LEGO Confessions!

[Lt. Col. Thok]

Bathroom debates aside, I personally read Lego mags everywhere - school, home, work (don't work at Wal-Mart - you'll die of seeing fat people) - despite me seeming immature. :-$

[hollisbrick]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always assumed every AFOL does that. I spend a good part of my life doing that. :-$

YAY im not alone! :-D

[VBBN]

Confession huh? Well if you just ate lunch dont read this, JUst warning you, okay so one day i was watching a star trek movie (yes i am a nerd) I was building but i had to get up but i did not want to lose my piece so i put a 1 by 1 tile in my mouth and when i came back to my movie i breathed in and swalloed the piece and started chocking. So i ran to my kitchen and i started chugging water and my parents were un alarmed because i have over reacted before, So with me gasping for air I run to the sink gasping and cophing for air! As i poured water down my throught i started couphing up blood and then my parents relized something was wrong so while they were coming over i saw the piece go down the drain.

I swallowed a technic piece. It was literally the size of a quarter. I spent four hours in the hospital. :-$ :-X X-O X-O

And that is actually a true story. I was pulling it off with my teeth, and it slide right down my throat! :-X

[Lt. Col. Thok]

I swallowed a technic piece. It was literally the size of a quarter. I spent four hours in the hospital. :-$ :-X X-O X-O

And that is actually a true story. I was pulling it off with my teeth, and it slide right down my throat! :-X

Ouch. My friend swallowed a 1x1 once - not a pretty sight.

[Username_Taken]

Umm... One wierd thing i do is put lego spears, swords, glaives, and other bladed implements into my braces and keep them there until I need them while building. :-$ Also, when i have to put away my bricks, i build intricate models out of the pieces so that i can put them all away at once. X-D

[Lt. Col. Thok]

Umm... One wierd thing i do is put lego spears, swords, glaives, and other bladed implements into my braces and keep them there until I need them while building.

You too? Wow, I felt so alone...

[Commander Andrew of 501 st]

:-D

Also, when i have to put away my bricks, i build intricate models out of the pieces so that i can put them all away at once. X-D

I always do that lol :-$

Edited November 6, 2007 by Commander Andrew of 501 st

[john cleese]

wow you guys are a little out there... *wacko*. but I joke. My confession is that I can't watch television or a movie or listen to radio while I build. It's not because I want the peace and quiet, its because media distracts me and ruins my ability to appreciate the model I'm building at the time. I pretty much have to associate the model with whatever radio program, tv show or movie was playing, so if I'm finishing a model I'll request my dad to turn down the volume on the radio, so I cant hear it in the loft or ask him not to watch TV up there. Ofcourse in no way do I demand these things but he often is glad to oblige. Another strange thing is that I've organized my lego in a seemingly abritrary manner, mainly by colour. I have boxes with junked moc's and a couple sets, sets in their own ziploc bags, a viking fortress box filled with whatever and a practically empty ATAT box from using the pieces for MOC's. But I get frustrated if pieces are accidentally transferred from one bag or box to another storage unit even though it really makes no difference.

[Scouty]

Rub-a-dub-dub, Lego hull is in ma' tub!

It was always fun to capsize/sink by force the large Lego cargo ship hull(old, not new), and making it go on hand-made waves X-D .

[Johnny 5]

As I build my model has to be positioned as it is on the box. If something is in the air I have to get something to prop it up. I keep all boxes big or small. I wish I did that as a kid though. I have to have several setups of different themes in my room.

[john cleese]

I should also mention that if I have to put my lego away for whatever reason I end up building with it instead. Sometimes I take it out and dont even build with it until then. It's time I get organized.

[Brickmaster]

My organization system are just drawers of dissassembled sets, and oddly I know where every part is when I need, and if any two get mixed up I get very flustered :-$

Also, when sort of being bored or just in real time, I look at things and imagine how I could build them out of lego, heh.

(And if I see someone, or myself, buy something which I really dont need or for to much, I think gah, that couldve been X amount spent on lego! |-/ )

[ExoBuilder]

When I'm building a set. I will usually put a piece in my mouth while looking for other ones 8-|

I also have taken pieces from my friends.

[El Bucanero]

How about this one: I tend to hide fireworks in the hulls of my ships.

