Did you play with LEGO??!

I was talking to 2d-chris and Minotauro.. it turns out we all played with legos.. and now where building things on the computer.. a coincidence? thats what this poll is here for!

Legos were the original Hammer.

I still have a huge box of it. Probably quite dusty now though. :smile:

Legos?! It's just called Lego, f00l, how dare you get something so close to all our hearts so utterly wrong :razz:

Legos are the best. Period.

I used to play Robot Wars with them

Lego is the plural, THE PLURAL! You play with LEGO not Legos. In fact, it should be all caps as well.

Spartan 34 said:
Legos were the original Hammer.

Indeed. LEGO > j00

OMG i love lego!

LEGO!
I would say that building LEGO creations took up more time in my childhood than any other one thing, excluding sleeping.

Lego kick ass. All I ever wanted was a WWII themed lego set, with panzers, bunkers, battlefields... that would have been sweet if they made it.

Lego was my entire childhood. I had 2 HUGE bin liners full of Lego by
the time i stopped playing with it (my dad put it all in the loft cause
it messed my room up :sad: , and it filled 2 bin liners).

What about Warhammer? I switched from Lego to Warhammer, to Hammer. I
enjoyed making things for Warhammer more than I enjoyed playing.

Crackerjack said:
I was talking to 2d-chris and Minotauro.. it turns out we all played with legos.. and now where building things on the computer.. a coincidence?

Building a pc is just like lego, when i went to my introductory day at my 6th form college, the teacher that i spoke to said that building a pc is just like lego. Apart from when it all goes wrong.

In the USA it's LEGOS

I've never heard it said differently, but then I've never understood why you guys say "maths" instead of "math" after all it's just short for mathamatics. where the hell do you get of useing an s there? :razz:

I still play with theim! ;DD

It's maths because it's short for mathematics. There is no such thing as mathematic, it's always plural. So why would something that is short for mathematics not be plural?

I used to really really like Lego, it was pretty much the only toy I played with. I would say I had quite a lot of various kinds (space, castle, normal, technic), but then the great thing about Lego is that everyone thinks they have more of it than the next guy :smile:






It's called LEGO in every country. Show me a box that says LEGOS on it :smile:

I always called 'em Legos, what with the fact that each one was a Lego, so multiple of them would be Legos. :wink: Don't whine and say the plural for maths is appropriate but not for Legos... anyway. I just had the castle ones, those were the l337est, then the building they were in burned down... that sucked. My brother literally cried 'cause he lost his town. Woe.

scary_jeff said:
but then the great thing about Lego is that everyone thinks they have more of it than the next guy :smile:

I don't think i know anyone who has more lego than kingnic :biggrin:

Don't whine and say the plural for maths is appropriate but not for Legos

It's completely different because LEGO never had an S to start with. When you buy a big box of LEGO, it says on the front 'LEGO', even though there could be 300 pieces inside. But then, I'm sure the European company got it wrong... maybe they should have listened to their american customers who for some unknown reason called their product by a totally made up name :smile:

Is your cat the devil incarnate?

I pwned at lego. I built the things on the box easily, then put it with the rest of my lego and built even more bigger things. Then I moved onto kinex or however its spelt. Little plastic rod thingemies.

Lego i used to mkae huge houses then kick them down. So much fun!!

Yep. My creative process seems to be Lego -> Warhammer -> HL
(where I'm doing a 40k mod). Lego was great until some guy decided to
simplify the whole thing and get people to build things with the
equivalent of breeze blocks. Not good.

LEGOs

Tracer Bullet is correct:
"In the USA it's LEGOS"

That's just how we would speak of them in a normal conversation.

I always assumed that the brand name was "Lego." Much in the same way that "Twinkies" is a name brand. A single twinkie snack isn't called a Twinkies, it's called a Twinkie. Similarly, a single Ho Ho is still called a Ho Ho, while two or more are called Ho Hos.

So I assumed that the individual blocks were Lego pieces, and multiple Lego pieces were called Legos.

Grammar via Hostess.

Its Lego, end of story :razz:

Seriously though, Lego really was a great introduction to creative structure design. I wasn't a huge collector but I had a big red box filled with bits and bobs, as when I bought new stuff, I just poured it in, I didn't bother keeping sets apart. Made it really rather tricky to find the specific bits needed when following guides, but I felt it meant I could be more creative since I had everything to work with rather than just what a set gave me.

Well its deff a proven fact that most of us have played.. and love LEGO (LEGOs for us americans) I can still recall the when I used to tie strings and parachutes to my lego men and drop them off the balcony for super secret missions... oh the good old days.

D: i made entire cities with lego, huge space stations! complicated machines with lego technic etc etc.

thats not real lego some of you guys are talking about. what some of you sound as though you had, was those 'lego prefab packs', with lots of ready made things that you just stick together.

real, old skool lego, only had a handful of different shapes to play with. none of the themed sets that you get now, with custom made parts. the bits i remember are the normal sized brick, the 1/2brick, and the 1/4brick. there were also two different sized windows and a door. and some angled rooftiles. thats about it, other than the bigger base pieces to build from, or the long 'lintel' pieces.

