Let's celebrate LEGOs

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:18 pm

You know, legos were the best toys ever. But I got rid of all of my blocks. So I can't play with Legos anymore.

BUT!

There's an online lego game, where you can build things with your LEGO online friends! Anyone want to play legos?!!

http://www.blockland.us/blockland/index.asp

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:45 pm

Why do so many people pluralise LEGO?

Entr0pi3 · Post by **Entr0pi3** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:56 pm

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:42 pm

Damien wrote:Why do so many people pluralise LEGO?

bcos

Silex · Post by **Silex** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:50 pm

I still have the entire Wild West set in my room!

However, my Bandit's hideout is in shambles because of brothers dropping it on the floor. Plus there's the fact that I lost the building intructions so I was never able to put it back together.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:09 pm

NE1 want to try block land?

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:35 pm

oh man when I was in germany I think at the KaDeWe (KAUFHAUS DES WESTERRNERHABENGLOEBEN) they had these crazy big bulk bins of normal type lego blocks it was FUCKING SWEET. largely because most lego you can get now is crappy basically brebuilt stuff.

EDITING TIME: oh man I can't play this on mac I guess

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:44 pm

I demand more Blockland!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:51 pm

Lego shops are good. I bought Lego Pirate cosplay last year <3

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:05 pm

Cid wrote:I demand more Blockland!

Cid let's play.

Well not right now. But in the days to come.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:50 pm

Ward you suck I can't believe you got rid of your legos

Legoland owns me (the one in Denmark obviously, not the one in England

), going there when I was 5 is one of my best childhood memories

Kage · Post by **Kage** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:01 am

I have never played lego before. My youth was squandered on video games, manga and tonnes of marvel +DC comids. I even missed the boat on chicks until much later.

Slashley · Post by **Slashley** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:16 am

Legos owned, it saddens me to hear they're doing poorly.

Then again, from what I've heard, the newest Legos suck balls. How could Legos go wrong though?

Henchman #2 · Post by **Henchman #2** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:30 am

Slashley wrote:Legos owned, it saddens me to hear they're doing poorly.

Then again, from what I've heard, the newest Legos suck balls. How could Legos go wrong though?

You know why?

smeared ink wrote:most lego you can get now is crappy basically brebuilt stuff.

There's no goddamn creativity left in them anymore. Before, you bought LEGO blocks to mix it up with your collection and build anything. Nowadays, you just build the predetermined one and leave it at that. Creativity and imagination are slowly diminishing in the products.

ruroken · Post by **ruroken** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:57 am

I love M-tron and the Ice people

I gave literally kilos of them away though.

Thank god for online LEGO!

:D:D:D:D -holds M-tron lego man-

Reiji · Post by **Reiji** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:10 am

Someone should host a server.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:01 am

Lego used to be free of advertising but now we have Harry Potter, Star Wars, Spider Man, Winnie The Pooh, the list goes on...

It's become just another way of selling brands, sadly

Entr0pi3 · Post by **Entr0pi3** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:45 am

Henchman #2 wrote:There's no goddamn creativity left in them anymore. Before, you bought LEGO blocks to mix it up with your collection and build anything. Nowadays, you just build the predetermined one and leave it at that. Creativity and imagination are slowly diminishing in the products.

I don't know about modern Lego, but back then, even if there used to be themed Lego, you could quite easilly mix them : build a medieval castle on the moon landscape and have a monorail train arrive in the middle of the courtyard (and rockets hidden in the towers), have the knights wear astronaut helmets and put laser guns on horses...
I was rather fond of the "technic" Lego as well (with electric engines to power the vehicles, or the robots you could program on the computer... We had some of those in my CS College !

)

shmack · Post by **shmack** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:50 am

My mom is cleaning out the big cupboard of toys at my house and she has filled 1 25qt container and 1 15 qt container full of legos so far, and that's only with the stuff that's loose and doesn't contain all the stuff that's still put together (a bunch of some alien series that my brother had). I love lego, and Olly yelled at me when I didn't show Damien my collection. Remind me, Damien.

though am I a loser if I love that they have harry potter, star wars, spiderman, etc? They're just so cooooool....... except for the small sets which have like 5 pieces and can't be changed at all, of course...

