Destroy: 2x2 bases
― Graham, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vinnie, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Destroy: The distasteful attempts Lego's been making since the '80's at hypergenderizing what was once a fairly neutral toy. The parallel turn away from the simple lego brick, making most sets only good for creating the model on the box and not a hell of a lot more. The "Lego Maniac" commercials.
― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kris, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I used to be kind of mean to my sister. these days she is a good friend. and if i were to see the two lego towns side by side at this point in life, i'd realize that hers was actually cooler.
my little neices and nephews play legos sometimes. well, i'm mainly thinking of a family get together a few years ago where my niece was quietly playing with the legos in the corner. at some point we went over to see what she was doing, and she had collected all the little flower petal parts in a pile, and taken all the yellow smiley heads and put them in a big long chain. for some reason, i thought this was the greatest use of legos ever conceived. or at least the cutest use ever!
― Ron, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Looking through the lego.com website and through a selection of lego catalogs, it looks like they've phased out (at least in the USA) your regular ol' non-specialized building sets like the kind I grew up with.
― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Was in the lego club, have a Gold Master Builders Badge!
Lego Star Wars are cool...and the other day I saw SPIDER-MAN LEGO!.
― jel --, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've seen horribble Lego-stuff lately, with silly fairy tale colours and totally prefabric ugly cute castles etc. it looked like my little pony. DESTROY!!!
the basic originals are CLASSIC. Why do they have to ruin everything and listen to some crap marketing sales manager that children want a nice cute Lego doll gggggrrrrrrr
Well I'm beginning to sound like some reactionary old teacher, who wants his pupils to watch Abstract Avantgarde Cartoons instead of Pokemon, who fumes about kids that can't use their imagination anymore blalablablah...oh hell!
SEARCH AS MUCH LEGO AS YOU CAN FIND, Lock yourself up in your room for a week and PLAY PLAY PLAY PLAY
― erik from holland, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Click...click...click and your models are made. Cliki builds towns and villages with homes shops and garages. And their all so realistic, thanks to Cliki's special details.-baseplates that LOCK together cannot fall apart"
― jeskam, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I remember the translucent stuff too, how did it ever infect the pure lego gene pool. (wistful rhetorical)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mladenpejic/ Mladen, the god of LEGO mecha.
― fletrejet, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
sacrelige! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!!
...oh dear, i fear the obsessive-compulsive tendencies started young with this here one.
― petra jane, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ducklingmonster, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― geeta, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― petra jane, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
My abiding memory of a family holiday to Belgium in 1979 was losing a piece of a space scooter; it was one of the 'special' pieces and I was never able to replace it, so the space scooter could never be finished again. It taught me the value of loss and it's role in the creation of desire, like any good Lacanian could tell you.
The lesson was reinforced when I lost one of the tiny cogs that made that car's differential gears work properly. I think my parents might have hoovered it up, as they had a bad carpet for lego, patterned as it was in such a way as to make small pieces invisible. Everyone I have spoken to who had that car lost one of those cogs. There should be a support group for us.
― Nathan Barley, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:15 (twenty years ago) link
Does Duplo still exist?
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:17 (twenty years ago) link
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― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
Legos were the thing that united all of my toys as a child; thanks to legos, I managed to incorporate GI Joes, Transformers, hot wheels, Gobots, micromachines, etc, etc into one gigantic massive all-inclusive toystravaganza. My parents still have never forgiven me for that particular mess.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:07 (twenty years ago) link
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― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:45 (twenty years ago) link
Me too! I loved Fabuland and then I loved the space sets and the knights and pirates and basically anything Lego and now I am one of those sad adults that still owns Lego.
So whenever people say that Lego Friends is bad because it's pink and girls like it, well... those Fabuland animals were a pretty great gateway drug, and who am I to deny the new generation that?
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 31 March 2016 12:54 (eight years ago) link
I've got such a strong tactile memory of the smoothness of the inside of the ear of my fabuland mouse.
