Lego Enthusiasts in the Playground

[Logic]

I cannot be the only AFOL* here in the playground, so I wanted to find the other member that enjoy ABS**

So, out of the woodwork, you!

*Adult Fan Of Lego
**Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene - AKA the chemical name for the Lego brick plastic.

[Dr.Epic]

They just released LotR play sets!:smallbiggrin: Where were these when I was younger? These films are about 10 years old!

[JabberwockySupafly]

Definitely an AFoL myself. Mostly the Star Wars range. I've so far gotten my grubby mitts on Darth Vader's TIE Bomber, the TIE Defender, Boba Fett's Slave 1, the 'midi' Millenium Falcon, the (sadly non-motorised) AT-AT, Luke's X-Wing, and I recently picked up a Marvel pack with a helicopter because it had Magneto, Wolverine, and (most importantly) Deadpool.

I've been umming and aahing over whether to save up for the Death Star, but with LoTR coming out in LEGO form, I'm thinking I'll wait until they release a really cool playset (come on Minas Morgul!) in that area. Plus, the Death Star is just the inside, I was kind of hoping for it to have the external hull and kind of open in half or something, it just doesn't look right without the hull.

[Dr.Epic]

I've been umming and aahing over whether to save up for the Death Star, but with LoTR coming out in LEGO form, I'm thinking I'll wait until they release a really cool playset (come on Minas Morgul!) in that area.

They got the Mines of Moria and Helms Deep. Man, as soon as I get some disposable income, I'm getting me some Mines of Moria. Maybe Shelob first. That playset looks cheapest.

[JabberwockySupafly]

They got the Mines of Moria and Helms Deep. Man, as soon as I get some disposable income, I'm getting me some Mines of Moria. Maybe Shelob first. That playset looks cheapest.

Mines of Moria and Helms Deep do look pretty awesome. I was considering Weathertop just for the Nazgul. I'm a sucker for Ringwraiths. Bad guys just look cooler in LEGO form.

[Dr.Epic]

Mines of Moria and Helms Deep do look pretty awesome. I was considering Weathertop just for the Nazgul. I'm a sucker for Ringwraiths. Bad guys just look cooler in LEGO form.

I'm sure there will be more expansions. Probably even a Shire playset at some point. Look at all the things they have for Star Wars.

[Flame of Anor]

I love LEGO! At the moment, in fact, I'm working on a LEGO stop-motion project.

[Grue Bait]

They got the Mines of Moria and Helms Deep. Man, as soon as I get some disposable income, I'm getting me some Mines of Moria. Maybe Shelob first. That playset looks cheapest.

I'm personally holding out for Minas Tirath or the Entmoot. Maybe Isengard.

Either way, the LotR kits look sweet.

[PairO'Dice Lost]

I've gotten 4 or 5 big Lego sets for every birthday and Christmas since I was 8 or so (22 now), I own every single Star Wars Lego set except the Death Star which I'm saving for this Christmas, and I have a modular Lego dungeon setup big enough to run megadungeons with. I suppose I'm a bit of an enthusiast. :smallbiggrin:

[Logic]

I've gotten 4 or 5 big Lego sets for every birthday and Christmas since I was 8 or so (22 now), I own every single Star Wars Lego set except the Death Star which I'm saving for this Christmas, and I have a modular Lego dungeon setup big enough to run megadungeons with. I suppose I'm a bit of an enthusiast. :smallbiggrin:

Oh boy. I think I may have met the first non-professional with a larger Lego collection.

[GrlumpTheElder]

I still enjoy lego. Don't have many of the fancy sets, but lots and lots or random, assorted bricks dating from the early 90s... They're still great fun to make random things with.

[smellie_hippie]

Best Christmas gift last year was the VW camper replica. Haven't bought Lego for myself in quite a while, but have built with these bricks since 1979...

[Melayl]

LEGOs are still one of the coolest toys in the world. I don't have many, and I don't have much space (yet) to play with them, but I love them. I do wish they'd make He-Man lego sets, though. I mean, an official Lego Castle Greyskull? Yes, yes I am a geek... :smallwink:

[ForzaFiori]

I LOVE Legos. I have an old chest about the size of an army footlocker downstairs filled with random bricks that my families been collecting since my sister was born (she's almost 26 now), as well as all the various thing's we've put together and left to show off - 2 Star Wars sets I got for christmas, as well as a wizard tower and castle that me and my sister built from our imagination. I wish the awesome sets weren't so expensive though, it's hard to keep growing my collection when I'm a poor college student.

[Prime32]

I've got some Lego Digital Designer models in a few posts here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13104394).

