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2009/03/27 14:05:12
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Those of you who had Lego, what did you try to build with it? I remember trying to build the following:
Boat from Jaws: This had a fatal flaw that I was never able to circumvent. In order to give the bow a rail like in the film and fit a Lego man on it had to be four studs wide but it always looked too wide. One of the great unsolved engineering mysteries I suspect.
At-At: I used to pull this round like a dog on a leash until its legs fell off.
Perpetual motion machine: I gave up on this as the Lego blocks were too inefficient to make this work properly – the physics were fine of course.
A vehicle that can travel on land, air and water: The grail of vehicle design.
Transformers: I built tons of these that actually transformed. I still have a robot I built somewhere.
BTW: do you say Lego or Legos?
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2009/03/27 14:16:36
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Horrific Hive Tyrant
London (work) / Pompey (live, from time to time)
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i usually made a mess, thats about all it amounted to.
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2009/03/27 14:31:43
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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[MOD]
Anti-piracy Officer
Somewhere in south-central England.
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I used to make kind of land trains.
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2009/03/27 14:33:00
Subject: Re:A childhood built on Lego?
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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A lot of spaceships/bases etc etc.
Also was obsessed with building a transformer out of lego  , for god alone knows why seeing as I had the actual toys anyway.
I remember at school there being a craze for building vehicles which we would then ram into each other until they fell apart-- akin to conkers I guess-- in a game that had a hideously byzantine and elaborate set of rules and conventions that seemed to just evolve and were, to my recollection anyway, never formally discussed.
Think this was just before we all went mental over yoyos (  ..no me neither) and a year or two before Garbage Pail Kids.
Legos of course. The real knack in communication being how you described the part you were looking for, the happy hours looking for a "two-er" or a "four-er" ....ahh to be young again.
....especially considering the kick ass lego sets they get these days--you seen that Batman Lego they can get ? Ungrateful bastards. 
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2009/03/27 14:38:11
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Hmm... well lego have one side thats always smooth right? (the side that doesnt have the interlocking teeth)
so i would build boats or sleigh side ways that can use the smooth side to slide across the carpet.
of course there are sharp corners that dug into the carpet and it flips / gets broken.
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2009/03/27 15:14:01
Subject: Re:A childhood built on Lego?
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Boosting Ultramarine Biker
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I built traps and other weird mechanical things with them. I even once tried building a sort of exoskeletal armor out of legos, but it never really turned out.
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2009/03/27 15:17:21
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Fireknife Shas'el
A bizarre array of focusing mirrors and lenses turning my phrases into even more accurate clones of
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Bro and I always made Rube Goldberg machines and adventure worlds with them. The inspiration was mainly from the Lost Boys in "Hook."
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2009/03/27 19:17:13
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Pyre Troll
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transformers, castles of several sizes often with little lego guards. all kinds of space ships and such.
i think i still have a crate of lego's somewhere, i should go dig them out
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2009/03/27 19:26:42
Subject: Re:A childhood built on Lego?
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Evasive Eshin Assassin
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legos are in the blood.
i built everything from castles to spaceships to airplanes to guns and armor that i tried to wear.
when i got older i had fun making demolition derby monstrosities that i would smash endlessly together with my friends, the first one to explode lost. the funny thing is though that i think i can count on one hand the number of legos that i actually broke, damn they're tough. unfortunately losing them is a different matter. i should probably have double the amount that i do now...lol
my 5 year old son found my bucket of legos and now has a damn tupperware crate worth of them thanks to christmas. he loves his trains though and has made everything from the one he designated the bombinator because it carries dynamite to normal csx and conrail versions.
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2009/03/27 19:30:01
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Dominating Dominatrix
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What's all this talk about had, used to and "when I was a kid". You people talk like you no longer have any Lego at home and haven't build anything for years. What's up with that???
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2009/03/27 19:32:34
Subject: Re:A childhood built on Lego?
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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I would like to put forth the proposition that treading on a piece of lego barefooted is in fact the single most painful experience in the entire world other than getting kicked in the nads*.
Seriously, childbirth looks a doddle in comparison. And you get to lay down when you do that.
*testicles for you heathen tongued rogues.
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2009/03/27 19:33:45
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2009/03/27 19:36:32
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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I, umm... built what the instructions from the box said to build. My brain reasoned that anything I devised myself most likely could not compare to what paid engineers designed and, judging by the things my friends tended to make, I was fully justified in my decision.
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2009/03/27 19:40:05
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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Platuan4th wrote:I, umm... built what the instructions from the box said to build. My brain reasoned that anything I devised myself most likely could not compare to what paid engineers designed and, judging by the things my friends tended to make, I was fully justified in my decision.
I'm sure there's a support group out there for you. That is rough indeed.
The official models were cool and all that, but nothing compared to the awesome +10 spaceships I used to build. Nothing I tell thee* !