I was one of the people who moaned about the introduction of Lego Friends because LEGO IS GENDER NEUTRAL ANYWAY GODDAMNIT but I read the other day that TLG say pre-friends, the lego customer base was 90% male, since friends it's switched to 70/30. So...shrug.
― JimD, Thursday, 31 March 2016 13:16 (eight years ago) link
But my guess is that the different types of Lego have more a clearly defined gender split. Ninjago, Bionicals & Nexo Knights are clearly for boys and certainly my son and his pals all connect with the elements of those sets that are traditionally signifiers of boy toys - the weapons, baroque fighting details, booby traps, havoc-wreaking robot dragons and that kind of thing. Much more so than the old pirate sets, Lego City etc, which were essentially gender neutral.
― everything, Thursday, 31 March 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
Molded heads on minifigs work for me when the characters aren't humanoid
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Thursday, 31 March 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
The minifig series from last autumn was great, it was all Halloween monsters:
http://triangularroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MinifigureSeries14.jpg
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 31 March 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
http://on.io9.com/BEicw9E
Lego Beatles, anyone?
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
My daughter has been watching LEGO Elves webisodes on loop while recovering from a bad cough. The merchandising is strong, but the theme song is really catchy.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 22 October 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link
Oh man, we went to the mall today and had a total meltdown in the Elves section of the Lego store. She wanted the $79 super dragon castle or whatever and that just wasn't on the itinerary. Negotiations went south pretty quickly. Next time if she's good it's hers, though, because it looks awesome tbf.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 23 October 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
This is a pretty good article http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/lego-is-the-perfect-toy.html
but most importantly:
Lego argues that the instructions serve as a way to teach children how the toys work. “If we gave you a piano, there’d be very few people who could immediately play something that is, like, fantastic and creative,” said Lego press officer Rude Roar Trangbaek. “You need to learn the notes to play the piano.”
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 02:44 (seven years ago) link
also my kid was totally crushing following the instructions in an ages 6-12 set all by herself this weekend. I'm out of yet another dad job! I'm basically here to help open bags and offer occasional course corrections.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 03:10 (seven years ago) link
I am excited about this upcoming city modular set, looks amazing:
https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Assembly-Square-10255
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 03:41 (seven years ago) link
I swear, Lego is the only actual toy my kids will even play with anymore. Though I am intrigued by snap circuits.
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
Apparently 99c stores in the US are selling off tons of Lego Dimensions inventory, people are picking up complete year one collections etc. Kinda frustrating given that here in the UK you're doing well to find anything sub £7 but still, those of you who can should have a look. And if anyone feels like grabbing a load for me and shipping them over, even better!
― JimD, Monday, 6 February 2017 08:24 (seven years ago) link
oh god
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/the-lego-has-landed-new-set-allows-you-to-build-the-moon-rocket/
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 1 May 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Works for me!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 May 2017 18:35 (seven years ago) link
https://brickset.com/article/45035/collectable-minifigures-series-19-revealed!
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.the-modernist.org/shop/trellick-tower-lego-instructions-digital-download
How plausible/expensive do you reckon it would be to order the pieces for this?
― djh, Sunday, 5 July 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
white pieces (the most common brick color) should be pretty cheap and easy to obtain on the secondhand lego market. the instructions probably have an inventory which you could use to make an order on bricklink.
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Sunday, 5 July 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
Thanks f.hazel.
― djh, Sunday, 5 July 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
also, your first stop should be Lego's pick a brick site, might be able to get everything you need from them directly:
https://www.lego.com/en-us/page/static/pick-a-brick
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Sunday, 5 July 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
I can't see how they've done the hidden bit holding the vertical tile part but I calculated all the other bits I could see using pick-a-brick and got just under a tenner (£)
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 10:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=87087&name=Brick,%20Modified%201%20x%201%20with%20Stud%20on%201%20Side&category=%5BBrick,%20Modified%5D#T=C
one of these probably (or 4 given 2 ends of two long tiles).
i might try knocking this up in leocad.
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
good idea, might have to try that myself. Had a quick go at it in Brick Rigs but only issue with that is it removes all the sight of all the connecting edge gaps and for me that takes away the charm of builds.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
Oh, thanks Ste. I was kind of being a tight-wad in not just downloading the instructions and calculating the cost ... but "about a tenner" sounds do-able.
