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I just joined Jr. First Lego League... my 5yr old loves robots, so this is a lego club that builds little lego robots... pure awesomesauce.Originally Posted by specsaregood
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I used to play with Lego's a lot when I was younger. It's very good to keep young kids creative I think, as long as they're not the types that always follow the manual. I always made something different, took it apart and made something else.
I remember making a roller-coaster from a train set and a bunch of extra track pieces. Not entirely what it was designed for but we got it to work.
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The man speaks the truth. The product and its literature are quality. My son enjoys the various lego series (Ninjago/Star Wars/Clutch Powers) on netflix too.
My 2 sons and I spend countless hours creating and destroying various scenes - good times!
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We love Legos. My boys are teens now and they still love them. As a matter of fact, I'm taking them and my 8 year old nephew to the Lego Convention in October. At the convention, they do custom minifigs of people. I HAVE to have a custom minifig of my 16 year old. He has a horrible neck beard and I think custom minifigs will make great ornaments for our Christmas tree this year.
If you have a Lego store nearby, they do free build it's every month.
I know it's going to be a huge money-suck - but I can't wait for LEGO: Dimensions (Video game!) coming out soon! It looks just like the Disney Infinity, or Skylanders, but all LEGO!
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Let's move forward to the Constitution.. I am the new GOP. I stand with Rand.
Taking my great nephew and my sons to Celebricktion tomorrow. It's really neat. If they have one in your area I recommend you check Groupon before you buy tickets. I paid $32 for four on Groupon and the tickets at the door are $15.00 each.
You can get a custom minifig of yourself. Yay!
http://www.celebricktion.com/
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I'm going to be listening to that song all the way across town tomorrow.
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If you kids aren't quite of lego-age yet, I highly recommend Magna-Tiles.
http://magnatiles.com/products/magna...100-piece-set/
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Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
I'm holding out for the retro Tinker toys, Lincoln Logs, and Erector Sets, child Boomer club organizations.
My kids LOVED Tinker Toys. They made all kinds of swords and guns out of them.
I thought the Lego convention was boring but the kids liked it and that's all that really matters. We ended up buying a few custom minifigs and I bought my little niece some pink lightsaber earrings. I kinda felt bad about taking her brother so I thought I would get her a treat.
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1. You'll never keep them off the floor.
2. I love your set up. Ikea? We have two sets of drawers like that to hold our loose Legos. Most of our sets stay put together (my kids are teens) but we like to keep them so my little nephew and niece (hopefully) don't mess with their nice put together sets.
Thanks! Threads like this really make the forum worth it. I taught the Lego robotics team at my kids' school for three years. Wonderful learning experience. Sadly it hasn't been continued.
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Do you have a store nearby? They have a free build it once a month and you get to keep the little set you make, usually the first Tuesday. They also have a Lego Club - it costs to join that but I'm not sure how much.
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You can find a store calendar on the Lego website that will tell you when they do the free build it's. http://stores.lego.com/en-us/ I think you have to preregister for them online now.
Yay! You're going to have so much fun. My kids still love the bricks but they rolled their eyes when I suggested we go to Legoland.
Legos have always been my fave. I kept about 7 or 8 sets from when the kids were little.
120,000-Piece Lego Model of the Titanic Breaking in Half Is Heartbreakingly Beautiful
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--Albert J. Nock
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Un-PC Lego Making Toys Girls Like
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/01/...-lego-company/
Lego — the company that makes stackable toy bricks — has become a toy powerhouse in recent years, even surpassing Mattel in toy sales during 2014. Lego has become so popular, in fact, that the company has problems avoiding “brick shortages.”
Lego’s success has been helped along by the fact that — finally — Lego has managed to find success with girls.
With the launch of the Lego Friends line, Lego has tapped into 50 percent of the child population:
The Feminist Controversyaccording to research firm NPD Group, the market for girls’ construction toys in the U.S. and the main European countries tripled to $900 million in 2014 from $300 million in 2011, largely on the back of the Lego Friends sets. And Lego says the share of girls among Lego players, which stood below 10% in the U.S. before the launch of Lego Friends, has increased sharply.
Perhaps predictably, Lego has been condemned by feminists and culture warriors for making Lego too “girly.” Those familiar with the Friends line already know how, instead of red and blue bricks for making fire stations, the new line designed for girls features purple and pink blocks (among other colors) for constructing yachts, homes, and restaurants.
The Wall Street Journal recently examined the controversy, noting:
Ms. Edell, however, should probably aim her disappointment and disdain at seven-year-old girls rather than at Lego. After all, Lego’s success, or lack thereof, in marketing these products depends on the decisions of little girls...After five years of work, [Lego] was enthusiastic about launching Lego Friends. The new sets, however, immediately unleashed a torrent of criticism from feminist groups. A U.S. activist organization, the Spark Movement, gathered 50,000 signatures with an online petition in 2012 and requested a meeting with Lego executives. Another group, Feminist Frequency, also complained.
“We were so disappointed,” said Dana Edell, executive director of the Spark Movement. “Lego was sending a message that girls get to play with hair dryers while boys get to build airplanes and skyscrapers.”
Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
--Albert J. Nock
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A kindred spirit!I had a few of the pre-designed sets, but I preferred to build ginormous spaceships as big as my little desk and such madness.
Finally, a job I'm qualified for.
Build your dreams: Legoland seeks model makers with ‘experience’
If you spent your childhood making masterpieces out of Lego bricks then an opening for your dream job has come on the market.
Merlin Entertainment, owners of Legoland theme parks, are seeking 20 Lego builders in their off-site Model Shop – MMM Studios.
They have recently hired 50 employees for this task and are looking for more candidates with Lego building experience.
Ryan Wood, the model shop supervisor, says most of the model builders played with Lego as children.
“This is definitely very much a dream job, when you're a kid you play with Lego, you know? To actually make a living, actually working with Lego, it's just really incredible”, Legoland model builder, Max Petrosky told Fox 13 News.
The job description requires that hopefuls “be able to design and build sturdy, accurate, complicated, safe and instalable Lego models for a wide variety of Legoland attractions including miniature scale models and/or life sized organic models from prototypes, diagrams or computer generated instructions."
The highest educational achievement required is a high school diploma but a “pre-placement physical” is also required.
The openings are for a new facility, Merlin Magic Making Hub, close to their theme park in Winter Haven, Florida.
"It's a brand new production facility to make Lego models for Merlin attractions all around the world," Wood explained. "The kind of models we make here are typically for mini-land attractions within the Legoland and Legoland Discovery Center parks."
https://www.rt.com/usa/329992-lego-build-job-dreams/
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