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I don't want to be a grown up any more

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  • #32
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Never much into lego as a kid but if anyone wants to swap fancy paper, I'm in :)


  • #33
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Festy wrote: »
    I'm a modern day Peter Pan :)


    Howya wacko?

    Whats the craic?


  • #34
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 52,294 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Being serious is boring boring boring boring.

    Threads on the ecomony, threads on jobbridge, on forced immigration, on feckin pensions. Boooooooo. BOOOOORRRRRIIIIIING.

    I don't want to grow up and talk about boring stuff.

    I want to talk about lego, and stickle bricks, and robots in disguise.

    Do you like lego? what's the best lego thing you ever made?

    Yay!! I love transformers!! :D

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #35
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    Don't be so serious. Are you a mod or not?

    Banned for questioning a mod on thread


  • #36
    The Dom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭The Dom


    Classic case of Pyramint deficiency.


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  • #37
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,864 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Do you think builders were just really into Lego when they were younger and thought being a real builder would be equally as much fun?

    I'm not saying that question keeps me awake at night, but I'm also not denying it does.


  • #38
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    I got a brand new €2 coin today in my change and it's so shiny I secretly think it's worth far more than €2 so I'm reluctant to part with it.


  • #39
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Was talking about Lego with friends last night. All the different sets (Star Wars, HP, Indiana Jones, etc) WITH INSTRUCTIONS! Just give me a bucket of random pieces and I can build what I want!


  • #40
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Jesus, nostalgia is a bitch. Have to keep myself from shedding a tear while at my desk in work.

    Every birthday/xmas present I asked for from the age of 6 til 11 was lego technic. I was pretty spoiled with what I got tbh. My favourite ones were the JCB set and the drawing machine/crane set. Probably cos they had the most and coolest pieces. Had a good few of the smaller sets too, including the forklift and motocross bike.

    I had even separated the pieces needed into regular big bits, the smaller, rare "hard to find" bits and then the bits which I ashamedly had toothmarks in from trying to separate when I was younger. All in individual bags, which kept tearing. Had bags with the pneumatic pumps, cylinders and tubes which I made sure were in good condition.

    Feck. Next time I'm at my parents, I'm gonna scour the attic to make sure they didn't give it all away.


  • #41
    Dramatik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭Dramatik


    What I wouldn't give for a go of a remote controled car right now, almost as good as the commodore 64 I got a few years later...


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  • #42
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Ruubot2 wrote: »
    Was talking about Lego with friends last night. All the different sets (Star Wars, HP, Indiana Jones, etc) WITH INSTRUCTIONS! Just give me a bucket of random pieces and I can build what I want!

    Hell yeah. That's not bloody lego. That's just expensive kinder surprise. I think James May might have touched on that subject on one of his shows before, saying that the point of lego was to build whatever you wanted and use your imagination. Nowadays, all the lego pieces are moulded for one specific purpose only and are an abomination.


  • #43
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,864 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    The pure joy of finding that missing Meccano piece to finish your work of art...


  • #44
    bullvine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭bullvine


    I had the Lego Lunar base, giving to me by my dad, early 80's. Theres one on eBay, very tempted to buy it, really is the best toy ever!


  • #45
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    http://www.buzzfeed.com/adamellis/things-you-might-not-know-about-lego


  • #46
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Penn wrote: »
    The pure joy of finding that missing Meccano piece to finish your work of art...

    Was given a meccano set one xmas. Maybe I was too retarded, but I just couldn't master it. Way too fiddly. Think it was donated to an african child appeal or something after it had started gathering dust


  • #47
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    The best thing about having kids is that I can buy all the lego I want and play with the lego at home, build a home out of lego, lego, lego LEGO, LEGOO.


  • #48
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    All this Lego talk, there's a movie coming out!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_JOBCLF-I


  • #49
    Jarrod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Jarrod


    Forget Lego. Give me Duplo any day, pretty sure it was just Lego for simpletons but I loved it :)


  • #50
    Sigourney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭Sigourney


    I made a crucifix for a mock exorcism, just to piss my granny off.


