Tinker Toys and K'Nex are stupid.
 

Legos are where it's at. Although you're not supposed to say Legos...

From 70s/80s Lego catalogues: This used to be the message displayed at legos.com...

Well, Tinkertoys are kind of fun for a limited age range, but quickly outgrown. And as for Knex -- I actually liked them when we started acquiring them, but my son never really developed an interest. Now we've got two big sets and a couple smaller ones in those huge Rubbermaid tubs just gathering dust.

I never had Legos (erm . . . Lego BRICKS) when I was a kid. I had "Playskool Building Bricks." I loved them, though.

My boyfriend (the one who ditched me at graduation) had the Girder & Panel set. We used to get buzzed and set up the HO gauge train track on his pool table, make bridges and stuff with the construction set - gosh, that was really fun. I mean, he was an ass, but we did have a lot of silly, childish fun together and I miss that. /digression

Lego Rocks. We have more than you do.

(Brits never say "Legos", but we don't add the "bricks" bit either. It's just Lego.)

where the hell is pooka?

trying to pry bits of lego from the vacuum hose.

How dare you, Flint.

How dare you.

When you're right, you're right. Nothing to argue with there.

Legos are great but what about erector sets

We call them Viagras

I remember submitting an entry to the Ceefax competition when I was a kid. the prize was a lego castle (with knights !). I didn't win. I have never forgiven Lego, despiote it not actually being their fault :P

The Tinkertoys were more flexible than the Legos I had way back then. Tinkertoy stuff would be general, Legos tending more architectural. Tinkertoys might build anything from airplanes to rifles to sailing ships (exceedingly sketchily, if I recall). Legos got some airplanes, the occasional robot. Both toys made vehicles pretty readily.

Legos were cool till they came out with these specific packs that really only build one thing . . . Kinda takes the imagination out of it. Yes they sell more of course, but there's more to business than just making money.

Yes, I hate the over-specialized pieces and gimmicky sets. It defeats the ƒucking purpose to have a molded piece exactly in the shape of something.

Not to mention the fact that they're goddamn expensive these days.

Silly expensive for the one stupid thing it makes, and a couple guys. My kids like the guys the best...

You'd be amazed at what can be done with the specialized pieces if your imagination is wild enough! :eek:

'legos' is really jarring with me. Just like 'math' jars.

I hear you

... but I've "gotten" used to it ;) :p

*grins*

Actually, 'gotten' finds its way into my language now. Probably because I spend so much bloody time online with Merkins :P

urgh. I can say legos and math if I must, but gotten is only ever written and under duress

Yes it must be jarring... really disquieting to discover you've been saying it wrong for so many years. :p

Lego is a mass noun to me.

With several of the specialist kits, a good stash of general lego, and some imagination, you can make entirely new things.

Yep: lego refers to the whole thing. Lego is made up of individual bricks.

'Maths', meanwhile is the shortened version of 'mathematics'. If you had to shorten the word 'qualification' you'd shorten it to 'qual'. If you had to shorten the word 'qualifications', you'd shorten it to 'quals'

wait . . . what? Lego is the individual block - more than one makes it plural = Legos.

Nope. Lego refers to the whole (a lego set, or all lego), the individual components are lego bricks, or just bricks. Each individual brick is not a 'lego'.

The plural of lego is lego.

From wiki:


Calling each brick 'a lego' makes as much sense as callling a breezeblock 'a construction' and then referring to a pile of breezeblocks as 'constructions.'

Written some damn foreigner that probably calls his trousers a pant. :p

HA HA HA - This is great - You guys actually got me to google this . . .

Link

*laughs* fair enough :P

But our wrong answer is more logical than your wrong answer ... :P

We don't care what LEGO don't allow, we're gonna legos any old how... power to the people!

I will defend to the hilt your right to speak badly :P

more than one block =" 's" blocks
more than one Lego = legos.

This isn't like deer, dear.

More than one brick = bricks. More than one LEGO set = Lego


Lego set = bricks, people, additional extras.

fixed that for ya ;)

Ooooh, I love it when you talk dirty. :biggrinlo

I'm always pleased that they have a range of sets at all price levels.
They do a fair range of under $10 stuff, theres not many decent toys to be had under $10 these days.

(Lego Master Builder circa 1977)

Which is US military parlance all the way, though the usual usage of "qual" is not a noun but a verb. You hear phrases like "get qual'ed on that (technical skill, equipment operation)" or "I'm not qual'ed on that," which like anything else sometimes sees a metaphorical use.

At least without lead paint and cadmium.

I have never, or at least rarely , ever built the prefab specially Lego , I have always just went for it

what next, drop the **s in Mars?

Now I want a Mar bar. :haha:

Oooh. Hallo Victor! Welcome to the cellar :)

When we were kids the bomb-diggity was the Erector Sets:

http://www.arsjb.com/History_files/e...orsetbox1a.jpg

Darn, I was thinking the same thing. And here I thought I was the only dirty old man on the Cellar.;)

"erector sets"

*sniggers*

@ bruce and Rich: it's the English accent that does it. English accents were made for talking dirty :P

K'Nex are a Pennsylvania product. Support the Commonwealth!

My friend's son does both Lego and K'Nex. He builds huge things out of both. He will design and make things up out of his head. He will probably end up becoming an engineer or architect or the new guy on Mythbusters in a couple of years.

He has a couple of those monstrous K'Nex kits ... built a room-sized functional rollercoaster.

I have always had trouble making a house out of Lincoln Logs, and really miss Tinker Toys.

Never did Erector Sets. My problem with Tinker Toys and K'nex is that they seem limited to the "things built out of spokes and hubs" genre, whereas Legos (I say Legos, plural, so sue me) can do the spoke-and-hub thing but also tie that into the architectural realm--run a spoke through a block, anchor a gear to a block, etc. and you have mixed genres.

And I want to clear up a particular complaint that I do not have. I do not object to the "set that can only build one thing" because that complaint is, by definition, ignorant of what one properly does with Legos, i.e. store them in a big tub, possibly categorized, possibly pick-and-grab, and build from the imagination. Since the "picture on the box" may be built at most once, and likely never at all, it is irrelevant. I do recall the booklets suggesting plans for multiple items, and if this is no longer the case, then what is the harm done? Build something. Conversely, I can see the argument that the multiple plans laid out would constitute a "tutorial" in the use of new or unusual pieces.

To clarify, what I do object to is the rise of over-specialized pieces. That is, a piece molded exactly in the shape of something. This directly robs the Lego set of its potential as a tool of the imagination. And, why do we need this, when people have figured out how to build Stephen Hawking out of stock parts?

Bloody Hector finally started his KNex rollercoaster in the christmas break, and it's almost done ....almost.... and abandoned, blocking up the entire landing. :mad2:

Did you take a picture? I bet it was cool.

it's still fucking there. I'm too ashamed of the clutter around it to take a pic, though

Whaaaat? The monster we know and love embraces her clutter.

Clutter Culture! The only way to go. :thumb:

yeah, but I ain't sharing it :p

mutter. here. ok?

I think we must be having a cultural mistranslation of the word "landing." To me, a landing is a turn in a staircase, a square usually only about 4 or 5 feet on each side.

well, to us too, but I don'r know what else to call it -it's still the passing/turning space at the top of the stairs, it's just a little larger than the average

the stairs are back to the left, our room also, boys room slightly forward to the right (next to that piece of furniture with the Crayfish tank on it, bathroom directly to the right, Hebe's room behind to the right....