The Interpreter Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 including, now, of course, parks: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article731449.ece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Bombay Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Lego's were by far my favorite toys as a kid and I wish I still had the time to build with them today. I have my dad's blocks from the early 60's and a bunch of kits from the 90's. I remember every month my mom and I would send a picture off to Lego Magazine of something I had built to try and get me a spot in their section where they display recent creation's by kids, and every month someone else had built the same thing, but better, and got featured instead. I still think my Lego recreation of the Titanic was the BEST ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kwindshawne Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Lego's were by far my favorite toys as a kid and I wish I still had the time to build with them today. I have my dad's blocks from the early 60's and a bunch of kits from the 90's. I remember every month my mom and I would send a picture off to Lego Magazine of something I had built to try and get me a spot in their section where they display recent creation's by kids, and every month someone else had built the same thing, but better, and got featured instead. I still think my Lego recreation of the Titanic was the BEST ever. Can you post it? I'd like to see it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 I use to play with legos as a kid but now i think that they are getting to be too creative. Like now you cant go out and find a set with just the basic blockas all they have is the ones that have like big monster figures and have only like 3 normal pieces in them. I miss when i was a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Bombay Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Lego's were by far my favorite toys as a kid and I wish I still had the time to build with them today. I have my dad's blocks from the early 60's and a bunch of kits from the 90's. I remember every month my mom and I would send a picture off to Lego Magazine of something I had built to try and get me a spot in their section where they display recent creation's by kids, and every month someone else had built the same thing, but better, and got featured instead. I still think my Lego recreation of the Titanic was the BEST ever. Can you post it? I'd like to see it I'll try and dig up the picture when I go back to Cincinnati, although its a little embarassing, i was like 11, had buzzed hair and looked like a dork. I don't have the Titanic anymore, it was broken apart and it's lego bricks salvaged to make the U.S.S Enterprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cory Butcher Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 I loved Legos, I was always making neat airplanes, and cars and stuff. Its where I got the love for architecture and building that I have today, which I would be doing if I didn't want to be a CEO one day, lol! But my favorite building set from my younger years was definitely my erector set. I have so many things sitting around here still today that I built with my erector set pieces. Occasionally I used the legos to build an outside for my erector set cars. Such great times for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kwindshawne Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Lego's were by far my favorite toys as a kid and I wish I still had the time to build with them today. I have my dad's blocks from the early 60's and a bunch of kits from the 90's. I remember every month my mom and I would send a picture off to Lego Magazine of something I had built to try and get me a spot in their section where they display recent creation's by kids, and every month someone else had built the same thing, but better, and got featured instead. I still think my Lego recreation of the Titanic was the BEST ever. Can you post it? I'd like to see it I'll try and dig up the picture when I go back to Cincinnati, although its a little embarassing, i was like 11, had buzzed hair and looked like a dork. I don't have the Titanic anymore, it was broken apart and it's lego bricks salvaged to make the U.S.S Enterprise. Dont sweat it...why do you think I dont post my pic on here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastersRZ Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Ah, one of my favorite childhood toys! I would spend hours upon hours building buildings out of LEGOs. For such a simple toy, it provided me hours of stimulating entertainment, which helped foster my imagination at the same time. I still have all my bricks down in the basement, and many of the special sets that I built are in the floor of my closet in shambles. Unfortunately, I don`t have much time to tinker with them anymore. Studying for my masters consumes a lot of my time these days. But hey, I am majoring in architecture, so my building elements will only transition from play toys to actual building materials. I got to visit the Chicago LEGO store a couple weeks ago. Boy, that is one fun store! They even have tubes at the back where you can select from a wide range of colors and bricks and pack as many as you can into a tube and buy the entire tube for like $8! Not a bad deal, which had I not had to lug it around the city the entire day, I would have done. I have several of my LEGO creation pictures on my website and here is a direct link. (Yes, I was much younger when those pictures were taken). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKlockster Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Let me just say I could outLEGO all of you. I used to love LEGOs. They're the only toys worth playing with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Bombay Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Klockster, I accept your Lego challenge! There should be a KIC sponsored lego challenge. RZ, no offense, but it was kids like you and my friends when I was younger that annoyed me with this.... Random colors!? Come on, there needs to be some sort of pattern of uniform color scheme here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastersRZ Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Hey now, that was the first major creations I made. (I later made another tower, when I had acquired more LEGOs, but sadly never got a picture of it. Take a gander at the ceiling high tower I made out of LEGOs. Yes, that is me sitting next to the tower, shortly before I destroyed it, by pulling two strings attached to the bottom of the towers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKlockster Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 If you have ever seen Star Trek Insurrection, I built a model of the scout ship that Data flies at the beginning. It looked dead on like it, and the model was sturdy enough to be thrown across the room from a height of 5 feet and not lose a single brick. My favorite thing I ever build was a space base with a small fleet of ships. I had a wing of fighters based on the fighters from Babylon 5, several science vessels, a small battleship with a crew of 2 that had movable engine naecells and missiles that you could detach, and lastly a capital ship with a crew of 8 LEGO dudes. The only things remaining today are the capital ship and the battleship. Both are with my mom in Montana (along with all my random bricks). And I couldn't agree more with the coach. I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS had matching color schemes. I also did all the little details like the vents (what I called the little 2x1 flat brick that looks like a vent), antennas and what not. BTW I used to be huge into Star Trek and it influenced many of my creations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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