Lego Appreciation Thread (split off from Random Raves XLII)

[warpus]

I just bought a LEGO set. The first one I ever bought with my own money.

This is amazing because when I was a little boy I had a dream of owning LEGO sets when I was older and could afford it. We were refugees in West Germany when I first found out about LEGOs and how amazing they are, but I knew my parents could not afford them at all. We were living in refugee camps at the time and so I stuck to playing with sticks and ants and tag with other kids and whatever else. Then a couple months after the West German government hooked us up with our own apartment my parents bought me a LEGO starship for my birthday. It was not very big, but it was a great day. Later I even got a LEGO car wash and a LEGO robin hood castle. I loved those 3 sets my parents bought me, but had fantasies of a future in which I have the power to buy any LEGO I want.

That future is now.

 

[Arakhor]

Congratulations!

 

[warpus]

Thanks! These are exciting times at the warpus household.

My goal is to slowly acquire a LEGO city set every couple months, maybe just 2 or 3 a year to start. Definitely a small part of the entertainment budget, but the end goal as I see it is an entire LEGO city

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Thanks! These are exciting times at the warpus household.

My goal is to slowly acquire a LEGO city set every couple months, maybe just 2 or 3 a year to start. Definitely a small part of the entertainment budget, but the end goal as I see it is an entire LEGO city

Just be careful. LEGO addiction is a thing.

(A Robin Hood castle? I would have loved one of those!)

BTW, did you know that LEGO-shaped candy exists? Back in the '90s when a friend and I organized one of our SCA feasts, we decided on the theme of "a trip around the Mediterranean." So there were dishes from various Mediterranean countries, and between the Moroccan and Spanish courses, we served each person a dish of candy LEGO bricks and told them they were for the purpose of building a fortress on the Rock of Gibraltar. Of course they were welcome to eat their creations, or just eat the bricks themselves.

Not exactly how most SCA feasts are run, but by that time our household had the reputation of coming up with creative themes.

 

[Broken_Erika]

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BTW, did you know that LEGO-shaped candy exists? Back in the '90s when a friend and I organized one of our SCA feasts, we decided on the theme of "a trip around the Mediterranean." So there were dishes from various Mediterranean countries, and between the Moroccan and Spanish courses, we served each person a dish of candy LEGO bricks and told them they were for the purpose of building a fortress on the Rock of Gibraltar. Of course they were welcome to eat their creations, or just eat the bricks themselves.

Not exactly how most SCA feasts are run, but by that time our household had the reputation of coming up with creative themes.

I remember getting Lego-shaped candy from Bulk Barn when i was a kid. They didn't fit together very well...... i guess they must have been the candy version of "Mega Blocks" or those cheap chinese lego-knock-off sets i got from a dollar store one time.(can't remember if they were called loge or logo...)

 

[warpus]

Just be careful. LEGO addiction is a thing.

(A Robin Hood castle? I would have loved one of those!)

Yeah it was this exact set actually

Spoiler :

I just finished putting together my set and it took about 45-60 minutes and was very relaxing. $20 CAD well spent! Massages are more expensive than this

Mind you my left leg did fall asleep and when I stood up I almost took out my back somehow. I guess LEGOs might have been made for kids after all

 

[Ajidica]

between the Moroccan and Spanish courses

fortress on the Rock of Gibraltar

I think you forgot which country owns the Rock.

 

[Takhisis]

SCA

does stand for ‘Society of Creative Anachronism’.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Yeah it was this exact set actually

Spoiler :

I just finished putting together my set and it took about 45-60 minutes and was very relaxing. $20 CAD well spent! Massages are more expensive than this

Mind you my left leg did fall asleep and when I stood up I almost took out my back somehow. I guess LEGOs might have been made for kids after all

Aw, that's cute! But where's the Maid Marian figure?

I think you forgot which country owns the Rock.

The SCA is a medieval/Renaissance re-creation society. Current geopolitical realities/disputes were irrelevant.

does stand for ‘Society of Creative Anachronism’.

Society for Creative Anachronism. Yeah, I know a fortress made from LEGO candy is anachronistic, which is the argument we used when someone made a critical comment. Our branch's feasts had become staid and predictable, until our household started organizing them. I decided to not only introduce New World foods (as long as the area where they were found had been verifiably visited by Europeans prior to 1600 CE), but also a sense of humor.

 

[warpus]

Aw, that's cute! But where's the Maid Marian figure?

Hmm is this her?

Spoiler :

Photo not mine

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Yeah, that would be her. Not that I've seen these before, but it's a reasonable guess since there weren't any other female outlaws in the traditional stories (there was one other in the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves movie - Fanny, who was Little John's wife).

Not sure why she should be carrying a shield, though. It's not something archers would normally carry.

 

[warpus]

I'm not sure if this was exactly "Robin hood" or just inspired by it or just what me and my friend called it

My favourite lego style is CITY because it's just a cute modular approximation of real life. Meanwhile all the other types of sets are fantastical and don't have real-life equivalents.

 

[Takhisis]

As long as it's not LEGO Star Wars…

 

[warpus]

Actually my roommate bought a .. LEGO star wars thing at the local thrift store (I think) and gave it to me, seeing my newly rediscovered fascination with LEGO. But I haven't unpacked it yet

 

[Yeekim]

My first LEGO set...

 

[Arakhor]

My very first Lego set was one of those tiny boxes with a space exploration buggy in it.

 

[JohannaK]

I can't remember my first LEGO set. I have so many... I remember the first larger set was of a series called "Arctic" or "Team Arctic", and I loved to build that.

 

[Lexicus]

I can't find a picture of it but my first LEGO set was a castle that had this dragon in it:

 

[Kyriakos]

I had this one:

 

[Sommerswerd]

^Oooh that's a nice one. This is the one I had:

EDIT: On second thought, nope I didn't have horses in my set so that wasn't it. I'll have to keep looking.