"Favorite Toys You Still Play With" - Page 2

Jelena · 02-10-2006, 02:19 PM

All you Legonostalgics (in Europe anyway, don´t know if there is one in the US). Why don´t you go to Denmark and visit Legoland. My husband and I took our children there when they were six and eight years old. They had a great time and so had we. My favourite lego setting was the airport!!

*stuboy* · 02-10-2006, 04:40 PM

"Kongman" by Tomy was DA BOMB.
It was like a wind up video-game; you only had one button which controlled flippers, sliders etc. and the aim of the game was to get you (a little silver ball) to the top of the mountain, to rescue the girl from the clutches of Kong. I'm not sure if that explains it accurately, but it was top.

RLacey · 02-10-2006, 04:47 PM

There's a LegoLand in the UK too. Great fun (or at least, it was when I went about seven years ago

)...

SakSquash · 02-10-2006, 05:34 PM

I wouldn't be caught dead playing with toys.

Intrepid Homoludens · 02-10-2006, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Mira

I remember one of my favourite toy was this white teddy bear whom I named "Lenny Pie".

Lenny? That reminds me of this large, six foot talk lesbian bartender at my customary watering hole in Chicago years ago. Her name was Lenny, and when she served me for the first time she immediately took a shine to me. There was this seriously annoying (and notably unattractive) guy who leeched himself onto me, kept talking to me, trying to pick me up, and trying to get me to buy HIM a drink. Lenny was visibly displeased with him. Finally, I said "Lenny, would you get him a drink, please? Maybe that'll get him to shut up."

So Lenny got him a beer, charged the bar instead of me, and yelled at his ass to leave me alone in front of everyone. He promptly went elsewhere in the bar....with the free drink. From then on Lenny took it upon herself to be my personal bodyguard whenever we were there and she was serving me. I would bring her Lindt chocolat truffles whenever I showed up. She then met another lesbian while visiting Germany, they fell in love, and Lenny moved there.

02-10-2006, 06:19 PM

Star Wars figures. I still like to renact the movies.

SakSquash · 02-10-2006, 06:24 PM

Well...I did see some cool SWAT action figures at eckard today. ..

nikoniko · 02-10-2006, 11:24 PM

My parents took away my Legos

... when I made a working guillotine with my Castle set.

I'm sure they thought I was simply a mentally disturbed child, but I actually got the idea after reading Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, which they had given me at Christmas. It was nothing terribly gruesome, really - I'd extend the condemned man's head almost to the point of falling off his neck, raise the guillotine "blade" (smooth legos) with a thread, slide the poor guy into position in the bottom, read off a list of his crimes, play a nice dramatic drumroll, then let go the thread holding the blade in place. The blade would drop, and off would come the head of my dastardly criminal, rolling dramatically down an incline to land in a little basin at the bottom. Sometimes it would even roll with such force that it would jump the basin and roll into the crowd of spectators. They loved it when that happened!

And sometimes, very rarely, the head wouldn't come off and the guy survived, in which case I was fair and pardoned his crimes.

Now I play with paper, sometimes doing origami or making pop-up cards, other times making neato animated paper models along the same lines as these. No guillotines, though. I'm reformed now.

SoccerDude28 · 02-10-2006, 11:50 PM

I actually built a lego embassy. A reaallly big one. Then I burnt it

Intrepid Homoludens · 02-11-2006, 12:18 AM

I never got into Legos. I was way into art and drawing and doodling. I never really did have many toys when I was a kid.

SoccerDude28 · 02-11-2006, 12:23 AM

My cousin used to be like a whiz with lego. He actually built a real blender with lego, and a motor and a couple of knifes.

Intrepid Homoludens · 02-11-2006, 12:30 AM

I hope it didn't leak when he used it. That would have been dangerous.

nikoniko · 02-11-2006, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by SoccerDude28

My cousin used to be like a whiz with lego. He actually built a real blender with lego, and a motor and a couple of knifes.

That's cheating. He should've made the blades out of regulation Lego parts. Even my guillotine's thread came from the castle set's drawbridge winch.

squarejawhero · 02-11-2006, 04:03 AM

I got a make-your-own Gundam figure in Japan. It's a GINN model, not a Gundam itself, but it's fully articulated, snap-together and already coloured. They look aces when they're made. My coz has started to devote himself to them, and he hasn't even seen the cartoon!

***fov*** · 02-11-2006, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Thrift Store Scott

"Favorite Toys You Still Play With"

Dollhouses

Lucien21 · 02-11-2006, 10:35 AM

Airfix.

Made loads of planes and ships and cars etc.

Had the planes hanging from the ceiling.

Or we used to take the boats down to the river and set them on fire put them on the water and lob stones like bombs at them.

colpet · 02-11-2006, 12:08 PM

Oh, Fov, I love the houses! The detail is phenomenal; really nice work!

SakSquash · 02-11-2006, 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoccerDude28

I actually built a lego embassy. A reaallly big one. Then I burnt it

You are my hero!

jjacob · 02-11-2006, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by fov

Dollhouses

Pardon my French, but.. holy shit!

Ever considered becoming an architect/interoir decorator?

