Warning to fathers (current/potential) - Page 3

Vainamoinen · 07-23-2008, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Oizen

Not only will they replace your lame Mega Blocks but, they double as a competitive board game.

The MEGA BLOKS were something my lovely wife stumbled across and figured it was a rather large, but cost-effective gift for our son... obviously, they were priced so low because they had some autistic kid design and package the product.

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Originally Posted by Illuminator

I never knew the bit about the Lego bags and never cared... it was easier to just empty them all out into a big pile.

My real grief with modern-day Lego sets is that the models are increasingly childish, unsophisticated, and comprised more and more of large prefabricated parts where in the past you would use several smaller pieces in their place.

There are a few of these sorts of sets - like the boats that have solid, pre-fab hulls (so that you can actually float them in the tub or the local pond). Many of the sets are far from unsophisticated, however. They have some very interesting and creative moving parts and mechanisms that are built piece-by-piece. The pre-fab pieces allow the sets to maintain some sort of realism, rather than having that blocky, cumbersome look to everything.

My biggest beef with LEGO these days is that it is no longer the free-form build. The sets come with plans and, for the most part, you build what is pictured on the box and have at it. When my son is a little older, we will likely tear everything down and build our own shit.

And, yes, beers are mandatory.

Narkle · 07-23-2008, 02:15 PM

Vain would you have an aneurysm if you went to Lego Land at the Mall of America by my house?

Vainamoinen · 07-23-2008, 02:42 PM

Likely.

Gage · 07-23-2008, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Illuminator

My real grief with modern-day Lego sets is that the models are increasingly childish, unsophisticated, and comprised more and more of large prefabricated parts where in the past you would use several smaller pieces in their place.

I know right?

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Oizen · 07-23-2008, 03:08 PM

I'm telling you... Bioncle... pitch the manual... just use the pics on the box... EPIC WIN. (it is implied that the minimum of three+ beers are consumed)

The only time I find my four year old building things with blocks/legos anymore, is when he is preparing a scene for devastation as biobots smash/slash/zap/pwn these clunky constructions with dominating Bionicle uberness.

Vainamoinen · 07-23-2008, 03:17 PM

6K+ pieces of millenium falcon would own all, tbh.

Addee · 07-23-2008, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Vainamoinen

My biggest beef with LEGO these days is that it is no longer the free-form build. The sets come with plans and, for the most part, you build what is pictured on the box and have at it. When my son is a little older, we will likely tear everything down and build our own shit.

And, yes, beers are mandatory.

You can still get just big ol' bins of Lego's. My son has some, or did, before I got rid of most of them. However, also has the ones with the plans. You can still use those though...for whatever you should choose =) I'm a chick, and this shit isn't that much of a challenge. Perhaps I'm just simple minded, and that is to my advantage =)

Just go with it :D

PS everything is better with beer