May 06, 2004
#86 :: Lego Alien Warrior
We had a homemade corduroy sack full of Legos when I was a kid, it weighed maybe four or five pounds. A couple of huge green base plates, untold numbers of plain, rectangular 1x2s, 2x2s, 2x6s and 2x8s in red, green, black, yellow, white. There were three or four precious blues, and perhaps two clear 1x2s that served as the windows around which the fantasy would accrete - race car, space ship, dungeon, castle keep. No guys, no chrome, no pivoting pieces (maybe an axle and some wheels). Just blocks. Now there are Mars vehicles and cow towns and pivoting 22-wheeled construction cranes and undersea pirate adventures with little peg-legged guys and semi trucks that transform into giant robots that shoot rockets and fly around with little tiny transformer robots in their bellies.
Aahh, crap. Kids.
Posted by mack reed at May 6, 2004 08:11 PM | TrackBackYou are so right - I had the same rectilinear pile of Lego (never LegoS!). Along with snidely lamenting the modern quick-snap-finished ideology, I do secretly wish I had had some instant Robots too. (OK so I do now!). Cheers.
Posted by: Matt at May 9, 2004 07:01 AMYeah well, Legos were a mother's nightmare; accidentally vacuum 'em, step on 'em, turn your ankle walking barefoot in the night, but the *stuff* you made... Go Lego!
Posted by: Kit at May 9, 2004 03:30 PM