Lego?

[Smurf]

Come one some of you must have joined in the fun with this toy-sensation? I used to have heaps of early castle/pirate stuff, loved making tall ships and castles. Hours of fun. I think all this nostalgia will make me break out the lego boxes once again...

[sonrisa]

I can remember building stuff with Legos too. There never were enough of them

[schrodinger]

I had wooden blocks, with letters, numbers and pictures of animals on the sides. Of course, I don't remember those days too well, but I think I was happy with the blocks.

[Thomas Knierim]

Legos were my favourite toy back in those days. Who knows, maybe they are partly responsible for my choosing an engineering profession later. I think legos are fantastic, because they foster children's natural creativity. Our kids have just discovered it (the big lego blocks for small kids) and they love it.

Cheers, Thomas

[Ryker]

Yes! I had lots of Legos, but the only thing about them was that once I had made something that I really liked, I didn't want to take it apart. So I ended up with lots of cool things & no more blocks to build other stuff with.

[Patheya]

I didn't play with things like that.

But my son does. He loves both lego and playmobil.
The first time I was shocked by him (apart from him hitting my face when he was 2 - but that's another story) was when I discovered him holding up the santa's with guns - forcing them to give the 'bad guys' the toys to take to their pirate king...
hmmmmm - so much for toys expressing the inner man...

[the_aphid]

Ah Lego. What fun it was. My grandfather acquired four wicker baskets full of lego over a period of a year, secondhand from people he knew, garage sales, etc., and then surprised me on my birthday. You might be able to imagine an 8 year old kid's face seeing four large baskets filled to the brim with lego being unloaded from a pickup truck in the driveway.

Unfortunately, Lego was always very expensive, so I never actually received full sets with specific instructions on what to build (at least not the large ones consisting of more than just a racecar + driver), but in my opinion this simply encouraged creativity.

We had a ping-pong table in our basement, and I would use this as my lego-land where I would spend weeks building cities out of lego. My mom would get on my case that I hadn't cleaned up my 'toys' but my argument was always "I'm not finished yet." See, to me it was a project, truly one without an end, the kind I like

[MidnightSun]

Used to build two castles and launch siege! Woo!

[aviatrix]

Bravo, well said.