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Lego Secret Vault Contains All Sets In History
An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo has an exclusive video and feature of one of the most heavily guarded secrets in Lego: the security vault where they store all the Lego sets ever created, new in their boxes. 4,720 sets from 1953 to 2008. Really amazing stuff and a trip down memory lane to every person who has played with the magic bricks. All combined, the collection must be worth millions, not only because of the collector value, but also because Lego uses it as a safeguard in copyright and patent cases."
They would have totally gotten bonus points in my book if the vault and locking mechanism were actually made of Legos. It's totally doable (people have made far bigger things out of Legos), but probably insecure if you can just cut through the Legos with a Sawz-All. Still, it would have been nice if they'd made it LOOK like it were made of Legos. The Lego signs are a nice touch along those lines.
It looks Impenetrable!
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That's a 928 Galaxy Space Explorer, too bad it isn't in the original shrink wrap....
Now I have to go change my pants. Thanks Slashdot.
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I heard Microsoft burned every copy of Windows-ME. Along with all their source-code. That way, they are committed to using the same binaries forever.
Funny. My flying lego boats deployed pirates. I think we may have to have a throwdown.
My favorite part was where they showed the bodies of the eBay Power Sellers that had been caught trying to tunnel in. They hand them upside down on big plastic stakes outside (the original Lego Vlad The Impaler kits are very scarce, but they work great).
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Given Microsoft's history on security, if they *did* have a vault, I'd guess it would be made from Lego.
I hate printers.
very nearly... I thought you were going to go for the "if they put their versions in a vault it would be the first secure version..." route.
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
Generally I'd construct the space sets upstairs and the castle sets downstairs. The space guys would come down and attack the castle sets. Somehow the knights always won by hurling large boulders in the way of the cruisers and attack ships. But most of the time it was due to the fact that I was never able to construct a Lego spaceship that was airworthy. IE, they never survived the flight down the stairs.
My mother and father had some significantly less than good nature curses when they found the shrapnel with bare feet. They would also ask me exactly why space people needed to attack the castle people. I never had a very good answer...
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
Well from playing Civilization I learned that in fact its very possible for a phalanx to fight off a aircraft carrier and several tanks. I fail to see the problem with a knight killing an astronaut.
No, he means that mod points are fattening.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I recently went home to visit my Dad and found that he was cleaning out the house, ridding it of junk because his partner wanted it cleaned (quite justified). I was having a good riffle through the stuff they were going to throw out when I came across my two, 50 litre buckets of Lego. I very quickly put these in my car to take back to my house for 'archival purposes'.
I'll have kids fairly soon that will be of an age to start playing with these things. I'll be encouraging the play of Lego more than watching TV or playing computer/console games. Sure, computer games can teach you problem solving techniques, but so does Lego, as well as having tactile response.
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one of those flat, gray, 1-by-2's from the little red ambulance. I'm missing one.
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