Recently, my imagination with Lego has been reduced to "Build what's in the box" but as a kid, I used to build all sorts of ships. I think, though, the coolest thing I ever built as a kid was the Glaive from Krull.
If you haven't seen the Malcolm in the Middle episode "High School Play", Hal and Dewey create an entire Lego city in their house.
My friend undertook a similar venture after watching this episode, where we created a bunch of famous skyscrapers (Chrysler Building, WTC towers, Empire state building, etc.) in his game room. It was depressing to take them down after about 2 months of on-and-off work between 3 people. Rather than buy specially designed kits to make the buildings, we ended up pooling all of our Lego bricks and were able to create 2/3 of everything we needed and bought the rest.
I used to make some pretty ingenious Transformers with mine. Also, the day I saw Return of the Jedi (in theaters, original release) I went home and made a couple of the speeder bikes they were riding on Endor.
The Borg Mothership
Most recently: The 8110 Mercedes Unimog - What a beast of a set. Definitely the biggest undertaking I've had with legos, took about 14 hrs to build from start to finish. BIG too by lego standards!
A working gun that fires 1x8 plates (the smooth-top pieces). It's fully automatic and holds over a dozen "rounds". Instructions are in a book called Forbidden Lego.
I combined the castle and the pirate ship to make an awesome floating castle thing! I used to make up stories when playing with my Legos that were mostly inspired by Back to the Future in some way.
The pirate ship (6285 Black Seas Barracuda) was pretty much the best Lego set ever, by the way.
Been working with an elementary school to use a Lego kit to build robots for a competition in April.
I got lots of legos as a kid in the 70's, and a few in my early teens in the 80's. When I started having kids of my own in the 00's, I started buying them for my own kids. Combined with the old sets (we kept them all), we've got enough for some pretty cool stuff. I've built towers over 7 feet tall with my 5 & 7 yr old kids, and back when I was 11, we used to build planes about 16-20 inches long, put 2-3 of the big red wheels (tires removed) on top, then hang them by the wheels on fishing line that went from a tree house on the hill behind our house to the front yard, for a run about 125 feet long. We even used these tiny frogs we caught as pilots.
best sources these days were the 1600 piece brick set that walmart had for $30 on black friday, we got 3, and the self serve bulk brick section in the back of the local lego store.
When my kids were growing up, whatever they wanted...and now my grandkids.
Never to old for Legos!
These days I play Lego casually with my kids. My oldest son has made some really pretty cool little models. A tiny police car about an inch long that was really neat! Lately I've taken to giving them challenges that are silly like, build me a floating garbage truck, just to see what they come up with!
@mtm2: Hear, hear! Over the Christmas break, at one point we had the whole family, my wife included, all playing Lego together. It was great fun and everyone was laughing and loving it. We played like that for a couple of hours!
an arctic research base
it may have been a set with instructions
my 8 year old and I built a car big enough for our 14lbs cat to sit in
I used to build model cars that could be slammed into a wall (crash test style) and keep a raw egg intact thanks to some quite sophisticated (for a ten year old with just basic lego bricks) collapsible energy-absorbing constructs. Yes, I was very geeky.
I used to build things then throw them against a wall and when they broke build them again but stronger. Mostly Space ships.
My DH and oldest son built a Lego weathervane in the shape of a rooster. They designed the whole thing on paper first and put it together for part of a school project. It was a pretty good size and amazingly detailed. Legos are really amazing!
A 1962 VW Westfalia Camper Van.
No, really!
I've built Yoda. It's on display in my parent's basement. I'll probably steal it back the next time I drive down there
Back when Star Wars: Episode I came out, my friend and I competed to see who could build the coolest podracer. Both of our designs ended up being completely different which was cool (his was sleek and streamlined, while mine had large, massive turbines), but they each had the basics like the energy beam between the engines and the control cables connecting to the cockpit. I used to spin the turbines and make the fwoob fwoob fwoob fwoob fwoob Doppler effect sound that Sebulba's would make when it passed the cameras... Good times...
I can't wait till I have kids so I can justify spending money on Legos again.
The Liberator from Blake's 7. Complete with Zen and a few of the cast members.
@theracoon: That is awesome! I love it! Can I share that on G+?
@fenriq: thanks, but it's just one of the Lego kits. If you want to link to a picture of that kit, I'm sure you can find better pictures that are hosted by Lego.
Oof... when I was a kid I was way into Star Trek and DBZ and Star Wars and all that jazz so I did a crazy mix of stuff like that, making bad-ass spaceships that got more and more intricate as I'd smash them to bits and rebuild...
A giant Lego. Too bad I didn't have any more. I could have built more giant Legos and then I could have built something out of them.
Stats
- Asked
- 3 months ago
- Asked By
- fenriq
- Answered
- 25 times
- Viewed
- 563 times
- Voted Against
- 0 times
- Voted For
- 47 times
25 Answers answer
Sort By: