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. 

your childhood was spent wisely ^_^ 

yes I think so 

I thought he just sort of congealed. 

#10908 best czg post ever!!!

shambler go map :p we want judge u!!! 

P.S.

Kinn liked HE-MAN??

That explains a lot. Too much in fact. 

I mostly made scenery for my WH40k armies to play around, before I got into WH40k though I tended to make these large combat arenas where pirates would fight space-men! (LOL)

I would make big rocket engines and attach them to the pirate ship so it could fly, but I didnt like pirates much so they would always lose.

Though I do remember once the pirates captured a spaceman and made him walk the plank (In SPACE) and he would fall into a planet (the wash-basket in this case), then the spacemen would get ultra pissed and blow up the pirate ship! 

I would make tiny figures out of play-doh and then build machines in lego to squish them and drag them through cogwheels and chop them up and stuff like that. 

after building I had this domino-fall dream of long trajects of standing legoparts that felt one after each other after one touch...

We had a dominoday in holland that reached the 3.467.000 pieces! Good we have no Eartquakes, although I heard the aplause of the 2milion limit almost shattered the rest of the standing parts. 

The only bad thing was that some good pieces were destroyed in collisions or simply didn't stand the tension from the rubberbands.

Also played a couple of warhammer 40k games with a lego dreadnaught that was pretty close to the standard space marine design and used lego sets for stop-motion productions featuring rancor and clay blood among other silly kids stuff. 

Tyrann updated his engine:
http://disenchant.net/
This release includes some patches from the FreeBSD port and reworking the CD audio drivers.


Lego rocks! I was rather the "player" while my older brother was the "builder". I always wanted to play with the things we build. He always destroyed them shortly after assembling to create something new.
This totally reflects in my (poor/short) mapper experience. I tend to build, play, play, build, play, build, build, play. Almost 2/3 of the time I spent on mapping is spent on play-testing the maps. Ok, I only released speedmaps so far but I mapped quite a lot mini-/fun-maps. 

... amsp1? =) 

I was rather the "player" while my older brother was the "builder".

Was that comparable to, say, the "receiver" and "giver" scenario...? 

We were both building stuff. But I wanted to play with afterwards (pirates, cowboys, marineships, whatever) while he wanted to build more/new things.