Current Poll

[42]

Where's Waldo...ur...Dale?


It's always the third one that doesn't come out as well.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

42, we've always thought you needed help, but none of us were qualified to render it to you...

[EUOL]

I seem to recall that Sprig and I spent a lot of time with LEGOs.  Of course, legos were wonderful for cross-genre, since they didn't really have a genre themselves.  We always mixed lightsabers, transforming ships, and evil androids.  Of course, the guys with the swords and the armor always kicked everyone's buts.  Maybe that's because we had so few swords, or maybe I was a just a fantasy fan in embrio.

[42]

SE there's not much that can help me.

[Tiger]

I spent a lot of time playing with legos too, but I invariably made the Starship Enterprise and went flying around blasting Klingons (remember, this was original Star Trek).  BTW, is anyone else jealous of how cool Legos are today compared to the Legos of the 80s?

[Tiger]

PS: i want everyone to notice that i just reached lvl 2!

WOOHOOO!

[42]

You know I don't really see a difference. They are more expensive and have more special parts.

I remember making secret hideouts with jet fighters, tanks and all sorts of stuff out of legos. Then I would take all my cool stuff and destroy my twin's hideout. Then he would destroy my hideout. Then we would usually end up in a fight until our parents or one of our older siblings would break it up. Then our legos would be confiscated until we created a plan to sneak them out and start the whole thing over again.

How did we get on the topic of legos? Though I think our next poll should be about legos.

[Tiger]

The special parts are exactly what I mean.  You know how cool the Enterprise would have been if I would have had some of those lasers from the 'space age' Lego series of today.  

Of course, at the the same time, the Legos of today make for less creativity.  If the piece actually LOOKS like a laser, then it can only BE a laser, know what I mean?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

How did we get on the topic of legos? Though I think our next poll should be about legos.

The same way we ever get on any subject. I think the poll should be something like "Legos?" and the answer should be "How many?" "Of what sort?" "mmmmm" etc.

[EUOL]

Actually, I think most of the legos today are kind of lame.  Have you seen the star wars ones?  It seems like they come with about five pieces.  Sure, those pieces are cool, but they're very specific and don't lend themselves well to imagination.  Great if you want to build Anakin's fighter from Episode one, but terrible if you want to build anything else.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

...but... but... my favorite Jar-Jar Binks lego guy!

[Lieutenant Kije]

Yep. Having a Star Wars, or a Harry Potter Lego set takes away what EUOL pointed out as their greatest strength: that they can't be tied down, that you can make them into anything.

[EUOL]

Of course, having the Jar Jar piece--so you can use his head to fuel your ship's reactor, or something like that--does have its allure.

[Spriggan]

Ok seth green is so Fell.  I was going to vote for kermit but that would be too obvious.

[Entsuropi]

I voted for Harrison Ford. Guess i was in a good mood. If i was doing a teenager and feeling angsty i would probably have voted Leanardo Di Caprio. Although i bet fell was hoping for Chow Yun Fat, considering his love of Crouching tiger hidden dragon.