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Submitted by T Ratner
According to LEGO.com, LEGO is an abbreviation of two Danish words, “leg godt,” which means “play well.” Is that a perfect name or what?
You can do almost anything with LEGOs (cities, robots), but in our not-so-humble opinion, the best use is taking an awesome 80’s toy and re-creating awesome 80’s pop culture moments! The meta… it burns!
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I had the lego pirate ship. Best. Lego. Set. Ever.
They’re about to come out with new pirate sets too! Yarrr!
“I adore Lego. It is like a thousand toys in one.” – Mike Myers as Deiter from Saturday Night Live
I made bridges and hospitals and sandwiches.
I LOVE legos…till I step on one – OUCH
ABSOLUTELY!
Ah, memories.
Lego was, and still is, the best. the only toys I consider buying.
I always sucked at LEGOs. Seriously, I must lack a creative gene or something. I couldn’t visualize anything. I made the same things every time; a crappy car, and a house, because we had the flat floor-thing and pre-made windows.
You probably had (and I did have) the original people too. The really large ones with the articulated arms? They were a head and articulated shoulders that you had to build your own body for. My set also had special “wheel blocks” that wheels would plug into.
All my boys grew up on Legos, insist that I keep them all to this day (even tho they’re all in their 20s now). I have 3 large storage tubs full of them – one for “regular” one for “castle” and one for “space”. I just bought my youngest a small set for xmas, which he enjoyed putting together. Best toy ever, and I’m sure it has spawned a whole generation of architects and engineers.
I grew up on Legos. I’m in my mid 30s now and I still have my old Black Falcon castle- with almost all the pieces, except the figures. That thing is almost 23 years old! Dated back to 1986.
Best.Toy.Ever
Bar none!!!!
I had a ton of it when i was a kid… all up in the attic now, but if it was down, i’d probably still play with it, and i’m 23 lol
I’m 23 and I’m still buying new sets, lol. I’ve been making little pixilated FF characters.
Is this really a once-upon-a-win? These things are still really popular!
I made a three axis mill out of Lego and a small tool which is sort of like a dremel. Lego mechanisms aren’t very good a fine motion, so I used long levers to turn 20 cm of motion into 20 mm of motion in the workspace. The thing takes up about a square meter of space, for a 20mm x 20mm x 5mm working volume.
All of that lever advantage was wasted, because the bearings in the power tool are so loose, that the largest error is the jiggling of the bit. I will look for a better tool to run the mill head, and then I should be able to mill polystyrene foam with a tolerance of about 100 microns, with the only non-Lego mechanical piece being the tool with the 30k RPM bit.
The Lego RCX and NXT are cool toys, for kids like me, who are a day older than the president elect.
Yes I do still have the Lego bricks from my youth, but I don’t use them. Some of those bricks were first used by my older siblings, and are over 50 years old. Lego has been continuously improving the plastic in the bricks and the old bricks are not nearly as good, mechanically, as the new bricks.
I got a Lego set for Christmas, because my wife loves me.
Yeah, but they’re not the same now. They have all these really specialized parts for everything and it makes it almost impossible to mix and match and come up with your own stuff.
ruining your moms dryer and space heater….and both your parents feet, since 1980
Not to mention vacuum. Many a Lego suffered a noble death at the hands of my mom’s vacuum. Luckily they gave as good as they got.
1980? Try longer. Modern Lego bricks were patented in 1958.
Me and my friends would build our own cars from my huge collection and then have demolition competitions. Some of our stuff was heavily influenced by the movie “Road Warrior” at the time. I remember when there where only a few basic colors and how novel the gray color was when it started. I’m in my late 30’s now and I think my mom still has my bag-o-legos somewhere at her place. We both credit those Legos for my fabrication skills and creative ability. I built cars (1930’s to 1950’s) for a hobbie after that, starting around 15 or 16. She swears I became good with numbers because of them too. I know if I have kids they’ll be playing with them. I got my nephew started on them a couple years ago but sadly I doubt his dad bought him anymore. A childhood without Legos should be a crime.
My brothers and I would build towns on our train table with Legos then run the train around it. Legos were and are the best toy ever!
I used to make huge statships with lego complete with engine vents, landing craft , fighters etc all docked with the main ship.
I loved lego still do but its up in the loft currently shame
Pluralising the word “LEGO” as “LEGOs” – EPIC FAIL.
They are “lego bricks”, not “legos”. It’s like calling them “plastics”. An individual lego brick is not a “lego”. It’s a “piece of lego” or a “lego brick”.
Bloody Americans.
This. Don’t do it, people.
agreed. ‘Lego’ is to refer to the toy as a whole is it’s the trademark (eg. My Lego set, I used to have Lego, Lego is ace etc.) and use either ‘Lego sets’ or ‘Lego Bricks’ in other situations if you wish
Seperated by a common language, and a great big bloody ocean too thank christ (Al Murray, EPIC WIN)
Also agreed.
