Ton Plomp Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Just because there's a kid inside us all.... This Gizmodo post made me allmost cry. Ton Quote Link to comment
TobyD Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 QUOTE (tcplomp @ Jun 26 2008, 11:59 AM) Just because there's a kid inside us all....http://gizmodo.com/5018990/lego-secret-vault-contains-all-sets-in-history' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">This Gizmodo post made me allmost cry. Ton That's great! Thanks for sharing. It definitely brought back a lot of memories of some great times "playing legos" with my brother. Quote Link to comment
PaulG. Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 The first true nanobot component is going to be an intelligent, self-replicating Lego. Quote Link to comment
Jim Kring Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 When I was little we had a plastic bucket full of legos. My mom would go to thrift stores (we didn't have much money) and buy used legos and add them to the bucket. I was too young to remember this, but my mother likes to tell a story of a friend of mine coming over to play legos and asking where the directions where. I said to him "legos have directions?" To this day, I'm not much of a "read the manual" kind of person. I have many happy memories of my bucket of legos and the unique things I would create. Quote Link to comment
crelf Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 QUOTE (Jim Kring @ Jun 26 2008, 04:39 PM) When I was little we had a plastic bucket full of legos. My mom would go to thrift stores (we didn't have much money) and buy used legos and add them to the bucket. My Ma did *exactly* the same thing! She'd come home from the thrift shop with a bag of clothes, and a couple of handfuls of lego - my brother and my first job was to wash it all with the hose in the backyard ...and when a local neighbourhood kid left home, it was a race (I'm completely serious) to their house to beg their parents for their old legos... Our suitcase had a mixture of lego and the no-brand version (the only difference was the absence of the "LEGO" text on each node... I remember that my uncle built an amazing grill (we always joked that if a hurricane came, the family would be safer in the BBQ than their house) and I remember him spending hours in our lounge room putting together his grand plan with legos... Quote Link to comment
Yair Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 LEGOs have INSTRUCTIONS??? I was also one of those who had a big box (or few) just full of stuff to create stuff from, but we also had stuff from a few sets, which was useful. Incidentally, after the NXT came out, I got one for a couple of days. I took one of the cars I built, jury rigged the NXT on it so that it could both drive and steer it, built a small VI to run it and had a working robot in a couple of hours of work. Quote Link to comment
JiMM Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 Amazing. I swear for a few seconds there I felt like a 13 Y.O. again! Thanks Ton. Quote Link to comment
Jim Kring Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 QUOTE (crelf @ Jun 26 2008, 05:56 PM) My Ma did *exactly* the same thing! QUOTE (Yair @ Jun 27 2008, 03:45 AM) LEGOs have INSTRUCTIONS??? I knew there was something special about you guys :thumbup: Quote Link to comment
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