then they all went Episode 1 and i lost interest.

i think it's always been expensive, because it's well made. plus it's essentially petrochemical and this was the 70s.

* case in point, a police car
http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/0644-1.jpg
must be a volvo...

There's a couple of other sites with all the old catalogues, going as far back as the 60's too. i'll dig it out tonight, last time i checked though it was down - it always seems to suffer bad bandwidth anyway.