TheStrife · Post by **TheStrife** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:13 am

I was playing this with Reiji and Cid tonight. It owned.

Reiji · Post by **Reiji** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:23 am

SKY FORTRESS

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 1:35 pm

I'm gonna install it today, I shall play it. it shall become the new habbo hotel

Slashley · Post by **Slashley** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:40 pm

Henchman #2 wrote:
smeared ink wrote:most lego you can get now is crappy basically brebuilt stuff.
There's no goddamn creativity left in them anymore. Before, you bought LEGO blocks to mix it up with your collection and build anything. Nowadays, you just build the predetermined one and leave it at that. Creativity and imagination are slowly diminishing in the products.

But how is that possible?

I mean, can't you take them apart anymore?
I remember the old packages had several variations of the blocks on the backside... but there was never any instructions for those and my creativity wasn't sufficient to build awesome looking stuff without manuals

Vincent · Post by **Vincent** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:56 pm

I played months ago after coming across the thread about it on SA Forums, I quickly got bored of it as there was no one to play with, really, so I turned to things like this:

Obviously it's not the most complex of creations, but for some reason it was my favourite.

Among the others was a giant mech and a floating tower/outpost on the moon.

ruroken · Post by **ruroken** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:27 pm

Vincent are you talking about Lego? Let's have a SG server for this pretty please!

Henchman #2 · Post by **Henchman #2** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:23 pm

Slashley wrote:
Henchman #2 wrote:
smeared ink wrote:most lego you can get now is crappy basically brebuilt stuff.
There's no goddamn creativity left in them anymore. Before, you bought LEGO blocks to mix it up with your collection and build anything. Nowadays, you just build the predetermined one and leave it at that. Creativity and imagination are slowly diminishing in the products.
But how is that possible?
I mean, can't you take them apart anymore?
I remember the old packages had several variations of the blocks on the backside... but there was never any instructions for those and my creativity wasn't sufficient to build awesome looking stuff without manuals

I mean that before, the whole focus of the blocks were about building things your own way, and that the prebuilt design was more of a secondary thing if your were a beginner or just like the design. Nowadays, the whole point of the blocks are to fit a design. The uses of the pieces become too specific. I'm not saying this is bad, its just that the generality of LEGO in the past helped to build people's creativity because it was limited and yet you could do anything with it. I think that the pieces now just make the whole experience rather bland when it becomes to easy to do things, so you'd rather stick to the prebuilt design because it would look better that way. But this is all just personal opinion, coming from a sometimes skewed logic.

Oh, and LEGO selling out is a bit troublesome. But I'm not complaining!

Slashley · Post by **Slashley** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:27 pm

Ah, so the pieces themselves are a bit too specialized now? I remember special pieces used to be like, ultrarare.

Well, they're digging their own grave, then~

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:37 pm

I played pirates with lego

Arashi · Post by **Arashi** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:12 pm

Henchman #2 wrote:I mean that before, the whole focus of the blocks were about building things your own way, and that the prebuilt design was more of a secondary thing if your were a beginner or just like the design. Nowadays, the whole point of the blocks are to fit a design. The uses of the pieces become too specific. I'm not saying this is bad, its just that the generality of LEGO in the past helped to build people's creativity because it was limited and yet you could do anything with it. I think that the pieces now just make the whole experience rather bland when it becomes to easy to do things, so you'd rather stick to the prebuilt design because it would look better that way. But this is all just personal opinion, coming from a sometimes skewed logic.!

This I have to agree. Some kids these days are just too stupid and lazy to build their own fantasies. And their attention span lasts like .2 seconds.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:58 pm

BREBUILT

I just had to make a retarded typo that'd be quoted several times.

and I agree, it's that the pieces are too specific now, and plus the guys' faces are way too detailed for my liking. ok, if it's star wars themed or something, fine, although I still like it when it's just some details over an otherwise plain lego face. now they've got like smirks and more detailed eyes and shit.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:59 pm

Damien wrote:Why do so many people pluralise LEGO?

oh yeah and I agree with this. wtf

you say "look at all that lego" not "look at all those legos"

it's like the word water or something.

