any lego fans

[vbasscustom]

hey, i freakin love lego. people say its childish but theres something about it that just keeps me at it all the time. so, any lego fans out there on TB?

[L-A]

I'm a Lego Technic geek. Didn't bring them to my appt, but I used to make robots, cars with functional (including auto) transmissions, functional guns, clocks. Anything I was curious about.

[metallicafan18]

I was huge into them as a kid and early teen. I sold them all about 2 years ago though for a new GK stack.

[vbasscustom]

how exactly did you make transmissions? i guess its just lego gears. but to be able to make an automatic transmission in lego is awesome.

[Sbociol]

I still love Legos and i totally don't mind building some from time to time.

[TBrett]

I think it's great that you still love Lego! Haven't played with it as an adult (unless playing with a child on occasion), but I had tons of it as a kid and was always doing something with it. My step-daughter has a huge bin of it and still loves it.

[Joe Gress]

We've had two huge storage boxes full of all kinds of legos for a long time. I'll still build something every now and then.

[TBrett]

I was just wondering if whoever invented Lego realized how phenominally successful it would be. Then I remembered Mini Bricks, which my childhood friend had. They were similar to Lego, but made of rubber. Kept us busy for hours. I wonder if the Lego folks somehow pinched the idea from the Mini Bricks folks?

[Horny Toad]

Legos rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsSo01FIXk8

[EricF]

Originally Posted by TBrett

I was just wondering if whoever invented Lego realized how phenominally successful it would be. Then I remembered Mini Bricks, which my childhood friend had. They were similar to Lego, but made of rubber. Kept us busy for hours. I wonder if the Lego folks somehow pinched the idea from the Mini Bricks folks?

Legos have been around for a very long time...http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/lego.htm

I'm fully enjoying my 5-year-old's new interest in Legos.

[lycanbreed7]

My 9 year old son is a lego freak! That includes ANYTHING lego, from the regular lego sets to Bionicals and beyond. He is a high functioning autistic, and something about building stuff grabs him for hours. He builds things That have me scratching and wondering how he did it.

[Happynoj]

Why do Americans call Lego 'Legos'?

[JohnnyNacho]

Originally Posted by Happynoj

Why do Americans call Lego 'Legos'?

Why do Britons call math maths? I wouldn't get too hung up on it... Canadian here, by the way.

[vbasscustom]

yeah, you wouldnt say mices, i dunno. americans, what can you do.

[jdieh1]

I used to love Lego as a kid but I sold all of it to buy something.. I can't quite remember what it was now though haha

Good times were had with Lego

[Blonde Bassist]

I used to love lego when I was little, we've got boxes and boxes of it in the loft.

I think most people in the UK would have seen, or at least heard of this, but here is a report about James May from top gear, who last year built a full size house from lego bricks. It was from a series about kids toys were he basically for want of a better phrase supersized them. He did a Lego house, full size airfix Spitfire, a full length scalextrik circuit around the old brooklands site, and a 10 mile model train set. Was a very amusing series, I'm sure it will be on bbc world or what ever it is at some point. Well worth a look

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat...ego-house.html

[onlyoneZ]

This is insane cool.

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/t...rcraft-carrier

[metallicafan18]

Originally Posted by Blonde Bassist

I used to love lego when I was little, we've got boxes and boxes of it in the loft.

I think most people in the UK would have seen, or at least heard of this, but here is a report about James May from top gear, who last year built a full size house from lego bricks. It was from a series about kids toys were he basically for want of a better phrase supersized them. He did a Lego house, full size airfix Spitfire, a full length scalextrik circuit around the old brooklands site, and a 10 mile model train set. Was a very amusing series, I'm sure it will be on bbc world or what ever it is at some point. Well worth a look

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat...ego-house.html

Those boxes of Lego's could be worth quite a bit

I sold a 16Lb box for $150 on Ebay.

They are a goldmine!

[WickedPissah]

There was a time when I built tons of lego, man.

[nutso42]

Heck, I use Legos to fix stuff! Most recently, a bridge on my Kramer headless bass was broken, and I fixed it with Legos! They're great!