LEGO ruled my childhood too, it still ranks as my best toy ever, but I always played with it alone. The game here was always to build houses and vehicles that would eventually be destroyed in an "action movie" where the bad guys all ended up dead. I used to blend in other toy figures as well (Playmo, Big Jim) if I felt like it, and as i got older i used red coulour on the figures and vehicles to indicate blood. My stuff never had matching colours (maybe because I'm partially coulour blind?), and I remember loosing totally in a vehicle design competition, where my best seven-storey-multifunction-weapons-camera-communic ation design looked awful compared to the other kid's creations. Nevertheless, i took up "LEGO Wars" from time to time well into my teens, introducing fireworks and convincing my parents I didn't smoke.
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LEGO ruled my childhood too, it still ranks as my best toy ever, but I always played with it alone. The game here was always to build houses and vehicles that would eventually be destroyed in an "action movie" where the bad guys all ended up dead. I used to blend in other toy figures as well (Playmo, Big Jim) if I felt like it, and as i got older i used red coulour on the figures and vehicles to indicate blood. My stuff never had matching colours (maybe because I'm partially coulour blind?), and I remember loosing totally in a vehicle design competition, where my best seven-storey-multifunction-weapons-camera-communic ation design looked awful compared to the other kid's creations. Nevertheless, i took up "LEGO Wars" from time to time well into my teens, introducing fireworks and convincing my parents I didn't smoke.
Hmm...I was a sick kid, wasn't I?