Henchman #2 · Post by **Henchman #2** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:19 am

I think its just that it's easier to say than "LEGO blocks". People just kept using it too much, and now its become the right way to say it. Even though its not.

Entr0pi3 · Post by **Entr0pi3** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:00 pm

Henchman #2 wrote:I mean that before, the whole focus of the blocks were about building things your own way, and that the prebuilt design was more of a secondary thing if your were a beginner or just like the design. Nowadays, the whole point of the blocks are to fit a design. The uses of the pieces become too specific. I'm not saying this is bad, its just that the generality of LEGO in the past helped to build people's creativity because it was limited and yet you could do anything with it. I think that the pieces now just make the whole experience rather bland when it becomes to easy to do things, so you'd rather stick to the prebuilt design because it would look better that way. But this is all just personal opinion, coming from a sometimes skewed logic.

Reminds me of the evolution of computer programming...

Lap · Post by **Lap** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:51 pm

I had a big bucket of assorted lego. I have no idea where it went, but it probably got given away because I didn't play with it anymore. Now I'm sad that I don't have lego.

Silex · Post by **Silex** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:32 pm

smeared ink wrote:BREBUILT

I just had to make a retarded typo that'd be quoted several times.

and I agree, it's that the pieces are too specific now, and plus the guys' faces are way too detailed for my liking. ok, if it's star wars themed or something, fine, although I still like it when it's just some details over an otherwise plain lego face. now they've got like smirks and more detailed eyes and shit.

I agree with you. The details in the characters' faces are ruining the objectivity of your figures. Orginally, you could choose which side you could root for. Ice vs Metro, Pirates vs Naval Fleet, Kingdom vs Band of Thieves. Heck, even the cops and robbers had neutral faces.

Today, they all dictate who the good guys and bad guys are. Maybe I'm reading too much into my LEGO, but I though the objectivity of LEGO helped developped children's social and moral structures.

Entr0pi3 · Post by **Entr0pi3** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:08 pm

But you can still exchange their heads, can't you ? So you can have a guy with a X uniform on their body, and an Y (bad or good) head, uh ?

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:42 pm

you can, but it doesn't change the fact that that's still an "X body" and a "Y head"

anyway, the issue for me is that I just like the little lego smiley faces.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:07 pm

Lego+Monty Python=

Endless-Rain · Post by **Endless-Rain** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:39 pm

I had a big sandbox of lego and the cat peed in it and it all had to be chucked out

You cant get classic lego these days, its always bionic or something shit like that.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:23 pm

You can get classic lego from lego shops.

TheStrife · Post by **TheStrife** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:01 am

So ya, Reiji and I are playing on Blockworld server if anyone wants to join in.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:15 am

I would if I wasn't so busy with exams

TheStrife · Post by **TheStrife** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:56 am

O we made the server die lawl

Entr0pi3 · Post by **Entr0pi3** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 1:50 pm

smeared ink wrote:anyway, the issue for me is that I just like the little lego smiley faces.

What I love about the smiley faces is how out-of-place they can be sometimes

Slashley · Post by **Slashley** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:31 pm

Entr0pi3 wrote:

Mitsurugi · Post by **Mitsurugi** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:53 pm

pish ahh plato was much better the lego's. I cut my self on a lego once, there blesphemous I tell you:(!

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:07 pm

you suck

Fallout

OH NICE GET'S!!!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:03 pm

Mitsurugi · Post by **Mitsurugi** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 7:11 pm

Calbrena wrote:you suck

Fallout

OH NICE GET'S!!!

*giggatie gigatie giggatie* *moves head back and forth a billion time*

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:42 pm

I never knew what the hell you dumb motherfuckers were talking about with that gets bullshit, but then I watched adam and joe go tokyo and he was featured on an episode