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Brother Oni
2011-10-04, 01:11 PM
Looks like somebody's been playing too much minecraft:

http://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/8890771.Your_Say__New_green_Morrisons_depot_taking _shape/

Every time I drive past it, my daughter shouts out "minecraft!". :smallbiggrin:
ForzaFiori
2011-10-04, 01:14 PM
My first thought was "LEGOS!"

Every house I've ever built with legos has wound up with that same scheme of lines of color. Usually has a bit more variation though.
Kobold-Bard
2011-10-04, 05:15 PM
My first thought was "LEGOS!"

Every house I've ever built with legos has wound up with that same scheme of lines of color. Usually has a bit more variation though.

That's essentially what Minecraft is isn't it? Lego RPG?
Weezer
2011-10-04, 05:27 PM
That's essentially what Minecraft is isn't it? Lego RPG?

With working circuitry. And zombies.
Kobold-Bard
2011-10-04, 05:32 PM
With working circuitry. And zombies.

Your lego worlds didn't have zombies?
RandomNPC
2011-10-04, 07:37 PM
Your lego worlds didn't have zombies?

That's 3 different levels of win, and mine only had them near Halloween.
Lither
2011-10-05, 03:58 AM
Your lego worlds didn't have zombies?

You couldn't make working circuitry with lego? What are they teaching people these days?
Vaynor
2011-10-05, 04:17 AM
With working circuitry. And zombies.

Your lego didn't have circuitry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms)?
Eldan
2011-10-05, 04:31 AM
Your lego didn't have circuitry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms)?

I mostly kept mine mechanical, as Mindstorm wasn't out yet when I was in my Lego Age. Doesn't mean I couldn't do some complex stuff.
Icewalker
2011-10-05, 11:53 AM
I remember building Indiana Jones esque temples of doom. That was pretty sweet.

But, nope, no functioning circuitry in those...
Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll
2011-10-05, 12:01 PM
Yeah, my first thought was 'lego' not 'minecraft'. Sorry!

Also, whenever I play Minecraft, I get bored and decide that doing this-and-that project would be cooler in Dwarf Fortress.
irenicObserver
2011-10-05, 12:04 PM
No mentioned minecraft over there either
Siosilvar
2011-10-05, 02:00 PM
I mostly kept mine mechanical, as Mindstorm wasn't out yet when I was in my Lego Age. Doesn't mean I couldn't do some complex stuff.

You're not still in your Lego Age? Somebody get this man a doctor!

...

I didn't think of legos or Minecraft, and I play with both on pretty much a daily basis.
Mando Knight
2011-10-05, 03:42 PM
My first thought was "LEGOS!"

Every house I've ever built with legos has wound up with that same scheme of lines of color. Usually has a bit more variation though.
Not possible with this one: there's no way you'd get that many green bricks of that length.

Your lego didn't have circuitry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms)?
Basic LEGO circuitry is even older than Mindstorms... motors, battery boxes, and lights were integrated into sets as early as the late 1970s, if I remember my LEGO history correctly. The oldest set I have had access to the original instructions booklet for and includes circuitry is an '89 Space Police mid-size cruiser with a basic light system. (Got parts and the booklet from a garage sale, so I don't actually have the set, though...)
Weezer
2011-10-05, 03:57 PM
Your lego didn't have circuitry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms)?

Apparently I wasn't (and still aren't) cool enough to own any Legos of that complexity.
Jalor
2011-10-05, 06:06 PM
I thought "Minecraft" first, but the thread title probably had something to do with that.

When I first read the title, I thought of Voodoo Child (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoAXW30mMAg), because Jimi Hendrix predicted the existence of Minecraft and wrote a song about it. Honestly, with lyrics like "Well, I stand up next to a mountain / and chop it down with the edge of my hand / Well, I pick up all the pieces and make an island / might even raise a little sand", what the hell else could he have been talking about? Especially considering the next verse is "I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time".
Castaras
2011-10-06, 05:54 AM
Don't see minecraft, do see lego.

And circuitry? Only circuitry that exists in lego is making moving parts with different wheel-blocks and hole blocks, and occasional blocks that had lights in them. We don't need no fancy-schmancy mindstorms. :smalltongue:
KenderWizard
2011-10-06, 12:12 PM
I thought "What the hell is this that I'm reading?" because I opened it and then got distracted, so I forgot about this thread by the time I looked at it.

Also, I had a working Lego car in about 1993, with a remote, which was attached by a wire. It was f***ing deadly. It was a grey box shape, so you built your own car shape on it, and I loved it.
Eldan
2011-10-06, 12:28 PM
I had one that came with an actual red car shape built around it. Though I remember the steering wheel was purely mechanical. So, while you could accelerate and drive backwards remotely, you had to stop it, walk over to it and turn the steering wheel to drive around a corner.

I modified it a bit, from what I remember. Added a tiny second motor to the steering wheel and changed the remote to one that had different power settings (from a train set) so that you could drive at different speeds.

Then I removed the chassis and added a giant swinging Lego club to it that could be hammered against the ground i nfront of the car with a third motor.