gizmodo.com — The LEGO brick turns 50 at exactly 1:58pm today. This timeline shows fifty years of building frenzy by happy kids and kids-at-heart, all the milestones from the LEGOLAND themed sets to TECHNIC and MINDSTORMS NXT, as well as all kind of weird curiosities about the most famous stud-and-tube couple system in the world.
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daleoftheukJan 28, 2008
I'm going to go get out my big ol' box of lego, cus I'm cool like that.
best360Jan 28, 2008
Not by itself. But I built it strong enough to be lifted.
jayomaticJan 29, 2008
I swear, after a saturday of rummaging through those bricks it felt like I had gone deaf. Someone needs to sample that sound and use it in some song.
scarycloudsJan 29, 2008
What are you a 39 year old virgin? Girls don't find that cute...
Closed AccountJan 29, 2008
I'm really disappointed with the direction lego is going with Bionicle and the "holes+gears" style of lego They've essentially phased out the technic line entirely, basically splitting it into a the single mindstorms set, and a bunch of crappy "collectible" type bionicle things.i really miss the intricate technic models; i remember building an awesome pneumatic backhoe.... The mindstorms set is truly amazing, but it's almost too open-ended, One of the great things that I liked about the advanced technic models were the remarkable instructions; some things i would never come up with on my own, and the instructions taught me a lot of mechanical physics faster than i would i my own or with a textbook. Part of the fun of technic was the crazy amount of intricacy involved, mindstorms is almost so sleek and streamlined as to be too simple.mindstorms definitely has its place, and perhaps bionicles do to (though i doubt it...) but i really wish they would bring back the super intricate technic models; like that supercar set #8880, always wanted that set, *sigh*...
flashnetJan 29, 2008
Danes FTW!
dgendreauJan 29, 2008
I didnt give them all to him yet. By the time he is 10 he will have the most awesome playroom on the block though. Plus I like to help build things here and there. :)Re: snipingI'm sorry if sniping pisses you off. It does when it happens to me too, but I didnt make the rules at ebay, I just play the best I can within them.Tell me why I should bid on something early? That only draws attention to the seller and the other bidders that I am interested in it. Sellers can and often do shill bid on their own items to increase profits. Bidders often ignore items with no or few bids or will constantly try to one up you in small increments. What a pointless waste of my time and money, not to mention stressful. I dont get emotionally involved. I decide what something is worth to me, set my program and forget about it until the auction is done.Like it or not, ebay is not like a traditional auction house where the auction is extended every time someone bids. When there is a set ending time for bidding and ebay proxy bids for you up to your maximum ammount, it makes no sense to bid any other way than to bid the maximum you are willing to pay at the last possible moment. If you dont like that fact, then please feel free to petition ebay to change their system, but dont blame me for your annoyance.
honoredmuleJan 29, 2008
I'm well aware of their viewpoint. I'm just pointing out that it's blatantly and obviously WRONG. Even in singular, 'it' is not "a LEGO." 'It' is a LEGO block, or block OF LEGO. They don't have an appropriate word to pluralize because they've already thrown out the word that actually references what THEY are talking about...the blocks, not the brand name.Sure, we accept the misappropriation of brands to their associated products, but even so, doesn't it STILL sound wrong for me to hand you a bunch of "Kleenexes?" Most people with a little sense at least revert to the words 'tissues' or an equivalent when trying to pluralize what is actually a brand name, because at that point, the language is just TOO f**ked up otherwise.It crosses the line from sloppy English to just plain stupid.
neverend3rJan 29, 2008
i still have some lego magazines stored away from when I was a kid
pdxphoenixJan 29, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://club.lego.com/en-us/news/newsdetails.aspx?id=41126">http://club.lego.com/en-us/news/newsdetails.aspx?i ...</a><a class="user" href="http://www.lego.com/eng/info/?page=eventdetailed">http://www.lego.com/eng/info/?page=eventdetailed</a>...I didn't say we'd "hang out," only that I'd likely get to meet him... big difference.