Lego: C/D, S&D

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― Tim, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

The yellow castle destroys main street.

― matthew m., Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

http://family.go.com/Resources/Crafts/crafts/season/famf108costume_lego.gif

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

Sticklebricks, classic or dud?

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

Lego Loss

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

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-three years ago)

the lego, the superlego and the lid

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

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

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

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

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-three years ago)

legos are the perfect toy

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

I loved Lego.

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

Until that fateful day...

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

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-three years ago)

Has anyone here been to Legoland?

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

two: copenhagen and carlsbad

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

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-three years ago)

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

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

Seach: Lego pr0n!

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

one year passes...

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

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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

My dad's Lego art.

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

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

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

That is awesome.

― beanz (beanz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

That is awesome.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i prefer his t-shirt

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I was talking about his beard.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

He really should have turned on anti-aliasing.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

(that is pretty fuckin' cool)

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

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 21 August 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

omg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 23 August 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 23 August 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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

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

jon still looks like a queer

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

eisbar's still a prick omgwtf shockah!

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

i'm a prick & proud of it.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

I should tell my brother about this.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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for the 2x2 square at the end on the right-hand side I did the following to avoid floating pieces:

top-down view of the 2x2 area, layers 1 to 3 from bottom to top:


layer 1: 1 = 1x2 grille piece, 2 = 1x1 plate, 3 = 1x1 brick with knob
|1|2|
|1|3|
layer 2: 1 = 2x2x1 plate corner (right-angle piece), 3 = already placed 1x1 brick with knob
|1|1|
|1|3|
layer 3: 1 = 1x2 grille piece, 2 = 1x1 plate, 3 = 1x1 brick with knob
|1|2|
|1|3|

― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:12 (five years ago)

i just don't understand why he has runs of 5 edges all lined up like that. given that the gap is 5 plates high he could have a brick taking up 3 of those and then have a 2x6 all the way over.

maybe it's a pieces thing. i'm guessing this was done with the architectural lego box in mind and i don't know the the distribution in those boxes (although they were huge and expensive so you've think they'd run to more than five 2x6 plates)

― koogs, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:28 (five years ago)

(twelve)

https://brickset.com/sets/21050-1/Architecture-Studio

― koogs, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:31 (five years ago)

oh. the studs-on-sides collide with the nipples inside the vertical tiles, which complicates things a bit and might explain things - the brick is in the middle of the 5 plate gap with a tile 1x2 above and below it

― koogs, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:55 (five years ago)

yeah to place four of the stud-on-sides pieces to provide a good anchor for those two side-mounted flat pieces you need to stagger the vertical pattern a little

― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 21:05 (five years ago)

like this?

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VLXgDqKqRCw/XwTv4TvoVfI/AAAAAAAAA18/oV_a5fichkU_fa9lovJpK3iYPfRU6bp4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/2020-07-07.png

― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 21:59 (five years ago)

oh i forgot about the structure on the left, doh

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

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

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

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 (five years ago)

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

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

I shouldn't try lego before bed

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

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 (five years ago)

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 (five years ago)

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 (five years ago)

here's how I did it:

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

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

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 (five years ago)

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 (five years ago)

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 (five years ago)

Ha!

Yes, non-essential in the scheme of things.

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

one year passes...

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

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 00:46 (three years ago)

five months pass...

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

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 16:08 (three years ago)

very nice! not cheap I guess

― StanM, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 16:54 (three years ago)

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