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Awesome Lego Ads: Looking at the Blocks Through a Child's Eyes {Pics}

premiumturbos.wordpress.com — Here's a group of Lego ads (print ads, I believe) that depict perfectly the enjoyment of these blocks from a kids perspective.

Who dugg this? Made popular Oct 18, 2007

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  • chewbacca77, on 10/19/2007, -12/+255Wow. Those are really good. I want to go buy Legos now just to support good advertising.
  • griz, on 10/20/2007, -4/+194You need an excuse to buy Legos?? Bad Geek!! No Digg!!
  • chewbacca77, on 10/19/2007, -1/+143Obviously, I meant buy MORE Legos :)
  • gspm, on 10/27/2007, -0/+128That ad campaign works for me because that is how Lego was when I was growing up. Nowadays, aren't the kits full of kit-specific curvy or blocky pieces? Seemed to be that the old 4x2 was a dying block with Lego sets turning into snap-together model kits. Last time I looked at Lego, at least.
  • gabbagabbahey, on 10/27/2007, -4/+110No Lego thread is complete without some jackass saying,

    "It's Lego not legos"

    Let me be that jackass.
  • Lionhart, on 10/19/2007, -3/+91My childhood was legos legos legos like any other kid... However I have to ask why on earth are legos so insanely expensive nowadays?
  • HonkIfUrHorny, on 10/19/2007, -3/+61Weird, when I look at them all I think of is tetris
  • TrevorBradley, on 10/24/2007, -0/+57They're missing the space fighter!

    Two 4x2 bricks placed in a T shape. Now place a third 4x2 brick at the top of the T. (C'mon, you can visualize it)

    My brother and I made armadas of space fighters at just 3 bricks a ship. The transparent ones were invisible.

  • dtreichler, on 10/19/2007, -0/+56More LEGO® bricks*
  • MerryMortician, on 10/19/2007, -3/+56i do miss legos. but i get called a child enough for playing video games let alone what they would say if they found me messing with legos again.
  • marx2k, on 10/19/2007, -0/+48This is kind of how it worked when I had an Atari 2600 too
  • aigulf, on 10/19/2007, -0/+46Embracing your inner child is about ignoring what others think. :-) Every time I go to my grandmother's house, I still break out the tub of legos and make spaceships with laser cannons.
  • griz, on 10/19/2007, -1/+44I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you were born in the 80's.
  • FlyCO, on 10/19/2007, -2/+41best toy ever
    even now I feel compelled to buy those Lego technical kits
  • tehnico, on 10/19/2007, -0/+38Cloaked. ***** Romulans.
  • JohnDesmarais, on 10/19/2007, -0/+36At his grandmother's house? Eeeewww!!!!!
  • ckSubs, on 10/19/2007, -0/+36And it's LEGO not Lego!
  • beatlawrence, on 10/19/2007, -0/+35Legos will never grow old
  • ryanknapper, on 10/19/2007, -1/+34That's a trick question: It's always sexy time!
  • dargon, on 10/19/2007, -0/+32meh, do you really care? Lego was, is and always will be a blast to play with
  • ccheath, on 10/19/2007, -0/+26maybe you should worry about yourself more and others less
  • Reese521, on 10/19/2007, -0/+24These adults that hate on us that play games need to live a little. You watch T.V. all day, I'd rather play games. Being a kid was great, why not take some of that with you into your adult life?
  • crashflow, on 10/19/2007, -0/+22iif it were a cessna, it would be on top. But for a jetliner definitely on the bottom...duh.
  • TedTschopp, on 10/19/2007, -0/+22Someone needs to make these into desktop backgrounds....
  • accessviolation, on 10/19/2007, -0/+21Did you hear that sound? That was the message of the ad flying right over your head.
  • MattB123, on 10/19/2007, -0/+19Yeah, a lot of the new sets do have all those more specialized pieces, but they still have the standard sets too. I have a four year old and one of my favorite things to do with him is build things out of Legos. We do that almost daily.
    I love seeing him using his imagination, work on dexterity, and develop spacial reasoning (aka: tetris-fu) all while having fun playing.
  • PDave, on 10/19/2007, -2/+20Dugg for using the simple, classic blocks I had when I was a kid, not some of the BS blocks they sell today.
    Oh, look, this block is the left half of the airplane... and this block is the right half of the airplane... *snap* I just built and airplane!
    No.
  • nicko68, on 10/19/2007, -0/+17You must be a lot of fun to hang out with.
  • andrewdunger, on 10/19/2007, -0/+16they went on top for me, but the missiles that were inevitably attached to the wings hung underneath
  • LogicBomB, on 10/19/2007, -3/+19That's actually very, very good advertising. It's simple, gives you a warm feeling inside and you instnatly know from looking at it what it's trying to say.

    As a marketing graduate I really enjoyed this :)
  • clemdionisio, on 10/19/2007, -0/+14How else could it do a 4G negative dive? They were inverted
  • Konstantino, on 10/19/2007, -1/+15Yeah, this is really amazing graphic design. It's so simple, but it has so much impact.
  • esotericguy, on 10/19/2007, -0/+13so by the transitive property, legos=$90 a barrel
    and by a google search:: 1 barrel = 117.347766 liters
    so how many legos fit into a barrel? (must show work)
  • cbartlett, on 10/25/2007, -1/+14I'm 25. My wife is 27. We play with Lego frequently. There's no shame in that.
  • FlyCO, on 10/19/2007, -0/+13you can get laid once.. but being a pain in the ass won't get you laid AGAIN
  • givinupthefight, on 10/19/2007, -0/+13"Seriously, no kid is going to make an airplane out of two blocks."
    I can't remember the last time I was in some waiting room with a children's section and I didn't see some kids doing EXACTLY that. Sorry that you never had an imagination. You missed out.
  • JirkJiggler, on 10/19/2007, -0/+13Don't have to be an ad guy or gal to appreciate these. Simple and beautiful.
  • shadowblade989, on 10/19/2007, -0/+13Future aerospace engineers.
  • shortarabguy, on 10/19/2007, -0/+12I'm awestruck. Either you're crazy for writing that, an ***** for mocking him like that, or just bored out of your freaking mind.
  • 1iProd, on 10/19/2007, -0/+12Great ad and great product. I want legos again.
  • iChainsaw, on 10/19/2007, -0/+12he wants MOAR
  • sb76117, on 10/21/2007, -0/+10WORDPRESS LINKS SUCK ON DIGG!
    http://duggmirror.com/offbeat_news/Awesome_Lego_Ad ...
  • J0hnD0e, on 10/19/2007, -1/+10Please someone turn them into 1280x800 wallpapers.
    Thank You
  • mattbdavis, on 10/19/2007, -1/+10Legos = plastic, plastic = oil, oil = approx $90 a barrel

    I'd probably play with them too if they weren't so costly.
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    http://www.favoritepart.com/Default.aspx?img=792&a ...
  • txtphile, on 10/19/2007, -1/+10I call mine the erector set.
  • firstkipchak, on 10/19/2007, -2/+11does it really matter?
  • whatever1, on 10/19/2007, -0/+9our children are ***** nuts.
  • Pie4Weebl, on 10/19/2007, -0/+9this threads makes me excited to someday have kids just so I can play with legos again
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