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[rlbell]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Henning @ Dec 18 2006, 10:52 PM) [snapback]272028[/snapback]</div>

Recently, I stayed at a friend's place, mainly for the purpose of watching some movies, listening to music, getting drunk, and so on. We got to talking later about our childhood habits and found out we had a shared interest - LEGO!
Soooo he shows me these incredible space cruisers he built as a kid, and next thing I knew, we were sitting on the floor surrounded by more cruisers and even more loose bricks and it's 4:30 AM. What a day that was.
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I haven't done that since I was in my teens. I am not sure that my present friends would feel comfortable lying on a carpet in a room with great piles of Lego all over the place. I would have to convince my girls to pick up their toys first. However, when we get the basement finished, the one room will probably be the Lego/library room. Once the work is done, it will be so tempting to get multiples of the boxes of 800 generic pieces, some base plates, and then replay my favorite moments from any of the various japanese man-in-rubber-suit-trashes-scale-model-ofTokyo films (build city, trash city, repeat).

My wife, reading over my shoulder, has confirmed that I am not allowed to buy any more Lego; until, the star destroyer is finished. Fortunately, I am already through the first eighteen pages (each step has to be done twice), and I have three days off, next week.

[iluvpugs]

I once had a lego of a tank

Never finished it.
After more than 3 years
(The wheel was missing!)

[chainsoar]

I never owned a Lego set, as such, I just had a toybox full of random Lego pieces. I used to build Lego houses.

[Mighty Midget]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(chainsoar @ Dec 19 2006, 12:27 PM) [snapback]272080[/snapback]</div>

I never owned a Lego set, as such, I just had a toybox full of random Lego pieces. I used to build Lego houses.
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We never had a set ourselves, except for one castle with k'niggets. It didn't matter, we would trash the castle anyway, looking for Lego pieces to build all sorts of weird stuff. It was always more fun to build something using imagination as blueprints.

(I remember this boy who had a Lego town, complete with traffic lights, signs and pedestrians. We would mount a motor on top of one of the cars, put a sort of "rotor-ish, frisbee-ish thingy" on, and have a propellar propelled car wrecking havoc in the quiet town. Lego signs and Lego heads would go literally ballistic k: He was in on the fun for the early part, but as the town started to look like shambles, and all the heads went missing, his mother had enough )

[Lulu_Jane]

Originally posted by Rlbell
Once the work is done, it will be so tempting to get multiples of the boxes of 800 generic pieces, some base plates, and then replay my favorite moments from any of the various japanese man-in-rubber-suit-trashes-scale-model-ofTokyo films (build city, trash city, repeat).

Nice! That's the way it should be (or at least, that's the way I remember it as a kid) - Just a huge box of random pieces and your imagination going for gold! What could be better?! Having instructions on what and how to make things always bored me as a child (actually, it still bores me today, 'though the consequences are more awkward as an adult.)

Anyways, as much as I love lego, my heart will always burn for Meccano - as a very young girl I was gifted the Meccano sets that had belonged to my father when he was a boy 50 years earlier. If I ever have childeren they'll be getting their hands on it too.

Ach! All those little wrenches and nuts and bolts and do-it-yourself engine components - heaven

I hope you get your basement *cough* Underground Lego Lair *cough* room soon Rlbell!

[TheGiantMidgit]

Ahhh.... That is a behemoth of a Lego set.

[rlbell]

If anyone is still curious, after a cumulative time of about fourteen (possibly sixteen, hard to tell) hours, and I have finally gotten through the first 150 pages of instructions, and completed the main hull. I have used most of the really big pieces, so much of the remaining work is the fiddly detail that goes onto the bridge and superstructure (which are also yet to be assembled).

At this rate, I could be finished after I steal another eight to ten hours of build time. Of course between extra hours at work, parenting responsibilities, recovery from sleep deprivation, and other parasitic losses of my free time, this could mean another two or three weeks. If it were not for the holidays, I would still have only barely started.

[Lulu_Jane]

*patiently awaiting photos of the finished product*

[rlbell]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Lulu_Jane @ Jan 1 2007, 06:37 AM) [snapback]272904[/snapback]</div>

*patiently awaiting photos of the finished product*
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I finally have pictures. How do I post them? The "insert image" button asks for a URL.

[Lulu_Jane]

You could get a quick and easy (and free ) Flikr account, upload them there and then use that URL when you use the "insert image" button...

Yay for the pictures! Can't wait to see them