03-23-2005, 03:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-23-2005, 03:41 AM by Refrigerator.)
Oh man. Where do I start? :)
I got almost all of my Lego from my dad's collection when he was a kid, which was mostly old school lego, with a few random bits thrown in. The rest was... a cylinder of normal, multicolored bricks and this one spaceship set that had a middle section that a robotic arm thing could come out of. We only built the spaceship a few times, then lost too many parts for it to work and instead I used them to make some really cool things in combinations.
For example...
APC's. That's right. I built armored personell carriers, and they were STURDY. I had a few red, and then one special blue one. It was the Leader. The coolest part about them is that they could fit six soldiers inside. And by soldiers, I mean
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except more in proportion to the lego blocks. The Shorts were green and the Longs were blue, which I thought made them look very military/camoflauge like. Next I extended it to the point where black colored shoulders were a sign of higher rank, then I started mixing colors to create different divisions of my army... Then I created a counter army of ogres. You could tell they were ogres because they weren't wearing shirts (head and shoulders yellow, for skin color, with green pants). Obviously.
My next inspiration came from a mix of the computer animated series Starship Troopers: Roughnecks (which I was hugely addicted to), and Starcraft. I can't remember what they were called in Roughnecks, but it's basically the equivalent of Goliaths in that show. These looked like a bit bigger, a bit more powerful humans. Of course, I gave them incredible machine gun power, and the ability to walk up walls and jump super far. Oh, that reminds me. The APC's could fly. I didn't have enough wheels for them.
I also had a giant black robot thing with a red visor (giant compared to the soldiers), three small, quirky, scout-type vehicles, a few mini-APC's that ranged over a wider variety of colors than the big ones, from black, to white, to light green and purple. Those were built a while later, when I acquired another oddly colored cylinder thinger of blocks.
What else....? Oh. Me and two of my friends were mostly the ones playing with the Lego stuff we built, but occasionally my sister would come join us with her city of faeries, made mostly out of small cylinder like pieces, with one bump. Rarely did both of my friends and I play together though, because at that point, Friend A really hated Friend B, because Friend B wouldn't stop bugging Friend A. You know people that can just say those little things that just push... that... button... and SNAP!
Anyways, we created many many epic stories together. I still remember Friend B's main character. He was an alien with a purple elongated head, white shoulders, yellow middle, and purple feet. We played with our characters as though it was an RPG, we gained spells and abilities, and the class of our character changed from one story to the next.
So much fun with Lego...
Oh, as if this post wasn't long enough...
Just in the last year or so... a... mood(?) came upon me while I was playing Lego with my cousin. We decided we would build robots and fight them to the death. My cousin was done his in five minutes, but it took me maybe twenty to finish mine, and after I did, I didn't want to fight it to the death. You know how it is, when all of a sudden you have a vision and know how it fits together, and afterwards you look at it and think "How the HELL did I build this?" It happened to me with all of the creations I listed above. With the robot, I ended up dropping it, I think, and tried to rebuild it, but it wasn't the same. It wasn't worse, but it wasn't better either. I couldn't remember how the head went at all, so instead I just built it with a slot for one of my soldiers, who would stick out from the top. Also from around that same session, I have a alien-looking type spacecraft and some sort of hoverbike.
I think this may be my longest post.... :huh: and it's about Lego.... figures... :blush: :D
EDIT: Hmmm.... maybe I should take some pictures of my creations... I still have them lying around somewhere...
I got almost all of my Lego from my dad's collection when he was a kid, which was mostly old school lego, with a few random bits thrown in. The rest was... a cylinder of normal, multicolored bricks and this one spaceship set that had a middle section that a robotic arm thing could come out of. We only built the spaceship a few times, then lost too many parts for it to work and instead I used them to make some really cool things in combinations.
For example...
APC's. That's right. I built armored personell carriers, and they were STURDY. I had a few red, and then one special blue one. It was the Leader. The coolest part about them is that they could fit six soldiers inside. And by soldiers, I mean
__Short__
Loooonnng
__Short__
Loooonnng
except more in proportion to the lego blocks. The Shorts were green and the Longs were blue, which I thought made them look very military/camoflauge like. Next I extended it to the point where black colored shoulders were a sign of higher rank, then I started mixing colors to create different divisions of my army... Then I created a counter army of ogres. You could tell they were ogres because they weren't wearing shirts (head and shoulders yellow, for skin color, with green pants). Obviously.
My next inspiration came from a mix of the computer animated series Starship Troopers: Roughnecks (which I was hugely addicted to), and Starcraft. I can't remember what they were called in Roughnecks, but it's basically the equivalent of Goliaths in that show. These looked like a bit bigger, a bit more powerful humans. Of course, I gave them incredible machine gun power, and the ability to walk up walls and jump super far. Oh, that reminds me. The APC's could fly. I didn't have enough wheels for them.
I also had a giant black robot thing with a red visor (giant compared to the soldiers), three small, quirky, scout-type vehicles, a few mini-APC's that ranged over a wider variety of colors than the big ones, from black, to white, to light green and purple. Those were built a while later, when I acquired another oddly colored cylinder thinger of blocks.
What else....? Oh. Me and two of my friends were mostly the ones playing with the Lego stuff we built, but occasionally my sister would come join us with her city of faeries, made mostly out of small cylinder like pieces, with one bump. Rarely did both of my friends and I play together though, because at that point, Friend A really hated Friend B, because Friend B wouldn't stop bugging Friend A. You know people that can just say those little things that just push... that... button... and SNAP!
Anyways, we created many many epic stories together. I still remember Friend B's main character. He was an alien with a purple elongated head, white shoulders, yellow middle, and purple feet. We played with our characters as though it was an RPG, we gained spells and abilities, and the class of our character changed from one story to the next.
So much fun with Lego...
Oh, as if this post wasn't long enough...
Just in the last year or so... a... mood(?) came upon me while I was playing Lego with my cousin. We decided we would build robots and fight them to the death. My cousin was done his in five minutes, but it took me maybe twenty to finish mine, and after I did, I didn't want to fight it to the death. You know how it is, when all of a sudden you have a vision and know how it fits together, and afterwards you look at it and think "How the HELL did I build this?" It happened to me with all of the creations I listed above. With the robot, I ended up dropping it, I think, and tried to rebuild it, but it wasn't the same. It wasn't worse, but it wasn't better either. I couldn't remember how the head went at all, so instead I just built it with a slot for one of my soldiers, who would stick out from the top. Also from around that same session, I have a alien-looking type spacecraft and some sort of hoverbike.
I think this may be my longest post.... :huh: and it's about Lego.... figures... :blush: :D
EDIT: Hmmm.... maybe I should take some pictures of my creations... I still have them lying around somewhere...