  • #51
    SherlockWatson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭SherlockWatson


    How do people not remember Stickle Bricks?

    Used to love watching the Turtles on Rte2 every morning before going to school!


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  • #52
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Never really had Lego in my house... :/ What we did have though were numerous big fook off fields around the local area and an excess supply of wood, pallets and political signs...... we'd build camps all summer long, making them bigger and better every time.

    Being 9 years old and walking around with a fook ton of tools was just normal. We'd build them everywhere and a lot were actually proper hidden and unfindable unless you knew about them, followed us or had a god damned helicopter.

    It was spectacular, Soldiers couldn't build hides as comfortable as our ones!

    Now our fields are shopping centers and industrial parks. :(


  • #53
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    The best thing about having kids is that I can buy all the lego I want and play with the lego at home, build a home out of lego, lego, lego LEGO, LEGOO.

    Didn't yer man from Top Gear already do that?


  • #54
    lahalane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    Assuming my link works...I got this as a present two months ago and spent the whole night making it. Thoroughly enjoyed it.


  • #55
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    i visited an apartment the other day and when I opened up one of the presses it was jam packed with technics lego. I made an offer on the proviso that it was included.


  • #56
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Deleted User wrote: »

    Threads on the ecomony, threads on jobbridge, on forced immigration, on feckin pensions. Boooooooo. BOOOOORRRRRIIIIIING.

    It was such a shame watching my brother grow up overnight when he hit 30... I don't think he has spoken on a topic outside the scope above.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Banned for questioning a mod on thread

    Remind me to never ask what the weather is like :pac:.

    I'm essentially a big child. It's the way I've always been; when I'm sitting in the doctor's surgery, I almost always have to resist the urge to play with those block things on those hoops, which go up and over and around and down and over and up and down.
    pickarooney wrote: »
    i visited an apartment the other day and when I opened up one of the presses it was jam packed with technics lego. I made an offer on the proviso that it was included.

    I have this thing where whenever I'm viewing a new room or apartment or whatever, one of the first things I do is stand in the closet or wardrobe in my room. No idea why, but it always make a good house when I can stand upright.


  • #58
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Being serious is boring boring boring boring.

    Threads on the ecomony, threads on jobbridge, on forced immigration, on feckin pensions. Boooooooo. BOOOOORRRRRIIIIIING.

    I don't want to grow up and talk about boring stuff.

    I want to talk about lego, and stickle bricks, and robots in disguise.

    Do you like lego? what's the best lego thing you ever made?



    Quit your job and become a youth worker!

    You get to hangout with teenagers all day, talk about football and computer games and play pool and make stuff with lego or play boardgames and you still get to fit in interesting "serious" stuff like education development and so on, but it's mostly just having a laugh.

    Fantastic job satisfaction and you make a positive impact on young peoples lives!


  • #59
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    There should be a boutique line of Legos for adults available, kind of like when Walkers had their posh crisps in muted, understated bags with flavours like Vintage Cheddar & Red Onion Chutney and Gently Infused Lime & Thai Spices. The Death Star and Imperials Walkers are one thing but I'm sure nostalgic adults wouldn't feel so bad assembling an Italian café or a Parisian bakery. They'd seem far less childish in comparison.


    You still have to have the little Lego men with the yellow heads, though.


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Seaneh wrote: »
    Quit your job and become a youth worker!

    You get to hangout with teenagers all day, talk about football and computer games and play pool and make stuff with lego or play boardgames and you still get to fit in interesting "serious" stuff like education development and so on, but it's mostly just having a laugh.

    Fantastic job satisfaction and you make a positive impact on young peoples lives!

    I really wanted to do that, even got the Garda vetting forms, but gave up when it asked me to account for everywhere I have lived. My memory is so bad, I forget where I'm living right now.


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  • #61
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I really wanted to do that, even got the Garda vetting forms, but gave up when it asked me to account for everywhere I have lived. My memory is so bad, I forget where I'm living right now.

    Dude, just bluff it, pick 3-4 places, the current, somewhere in the middle and the first. That's what I did. I can't even remember the addresses of some of the places I've lived!


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