Things that twist my bricks...

puddleglum · Post by **puddleglum** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:53 pm

Munchy wrote: *That growing sense of dread when your kids need a piece to complete their MOC and you hear one of them mention "Daddy's room".

LOL. I having been wondering how I will handle this. Right now my 2.5-year-old has a bucket of Duplos, and a smaller box of LEGOs that he plays with. A day is going to come when he realizes the full magnitude of what I have sitting in the closet and bedroom . . . how do you go about sharing your parts with your kids?

Post by **Formendacil** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:03 pm

puddleglum wrote:LOL. I having been wondering how I will handle this. Right now my 2.5-year-old has a bucket of Duplos, and a smaller box of LEGOs that he plays with. A day is going to come when he realizes the full magnitude of what I have sitting in the closet and bedroom . . . how do you go about sharing your parts with your kids?

Probably a good topic for a thread of it's own...

*Having everything you need to update the MOC you took to college EXCEPT that one piece you didn't think the bring from home.

Peppermint Pig · Post by **Peppermint Pig** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:41 pm

Feel free to add...

*people who refer to Playmobile as Lego

*my kids friends who pocket my customs or cool pieces when they come over to play with my kids.

*people who offer to give me a box/bag of Lego, and 90% of it is some other clone brand or even some other type of toy like those weird plastic tinkertoy type things...

*Megablocks

*Not having the space to have my Lego out.

*When I drop a really cool MOC and it smashes into a bazillion pieces

*When I have the money for a set I want, I can't seem to find the set, and when I don't have the money, I find the set I want for 40% off

As for not having space, I was just thinking, what about thinking up MOC's to put in the kitchen, or the bathroom, based on your favorite theme??? Vignettes to go along with the room.

If someone wants to just GIVE me a bag of bricks and its only 10% Lego, that's okay with me. But if they're calling it Lego, feh!!

I've been to garage sales where the people have a few pieces of lego in what is OBVIOUSLY non lego toys, and I offer to pay for just those parts, but they tell me I have to buy the whole thing. I bought the whole thing for a Lego tree. It was cheap. Still trying to resell the junk, lol. It's some very odd building toy that looks like a matrix of brushes/combs/pegs.

As for the money/set issue, I get frustrated when stores advertise a sale and the set is never there every time I check, but it and all other lego is FULLY STOCKED afterwards. Happened to me at a Walmart.

Going to a garage sale, knowing someone has lego, and boom, someone else has just purchased it before you as you approach! ARHG. All they had left was Galidor, nooo! I should have bought it, though...

People who try to renegotiate deals to ship stuff after you agree to a deal. Complete Tente heads!

Melted crayon/odd food jammed in bricks. Sticky balls of parts. It's katamari lego!

People agreeing to sell you something, then telling you their spouse/roommate sold it. You know how to accept a reservation, but you don't know how to HOLD a reservation. Happened twice this year. Argh, bunch of TYCO HEADS!!!!

Advertising Micro Megabloks as Lego, or anything else for that matter (already covered by original post).

Sava covered the 'ignorant relatives' thing.

Peppermint Pig · Post by **Peppermint Pig** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:44 pm

LOL. I having been wondering how I will handle this. Right now my 2.5-year-old has a bucket of Duplos, and a smaller box of LEGOs that he plays with. A day is going to come when he realizes the full magnitude of what I have sitting in the closet and bedroom . . . how do you go about sharing your parts with your kids?

Don't have kids.

Seriously, set boundaries. Teach your kids property rights. They may be young, but you can teach them through example... Set rewards. Sign a contract.

For every part you take from me, I will take 2 from you!

Traveler · Post by **Traveler** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:19 am

* LEGOFREAK staying away for so long.

Patron of the lego · Post by **Patron of the lego** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:48 am

when someone judges the quality of the Lego set by the ten cent per piece rule.

Post by **Robin Hood** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:29 am

*When a MOC is deemed an "instant classic" just because the builder is popular and/or because his/her previous MOCs were good.

Dan

Odd, my 1777th post....feeling lucky tonight....I should go gamble or something.

shmails · Post by **shmails** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 2:11 am

having to clean up all your lego pieces and minifigures after your nephews (ages 4 and 8 ) visit for Thanksgiving!

