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. 

I forgot about the choking hazard scare of the 70's. Luckily, all my Battlestar Galactica ships shot mini-torpedoes but *sigh* my Boba Fett action figure did not :( 

when I was a kid there were no pentagrams of protection to fall back on. You touched the floor
your ass was fried! 

Legos were basically my childhood but brace yourselves because I am about to outnerd you all.

In addition to having Lego building contests with my brother where we would get either our mom or our older brother to declare who built the coolest building, I also used to do this thing where I had a modular set of Legos that I used as the setting for a turn based RPG. O_o

Basically I had a few of those huge, green, flat-planed Lego spaces that made for perfect "grinding" spaces for RPG battles. So like I had a few prefabbed towns and stuff made that you could reach and buy weapons at (remember the Lego swords, etc.) when you beat the monsters in the "world map" part of it.

I also have this vivid memory engrained in my mind where I can see myself laid out on my living room floor on a Saturday in the fall when I was only about 7 or 8 and I was playing with Legos, about to go out and buy some more Legos! It's like one of those snapshots in your life where everything is so perfect you have an out of body experience of how perfect it is and it stays with you forever.

As far as I'm concerned, as a professional Level Designer, I am basically getting paid to make specialized set pieces made out of Legos. If you try to tell me otherwise I will cut your throat, snatch out your trachea, and replace it with a prosthetic one made out of Legos. 

"Legos were basically my childhood but brace yourselves because I am about to outnerd you all. "

I once won a $20 gift voucher at a largish shopping mall for winning a speed lego building contest. :D 

I think the question here is who didn't build stuff with Legos?

I never got into castles myself, I built spaceships. Stations, cargo freighters, fighters, cruisers, carriers. Fighters were made out of three blocks, cruisers made out of 5 bigger blocks. I had two warring sides, both used separate ship designs.

Then my Lego guys were used to carry out invasions and ground operations. 

I did and all my friends did too of course. We played a lot with them too.

I know one kid who didn't like lego at all as a kid, some just are like that. He also stopped computer gaming at the age of fifteen. He will probably be much more successful in life than I ever will. ;) 

I have never owned or even played with lego. 

you are now an outcast... ;) 

i played with lego quite a bit.
rough estimate of ages: 4-12. 

Indeed. Specialising in anything to do with the space stuff, and Technics (full motorised of course). Never used to build from the instructions, every new box was just more fuel for my fiendish factory furnace, churning out Lego masterpieces.

Actually, when I was young, stuff like, well, eating, and, errr, bodily functions, tended to have second priority when I was building Lego. In my defence, this prioritisation only led to it's seemingly inevitable conclusion a couple of times...


P.S.

I worried very much that I'd emerge from my apartment two weeks later, scruffy and unkempt, having spent upwards of a thousand dollars on a large, colorful, and fully articulated Baneblade or something.


LOL! 

This doesn't help our statistics AT ALL! 

i wasnt much of a lego builder, I preferred to spend my childhood smashing my he man figurines into each other than build stuff.