You’re lucky to have an ocean between you and those americans. I’m stuck about half an hour north of them.
Not to mention that Lego is actually Latin for something like ‘I Build’
But seriously, LEGOs bugs the crap out of me…
IT’S LEGO, PEOPLE.
LEGOs are made of lots of plastics, and you can use them to make a wildlife scene featuring Mooses, Sheeps, and Bisons.
LEGO are made of lots of plastic, and you can use them to make a wildlife scene featuring Moose, Sheep, and Bison.
Which sounds better?
We have a lego store down here, man it’s soooo cool. You can buy individual pieces now which is something I dreamed of when I was little. How much of a pain was it to almost be finished creating something and realize you don’t have one piece to finish it?
That’s a great concept! You used to be able to send off for unusual pieces.
We have LegoLand here (just down the freeway a bit) but I’ve never gone
Lego Castle was the most awesome. I had so many battles on that thing.
I used to make awesome storey castles with lego! and throne rooms and everything. then make siege weapons and besiege it. that’d keep me entertained for hours when i was younger!!!
I always wanted a digital camera, and the software to animate things with Lego… that’d so give it such a new lease of life now!!
Yeah! i used to have so much fun building big 3-storey castles, complete with throne rooms and everything! that’d keep me entertained for hours when i was younger!!! I’d build the castle first, then make siege weapons to besiege it and stuff and have epic lego battles lol
double post FAIL. i thought the first one didn’t work, the website went all funny after i posted
used real water in the moat
I still like Lego, Shame about the sets they make now, Especially what they did to Bionicle, its not Bionicle anymore >_<
So many specialized pieces now. And so many sets come with huge specialized pieces to make up the base of it. They’re like models now.
there are no special pieces, just “special” people
I know, like I said, Lego isn’t Lego anymore. Half the fun was trying to figure out how to build that stuff with those peices, now its mostly one peice, I facepalm’d when I saw the new Lego City Helicopter commercial
LEGO…
Aw, HELL yeah! I never got any of the big sets, but it is amazing what some people can do with them.
Camelot!
http://www.boredmuch.com/view.php?id=911
Now that’s an epic win!!!
Should have been in the original post IMO.
Greatest toy ever and all that, but I still have a model of the Slave I ship from Star Wars II, including the Fetts. Inside its storage area I have a couple random older parts like missiles and a (stolen) motorcycle. I used to have a Hoth ship with
See also:
http://www.thebricktestament.com/
Dirty and violent Bible stories brought hilariously to life through creative use of Legos.
YES, Elissa! I was going to post this if no-one else hadn’t. And unlike the Indy and Star Wars endeavors, Lego Bible is ACTUALLY CREATIVE in creating it’s own — not pre-made — Lego world. All hail the Reverend!
Second that sanctement.
mmmm – while I agree Lego is a great toy, it’s hardlyl 1980s – I played with lego sets in the 1960s and I believe they toy was actually invented in the 1940s.
Yeah hard for it to be nastalgic. It has that too “still around-ness”
This was not what the post you replied to was saying at all. It was saying “older than 1980s”, not “still around”.
Modern bricks, 1958.
yay LEGO = Lethaly Edged Gauging Object !!!
Yeah hard for it to be nastalgic. It has that too “still around-ness”
Hey! If you’re gonna do Lego Indy, THIS is the one to use:
Love it! We just got Duplos for our son, and I think my husband and I play with them more than the kid does …
love the stuff – excellent times…agree with the new stuff being too specialised these days – Lego is meant to stimulate creativity…
How could anyone vote ‘no’ for lego??? im shocked! disgusted! appalled!!!
Try Roblox. Free online Lego-like game.
If I still had them, I’d SO play with my old legos. I used to build houses and play house with the little yellow lego people. Good times. Good times.
Needs moar ORANGE TRANSPARENT CHAINSAW.
I think the most epic win from Lego is that it is, whatever you want it to be. to the uneducated eye it’s just a pile of bricks, but to a Lego fan, it could be a house, a castle, a car, a farm, a police station, an airport or absolutely anything your imagination or creativity would allow you to build, just waiting to be built!
The sheer versatility makes Lego the Best. Toy. EVER
lego is the biggest epic win ever.
LONG LIVE LEGO!!!!
What I like about Legos is that by the time you reach the age of 14 they are not my fun to play with but to make stop motion movies and post them on you tube! This is an erected win I’ll tell you what!
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lego’s were the in thing when i was a kid, but i never thought they were that interesting.
I still have Legos! But like everything cool and original they have million of different sets now but it is still super awesome. LEGO IS THE BEST EPIC WIN EVER! I don’t care who you are. Whoot Long live LEGO!