― djh, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 13:04 (three years ago) link
Here's a parts list that should work (unless there's more detail on the back side of the building not visible):16 1x1 plate8x 1x2 plate1x 1x3 plate6x 2x2 plate corner (part #2420)6x 2x4 plate6x 2x6 plate1x 4x10 plate7x 1x1 brick1x 1x1 brick w/headlight4x 1x1 brick w/1 knob4x 1x1 flat tile11x 1x2 flat tile44x 1x2 radiator grille5x 1x4 flat tile1x 1x6 flat tile2x 1x8 flat tile
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
that right hand side is a bit raggety, looks like there are floating bricks. this is what i have, the rest i'm going to have to guess.
http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/trellick.png
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
for the 2x2 square at the end on the right-hand side I did the following to avoid floating pieces:
top-down view of the 2x2 area, layers 1 to 3 from bottom to top:
layer 1: 1 = 1x2 grille piece, 2 = 1x1 plate, 3 = 1x1 brick with knob|1|2||1|3|layer 2: 1 = 2x2x1 plate corner (right-angle piece), 3 = already placed 1x1 brick with knob|1|1||1|3|layer 3: 1 = 1x2 grille piece, 2 = 1x1 plate, 3 = 1x1 brick with knob|1|2||1|3|
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
i just don't understand why he has runs of 5 edges all lined up like that. given that the gap is 5 plates high he could have a brick taking up 3 of those and then have a 2x6 all the way over.
maybe it's a pieces thing. i'm guessing this was done with the architectural lego box in mind and i don't know the the distribution in those boxes (although they were huge and expensive so you've think they'd run to more than five 2x6 plates)
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
(twelve)
https://brickset.com/sets/21050-1/Architecture-Studio
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
oh. the studs-on-sides collide with the nipples inside the vertical tiles, which complicates things a bit and might explain things - the brick is in the middle of the 5 plate gap with a tile 1x2 above and below it
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
yeah to place four of the stud-on-sides pieces to provide a good anchor for those two side-mounted flat pieces you need to stagger the vertical pattern a little
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
like this?
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VLXgDqKqRCw/XwTv4TvoVfI/AAAAAAAAA18/oV_a5fichkU_fa9lovJpK3iYPfRU6bp4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/2020-07-07.png
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
oh i forgot about the structure on the left, doh
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
lol i got too focused on how to avoid that floating grid piece
Ok so I forked out the £2, seems only one side has that vertical tile structure - which I didn't figure on at all. Makes things a lot easier.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
(although looking at the top, I really should have got that)
I shouldn't try lego before bed
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
Wow. I think this is the most engaged anyone has ever been with a question I've asked on ILE/ILM!
I also stumped up the £2 and ordered most of the pieces for around £9.50 - there were a few pieces that didn't appear on the Lego website but its a present for someone with a child who has Lego so I am hoping that they have some pieces they can improvise with.
Again, thanks.
― djh, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Cool, and somehow I got the price right even though I couldn't even build the flaming thing myself!
At least I know what I'll be attempting to build in Minecraft this weekend.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
you may think I'm getting too obsessed with this cool building, I'll only start worrying if I attempt to build the thing out of my mashed potatoes and garden fencing.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
here's how I did it:
http://fac123.net/pix/trellick_design.gif
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link
Yep.
I used a 2x2 corner tile around the base of the laundry tower, rather than a 1x2 and a 1x1. Saved me about 10p. 8)
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
Where's good in the UK for buying Lego?
Wanted to buy this as a present but Lego aren't shipping to the UK at the moment, and it is double everywhere I have looked so far.
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/batman-40386
― djh, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
i'd offer to pop to westfield's lego shop for you and have a look (given it's about 10 minutes away) but i guess they're non-essential and closed.
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
Ha!
Yes, non-essential in the scheme of things.
― djh, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
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― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
Neat camera idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olgAcvamS80
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
very nice! not cheap I guess
― StanM, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link