Makes it feel more realistic, real gunpowder in the ships hold!! *pirate*

[Batbrick]

I will scavenge peices from anyone, wether it be bricks some guy was throwing on the ground at my school (the fool! :-| ), or my auntie's big box of lego she never uses but never gives too me! |-/

Borrowing my friends lego and then "forgetting" to return it for a while also was a habit not long ago :-$

Batbrick Away! >:-)

[Mr Spielbrick]

As opposed to john cleese, I do listen to music while I build. Actually, I only did that once. Recently. A guilty pleasure... I built the new X-Wing with the Star Wars soundtrack (Throne Room/End Title) blaring. Made me appreciate the moment of unpacking my first Chewie and Leia and building my first X-Wing more.

[john cleese]

Oh, and I too "scavenge" for pieces. I often steal pieces from my brother, who is too frequentyl given lego sets for no apparent reason and just recieved the ambulance and a fire set. I figure he doesnt appreciate lego on the level I do and chews pieces (although he seems to have stopped). Sometimes I decide against stealing a part incase he becomes a better builder and has use for it. I also once swiped a minifig from a diorama a kid had done at my school in grade 8. And I managed to convince my dads freind Howard Brandon into letting me have some pieces from his kids' lego collection. How did I justify this pilfering of pieces? What if you had a paint set and Leonardo da Vinci came into your home and needed a new paint set, and you had one and hardly ever used it. Would you say no if he asked for it? I also schemed to steal some pieces from a lego bucket my design studies teacher, Mr. Lassale had put in the room to let us borrow pieces from for assignments, but decided against it for moral reasons. I still plan on asking him if he will sell me the bucket for a price that is much lower than what I would pay on Bricklink, probably $40.00. The bucket has, I beleive 2 complete boat hulls, a classic green dragon, a white ninja, white lattice windows, the balloon piece from the Adventurers Zeppelin and a few other rare elements.

[Scouty]

A scheving mishief, are we :-P ??

[Hinckley]

Oh, and I too "scavenge" for pieces. I often steal pieces from my brother, who is too frequentyl given lego sets for no apparent reason and just recieved the ambulance and a fire set. I figure he doesnt appreciate lego on the level I do and chews pieces (although he seems to have stopped). Sometimes I decide against stealing a part incase he becomes a better builder and has use for it. I also once swiped a minifig from a diorama a kid had done at my school in grade 8. And I managed to convince my dads freind Howard Brandon into letting me have some pieces from his kids' lego collection. How did I justify this pilfering of pieces? What if you had a paint set and Leonardo da Vinci came into your home and needed a new paint set, and you had one and hardly ever used it. Would you say no if he asked for it? I also schemed to steal some pieces from a lego bucket my design studies teacher, Mr. Lassale had put in the room to let us borrow pieces from for assignments, but decided against it for moral reasons. I still plan on asking him if he will sell me the bucket for a price that is much lower than what I would pay on Bricklink, probably $40.00. The bucket has, I beleive 2 complete boat hulls, a classic green dragon, a white ninja, white lattice windows, the balloon piece from the Adventurers Zeppelin and a few other rare elements.

Finally your morals kicked in, huh? :-| I think we should all take note not to invite john cleese over to play... 8-| Leonardo DaVinci, huh? :-P

[Siegfried]

When I'm building a set. I will usually put a piece in my mouth while looking for other ones 8-|

I always do that! I tend to just use my lips though...

[Stauder]

I always do that! I tend to just use my lips though...

Yeah Ditto, stopped when I noticed lots o my lego has bite marks...

[Opproperaar]

When I'm building a set. I will usually put a piece in my mouth while looking for other ones 8-|

I thought that was normal, seriously, I do it all the time, and after a while I evend tend to play with them in my mouth using my tongue.

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Perhaps I ought to clean my bricks better :-P

[Scouty]

The smell of saliva is atrocious, if you do that 8-| .

[john cleese]

Finally your morals kicked in, huh? :-| I think we should all take note not to invite john cleese over to play... 8-| Leonardo DaVinci, huh? :-P

well ofcourse I'm not a prodigy or anything but who was I suppose to use the cable access painter? :-P I just think that perfectly good pieces are going to waste on kids that chew and destroy their pieces and even at 13 kids are melting miinifigs in the microwave.

Edited November 17, 2007 by john cleese

[Stauder]

even at 13 kids are melting miinifigs in the microwave.

AHHHH! Send in the troops! Call in the S.A.S! X-O We have a search and rescue operation here! Go! Go! Go!

(Not my MOC)

Stauder :'-(