I used to dream of working for Lego building stuff when I was a kid, up until the day I discovered quake mapping really, then I kinda stopped playing with them. 

i play a lot legos :) with my kid! 

I was convinced at one point in my early years that I could construct a robot with them. I would not only use tinkertoys, but raid the kitchen for small applicances and tupperware that might come in handy. I would create a big pile of these useful parts in my room ro the den, and set about work all day, or until my mom came from the kitchen screaming about where such-and-such container was. I never did make that robot. Sigh. 

i once tried to build a bong from legos... fortunately, it didn't work out.

fantasy spaceships were always cool, especially when they had a battle, were shot down and crashed into hundreds of pieces afterwards. :) 

I love you, negnegke.

Yeah I was into Lego too. Mostly Technic though. 

 

Voodoo, we're on the same page with the single-dad-who-didnt-give-a-shit-about-messes thing :D I think the freedom to utilize 3 entire rooms with my own projects really affected me... 

It seems I was less creative than you guys at that age. I played with He-Man mostly. I was really into He-Man. 

Oh lol I mean grayskull sorry there Kinn ^_~

Adam has faaaabulous hair though, right? 

GO GO GO! 

they were cool, their sqeezable heads in particular. i quickly had to discover their vulnerability to fire though, and then, on some new year's eve, they were all gibbed under mysterious circumstances...

sleazygee: lego is even more versatile. check out this useful tool for example: http://that.kicks-ass.org/~steev/teledildonics/ :P 

I wasted many an hour on those damned wonderful interconnecting plastic thingies. My crowning glory was a hugeass medieval town thing, which was completed, carefully populated and then was immediately strafed by my super-intricate Death Interceptor (which was really cool and utterly deadly, even if the wings did have a tendency to fall off a bit).

The only bad thing about lego was getting those really small thin bits off. 

That's why most of mine had teeth marks on them ;) Looking back, however, it probably wasn't the most sanitary way of removing them... 

I still have two boxes full of them (in storage, sadly.) My largest creation was a 7-story tower where the bottom two floors were castle, then there was the hospital floor, then the police station floor, and then it was just random girders and platforms.

Also: http://sauerbraten.org/new/screenshot_5409294.jpg 

I used to dream of working for Lego building stuff when I was a kid, up until the day I discovered quake mapping really, then I kinda stopped playing with them.

this is my post also. 

My legos are all still in tubs in my parents' basement. Wonder if I should go nick them some weekend and see what I can do with the entire monstrous collection now that I'm all mature and creatively trained and not so anal-retentively worried about not taking the individual sets apart and mixing up the pieces. 

Do it. 

Forget robots, I was convinced I could make a working laser or raygun of some kind purely out of lego utilising all the little coloured half spheres, and the black two inch long bendy tubes. 

Sure, but a laser or raygun couldnt do your chores. 

i've tried using legos as an adult. The problem is the old "finding that one piece" in the giant box with 10,000 pieces in it.

I think i'm permanently converted to making game levels becuase you never run out of the piece in the color you want. 

... or just the sort of people who end up reading a quake mapping forum?

(I played with lego, mostly technic, not so much recently, I got into programming instead of map design though :) 

stuff going on I wonder what's next? Is everyone going to get up on the furniture to play a game of hotlava? 

Is everyone going to get up on the furniture to play a game of hotlava?

bagsy me the pentagram!!! 

Although we had a dedicated Lego Knife in the household just for the purpose. Looking back, I think my mum was worried about me choking on a stray piece. 

Everything I built in Legos was always 100x better than what my friends did, because I knew to coordinate colors and keep some things like vehicles symmetric. Where friend's creations looked just hobbled together and it was supposed to be "A SPACESHIP!", mine pretty much actually looked like what I was attempting to make.