[Teddy]

I'm a real fan of Lego, and we've got quite a collection of all kinds of bricks at home, but sadly, whenever I try to build something, I'm struck with a sudden lack of ideas, or it turns out that none of the vital pieces can be found, so I haven't been building much in my adult years (all two of them)...

[Mando Knight]

So, out of the woodwork, you!
*Brickwork

...I thought liking LEGO was a prerequisite to being a functional human being?

Also, VF-1 Valkyrie (http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/638) on Cuusoo. Go support it. Now. (For those of you unfamiliar with Cuusoo, it is the process by which Minecraft LEGO was developed: people come up with ideas and post them, then get 10000 supporters, then LEGO comes in and decides if they can make it into actual sets. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6yDJA2a4lM) If successful, you get a small royalty, and people get your LEGO set.)

[Ulysses WkAmil]

FINALLY!!!!! A thread for legos! Love it. Ever since High School hit I've been in the lego-made closet.

[Winter_Wolf]

Oh man I used to love playing with dem bricks! And I shall again, once my offspring is old enough to play with them without choking on them. I remember when the angled brick (the 45 and the 30 'roof pieces') were considered "specialty pieces". The days when building a ship out of LEGO meant that you had to place every single brick of it, not like the last time I looked and the prow of the ship as a single piece.

I loved the castle set stuff most of all, and there were never, ever enough "wing" pieces in the space or airplane kits. I had probably four large bins worth of those little plastic bricks.

I Do Not miss stepping on a feral LEGO in the middle of the night though! They liked to hide in the carpet during the day, and magically became invisible. I think I'd rather step on a d4 than a a Lego of any kind. And I've done both.

[Mando Knight]

I remember when the angled brick (the 45 and the 30 'roof pieces') were considered "specialty pieces". The days when building a ship out of LEGO meant that you had to place every single brick of it, not like the last time I looked and the prow of the ship as a single piece.

I was not alive when such a time existed. The 6285 Black Seas Barracuda/Dark Shark, the first Pirate ship, was released in '89, when I was born...

[ForzaFiori]

I was not alive when such a time existed. The 6285 Black Seas Barracuda/Dark Shark, the first Pirate ship, was released in '89, when I was born...

I have such fond memories of that ship. My best friend as a little kid had it, we used to turn the hull of the ship into all kinds of things.

[Ravens_cry]

I had a few of those Lego lidded boxes of mixed pieces as a kid, but I had to leave it behind when my mum left my dad. Nowadays, I like Lego, the problem is the stuff is bloody expensive and the licensed sets don't have nearly the room for creativity, and that's pretty much all I can find. I can never find the big boxes of pieces at local megamarts, only the Star Wars/Batman/Harry Potter stuff.
One thing I would like to try if I get a chance is Mindstorms.

[Mando Knight]

Just assorted bricks? Lego still sells those. They're easiest (http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Fun-with-Bricks-4628) to (http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Farm-Brick-Box-4626) find (http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Large-Brick-Box-6166) online (http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Basic-Bricks-Deluxe-6177), of (http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Deluxe-Brick-Box-5508) course (http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Building-Fun-5549). Don't know if they still come in buckets with Lego-shaped lids, though.

The set I'd really like right now that they have in stock is the Executor (http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Super-Star-Destroyer-10221).

[Ravens_cry]

Call me a luddite, but I rarely buy stuff on-line. In fact, I can honestly say I only did so once, to buy 'The Longest Journey' off of eBay.
Given my . . predilections, I don't trust my computer enough to share that kind of information.

[KnightDisciple]

This is basically raw awesome. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbz-Oj1BkvE)

[Dr.Epic]

Do kids still play with them? I mean, when my younger cousin came to visit me once, I showed him all the legos I had, and he seemed disinterested. It seems all today's kids only care about video games.

[Aliquid]

Am I the only one that cringes when I see someone put a 's' at the end of Lego? You can't pluralize the word Lego.

Throughout my whole childhood nobody ever said "Legos", so I guess my brain is programmed to hear that as a serious grammatical error.

I guess I grew up seeing it as a “mass noun” like sand, air, or grass. i.e. you would say “look at this grain of sand”, or “I have a bucket full of sand”.
Whereas pluralizing Lego sounds to me as grammatically wrong as saying “I have a bucket full of sands”, or “look at this sand” (when referring to a singular piece).

Although, the way I grew up seeing the word was wrong too… it isn’t a “mass noun”… because Lego is *not* the name of the product, it is the name of the company. So you would say "look at all my Lego bricks", which would be the same as "look at all my matchbox cars", rather than "look at all my matchboxes"

[Mando Knight]

Although, the way I grew up seeing the word was wrong too… it isn’t a “mass noun”… because Lego is *not* the name of the product, it is the name of the company. So you would say "look at all my Lego bricks", which would be the same as "look at all my matchbox cars", rather than "look at all my matchboxes"

I think that is how the company prefers it, too.

