The LEGO thread!

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I was tempted to hijack another thread but I thought I'd start one.

I once swore if I ever got rich I'd spend it all on LEGOs.

You know you can order whole bags of just one color!?
I had a fire station and a castle. As a result all my spaceships and submarines from then on out were either red or yellow.

And whats all this? Batman and Star Wars legos? On line you can buy all sorts of custom stickers and characters!

So tell me about LEGOS:

They were started in Denmark in 1932. Legos didn't come to the USA till 1962. The first Legoland opened in Denmark in 1968. UK got theirs in 1996 and then California in 1999 I believe.


I got my first Legos in 1987 and then my brother eventually got some too for his birthday. But they got mixed with my legos I don't even know which ones are mine except for the trees and the green bases. I know the windows are mine too and the doors. I used to make houses out of it.

When I was five years old, I got an electronic LEGO train as a Christmas present. It consisted of a locomotive with an electrical engine that pulled a battery pack on wheels behind it. But the coolest thing was a big, transparent LEGO block that contained a circuit board, and a smaller, white block with tiny holes in it - this was a microphone which, if you blew into a (suitably LEGO-shaped) whistle, sent a signal to the transparent block which in turn switched on (or off) the electrical engine, so that the train started and stopped at my command without me having to touch it. I thought it was the coolest toy in the world!

This is the best image I could find of it:

I love lego! We had a house lego set and I buildt the same house every time I played. About two years ago, I bought a container of lego as a joke for my husband (his parents never bought him lego...) and then, promptly, continued to construct my current house's floor plan out of it, with, of course, desired alterations like the enormous bathroom, hobby room etc. etc...

I was introduced to Lego A heck of a long time ago, It was a favourite toy available to us at The Unit I attended (age8 or 9) I then had to demand a set from my parents.
I would build elaborate and massive vehicles from it (Large enough to carry my train set transformer because the lighted brick always had no battery).

Ahhhh

i've never played with LEGO's; my mother never bought them for me when I was younger. And now there are things I want more than LEGO sets.

In July 1985, I visited a lego exhibit at the Pompidou Centre in Paris called "l‘architecture est un jeu ... magnifique"

I have 4 and a half shelves full of lego. I have batman, starwars, city, aqua, and so on. The coolest lego i have is the Robotic set that you can program with a computer.

Lego was one of my main obsessions as a kid! I'd wish for Lego sets every birthday and secularistmas. I would first build the thing it was supposed to be, and then I'd take it apart and build my own ideas out of the parts. At one point, my mother decided it was time for me to stop wishing for Lego 'cause she figured I had enough. Bah. You can never have enough lego! But she disagreed, and she told everyone to stop giving me Lego. My life got a lot more boring after that.

I fell head over heels in love with Lego's Bionicle series two years ago. A shelf manager for the toys section of a big supermarket near us in Marseille had some sort of brain storm and started selling off all their old stock for between 2€ and 5€. Even the big kits and the most complex characters, ( with technic style structures/mechanisms etc).
We kept going back, day after day, my son and i, saying , ok, we'll just go and get another couple of x,y,z. Each time thinking i was being excessive. But it led to driven visits to flea markets all round the region, buying huge plastic bin bags full of it, all jumbled up with other lego, dirty, in bits, it didn't matter if it was bionicle. We worked out how to make Bohroks without an instruction leaflet, just from pictures in "comic"illustrations. And then i discovered bricklink on the web, oh yes, we got internet about the same time, and watched all the Lego Bionicle sites back film clips and animations, and read the story. And I spent hundreds of €s on second hand stuff stuff through bricklink; chosen by colour and piece, total nightmare of mmmmmmm obsessive collecting.
And I made my own characters, for me, totally not part of the bionicle story, which i love. They are some of my dearest and most original creations.
And my son plays and plays with the series. Last year we bought a couple of the new figures, but we're less enthusiastic; they've paled.
This Xmas my sons biggest present was the dozens of hours i spent tidying his room during which i had tearful nervous breakdown about state of chaos in which he keeps his stuff, and i retrieved all my own "sculptures" to put on shelves in my room.
We bought him a couple of Mars Mission kits aswell ( which aren't bad, like exoforce which has improved too, so looks better than bionicle now!!) but that's it; i've said; if he wants anymore he has to pay for it himself from now on.
Magic though. Ball joints... sigh...

I received my first Lego set as a Christmas present when I was six years old. That particular set was called "Main Street". From that point on, I became a Lego aficionado. I acquired several other sets over the years. I even had a Lego-brand storage case for my Legos. I kept my Legos until I turned 13 or 14, at which point I gave them to a younger friend of mine.

I remember that I used to spend countless hours having fun playing with my Legos...

As an adult, I stopped playing with Lego until my kids came along. It was fun to begin again.

Over the last few nights, I've been dreaming of lego bricks...

Luckily I finished playing Lego Star Wars today, so hopefully the dreams will stop too.

I remember sitting in the middle of the big blanket I kept them all in sorting through them. ( I'd just bunch up the blanket after and tie it with shoestring.

I'd sit and watch Sunday morning tv ( Lost in Space and Superman reruns) and hunt.

I'd chant "onesie onsie onsie" I named each of the bricks a onsie was a single dot single high. Your stereotypical Lego is an eightsie.:



I dreamed of getting black and grey legos and more people swivels and sterring wheels.

But like so many childhood intrests if I approached it as an sdult I would smother it. As I said in my "Army Building" thread as an adult I createda whole Gi Joe Cobra army with duplicate footsoilders and identical tanks. Then I just sat there and wondered where the UN was when all this was going on.

Similar thing happened with Star Wars.

I think I'll let the limited memory magic stay on this one.
Besides I get to play with them occasionally during free time when I work as an after school councilor.I think it's great that so many of you spend hours with your kids and legos. The folks on a Creepy Crawler site I goto do the same.

( I drew the line last year with Fisher Price. I had always wanted the little people castle and A frame house but I knew once I got started . . . .

I couldn't find a picture of me with the "whistle train" (as I used to call it), but here I am with my first LEGO train: