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LEGO Brick 50th Anniversary
An anonymous reader writes "'The LEGO brick turns 50 at exactly 1:58pm today. This cool timeline shows these fifty years of building frenzy by happy kids and kids-at-heart, all the milestones from the Legoland themed sets to Technic and Mindstorms NXT, as well as all kind of weird curiosities about the most famous stud-and-tube couple system in the world.'" Of course, it all peaked in 1979 with the space set. These kids these days with their bionacle. bah.
"LEGO, training future IKEA customers since somewhere-in-the-eighties."
For the perfect anti-Unix, write an OS that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do and let it be wrong.
Actually, I sent it.
If you ever see a "white" person the same colour a lego model, I suggest you refer them to a doctor ASAP...
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
by selling a set with a plan to building the shape/figure on the front surely they are removing the element of innovation.
we used to get it by the box and be forced to think from day one about what we could build with it.
my civil engineering degree started with a room full of teenage would be engineers faced with huge amounts of Lego and a semi-serious challenge. whoever could build the lightest bridge out of the least bricks that would allow a 2kg train roll over it won the box of chocolates for their team. it broke the ice and got everybody talking to each other, lots of bridges collapsed in the testing zone that day.
and it got to engineers used to a career of sitting at a desk thinking about consuming chocolate.
The gray castle pictured as the first (1984) castle set is incorrect.
It should be this yellow one: http://guide.lugnet.com/set/375_2
Why do I remember this? Because I was so green with jealously as I watched my older brother assesemble the one he got for his birthday. Oooo, how I hated that castle.
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
Ya, you sure put that punk ass kid in his place.
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