Loved the space theme Lego in the 70’s 80’s etc. Mum has all ours could play for hours think we where still picking bits up years later. so we turned an old baby blanket into a mat and poured the Lego pieces on the mat picking up the mat and putting it in the Lego box and problem solved.
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Oh, I remember Legos, all right.
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I put all the little ones legos in with ones from my childhood… instead of just playing pirates or knights… which were mine… my little one has ninja turtles riding on ships pulled by 2 dragons and the bat mobile… but i imagine mixing old freedoms with new specifics helps with how structured legos can feel now…
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I used to build houses out of playing cards and then take a pen and launch it towards the cards as if it were a cruise missile. I’ve long since retired from active duty and am a promoter of world peace.
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I used to play with legoes A LOT when I was a kid.
My childhood friend and I loved to make experiments with legoes, for an example how well they’d float in water, or how fast they’d sail.
When I got older, I liked making 3d images of things, and I once made a whole kingdom of snails and weird creatures out of legoes.
I still have a box somewhere, but I don’t have the space for building with it anymore.
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I also loved Matchbox cars. Had some unique ones, like an orange-red Renault my sister bought me before Christmas actually happened. I thought her informality then made me special in her eyes. Hot Wheels were also great, with tracks for them we could hook together. Fischer-Price had some neat ones, like the Village, the Houseboat, the Airport, and others. I was only three when I got the Houseboat for Xmas…
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Seems the “digital age” is hurting the physical.
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I remember stepping on them and becoming the amazing lego-man
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Occasionally, in my room, I would wind up an ensemble of music boxes and have them all play at once. Mom really liked that. Other times, I’d make a “bateria” out of coffee cans with lids on and bash them with restaurant chopsticks.
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I had an old toy snare drum that I would play upside-down with chopsticks. The top was broken.
I actually played percussion in the orchestra in middle school. Figured out how to play a drum kit, but never got one. Just a plastic practice pad.
I remember playing the kettle drums to the “Hungarian Rhapsody”.
None of my family went, but that’s partially cause I didn’t want them there and didn’t tell them. But even if they knew, they wouldn’t go lol.
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Sometimes talent is spotted and appreciated – and promoted. Other times, we just “grow the way the wind blows.” Might usually makes right in the end, and the genius that provided the advantages get trampled along with it all. Sigh.
I definitely remember stepping on them and dying, haha.
I have 7 siblings, and we had lots of leggo. It was a big part of my childhood. Lots of good memories.
We had about 3 different cowboy and Indian sets, with the whole town, bank and saloon.
My brother had a pirate ship set, which he would never let me play with.
After most of the peices went missing, we got creative and made our own houses and lands.
I remember I made a rainbow house, with a diamond tree, and had a horse named Zanzibar with a red mane.
I also remember fighting with my sisters over who got to play with the maid Marian from the Robin Hood set, because she was the prettiest. My older sister always won, haha.
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I like Rubiks cubes. They make awesome paperweights.
I like meccano, erection sets, and that Gak from Nickelodeon.
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I made a star wars Lego robot when I was in elementary school. All by myself. I spent hours working at it and it worked! I did it mostly from looking at the pictures in the instruction manual. I got mad one day and destroyed it. I wanted to be a robotic engineer…
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I also had the lego hollywood thing where you could make movies. I never did it.
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Reminds me of the “Sea Monkey” advertised in comic books that we never ordered. Just add water and they’d come alive. They were some kind of critter. Someone told me later what they were, but I forget now.
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Robots are cool. I do r/c sailboats, cars, helicopters, and planes.
What was that show where people battle with robots…it was fricken sweet.
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Brine shrimp. I had those too. I had an ant farm as well but the ants didn’t like it when I simulated an earthquake…hey I was five.
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That’s pretty ingenious! And thanks for “brine shrimp.”
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