Crackerjack, the original action men pwnd your puny lego men at being thrown fron great heights. :razz: every joint worked a realisticly, and they were almost indestructible. none of the pansy assed molded s**t action men that get sold now.

i always liked mechano more than lego, but it was harder to come by in the olden days, and a lot dearer, so i didn't have much of it. :sad:

I had a lot of both Lego types fishy, but it became pretty tricky to get the basic blocks after a while and it was only really the prefab stuff you could buy...at least in my town. I think I actually inherited my basic blocks from someone, I never remember seeing any in shops, but I had a lot of it.

Bah, prefabs are for pussies.

Some of those prefab kits came with parts you couldn't get normally tho, like motors.

Wasn't that only for Technic and things? I was never interested in that or any of the other more advanced Lego types, I preferred the basics :smile:

I don't think the pieces became really prefab-ish until the last 5 years or so. Before there were themed sets and stuff, but you could still create a million different things with it. Now the parts go together and only together. And since when is it LEGOS in the States?

is the new stuff made from dodgy soft plastic? and does it make a difference to how loud you scream when you stand on a piece barefooted? and did we all build airfix kits too? and, and, ........... and i want a big sack of lego now. :smile:

Aye technic and stuff... Just didn't have the same thing tbh. Couldn't make things look as good with that.

Hmm... I prefer mapping for looks, but hate the really technical side, like complex entity scripting...

I preferred normal lego for just building random crap, but hated lego technic...

It was always more fun if you had a huge box and you built something all on your own as opposed to having a kit with a little mountain and you build a castle on it... But Legos sorta suck now, they used to be just blocks, but now they have curved pieces and spinning pieces and other stuff... They even have a Legoland down iun Carlsbad, but I passed on that last time I was down there.

That's just how we would speak of them in a normal conversation.

I realise that, but as you probably know, just because a lot of people do it, doesn't mean it's right :smile:

I agree about the custom parts. It seems you are very limited with the alternative models you can build with the parts from a set. I think they wanted to make it look better by adding all curved bits, but in doing so, they took away the main fun of Lego: making up your own stuff.

So, Jeff, are you saying Nabisco is completly wrong for calling their product, which plainly says 'OREO', "Oreos" in commercials and such?

Its fine, it's a plural version. If you ever see anything like this in print is looks something like "LEGOr s" with the registered symbol inbetween. That actually means you can go trademark the word "LEGOS" :smile:

But, the actual product is LEGO ... but there's nothing wrong with saying LEGOs.

If the makers of Oreo say Oreos, fine. Give me one example of the makers of LEGO saying, or labbeling a product, 'LEGOS'. This term was just made up one day by some american, and it spread over your country. Probably somebody who didn't understand that not all words need an S to be plural (e.g. sheep).

Dude ... I was kidding ... Jesus.

I'm tired.

My bad, didn't mean to say everyone who says that is stupid... I know we say stuff every day that isn't actually right... but I'm too tired to think what it is :smile:

If the makers of Oreo say Oreos, fine. Give me one example of the makers of LEGO saying, or labbeling a product, 'LEGOS'. This term was just made up one day by some american, and it spread over your country. Probably somebody who didn't understand that not all words need an S to be plural (e.g. sheep).

The standard rule for pluralization of words that end in O is to just add an s.

I stand by my twinkie argument.

You sick American capitalist whore pig-dogs, adding a letter to a word.

http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=fairplay

If the LEGO trademark is used at all, it should always be used as an adjective, not as a noun. For example, say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGO BRICKS". Never say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGOs". Also, the trademark should appear in the same typeface as the surrounding text and should not be isolated or set apart from the surrounding text. In other words, the trademarks should not be emphasized or highlighted. Finally, the LEGO trademark should always appear with a ? symbol each time it is used.

We = win, you = lose :biggrin: And don't give me any crap about it having to be in a trademark context either or I'll beat you with my stick o'wrath.

Kage_Prototype said:
Bah, prefabs are for pussies.

I will kill you and your extended family.

I preffer the technics to the original LEGO but I have way more of the original and I love it.

The technics were cool because you could make things movable.

I personally prefer a mixture of basic & tech. stuff, i made a kickass spaceship once (i didnt stop improving it until i could drop it from shoulder height without it breaking)

I recall making various types of vehicles and racing them down ramps on
the stairs. It was quite satisfying to watch them smash to pieces at
the end. :smile:

wil5on said:
The technics were cool because you could make things movable.

I personally prefer a mixture of basic & tech. stuff, i made a kickass spaceship once (i didnt stop improving it until i could drop it from shoulder height without it breaking)

Technic as sweet! Making cars which steer and stuff was sooo kewl! But i like the classic lego ['s :razz: ] aswell. I liked making models.