Anyone ever messed with Legos?

[Jimfoxyboy]

I've been kind of digging into an old childhood past time of mine recently. Perhaps a bit more digitally.

Was kind of wondering if anyone else still has any interest or curiosity about it. And yes, adults also play with legos, off and on.

[Cross]

i used to build Lego's every day, and yes, i am still guilty of building things from time to time. my last creation was a pirate ship, with paper sails, lol.

[mediar]

I had a ton of Legos, bunch of different ships and G.I.Joe stuff.

[Blue]

If you love legos, and games, there is this lego game that is essentially legos crossed with pictionary.. I forget what it is called but you are given a card with an image you need to duplicate with the legos you are given, and ppl have to guess what the item you are making is...

anyways food for thought, that game looks mighty interestin

[Buddy]

*is building tower of legos* I still do and it takes my mind off things.. >_>

[zenia]

Legos were my favorite toy as a kid. I don't have any now... they stayed at my moms house and belong to my kid (who is being raised there) now. I have a Harry Potter and a Draco Malfoy (Lego guys) but that is it.

[Jimfoxyboy]

There is a program off the lego's website called the Lego Digital Designer. Or also known as LDD. And ya, you can even get them to send you a box of what you make provided you use the parts they are ok with. And ya, I know, it can be expensive. I've built quite a few things with it so far in the digital-verse. (No, I didn't have anything sent to me by them.. yet.)

There seems to be quite a lot of adults still playing with the stuff, but in more of a hobby and modeling kind of way. Well, as far as I can tell, anyways. I was just wondering if anyone locally was doing anything. I do know of one man in New Westminster , who has a store, which originally used to only deal in scale model railroads. He's now making what they call 'L' gauge lego garden railroad sets. It can be a rather expensive hobby with the engines going, easily for about $300. He buys lego by the weight from people to make his sets. (Sometimes I kind of cringe when I hear of complete old classic sets being sold off as spare parts, never to be remade again)

What really got me back into things was the fact that there are places online where you can still buy the older sets. I've been a little guilty of this myself, having picked up a couple, one from an online contact down in the States. As well as getting a few sets from the nearby Toys'R'Us store when they had their 20% off discount on their city sets.

[drewdle]

My grandfather had a big bucket of Legos with a seemingly inexhaustible array of parts inside. He built castles, houses, cars, etc every time I came over. I was thus a Lego fanatic for over fifteen years. I have a lot of different sets, including some of the Technics sets, but I haven't played with them in awhile. I should get a bucket and get back into it. All my old sets are at my parent's. 

[Vanilla Skunk]

I had legos.  I had a few space sets, and a bunch of 'random pieces' from the 60's.  About enough to fill a 5 gallon bucket.

I didn't have them anymore when I started putting them all together into a block, and throwing them at a brick wall... I enjoyed it because it would sound like breaking glass, and would freak my mom out.  ;D