Big kids and Lego dreams...
...Hehe, well I couldn’t think of anything to post this week really, mainly because no one needs to know, actually no one would care if I told them how many shoes and bags I own and buy on impulse alone… but something has just happened in my office which I can post for this QOTW.

One of the partners of the firm has a 5 year old boy and wandered into the office about 30 minutes ago after taking his son to a toy store, Hamleys I guess. He had tons of bags and we all gathered around to look at what he had brought his kid - Turned out to be the mother load of Lego!!

He had bags upon bags and could practically make a Lego world out of the stuff he had – planes, houses, a hospital, a police station, some sort of truck, a box of misc coloured blocks… (I personally think he should have got the Indiana Jones Lego, buts that’s only because I secretly crave it all)!! Mwa ha haaa!

Anyhoo, I was sitting at my desk thinking, wow this kid is so lucky to have all that Lego and is going to have such fun when they get home making it all, when his son sat down next to me and let out a massive sigh. I looked down and said ‘Wow that’s a big sigh, aren’t you excited about all the lovely stuff you have to play with when you get home, you must have had such fun picking everything out?’…his response has me still sniggering at my desk ‘Well I did just want a toy crocodile but my dad told me I had to have Lego, he picked everything out… I don’t really like Lego that much’!

Hehehehe I laugh because if I have kids I am totally doing the same thing!!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Fri 22 May 2009, 11:22, 17 replies)

In a huge
department store in Berlin (Ka De We), they had a Lego section, and what can only be described as a Lego Pic'n'Mix, whereby they had a huge array of tubs with individual sizes or clours of pieces in..You picked up a bag and filled it with the bits you needed/desired/liked the look of.

Fuckin magic idea!
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 May 2009, 11:34, closed)

Woo!
They have a smaller version of that in the Blue Water Lego Store I think... although it would involve you having to go to Blue Water... hmmmm.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Fri 22 May 2009, 11:37, closed)

that sounds amazing
lego is the fucking business
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 May 2009, 11:41, closed)

It is indeed!
I brought my 23 year old brother the Lego Batmobile last Christmas and he got so excited he ran away and made it in about an hour, you never grow out of Lego!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Fri 22 May 2009, 11:45, closed)

true
my younger sister bought me the Lego Ferrari F1 pit stop set the other year for christmas.
the year before my parents bought me a huge pile of Star Wars Lego mini kits.

I'm 35. :(
(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Fri 22 May 2009, 20:02, closed)

You don't need to frown...
...its all good, my boss is in his mid 40s and forcing Lego on his crocodile-loving son so he can play with it, you have years of Lego joy left! :)
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 26 May 2009, 17:17, closed)

Never had lego :(
Lucky to get a paper bag for christmas we woz.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 22 May 2009, 12:05, closed)

Aww...
...I feel bad now! Did you at least get to look at a picture of some Lego?
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Fri 22 May 2009, 12:08, closed)

nope

sobs
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 22 May 2009, 12:12, closed)

One of the best things about having kids
is that you get to buy all the toys you want.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 22 May 2009, 12:20, closed)

Hehe...
...See there are pros and cons to having kids, Lego is a pro! :)
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Fri 22 May 2009, 12:44, closed)

I got two of the lego anime type robotty things for christmas.
You know how old I nearly am.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Fri 22 May 2009, 12:42, closed)

That gives me an idea
www.marklin.com/newprod/2006/index.html
( The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Fri 22 May 2009, 12:56, closed)

Ha!
I've started collecting those 70s Ladybird fairy tale books for my little girl, for when she's a bit older. Those mental illustrations will probably give her nightmares for years - as Rumplestiltskin did to me - but I'm doing it all them same. Those fuckers aren't cheap either - Cinderella is twenty fucking quid.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 May 2009, 13:13, closed)

Dad's knowing best for the win!
.
( Funkenschlag still likes dogs more than cats, Sat 23 May 2009, 18:33, closed)

My eldest
hasn't quite got into Lego. He prefers Playmobil. The main problem with Playmobil stuff is that it's fiddly to assemble, so Yours Truly has to do it while he keeps asking if it's ready. The second problem is that Playmobil stuff doesn't stand up well to being bashed around by your average four-year-old. So it falls apart in seconds and the whole process starts again.
( Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Wed 27 May 2009, 16:31, closed)

Hmm... I never had Playmobil...
...but went around my cousin's house a little while ago to play 'Dark Knight' with his little boy.

Turns out dark knight is an evil game which involves his Playmobil castle. He has control of the drawbridge and 'the victim' e.g. stupid me, holds a knight on a horse and moves the horse through the drawbridge... then he drops the drawbridge on your hand and shouts 'Hahaaaaa I killed you'... yeah, I only played that with him once! :(
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 27 May 2009, 17:16, closed)