[Agent 451]

Do kids still play with them? I mean, when my younger cousin came to visit me once, I showed him all the legos I had, and he seemed disinterested. It seems all today's kids only care about video games.

Yes they do! A close friend of mine bonds with his 12 year old daughter over Star Wars Lego. Another close friend has a 10 year old who loves Lego as well.

[Laurellien]

Oh yes, you're not the only adult out there with a love for LEGO. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiUsahx2vBI)

With every installment of my student loan, I have bought a new LEGO castle. I'm thinking of doing graduate studies to buy some more pirate ships.

[Castaras]

Am I the only one that cringes when I see someone put a 's' at the end of Lego? You can't pluralize the word Lego.

Throughout my whole childhood nobody ever said "Legos", so I guess my brain is programmed to hear that as a serious grammatical error.

I guess I grew up seeing it as a “mass noun” like sand, air, or grass. i.e. you would say “look at this grain of sand”, or “I have a bucket full of sand”.
Whereas pluralizing Lego sounds to me as grammatically wrong as saying “I have a bucket full of sands”, or “look at this sand” (when referring to a singular piece).

Although, the way I grew up seeing the word was wrong too… it isn’t a “mass noun”… because Lego is *not* the name of the product, it is the name of the company. So you would say "look at all my Lego bricks", which would be the same as "look at all my matchbox cars", rather than "look at all my matchboxes"

It is supposed to be Lego, not Legos. Company specifically says so, can't remember where I saw that though.

And yeah, it makes me get all twitchy as well. Same sort of twitchy that I get when I see a 3 seater sofa split into two instead of three.

[Agent 451]

With every installment of my student loan, I have bought a new LEGO castle. I'm thinking of doing graduate studies to buy some more pirate ships.

That is the best motivation to go to grad school that I have ever heard. Good luck! :smallwink:

[St.Sinner]

You Lego-heads might appreciate this. Photo quality isn't great as they were taken with my old Sony Ericsson, but I can attest that the creations were awesome :smallbiggrin:

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[Mazeburn]

YES TO LEGO. c: I actually work for the guys who make the LEGO games right now (on LOTR at the moment), and since starting there my interest has gone from 'ooh kinda cool' to 'OMG BEST THING EVER'. I love seeing adult reactions to LEGO. I collect the mini-figs they sell in blind-bags, and I'm in hospital right now, so whenever a nurse comes in and sees the 20 or so figs on my bedside table, it's awesome to see how their faces light up. They usually say things like 'my nephew would love these', but it's clear what they really mean is 'SQUEEEE LEGO I LOVE THIS CAN I TOUCH IT ALL.'

[MonkeyBusiness]

Best Christmas gift last year was the VW camper replica. Haven't bought Lego for myself in quite a while, but have built with these bricks since 1979...

This makes me deeply happy. :smallcool:

I do not own legos (yes, I spell he plural with an "s", relax already :smallwink:) but as a pre-K teacher I built all kinds of things with legos, working alongside my students. We didn't have any of the kits, but that didn't seem to matter. Some of the lego monstrosities we built were so elaborate we dedicated a table to them and left them up all week, adding more to them each day. Some of the kids were such lego-heads I could only get them to participate in other activities by referencing legos. For example: "Will you draw a picture of the lego dinosaur? I need a picture to include in my daily report. Thanks!"

The main reason why I do not own legos is because I have a terrible tendency to lose things with many small pieces. I don't buy puzzles for the same reason. :smallfrown: Sad, but less sad than losing the one cool or essential piece and then feeling bad about myself.

- Monkey

[Diva De]

Wait until my husband ginds this thread. Yeesh.

We are both "adults" who love Lego. We are 28 and 33 and are teaching our boys to love them too. My hubby still has several of his old sets, less-old sets (like the various droids when the prequel movies came out), his original Slave-1 from Star Wars. A couple of years ago we got the big Indiana Jones set from Temple of Doom with the mine carts/track. And recently he got the big TIE fighter set.

Our boys have all the Spongebob sets, as well as various dinosaur sets, Ninjago, etc etc.

And we all LOVE the Lego games that keep coming out for consoles. We have all but the 2nd Harry Potter game and the brand new DC Heroes one. Family fun night - done.

[Trog]

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Er... I have all of my lego sets dating back to the mid 1970's. The first space lego sets, first minifig fire station, technic car chassis with adjustable seats, rack-and-pinion steering, and three-speed, 4-cylinder engine, that sort of thing. Only toys I kept from childhood, really. Loved playing with them and building stuff.