LEGOFREAK · Post by **LEGOFREAK** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:00 am

Traveler wrote:* LEGOFREAK staying away for so long.

now I feel all warm and fuzzy.. of course I was fuzzy before.. and the warmth is probably just the burrito I had for dinner..

nvm

*realizing I had deleted a whole bunch of pictures of some MOCs of an old computer.. and hadn't backed up ANYWHERE!

The Blue Knight · Post by **The Blue Knight** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:19 am

Peppermint Pig wrote:
LOL. I having been wondering how I will handle this. Right now my 2.5-year-old has a bucket of Duplos, and a smaller box of LEGOs that he plays with. A day is going to come when he realizes the full magnitude of what I have sitting in the closet and bedroom . . . how do you go about sharing your parts with your kids?
Don't have kids.

Seriously, set boundaries. Teach your kids property rights. They may be young, but you can teach them through example... Set rewards. Sign a contract.

For every part you take from me, I will take 2 from you!

Just you wait for yours! I kinda cring when I see a valuavle piece being carted off to one of the kids room, but I love it all the same!

* People who say "Do you still play with those?"

* Sitting next to your MOC at a showing, and the endless parade of; "Did you build all this?" Nope, I just wandered in and found it all sitting here! "How many pieces in it?" I have no flipping clue, who cares? Tell them 20,000 and they nod and walk away contented.

* Or how about this one from a showing I did locally, a guy walked up and says, "My friend works for Lego, so he gets lots for free. He has lots more than you, and he has built much bigger and better stuff." Thanks for the update. Where does he live? "Here in Portland (OR)." Really? What does he do for Lego? "Oh, he's like a corporate guy or something." Ok, thanks, later.

* You drop that piece (your only one of the type) that you are about to place on a MOC. You don't hear it hit the floor, and you never find it! Where did it go?

Remyth · Post by **Remyth** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:33 am

* twisted bricks.

Peppermint Pig · Post by **Peppermint Pig** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:46 am

Just you wait for yours! I kinda cring when I see a valuavle piece being carted off to one of the kids room, but I love it all the same!

LOL

Well, one solution... When they complete certain tasks, they can unlock rewards in the form of figs, loose parts, or sets. If they build a technic set for example, then they 'unlock' access to a more complex technic set. As they show proficiency and creativity with the parts they have, give them more. That will not only teach ownership and responsibility, but it could be the fast track to creating a talented young builder.

As for dropping parts, that happened to me. We bought some items off of Bricklink. Between verifying the order and putting it away, an uncommon piece I purchased went missing! We did eventually find it, but it was several weeks of puzzlement.

Maedhros · Post by **Maedhros** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:13 am

The Blue Knight wrote:* People who say "Do you still play with those?"

Best one yet

I agree with those who speak of the annoyance of younger relatives coming to wreak havoc too though..

Jojo · Post by **Jojo** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:08 pm

Hello!

castlebuilder100 wrote:*People who correct you for saying "legos" or "lego's"

I’m actually not annoyed by people saying "Legos". I think it’s just natural to call a pluralish entity of stuff by a grammatically plural name. And frankly, I don’t care what prescribed terminology policy some company might have about their product. They (Lego in this case) are not entitled to control the language.

On the other hand, though, I am annoyed by people writing "Lego's". They are doing it in German, too. But an apostrophe never (never) (seriously: never) is used to mark a grammatical plural. Never. And yes, I've studied Linguistics, so ..erm.. I am entitled to contr... Ah, forget it.

Regarding People referring to Playmobil as Lego: I witnessed that several times when browsing Flickr. And most of the times it’s done to describe some huge advertising Playmobil Pirate figure as "cool Legoman" or something like that, with Amber, Kimberley, Tiffany, Lindsey, Allison or Shelby posing with it...

Bye
Jojo

footsteps · Post by **footsteps** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 4:03 pm

LEGOFREAK wrote:*realizing I had deleted a whole bunch of pictures of some MOCs of an old computer.. and hadn't backed up ANYWHERE!

Ahem.... Brickshelf.