you thought you had lego talents....

[europop2005]

...check out this guy

http://www.portfolio.com/slideshows/2008/08/Lego-Artist

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

that would have been my dream job when I was 10...

aw screw it, it still is my dream job

 

[UberBeaver]

When I was like 11 or 12, I built this awesome Lego space ship, and then one of my friends came over and threw it on the ground and destroyed it. Thanks for bringing that happy memory back to the surface.......I'll be over there in corner in my Lego cardboard box.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

lol, I think everyone has a lego story like that, mine involved this huge spaceship my dad I worked on for days and the stairs

 

[Diemen]

That guy was on the Colbert Report last year.

Legos rock.

 

[Purplereign]

wow

 

[Ava79]

Holy ! That is so cool.

 

[Galeongirl]

Damn, that's AWESOME!.

Me and my dad had a fantastic garage built for my firemen set

then my cat found it and made it her home. ah well, at least it had a purpose!
I had a lego city under my bed (high bed) and kept that until I grew up (or at least pretended to!)
Every set is kept together in plastic bags, up the attic somewhere

 

[angelordevil]

...check out this guy

http://www.portfolio.com/slideshows/2008/08/Lego-Artist

Pretty impressive.

I spent half of my childhood on the floor, I'm sure, playing with Legos. The space-themed sets were my absolute favourite.

 

[DrTeeth]

Amazing

I spent half my childhood trying to build the perfect Colonial Viper but I never got it. I can't wait until my niece and nephew are old enough to play with Lego and I can try it again.

Oh I mean, until they can try it. To build whatever they want of course. You know, because it wouldn't have to be a Colonial Viper.

 

[Earl-Of-IMDb]

pretty cool

 

[corianderstem]

I never had Legos.

 

[bonocomet]

I spent a lot of my childhood trying to get those really flat pieces apart.

 

[Lila64]

I never had Legos.

Me neither. I think we were deprived

 

[corianderstem]

Totally. I'm going to write my parents an angry letter of protest.

 

[JCOSTER]

My 9 year old is a huge lego kid. After building most of the Star Wars ships he is now onto Indiana Jones. He has the patience of a saint, and has built most of them with little help. Maybe one day it would be a job for him.

 

[MsPurrl]

Several years ago, my nephew Raleigh built Camelot, complete with all the knights and all. So now he's 23--he probably doesn't even know where his Legos are.

 

[No spoken words]

When I was like 11 or 12, I built this awesome Lego space ship, and then one of my friends came over and threw it on the ground and destroyed it. Thanks for bringing that happy memory back to the surface.......I'll be over there in corner in my Lego cardboard box.

You didn't have any friends.

 

[mad1]

When I was like 11 or 12, I built this awesome Lego space ship, and then one of my friends came over and threw it on the ground and destroyed it. Thanks for bringing that happy memory back to the surface.......I'll be over there in corner in my Lego cardboard box.

I can see this, and, your face.

 

[Bonochick]

Those are awesome.

My boyfriend and I go to train shows, and a couple shows had this massive layout done entirely in Legos. It's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

 

[Purplereign]

My 9 year old is a huge lego kid. After building most of the Star Wars ships he is now onto Indiana Jones. He has the patience of a saint, and has built most of them with little help. Maybe one day it would be a job for him.

ditto with sugar on top (cept I've got twin boys obsessed with Star Wars and Indiana lego)

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

ditto with sugar on top (cept I've got twin boys obsessed with Star Wars and Indiana lego)

for a second there, I thought you had named your kid "sugar on top" and I was about to congratulate you...

 

[UberBeaver]

You didn't have any friends.

I did when I was 11 or 12. And then he broke my Lego space ship. Action needed to be taken, sir. This is not Viet Nam. There are rules.

 

[Purplereign]

^

forgot to quote elevated

uber i feel your pain

 

[JCOSTER]

ditto with sugar on top (cept I've got twin boys obsessed with Star Wars and Indiana lego)

Before those it was Orient Expedition, and Kingdom Knights.

 

[Galeongirl]

I did when I was 11 or 12. And then he broke my Lego space ship. Action needed to be taken, sir. This is not Viet Nam. There are rules.

so I assume that after this event you did not have this friend anymore?

 

[UberBeaver]

so I assume that after this event you did not have this friend anymore?

Only his head.

 

[mad1]

How long did it take you to make, Uber?

 

[UberBeaver]

The space ship? I dunno....a few hours I guess. Probably longer than most cause I had low Lego skillz. I hated reading directions, so everything took longer than it needed to. It was a good sized space ship though, close to two feet, maybe?

 

[mad1]

damn!


I only ever built small houses with them.

Lego was (and still is) one of the best that kids could/can play with. Makes them use their minds, to build stuff, etc.