* Assuming you ignored the bits where I ran out of the right colour or shaped brick and improvised. But that merely added character --see what they did to the M. Falcon or the ship in Alien.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. 
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2009/03/27 19:43:26
Subject: Re:A childhood built on Lego?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Found my robot... 
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2009/03/27 19:45:54
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Dakka Veteran
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Oh lego!! i still love that stuff and have god children as an excuse to keep playing with it!!
I loved building castles! but my imagination always made them a million times better than they actually looked...
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KingCracker wrote:
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2009/03/27 19:46:18
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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reds8n wrote:I'm sure there's a support group out there for you. That is rough indeed.
The official models were cool and all that, but nothing compared to the awesome +10 spaceships I used to build. Nothing I tell thee* !
I'm sure there is, I'm just a stickler for details. I still am to a lesser degree, which is why I rage inside(and not outside) if someone isn't using something in 40K that looks like GW's version/aesthetics(Lord help you if you bring a BT mech into an Apocalypse Game I'm in).
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2009/03/27 20:05:01
Subject: Re:A childhood built on Lego?
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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Guess that rules you out from being Jervis Johnson at least eh ?
Mr. Spiggott, your robot is far too good to have been made as a child....'fess up. We won't laugh at you* for still playing with lego.**
*This is a lie.
** As opposed to more manly pursuits like 40K..... errr... 
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2009/03/27 20:06:47
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2009/03/27 20:53:39
Subject: Re:A childhood built on Lego?
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Fixture of Dakka
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I wish I still had all my Lego, I sold it all to buy a computer when I was a teenager. I built that robot in the early 90's out of a housemate's lego (based upon a design I'd made with my own Lego) He moved out and forgot to take it with him.
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2009/03/27 21:01:43
Subject: Re:A childhood built on Lego?
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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*respec' knuckles*
... I really can't work out if that is incredibly cool or really sad !
Either way hat is doffed.
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2009/03/27 21:32:29
Subject: Re:A childhood built on Lego?
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Fixture of Dakka
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reds8n wrote:*respec' knuckles*
... I really can't work out if that is incredibly cool or really sad !
Either way hat is doffed.
*Looks across desk full of toy soldiers*
The latter...
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2009/03/27 21:41:17
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Dominating Dominatrix
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2009/03/27 21:49:31
Subject: Re:A childhood built on Lego?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Awsome!
How big are those epilettes on the officer? would the be useful for Praetorian conversions?
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2009/03/27 21:52:09
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Dominating Dominatrix
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If epilettes are the things on his shoulder, then they're too big.
For Guardsmen.
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2009/03/27 23:37:44
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Hurr! Ogryn Bone 'Ead!
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The Ninjas, I used to play a narrative on my grandmothers coffee table with those guys, and the red one was the bastard betrayer.
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The pen is mightier then the sword, but you must keep a sword handy for when the pen runs out of ink.
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2009/03/28 00:14:15
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Dominating Dominatrix
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I always had the Pirates, Knights and Ninjas all on ships fight the Royal Navy and evil knights. And that one black Ninja I own...
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2009/03/28 02:09:19
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Stabbin' Skarboy
Galactics Comics and Games, Georgia, USA
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Everything that I ever tried to build usually ended up as a giant wall or a pyramid.
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2009/03/28 02:57:55
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Serious Squig Herder
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I used to make vehicles which would eventually include weapons of some sort. I also made towns for them to invade. I'd make elevated houses supported with legs made of small 1-tooth parts so the vehicles could ram the legs and send the house falling down. I had a walker once that would smash through walls and grab people inside.
It was fun.
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2009/03/28 03:03:54
Subject: Re:A childhood built on Lego?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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God I cant wait till my son is old enough to play with those. (he is but dammit my daughter will eat those like crazy) Anywho I usually would build military weapons. I remember the first one that got me into that was seeing a quad-50 from a WW2 video and thought "Thatd be cool to make"
Also all manner of space vehicles/space craft boats. I even made some stuff from the movie WATERWORLD and re-enacted some of that movie. Too bad Kevin Cosner is in that movie... my GOD that man cant act
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2009/03/28 05:52:24
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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Space stuff.
Late 80s, used it to make 'titans' for 40k, and battlemechs.
Still use it to make titans.
[ Wife says "You leave MY lego alone!!!"]
Oh, and I still have much of it. Kitbasher and scratchbuilders friends, they are.
Where else are you going to find a variety of dish shaped pieces pre-molded? Even the GW design studio used to use them for planning out builds.
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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
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2009/03/28 14:04:05
Subject: A childhood built on Lego?
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[MOD]
Anti-piracy Officer
Somewhere in south-central England.
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Anung Un Rama wrote:What's all this talk about had, used to and "when I was a kid". You people talk like you no longer have any Lego at home and haven't build anything for years. What's up with that???
I bought a load for my daughter but she never really got into it.
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