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50th anniversary of my favorite childhood toy.

1/28/2008 10:36:20 AM

more like

1/28/2008 10:37:02 AM

Legos are the diggity dankness

1/28/2008 10:38:16 AM

Quote :

"Lego Star Wars launches into space. The Force is strong in this one and becomes the best selling Lego line ever."

Damn right.

Oh, and I teach classes with NXT kits.

1/28/2008 10:41:04 AM

i keep meaning to toy around my my mindstorms to learn that one programming system it comes with

the simulink-type thing

fuck i can't remember the name

1/28/2008 10:42:20 AM

1995

town/castle/space systems start to blow donkey gnads as they reduce the creativity of the sets by doing shit like 'pre-built one-piece walls'

1/28/2008 10:44:27 AM

yea the new ones suck balls

1/28/2008 10:45:59 AM

i dunno

i saw they had indiana jones legos

they looked awesome

1/28/2008 10:48:41 AM

Happy Anniversary Lego!

1/28/2008 11:07:45 AM

legos were my child hood.

The number one thing I look forward to about having my own kids is that I will be able to buy more legos for them

1/28/2008 11:19:06 AM

the creator of legos is truly a Great Dane

1/28/2008 11:22:03 AM

Quote :

"The number one thing I look forward to about having my own kids is that I will be able to buy more legos for them "

1/28/2008 11:22:17 AM

If my kids express a disinterest in Legos I will drown them in a barrel and try again.

1/28/2008 11:31:13 AM

I LOVE lego's!!!

but they leftout the Lego logo stuff in the timeline that has been around forever...

when I was in the 4th grade we programmed lego's on apple IIe's that were wired to control boards and we played soccer with them... this was the predecessor to the mindstorm kits

MAN if I wasn't in school I'd buy that 50th aniv set in a heartbeat

I volunteered last year for lego first robotics and had a freaking blast with those kids... would have done it again this year but I left MD to come back to school... hopefully I can do it again next year

[Edited on January 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM. Reason : RCX ftw...]

1/28/2008 11:43:29 AM

I just started getting a free subscription to Lego magazine. They are the bomb explosive.

1/28/2008 11:47:20 AM

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"If my kids express a disinterest in Legos I will drown them in a barrel and try again. "

oh lord


i just lolled so hard I'm getting looks at work.

1/28/2008 11:47:44 AM

http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=852001





winner.


For $40, I might order this today.

1/28/2008 11:50:21 AM

Quote :

"If my kids express a disinterest in Legos I will drown them in a barrel and try again."

haha fo sho!

i was also quite fond of lincoln logs when i was a kid. we used to make lincoln log/lego cities all over the living room and piss off my dad.

1/28/2008 12:20:26 PM

found instructions for my black sea barracuda, i can rebuild it now

1/28/2008 7:21:19 PM

megablocks ftl!

1/28/2008 7:22:22 PM

there were some really interesting trivia facts about legos in the magazine i read on the plane earlier in the month

i think i picked it up just for that fact

lemme look

1/28/2008 7:22:28 PM

75 bricks of legos for every person on the planet
snapped together i t could build 10 colums to the moon
lego factories crank out 620 sets per minute
that includes lego people, who's total population will surpass humans this year

1/28/2008 7:24:22 PM

yeah i saw that, and was all

now thats an army to have

1/28/2008 7:31:05 PM

I think I need to post in this thread.

Yeah, that's where the name is from.

I still have my kit from 1998 when I first asked for it! Those things are so cool, I used to play with them for hours. Just build something, make a retarded program for it, and let it go!

Good thread.

1/28/2008 7:41:38 PM

greatest thing ever perhaps

I remember studying the LEGO catalogs. I was a member of the LEGO club they had. Every single day I built stuff. I built an awesome Batmobile that I should have sent them to create about 10 years ago............

1/28/2008 7:47:18 PM