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Old 07-23-2003, 07:12 AM   #41 (permalink)
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Legos are beyond awesome. When I was around 10 years old my dad came home with a garbage bag full of legos he picked up at a yard sale for $10. Like, a full sized 10 gallon garbage bag. It was the best day of my life.
Legos are what have inspired me to become an Engineer. I've known since the age of 13 and I owe it all to Legos. I use to have a whole city of legos and every year I make a train set to go around the Christmas tree.
Yeah, I'm a dork. :-D;-)
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Old 07-23-2003, 08:01 AM   #42 (permalink)
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I had a lot of Legos years ago. I almost never built the "model" that was on the box. I would create my own projects and the best one I ever came up with was a giant spaceship that easily broke apart into 4 smaller ships and a moon rover with the removal of a few specific blocks. I kept that thing together for years
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Old 07-23-2003, 09:36 AM   #43 (permalink)
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I love legos.

I had a friend that would be amazingly talented at building cars with legos. I am talking big, 2 - 3 feet long , full body work.

Ironically he now works for aston martin, in the body shop LOL.

When I was a kid, i would play for so long my finger tips would get raw.
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Old 07-23-2003, 01:41 PM   #44 (permalink)
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Lego = coolest toy of all time.

I have a 3yr old and an 18 month old. My 3yr old daughter likes the Mega-blocks and is enjoying her Duplos, but my son is amazing me with his skill at using the Mega-blocks at 18 months. I cannot wait until they're old enough to play with actual Legos.

The coolest part about having kids is they are the supreme excuse to revisit your own childhood now that you have the money to afford it =)
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Old 07-23-2003, 01:44 PM   #45 (permalink)
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legos.. ahh and the new rebotics.. you could built a bunch of critter and spy on peps.. or better yet.. do the wirless thing.. build an assassin lego critter.. when its delivered.. they open it up and see a lego with a message.. "hi.. im here to kill you.." bam it explodes and dude has a 1x2 lego embeded in his brain..

i want to build a 5 foot tall robot.. that would be kickin.. my goal.. to make bumble bee from transformers.. hehe he would even transform.. now that would be kill and cost what 8k lol
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Old 07-23-2003, 10:09 PM   #46 (permalink)
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I used to have soooo much lego. Still do, I suppose, but it's all in a big bin at my parents' place. I still have the urge to get some of that mindstorms robotics gear tho, so maybe I'll pull it all out again someday.
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Old 07-23-2003, 11:17 PM   #47 (permalink)
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Most of my childhood was spent building stuff with lego. Rarely the model on the box though, it was all about customizing.
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Old 01-28-2006, 09:37 AM   #48 (permalink)
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Lego MINDSTORMS ROBOT TOYS coming

Latest issue of WIRED magazine has a cover story (Feb.2006)on the new
MINDSTORMS ROBOTIC toy kits shown at Las Vegas Electronics show. Cost
is around $200. I think. Ebay does not have anything like it so far.
Anyone know where the MINDSTORM robots can be bought for least $$$$$?
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Old 01-28-2006, 01:15 PM   #49 (permalink)
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It's LEGO, like sheep, the singular is the plural.

Right, now i've finished my rant, i have, at last count, £15,000 worth of lego at sale price, with well over 100,000 peices, from god knows how many sets. I've got 3 of the ultimate collectors series, and a crap load of mindstorms.

My most current building project was a fort with an automated double door system. It was a security type thing, one door could open (the motors would stop when it hit the touch center), and only when it closed would the next one open. There was also a light sensor, so should one door open when the other was open, they would both automatically close.

Took me f00kin ages to build into a fort model, hiding all the wires and motors. It underwent several rebuilds when something broke off into the model, had to be fished out, and i could remember where all the bits i'd just pulled off went

Um, i'm going to play now, well, i'm going to play tomorrow, it'll take me several hours to clear a room, move my lego in, get comfortable and put on a good DVD audio commentary to build to, by which time it will be tomorrow morning

Thats a point? What do people build to? Most of the time i spend building lego involves searching for one fucking peice that ALWAYS turns up where i first looked. The LOTR DVD commentaries are my favourite building materials, they always so funny, and you can learn crap loads, not to mention keeping your mind occupied while constructing.
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