that lego space tshirt is sickkkkkk
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Saturday, 5 December 2009 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Lego superhero mega-crossovers:
http://ulisesfarinas.com/
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/8/2009/12/500x_4123618901_9be7ac66a5_b.jpg
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/8/2009/12/500x_4060453332_80613c7fca_b.jpg
― kingfish, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 08:32 (fourteen years ago) link
My husband LOVES Lego. I'm more a Playmobil fan.
http://demandware.edgesuite.net/aabe_prd/on/demandware.static/Sites-BE-Site/Sites-Catalog/fr_BE/v1260260776170/imagesOnline/products/5301.jpg
DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Bought my oldest kid a "marriage house". I wanted her to have some sort of house and that was available. SO that's what I got her. :-)
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 10:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, my sister had that house! Still has, actually.
I collected a bunch of the arctic expedition sets when I was young.
― President Danny Glover (Millsner), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Millsner, what's her address? Must have been expensive! Crap, I'm off to check the prices. Very tempted. Of course Ophelia will only be able to look at mommy playing with it. hahaha
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty sure it's sitting in my parents' basement now, along with five or six other big Rubbermaid bins of Lego and Playmobil.
I'm actually itching to break out the stuff when I spend a month or two at home this winter.
― President Danny Glover (Millsner), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
freaky:
http://markl.hyperrealm.com/lego/6949-large.jpg
― kingfish, Monday, 14 December 2009 08:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah yeah, the Magne-something space sets. I had a few of those, but never that one. Magnetron?
Space Police (the original black & blue series) were pretty cool with the interchangeable components and lights, but I guess Blacktron started those and deserves more credit.
― President Danny Glover (Millsner), Monday, 14 December 2009 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link
When cross-licensing goes bad:
http://yfrog.com/1xtoyfj
― kingfish, Monday, 21 December 2009 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img69.yfrog.com/img69/4407/toyf.jpg
― koogs, Monday, 21 December 2009 07:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks.
― kingfish, Monday, 21 December 2009 07:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Building the Echo Base on Hoth to scale. Why the fuck not? The lighting and the rec room are a nice touch.
― kingfish, Monday, 21 December 2009 09:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought this was updated because of last night programme by James May where he built a full size lego house.
http://www.betleywhitehorne.com/bwlog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/James-May-Lego-House-11.jpg
― Bing Crosby, are you listening? (Billy Dods), Monday, 21 December 2009 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46422000/jpg/_46422467_legobed_paraw.jpg
― Bing Crosby, are you listening? (Billy Dods), Monday, 21 December 2009 10:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I started watching that, but May was such a tosser (particularly when the 2000 volunteers were building the bricks) that I switched it off.
― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Monday, 21 December 2009 11:11 (fourteen years ago) link
the interior designer didn't seem to understand joints. wha?
― koogs, Monday, 21 December 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
the outside just looks fucking boring
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
"boring plastic square in Surrey" sums up May rather well.
― 12 inches of (snoball), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
my son just blurted out two days ago that santa was bringing him legos. I didn't even know he was aware of what they were. Purchased, then. Spoiled, he is. where are those toy story legos from? are they still on the market?
― akm, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
they're being released in 2010.
― President Danny Glover (Millsner), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Or possibly this week.
― kingfish, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, photos of the new licensed Prince of Persia sets are out. So, for those of you who always wanted your very own Lego gylennhall, now's your chance.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i quite like the look of that toy story lego. or did before realising the redundancy involved - toys based on toys.
― koogs, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
My two year old is WAY into Lego Duplo. Great toys. I highly recommend the series for toddlers. It's user friendly enough that he doesn't get frustrated, but complex enough that he gets really engrossed. Awesome toys.
― Super Cub, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/1628/lego-kitchenhttp://www.thecoolhunter.net/images/legokitchen.jpg
― forksĀ©lovetofu (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
They have the new Toy Story sets at Toys R Us for the usual inflated prices. Fifteen bucks for four army dudes and a jeep, for example. They also have the new Atlantis sets, which look cool.
I was able to get a small but still overpriced tub of Duplo for my nephew, tho, so hopefully the infection will spread to him.
Does anyone have a copy of that big-ass Lego Book? The one that has two books one one slipcase?
