Did anyone like to build things when they were younger

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I liked lego, blocks, whatever was around me at the time. I would build things with them, I was always stacking but I wouldn't line things up too often. Guess I saw stacking as a symbol of oppurtunity, lining things up got you no where but building was both organized AND got you somewhere.

If I couldn't fit them together though I'd pitch a fit and throw it aside.

I'm with Wolfpup here too, I'd always fix things. I was always the one who knew how to fix the NES, VCR's, ect.

i made pillow houses....but as far as building things....I was more inclined to "make" things...like dolls and such..

Mecarno - The ultimate there was not much you couldn't build with it.

I used to build replicas of city blocks using boxes or bulding blocks for the buildings, TinkerToys for the power lines, and printout paper for the roads (I would then use markers to paint the lines on the roads). Back in the 80s the printout paper I'm talking about came in spools that could be rolled out and torn off accordingly. I would use Hot Wheels cars as the vehicles and so I built the models roughly to scale with the Hot Wheels cars. Thus my models would sometimes take up the majority of a room. I would even build the warning sirens by Using the TinkerToys as a pole and using yellow or orange construction paper to build the horn part. I also would use small paper plates to build those large satellite TV dishes that were common in the 80s. According to my mom, I would often beg to be driven around the particular block that I was building so that I could get a better perspective of how the various objects were laid out. I would then get down eye-level with my model and make sure my pieces were arranged as close to scale as possible.

Once I was about 7, though, my younger brother had begun to walk around and could not be prevented from getting into and f!*%ing up my models. So I eventually saw the futility of spending long hours building and gravitated to drawing maps. After my brothers got old enough to be drawn into my "world," though, I sort of went back to building models to a degree and would sometimes build simpler environments to use for us to play in. Legos were big, as well as Hot Wheels cars and a (very) large electric race track that we rearranged to use for roads.

I still do.

I did get some hand me down toys from my brothers(lincon logs and legos)but "girls' werent suposed to play with them,so they never bought me any.I mostly used wood,bark,rocks from nature to make housses for animals and bugs out in the woods.

After "discovering" dumpster diving.....I build lots of things out of "bits" I find.I like to paint and stain it and make it decoritive as well as functional.I built a double decher bunny hutch and several book cases out of old waterbed wood.I hate seeing any kind of wood in dumpsters and refuse to buy all the "fake wood" furniture I see in stores....what crap.

i always loved Lego and knex when i was younger.
spent all my time with it.

I liked playing with Knex when I was a kid and one time I built my own models when I was 16 and took pictures of them. Sadly they are on an old computer because I used an old digital camera to take the pics. I remember building a train out of my huge Mega Blocks and I would push it around the kitchen. It didn't look like a train but I built a wall and some of the blocks had wheels at the bottom so I was able to pull it around pretending it was a train. Sadly my mother sold the blocks at a garage sale when I was almost six. I wasn't very happy. I also used to design my own floor plans on my lite Brite when I was eight and I build my own train set with Brio tracks. I would start building and let myself take me whatever the kind of model it took me ads I put the tracks together. I would also built my own playground set out of my brother's Lincoln logs. But I don't do that stuff anymore because I don't have any Knex or legos and I don't play with trains anymore. My interest changed. I still like lite brite but I stopped with the floor plans. I never even went out and bought myself any legos or Knex but I still bought lite brite pictures.


I did lot of things as a kid building things, tents out of blankets and chairs, making a little town in the sand box, building things out of my blocks. But isn't it normal of kids to do these things? My brothers did the same too and they are NTs.

Lego, Linkin Logs, Tinker Toys, and the Erector Set. Them were the days!! !

yes... i used to build "marble" rollercoasters using toilet paper and paper towl rolls... tape and marbles.

they were pretty cool... i had some loops and such... i got so good at them that they used to span the length of the wall from floor to (as high as i could reach)...

was really fun. i built one for the daycare i went to (well, was kind of a summer daycare thing for all ages)... everyone played with it non-stop for quite some time

I tried to do animations with clay. (Our video camera could not do stop motion very well, however.) I played in a tree house in my backyard that might dad built, but I didn't design it. I did design buildings and roadways and made elevated highways using blocks, which I ran toy cars over. I also rigged up household items to make a "robot."

yes, models, lego, scalectrix... loved building things.

Yes me too.

i see there are a lot of legomaniacs out there....yes bad bad joke...i am fairly tired after a 12 hour work night so go figure my witt would go before my common sense..

me and my bro loved legos a lot too ^_^

Its great to see so many fellow lego addicts , maybe lego will turn out to be an aspie thing like thomas the tank engine lol

Do any of you still get a craving for your lego ? I do somtimes I desperatly want to buy some Im going to try convincing son he would like the lego pirate ship for xmas lol lego and pirates in one box nothing could be better . I think someone needs to start a lego thread for us so we can talk about the good ole days when we could play with lego and nobody would think it was strange .

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