SoccerDude28 · 02-11-2006, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by fov

Dollhouses

Do you let Thing 1 and Thing 2 socialize there?

02-10-2006, 02:19 PM	#21
Jelena Lazy Bee Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Sweden Posts: 7,518	All you Legonostalgics (in Europe anyway, don´t know if there is one in the US). Why don´t you go to Denmark and visit Legoland. My husband and I took our children there when they were six and eight years old. They had a great time and so had we. My favourite lego setting was the airport!! Share Share this post on Twitter

02-10-2006, 04:40 PM	#22
stuboy Staff Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 531	"Kongman" by Tomy was DA BOMB. It was like a wind up video-game; you only had one button which controlled flippers, sliders etc. and the aim of the game was to get you (a little silver ball) to the top of the mountain, to rescue the girl from the clutches of Kong. I'm not sure if that explains it accurately, but it was top. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ (Already hates your game)

02-10-2006, 04:47 PM	#23
RLacey The Thread™ will die. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 22,542	There's a LegoLand in the UK too. Great fun (or at least, it was when I went about seven years ago )... Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ RLacey \| Killer of the Thread™ I do not change to be perfect. Perfect changes to be me.

02-10-2006, 05:34 PM	#24
SakSquash Banned User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New Paltz...for now... Posts: 6,177	I wouldn't be caught dead playing with toys. Share Share this post on Twitter

02-10-2006, 06:19 PM	#26
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02-10-2006, 06:24 PM	#27
SakSquash Banned User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New Paltz...for now... Posts: 6,177	Well...I did see some cool SWAT action figures at eckard today. .. Share Share this post on Twitter

02-10-2006, 11:24 PM	#28
nikoniko Translate Me Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 418	My parents took away my Legos ... when I made a working guillotine with my Castle set. I'm sure they thought I was simply a mentally disturbed child, but I actually got the idea after reading Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, which they had given me at Christmas. It was nothing terribly gruesome, really - I'd extend the condemned man's head almost to the point of falling off his neck, raise the guillotine "blade" (smooth legos) with a thread, slide the poor guy into position in the bottom, read off a list of his crimes, play a nice dramatic drumroll, then let go the thread holding the blade in place. The blade would drop, and off would come the head of my dastardly criminal, rolling dramatically down an incline to land in a little basin at the bottom. Sometimes it would even roll with such force that it would jump the basin and roll into the crowd of spectators. They loved it when that happened! And sometimes, very rarely, the head wouldn't come off and the guy survived, in which case I was fair and pardoned his crimes. Now I play with paper, sometimes doing origami or making pop-up cards, other times making neato animated paper models along the same lines as these. No guillotines, though. I'm reformed now. Share Share this post on Twitter

02-10-2006, 11:50 PM	#29
SoccerDude28 Homer of Kittens Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: San Francisco, Bay Area Posts: 4,374	I actually built a lego embassy. A reaallly big one. Then I burnt it Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ -------------------------------------------------- Games I am playing: Jeanne D'Ark (PSP) Firefox rules

02-11-2006, 12:18 AM	#30
Intrepid Homoludens merely human Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 22,309	I never got into Legos. I was way into art and drawing and doodling. I never really did have many toys when I was a kid. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ platform: laptop, iPhone 3Gs \| gaming: x360, PS3, psp, iPhone, wii \| blog: a space alien \| book: the moral landscape: how science can determine human values by sam harris \| games: l.a.noire, portal 2, brink, dragon age 2, heavy rain \| sites: NPR, skeptoid, gaygamer \| music: ray lamontagne, adele, washed out, james blake \| twitter: a_space_alien

02-11-2006, 12:23 AM	#31
SoccerDude28 Homer of Kittens Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: San Francisco, Bay Area Posts: 4,374	My cousin used to be like a whiz with lego. He actually built a real blender with lego, and a motor and a couple of knifes. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ -------------------------------------------------- Games I am playing: Jeanne D'Ark (PSP) Firefox rules

02-11-2006, 12:30 AM	#32
Intrepid Homoludens merely human Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 22,309	I hope it didn't leak when he used it. That would have been dangerous. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ platform: laptop, iPhone 3Gs \| gaming: x360, PS3, psp, iPhone, wii \| blog: a space alien \| book: the moral landscape: how science can determine human values by sam harris \| games: l.a.noire, portal 2, brink, dragon age 2, heavy rain \| sites: NPR, skeptoid, gaygamer \| music: ray lamontagne, adele, washed out, james blake \| twitter: a_space_alien

02-11-2006, 04:03 AM	#34
squarejawhero Epinionated. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: London Posts: 5,841	I got a make-your-own Gundam figure in Japan. It's a GINN model, not a Gundam itself, but it's fully articulated, snap-together and already coloured. They look aces when they're made. My coz has started to devote himself to them, and he hasn't even seen the cartoon! Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ Starter of Thread Must Die.

02-11-2006, 10:35 AM	#36
Lucien21 Psychonaut Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 5,114	Airfix. Made loads of planes and ships and cars etc. Had the planes hanging from the ceiling. Or we used to take the boats down to the river and set them on fire put them on the water and lob stones like bombs at them. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

02-11-2006, 12:08 PM	#37
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