Lego Scrambler, fair model!

RCMAC said:

the carny's kinda hot.

I wonder if, prior to now, those words have ever been uttered in that order ever in the history of language.

I have the Lego carousel (video here). It's a very long build and very repetitive, but the detail is pretty amazing.

Those are both pretty awesome! My 5yr old son is just starting to get into Legos. And yup, they are pricey. But I'd rather spend the money on these over Pokemon or whatever crap kids play with nowadays. He has several "sets" that he is very OCD about keeping seperate, plus a box of generic random Legos for when he goes into Master Builder mode.

Simon doesn't get to play with the big sets. I'm so the dad in the Lego Movie. I've reluctantly put the two or three sets he has now (they have a great new "junior" line that's easier to build) into one container. It gives me the shakes, but I'm coping.

Vater said:

RCMAC said:

the carny's kinda hot.

I wonder if, prior to now, those words have ever been uttered in that order ever in the history of language.

I thought that very thing while I was typing!
You heard it here first, folks!

We do the 3-in-1 model sets for the kids. Yeah, it's become a forgone conclusion that pieces will get lost because they can't build just one model and they never stay together even if its the same model.

~Rob

The boy is actually great about keeping his sets separated... He puts them in individual Ziploc bags with the instructions when he's done playing with them. Granted he doesn't have any of the HUGE sets (no Star Destroyers or Australian Opera Houses here!) but he has one set with 200+ pieces. The rest are in the 100 piece range.

I miss the old sets where the boxes had a lid and separate compartments for all the pieces. I rarely lost Legos when I was a kid.

Sorry, I mean LEGO bricks.

^ Wow. That seems a bit anal-retentive. May be time to switch to K'nex or Lincoln Logs.

...Or Minecraft.

Heh. Lightweights. Newer parents are so cute.

18 gallon storage bins - at the point, the fact that we still have many (most?) of the instructions is almost irrelevant:

(sorry for the poor phone pic)

On top of this he has two smaller buckets and a few sets still assembled and displayed on shelves in his room.

At the expense of the well-being of my feet and my OCD, the floor in my son's room stores them just fine.

LostKause said:
...Or Minecraft.

What exactly is Minecraft, anyway? My wife talks about it but she seems to think it's something along theine of Tetris. I'm pretty sure it isn't...

Gonch-
Wow. Just wow. That's a lot of Legos! Sometimes I look at Mini-Me's collections and cringe at the dollars spent, namely his Thomas Wooden Railway trains. His Legos are heading that direction as well.

ShaneDenmark said:
That's a lot of LEGO® Bricks!

Fixed that for you.

Minecraft is a computer game that allows a person to build things, much like Lego. It's very popular with the teens and preteens in my family. The game has become so popular that Microsoft just bought the company that made the game a few months ago for 2.5 billion dollars. That's billion, with a b.

And the reason I mentioned it is because it reminds me a lot of LEGO, except it is played on a computer screen.

Jeff said:

ShaneDenmark said:
That's a lot of LEGO® Bricks!

Fixed that for you.

Excxept that nobody in their right mind talks like that in the real world.

Technically correct, yes, but the first sign you're dealing with a total weirdo is if they refer to them as "Lego Bricks" instead of "Legos"

Putting an "s" on the end never made grammatical sense to me, even as a young child.

I think maybe Jeff is a stickler for the correct term because of his journalism background.

Nah, I've always had a natural affinity for phonetics, though I didn't learn what that meant until I took a college class on it. The word Lego came up once in that class, and there was a good reason that plural did not change the word. I just don't remember what it was. :) And that was in 1992, before the Internet shared such things.

Legi.