Legos (general discussion)

BanzaiCat · March 03, 2015, 05:42:40 PM

I've been sick the better part of a week now, trading one or two afflictions for a new set of them every few days. Today I'm so damn tired I am hearing things (I thought I heard my wife yelling at me earlier this afternoon through my cell phone, almost as if I butt-dialed her by accident, for one thing). Before all that, this morning (very VERY morning, like 0200 morning) I was up because I couldn't sleep from all the coughing I'm doing. Since I couldn't sleep I thought it would be a good idea to suddenly figure out what Lego sets I like the most.

Delirium certainly enters into this, I think. But I got started with some YouTube channel called The Brick Show and seeing two grown-ass dudes go on and on about each and just about every damn Lego set ever made. I loved Legos as a kid but haven't taken much of a shine to them recently, mainly because my kids were never interested and also my wife has zero empathy for anything like this.

Anyway...I checked out the Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer on Target.com and found them on YouTube, looking for a review of that item. Then I went off and watched several other of their videos (though skipping quite a bit as they tend to talk a LOT about this shit, almost on a level of Brony creepiness). Still, I find myself rather drawn to this.

I know some of you do Lego sets for your kiddos (can't remember whom offhand...hell I can't remember my middle name right now), but are any of you that level of obsessed with Legos that you'd go out and buy, say, the Star Destroyer, or the Death Star, or some other high-priced Lego set (say, $100+?). I'm finding myself drawn to doing so, just to see.

I might be fookin' exhausted right now and can chalk this up to delirium, but in all honesty every time I go by the Lego store I want to stop and check it out. I imagine most of the dads in there are as into this as their kids are, probably moreso. I think just having a huge pile of a couple of thousand pieces in front of me, and turning it into something cool, has a lot of appeal.

Of course, the question HAS come to mind, what the fluck I'd do with all of these once I'm done. I can probably afford to do this, with my occasional acting gig, three times a year, so it's not like it would be totally obnoxious. Not for a little while, anyway.

As for my wife's lack of empathy...pffft.

Toonces · March 04, 2015, 01:52:23 AM

My son was pretty into the new Legos stuff for a while. First it was Star Wars, but we also dabbled in Indiana Jones and Halo.

As you probably saw, these sets can get kind of pricey. And, you know, they kind of only go together one way- the Star Wars X-wing set only really builds a cool X-wing. So when your 6 year old drops it and it busts into a thousand pieces (and of course you, the parent, are the one that spent 8 hours putting it together) and it ends up as a blob of very expensive Lego bricks in a bin, mixed with the busted Tie Fighter, Indiana Jones biplane, and so on, you decide that from now on you're going to glue the fucking pieces together.

Which is what I proceeded to do.

Which is why my son's X-wing and Tie Fighter still look brand new, while the other $1000 worth of Lego spaceships and tanks and whatnot are all in a big blue bin not being used for anything.

And so when I told my nerdy co-workers about this they were appalled and called me something, a Grue or something like that. And I didn't know what they meant because I'm not a nerd and I didn't see the Lego movie.

But then, eventually, my kids were watching it while I was doing something in the dining room, and I realized that the villain in the movie is a guy who glues Legos together. LOL. >:D

GDS_Starfury · March 04, 2015, 02:10:28 AM

you fail at Legos on so many levels.....

a kit that only goes together one way?
glue?
no cross genre kit bashing?

Martok · March 04, 2015, 04:49:08 AM

I like the Star Wars sets well enough (I own several), but I've always been more into the "general" brick sets -- mainly the Basic and Technic sets. I can build whatever the hell I feel like then, without constraints. :)

LongBlade · March 04, 2015, 08:00:08 AM

Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 04, 2015, 02:10:28 AM
you fail at Legos on so many levels.....

a kit that only goes together one way?
glue?
no cross genre kit bashing?

+1

I remember back in the day when it was a HUGE deal to have a Lego brick with a 45 degree slope.

Then we got a brick with a 45 degree slope that went UNDER stuff! Talk about mega!

I'm afraid, Mr. Cat, that you really have no idea what kind of treasure you're sitting upon.

Gusington · March 04, 2015, 10:40:31 AM

I love Lego, and I think I have a mild case of the flu, so this is the thread for me. As a matter of fact, this past weekend my kidsand I finished the Lego Saturn V rocket set, complete with satellites and a rover. We all loved it. We've also put together a large medieval castle set, medieval farm and windmill set, and a few of the Xmas village sets. It's my older daughter's b-day next week and she asked for a new set...lucky me :)

LongBlade · March 04, 2015, 11:49:23 AM

Quote from: Gusington on March 04, 2015, 10:40:31 AM
I love Lego, and I think I have a mild case of the flu, so this is the thread for me. As a matter of fact, this past weekend my kidsand I finished the Lego Saturn V rocket set, complete with satellites and a rover. We all loved it. We've also put together a large medieval castle set, medieval farm and windmill set, and a few of the Xmas village sets. It's my older daughter's b-day next week and she asked for a new set...lucky me :)

Cool.

Hope you get well soon!

GDS_Starfury · March 04, 2015, 11:51:43 AM

lets see some pictures!

Gusington · March 04, 2015, 02:30:13 PM

If I can function later I will get some pics of the Saturn V...Star you will love it.

GDS_Starfury · March 04, 2015, 02:31:47 PM

thats because you are my Saturn V! ^-^

Jarhead0331 · March 04, 2015, 04:49:31 PM

I was once scolded around here for referring to them as "Legos". I was advised that the proper form is "Lego".

GDS_Starfury · March 04, 2015, 05:44:26 PM

musta been a YourOpeein'

Gusington · March 05, 2015, 02:46:52 PM

Just bought the Lego medieval market village for my older daughter's b-day. It was pricey but worth it for all the fun it brings us. Shopping for my younger daughter who loves space and science, I was looking at the Mars explorer series and those setsrun into the 100s of dollars!

Martok · March 05, 2015, 05:42:02 PM

^ Yeah, they ain't cheap. That's the downside.

But the upside...man. How many toys are still around that you can actually physically hold in your hands, and that let you create whatever you want, limited only by the number of bricks and your own imagination?

...Bloody hell. Now I want to go drag out my big-ass tub of bricks and seeing what I can up with...

Quote from: Jarhead0331 on March 04, 2015, 04:49:31 PM
I was once scolded around here for referring to them as "Legos". I was advised that the proper form is "Lego".

You can call them Legos, Jarhead. I'll still love you.

undercovergeek · March 05, 2015, 05:57:29 PM

its in the air, whilst not the lego im hankering after some open ended constructo-sandbox-amajig

i see city skylines or whatever its called is out next week