My sons inherited all of my sets and have gotten a great many sets to add to it - certainly more than I had had as a kid. Every now and then we bust the boxes out and create something. Last thing was creating a set of working blinds that would open and shut when you twisted the handle. Did that just a couple of weeks ago, actually. Took a lot of gears.

I haven't bought any lego sets for myself in quite some time. But uh... this (http://cache.lego.com/upload/contentTemplating/TheLordofTheRingsProductImages/images/pic9E0D62A8E42C9A850FA23F6BBD60D093.jpg) might make me change my mind on that! o.o

[Greenish]

Not too long ago, I got Lego Creationary (like Pictionary, but instead of drawing you build the stuff) as a birthday present, and it's a big hit. Though it should have more cards.

So, yeah, count me in.

[TheWolfe]

I did not have Lego as a child, bit I did have K'nex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K'Nex)

Like with Lego, you could build amazing things with it. The building structure is very different from Lego though, focusing on bars and connectors, the kind of structure you see at a building site before they put the brick (Lego?) walls around it. Here's an image of a K'nex house:https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSLVp2Wsn_Z2PK6LSkYax0hN0NOu6nCR Zd_uggxa9ddJi7sHEjc7w

I was very well built as well. it's hard to explain, but basically the pieces were color coded, and every color bar had a certain length. Like green was the shortest, and then came white, then dark blue and so on. But here comes the cool thing. The length was EXACTLY right, so if you put a green bar between two connectors, lets call them A and B, and then put another green bar with connector C on a 90 degree angle from the first bar on connector A, then you could exactly connect connectors B and C with a white bar. This worked the same for white and dark blue bars. Here's an image that illustrates it:https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSMp_0NSg6MviPaUWfykvQoEdeeB30HA-Eiqs8ljEdnsdlWp-Rwjg

I always thought it was pretty neat stuff, but they don't sell it in the toy stores where I live, so maybe I have to order it on the internet one of these days so I can try it again. You could build really amazing things with it, like rollercoasters and ferris wheelshttps://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQehcaACoET379TKJQwoX_UMsXOm_hR5 oGFeI5NfKxAp_9Q3YJm

That Ferris wheel on the photo is six feet high! I remember that when I played with this as a kid I had this instruction manual for a big rollercoaster that was like five feet high, but I was only nine or so, so I had to built a section on the ground and then get my big brother to put it in top of the structure because I couldn't reach it!

Maybe I've gone off-topic, but I saw this and I waned to share this amazing toy with you. Maybe I would have gotten the same or more enjoyment if had Lego when I was a kid, but I had a lot of fun with K'nex!

[IthilanorStPete]

I love Lego! Haven't played much with it recently, except when I went over to Legoland Florida...I live just an hour away, it's sweet.
One thing I've noticed, thought it might be just poor memory from when I was a kid...there seem to be fewer *really big* Lego sets these days. Is that actually the case, or is it just me?

[Tyndmyr]

I love Lego! Haven't played much with it recently, except when I went over to Legoland Florida...I live just an hour away, it's sweet.
One thing I've noticed, thought it might be just poor memory from when I was a kid...there seem to be fewer *really big* Lego sets these days. Is that actually the case, or is it just me?

There are tons of them, but they are not always sold at every place that sells legos. The Lego online store(or their actual stores) have a much better selection of truly big sets than say, a target will.

Additionally, I'm a big fan of the giant ship set. The only real flaw in it is that it's four cannons short of being able to arm both side at once...but this is fixable by using cannibalizing small sets with cannons, as I did.

[IthilanorStPete]

There are tons of them, but they are not always sold at every place that sells legos. The Lego online store(or their actual stores) have a much better selection of truly big sets than say, a target will.

Additionally, I'm a big fan of the giant ship set. The only real flaw in it is that it's four cannons short of being able to arm both side at once...but this is fixable by using cannibalizing small sets with cannons, as I did.

One weird thing about Legoland - the shops there weren't actually that impressive. Oh, minifigure salt & pepper shakers are awesome, but as for actual sets...there really wasn't anything that I haven't seen on the shelf at Wal-Mart.

[Tyndmyr]

One weird thing about Legoland - the shops there weren't actually that impressive. Oh, minifigure salt & pepper shakers are awesome, but as for actual sets...there really wasn't anything that I haven't seen on the shelf at Wal-Mart.

That's kind of odd. There's a lot of lego stores around here, and they typically have much better selection than at walmart. There's some overlap sure, but there's also a goodly selection of exclusives and the like.

[Dr.Epic]

Oh yes, you're not the only adult out there with a love for LEGO. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiUsahx2vBI)

Ha! I remember that game! I played it all the time.

[IthilanorStPete]

Ha! I remember that game! I played it all the time.

As did I! I wish I still had it around.

[Dr.Epic]

As did I! I wish I still had it around.

Don't we all.