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14 May 2009, 8:18 am

Sorry for the grave dig:

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I'm 26 years old and I still play with Lego too. I love building from it, but I rarely actually play with what I build, I just build it, look at the result and then tear it apart and start again.


Thanks for sharing :), there is a whole online group of AFOLs (Adult Fans Of Lego) several links i could post (if thats allowed ?) but if you look for Brothers Brick it should be your best starting point. I build too mostly huge cranes but have been venturing into trains recently.



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14 May 2009, 9:24 am

I like Lego, and there's nothing abnormal about playing with such as an adult.

When younger, the pirate line was my favourite.



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14 May 2009, 9:33 am

Playing with Lego at any age is awesome; who cares if it's normal or not?


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14 May 2009, 9:37 am

Who_Am_I wrote:
Playing with Lego at any age is awesome; who cares if it's normal or not?

indeed i couldn't "find my groove" with lego as a child but there ain't a damn thing wrong with it at any age..
normal meh is anyone normal? & would YOU want to be?
If you enjoy what you're doing & you're not harming anyone, then go for it, do what you will & don't be ashamed or worried.



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14 May 2009, 9:45 am

To add, I put my nephew's Bionicle together last week (it was for ages 7 to 17); I had much fun doing it.

When I was younger, I'd stare at my Pirate ones for hours on end (my parents couldn't afford to get me any of the illustrious ones, like ships and forts, but I had several of the smaller boxes, like rowboats and buried treasure).



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14 May 2009, 10:15 am

Personally, everyone has his/her own way of dealing with stress or means of taking use of free-time per se.. I can recall how I used to play with my g.i. joe figures a long time ago yet, I no longer have such but, everyone has an element which brings a great deal of comfort & serenity unto themselves therefore, playing with legos is not at all.


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14 May 2009, 10:22 am

ProtossX wrote:
Is that just normal or am I in some trouble?

I've not met anyone that still plays with there lego's at my age I don't know what this mean's I sometimes makeup crazy adventures for my Lego's and act out battles

is this ok? or am I too old to be doing this?

What do you guys think?

I don't feel good about doing it and never let other people watch me play with them but I still do it in my spare time while im alone and is this oK to be doing or should I get a life or growup or waht do u guys think

GUYS? girls? what do u think about playin with lego's at 24?


if i had my legos here, i'd play w them all the time

i always liked to play w toys. here i dont have toys, but computer games, and i play a lot


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14 May 2009, 10:24 am

Danielismyname wrote:
I like Lego, and there's nothing abnormal about playing with such as an adult.

When younger, the pirate line was my favourite.


i had the red-sailed two-masted pirate ship!
my friend had the blue-sailed one w only one mast, aaahahaha i mocked him for it :]

then my uncle bought the green-sailed one, w 3 masts! goddamnit! for himself!! !


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14 May 2009, 10:28 am

I liked my rowboat (the rowboat was quite over gunned with its stern mounted cannon, I must say). :)



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14 May 2009, 10:34 am

I'm 19, still enjoy playing with lego. Anything involving making 3D structures from small units, is fun for me.


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14 May 2009, 10:52 am

We have a whole Lego town collecting dust up in the top of my brothers wardrobe. There's no room to set it up again even if I wanted to play with it though. I prefer technics myself (me likes mechanical things :P )



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14 May 2009, 11:10 am

Fudo wrote:
normal meh is anyone normal? & would YOU want to be?
If you enjoy what you're doing & you're not harming anyone, then go for it, do what you will & don't be ashamed or worried.

Well said!
im 27 and most of the the stuff i build is technic (with gears and motors) i think this helps me alot i can focus on it quite easily only to look back latter and realise how complicated it is. mods feel free to delete the link if its against the rules:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3766430
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2216400

I like the pirate line, maybe alittle to much :) the original ones are the best the cannons fired that was cool.



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14 May 2009, 11:12 am

I wish I still had my legos. My parents took them away, and basically forced me to stop playing with them when I was a freshman in HS.



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16 May 2009, 5:08 pm

I still have my box of Lego from when I was little. Sometimes I do just randomly build with it - it's relaxing. I also have another construction toy where you slot different shapes together.



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16 May 2009, 5:14 pm

It's good for you.



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16 May 2009, 7:04 pm

i used to up until i was 16 then my brothers took over....lately i've been eyeing them in the stores i may get back into it....as it is now i like building things for heroscape.....btw i'm in my 30's