― kingfish, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2489/3748917284_34c4acc77e.jpg
I like that they brought back the mine-sweeper/metal detector. That was one of my favorite bits of gear for my space guys way back when.
http://www.bricklink.com/SL/8061-1.jpg?2
'Gateway of the Squid'
― kingfish, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Went with wife to buy Duplo as wobs prez for 2-year old nephew. He likes CARS. So after some deliberation we decided we had to "compromise" between his wishes and our oldskool lego purism and bought overdesigned Duplo car thing PLUS a box of about 100 generic Duplo blocks. Kids today eh?
I remember even as a kid I admired that Duplo was pretty much back-compatible with Proper Lego, on a four-to-one-knob basis. (Or two-to-one in one dimension obv! Hence the name Duplo! I only right now figured this out!)
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
see also SuziLego Quatrohttp://cache.lego.com/2057/images/shop/BBMF/BBMF_Image4_331x270.gif
― 12 inches of (snoball), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't realize Duplo was compatible with regular Lego! I was thinking our Duplo stock would become obsolete in a few years.
Lego is indeed ridiculously priced, but that's true of any quality toy nowadays. At least Lego is not likely to break and will hold kid's interest forever (see ilx Lego dorks for proof of Lego as an everlasting source of pleasure).
― Super Cub, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I had a bag shaped like the duplo bunny when I was a little girl...I loved that thing so much. this thing...I'd forgotten about it until just now.
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone here old enough to remember handed-down lego from uncles etc from about the 50s/60s or something, which were crappy because only loose-fitting from above? Ie they didn't have the tight scaffolding inside on the belowside, just the outermost rectangle, so they fit on top of other things and vice versa, but came loose bcz not sufficiently precision engineered?
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Lego memories pt 14: new at university, getting into discussion w/new classmates on random stuff, and bonding a bit with one on how great the small lego rubber tires felt to CHEW on whilst being an kid. Tactile+ memory, I can taste it as I write. Om nom etc.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
totally chewed on the tires.
― Super Cub, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i even swallowed a few. good memories.
― President Danny Glover (Millsner), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
here are all the Toy Story sets so far.
and if you ever wanted your own jake gyllenhaal in plastic, here ya go:
http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/103/415x0/103635_a-lego-prince-dastan-and-jake-gyllenhaal-in-prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time.jpg
― kingfish, Thursday, 24 December 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
looks just like him
― Super Cub, Thursday, 24 December 2009 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
My favorite Lego series was probably the Forestmen, although I have a lot of love for classic Space / Futuron
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/lego/images/d/d5/Fmen1.jpg
― professional log roller Lizzie Hoeschler (los blue jeans), Thursday, 24 December 2009 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
The Toy Story lego figures are some kind of heathen bullshit imo.
any character that don't start from this essential template:http://www.seanmichaelragan.com/img/LEGO_figure_4_heads_tall.jpg
(but in yellow, obv) don't qualify as lego.
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 24 December 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
in agreement. i think the lego ewoks break this crucial rule too.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 24 December 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i understand the purist position, but what can be done about ewoks? They ought to be smaller, right?
― Super Cub, Thursday, 24 December 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, they're adding multiple races to the Castles line, so you know how lego dwarves:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2267/2236691612_101ea68ce2.jpg?v=0
― kingfish, Thursday, 24 December 2009 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
but what can be done about ewoks?
let's not go there
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Friday, 25 December 2009 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
If you guys haven't heard, they just demo'd the new Lego Universe MMO game at CES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPpm9H0wTzY
Actual gameplay vids are online, too: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ces-10-lego-universe/60652
Comes out later this year, allegedly.
― kingfish, Thursday, 14 January 2010 08:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, posting this here b/c it was one of the greatest sets of all time:
http://markl.hyperrealm.com/lego/6950-large.jpg
― kingfish, Friday, 15 January 2010 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty damn sure I had that.
Could never decide which way the thing the yellow dude on the left is holding should face, or what it was; bazooka, or telescope-thing?
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 15 January 2010 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link
video camera?
― an executive by day and a wild man by night (snoball), Friday, 15 January 2010 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
That game does look pretty cool, but does everything have to get a "dark" reboot these days?
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 January 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not a dark reboot; apparently those are the monsters you have to gang up & fight
― kingfish, Friday, 15 January 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
have you heard of LDraw, the virtual lego? you can build models and get them raytraced. here's a flickr pool:http://www.flickr.com/groups/ldraw/pool/
more raytraced legohttp://www.flickr.com/search/?q=lego%20povray&w=all&s=int
and here's a Virtual Fallingwaterhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/safepit/3788339025/
― koogs, Saturday, 16 January 2010 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link