Things you did with your Lego when you were younger...

[Shadowviking]

Aaagh! I just remembered something *HORRIBLE*! Actually, it wasn't *that* bad, but I still wish that I hadn't... I cut oars into spears... *all* of my oars! If it weren't for the Viking sets, my Lego boats would be completely unrowable.
There's also something else, lurking in the way back of my mind... I think I can't remember it because my brain knows I'll go into trauma if I do...

[kelderic]

I would dig trenches in my yard, and then put the hose on the top, and set it to run constant water through the trench, so as to create a mini-river. I would then build bridges out of Legos and put them outside over my created river. Needless to say many pieces got wet and muddy, particularly when the alien spaceship descended and blew up the bridge with all my figs on it.

Kelderic

[Lonan]

Biting them apart. I have no problem differentiating my pre-dark age bricks from my post-dark age bricks. The old bricks look like a crazed beaver got loose in my bedroom and went to town. I'm amazed some of them still hold together. Thankfully I didn't chomp down on the minifigs.

[robin d. hood]

scattered all of them beyond repair (aquaraiders, castle, etc) and recycled the instruction booklets. I have learned from my mistakes with my new sets, however.

[Matt BeDar]

All my Legos have been:

1) beaten up from long years of being shoved in a corner.

2) gnawed on by dogs that are now dead (not my fault their dead, I swear )

3) collecting dust on my shelf for a few months.

Things I have not done to my Legos:

1) split the 1x? into smaller 1x? on purpose.

2) played with them in the mud (shudder).

3) melting them to make mutants (thats just wrong!).

Sadly, I have lost every instruction booklet that I get.

[superdave]

I too was a biter when the pieces were stuck tight.

Biggest regrets:
1. Letting my baby brother get at my 6368 Airliner; he snapped the long red spine piece in half.
2. Applying some of the stickers on my 6373 Motorcycle Shop. While some are still applied and in good condition, the big banner across the two panels has long since been removed. With few exceptions, that was the last set that I applied stickers to.
3. Playing with my old Technic set on the mantle by the brick fireplace. Someday when my parents' house is demolished, there'll be a couple nice old gray Technic pins in the rubble (I dropped them between the bricks).
4. Going into my dark age (not because I stopped building but because I stopped buying, missing the tail end of the pirate line and many of the early SW sets- fortunately this period had a lot of bad sets [Time Twisters, etc.]).

[LEGOFREAK]

ok, while I have the usual stuff about paint and stickers...
I also have to admit to a little bit of a cruel streak.. See, I had just been reading the story of the minotaur and had gotten some neat clear yellow lego plates... so I made a maze with a wolf spider in it, and left one end open so if a fly that I stuck in one end made it that far he could escape.

some made it, some didnt, and no I never ever pulled any of their wings off.

and the whole maze was eight by sixteen studs and two bricks high.

[Prince Imdol]

I am younger! LOl. What you see from me, is what you get.


P.I

[Brickzone]

I took most of my old sets apart for easier access to the parts. Now most of them are scattered beyond repair

- Matt

You too? I feel you pain, pal...
May my beloved Black Seas Barracuda and Black Monarch's Castle rest in peices.

Not only did I not keep my old sets together (or more importantly take care of the parts when they were disassembled); but because all my siblings had Lego, all of us combined our Lego into a gigantic haul. It was too much to keep organised and suffered through storage in gigantic containers, or scattered throughout the house. We did get fantastic play value though and built amazing custom models for acting out stories (mostly battles in space; town people/models were arranged to be civilian pop centres of the future).

I never owned that many huge sets though, none of us did, so it wasn't such a big deal (i.e. now that I'm earning I could get them off ebay easily enough). But I did have 6277, the Imperial Trading Post. I recently separated my share of the communal Lego, as I have just gotten back into Lego, and I rebuilt as much of 6277 as possible. It's now largely complete again having used spare bricks in mixed ebay purchases; including very importantly the usually expensive redcoats and admiral. I got these with a mixed pirate lot for a decent price; I wasn't prepared to buy them on their own for silly money. The only significant purchase I've had so far for restoring 6277 was the replacement 3D baseplate. Ironically I since got an unexpected spare (albeit slightly damaged) as a second one thrown in with Eldorado fortress (I had always so wanted to own that, and now I do \o/).

I don't have the ship sails though and I've only seen them twice on ebay, both times for a small forture. Just recently I got the necessary mast (my own was broken) and spears, so I'll have a go at duplicate sails from a suitably similar material. After that the only missing parts will be the small boat sail and boom arm (though I now have other small boats to attack/harass/dock at the port), Admiral's white feather, merchant's head, yellow triangle support (I'm using a white one), two red cones (using cylinders for now), 6 gold coins, and three of those loop plates for the cargo.

Admittedly some of the wall pieces are worn, though the patterned ones have the pattern perfect still! I highly recommend toothpaste for cleaning white pieces (avoid the patterns) - they are pearly white again although slightly minty smelling! Of course, the thick layer of grime probably protected them from sunlight (we didn't wash our Lego - pretty gross

I'll admit I haven't got proper storage for my post-dark age Lego yet though, so it is either built up and displayed (not out in sunlight) or sorted into Ziplock bags. I desperately need compartmentalised storage - I'm running out of display space! Hurry up and stock some cheap ones Lidl and Aldi! (I'll probably buy them out when that happens!!!)

I still have to clean much of my pre-dark ages Lego; I'd prefer to do it all by hand, but some of it is pretty poor condition anyways so I may machine wash it. Some ebay Lego needs washed too and it is good condition so I really need to handwash... *sigh* (black knights castle took half a day!)

[Brickzone]

Anyone have any stories of younger siblings destroying their Lego?

Chewing, eating and possibly even swallowing bits? Yes! There were also disputes over who really owned particular "special bits" in the communal Lego. More than once we were all banned from Lego for a short time! Strangely my Mum didn't appreciate how important fighting over a tiny piece of plastic was!

[LEGOFREAK]

Strangely my Mum didn't appreciate how important fighting over a tiny piece of plastic was!

dude - I laughed like crazy over this, and emailed it to my own mom

[Lord Felix]

I used to bite them to separate parts...

That's about all I did. When I was three I chewed on quite a few of those pirate cutlasses

I got a few broken pieces and torsos. Back then we couldn't get the arms off, and so, eventually....
They got cracked

The main bad thing that happened is that I remember breaking and losing a rare antenna piece, and losing all of our wolf pack people and shield. Oh well.

I still bite the pieces to separate the parts every once and a while

[kelderic]

Anyone have any stories of younger siblings destroying their Lego?

Siblings, no. However, my younger cousins were just here, *shudder*, and they attacked my Legos with a vengence. They are so bad that I spent about two hours the day before carrying everything important to my next door neighbor's house.

Kelderic

[Legendary_Corsair]

When I was young and I mean really young I chewed on those little car wheels( it didn't harm it in any way because it was made out of rubber).And I know someone chewed on all pieces,but we weren't aware that we would use Legos so much today.We also lost a lot of pieces just leaving them at places,luckily I'm finding most of them.