This is so me.

[cairistiona]

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[the-winterwitch.livejournal.com]

*giggles* But on the other hand, you don't _need_ all the superfluent stuff to have a spaceship! Just your imagination, and that's even more awesome in my book.
(And I need a Lego icon.)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I had to rely on my imagination a *lot*, so I guess that makes me amazingly awesome. LOL

[the-winterwitch.livejournal.com]

*nods* I'm reminded of something just now - when I was about 12 or so, we had an exchange teacher from the US for about a year with the whole family. I was very often babysitting for them, and I was forever fascinated of the amount of coloured and very specific plastic toys they had (much like a shop display of Fisher price). Small kitchens, doll houses, camping caravans and whatever, with sounds and all kinds of accessories - but very little room for imagination. I was so surprised by this that I asked the mother, who on her part didn't understand how "we Germans could give our kids only so poor toys from wood without much functions", or uncoloured builidng blocks and such, or why we loved making our own doll's clothes. "But you can buy some which are so much nicer and better!" Yes, you can, but you haven't made them ten, and put in your own ideas and creativity, not to speak of learn skills like sewing, crocheting and knitting. It took her most of the year to understand the ideas behind the different toys. (I know, of course, long since that she has been a rather extreme example, and her viewpoint is not the average one.)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thankfully parents and teachers know better now. I gave Hannah a mix of toys when she was little, some realistic and others very much "supply your own imagination". One of her favorite toys was actually a little play kitchen, which was a nice combination of both. I have a video of her putting on a "cooking show" for me. :)

[the-winterwitch.livejournal.com]

I think it's all about balance, too. My nieces adore their Playmobil toys with have much "defined" details already, though they are made with role-playing in mind. But Legos are equally awesome, and while they adore the little details of the current girl series, mainly the animals and the pink and violet bricks, they are mostly creating other things with it. Play kitchens were/are also always high in demand. They have the one by Ikea and would have already played it to death, were it less sturdy; and my "kid's kitchen" for visiting nieces is also high in demand. That's just an old, low nightstand with a picture on the door to indicate the stove, but some of the kid's dishes and pots etc. I couldn't resist at Ikea *g*. It's so fun to see with what they cook - slices of old wine corks, dry pasta, dry lentils, threads of knitting wool (for leeks, carrots, spaghetti or whatnot), scraps from paper, to help out the crocheted fried egg or the cloth staples we bought. Or how they cook. We've added a small slate to the wall at the side, and sine then it's always restaurant time.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I remember when I was 5, in the first year of school (kindergarten). There was a toy kitchen in the play area that EVERYONE loved. The very wise teacher used it as a reward for those who had behaved nicely. :) Toy kitchens, fancy or plain, have universal appeal!

[mrowe.livejournal.com]

I stand in awe of those examples (I want the spaceship *g*), but I had to share this...

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Bwa ha ha! I love that. *G* And to be honest, when I first started reading about the films, knowing nothing of Tolkien beyond reading The Hobbit when I was about 11, I saw the name "Legolas" and all I could think of was some sad elf who had lost all his Legos!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I love it!

[imbecamiel.livejournal.com]

Heeee. Indeed. XD (Though I've found that's one of the advantages of watching small children... If you have the patience to sift through the bin for matching pieces and can make something even remotely sturdier than theirs, your skillz are officially awesome. *g*)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

True. I've impressed some very picky 3 y/o's in my day. *g*

[shirebound]

*grins* I'm right there with you.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

*high fives*

[engarian.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that's the closest I could get to the Starship Enterprise also. Square items to make round things call for saws in my world-view :-)

- Erulisse (one L)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, to get round with classic Lego bricks, you have to go BIG, and I never had that many bricks!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I do wish I'd taken photos of the fleet of Lego pirate ships D-d and her dad made and played with - invading Lego islands where the Zanzibarbarians lived...

Me? I could make a small Lego house. As long as it had a flat roof :)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Yes, my skills are about level with yours, though I could, if I had enough bricks, make a peaked roof. Usually I didn't have enough of the right size bricks, though.

So the Zanzibarbarians got frequently sacked, did they?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I could, if I had enough bricks, make a peaked roof.

Oooh - iz impressed!

So the Zanzibarbarians got frequently sacked, did they?

They did indeed. Someone bought her a set with a beach bar with pink umbrellas and things and they became part of the land of the Zanzibarbarians as well.

[suzll.livejournal.com]

Aaaahahaha I'M SAME

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

The few, the proud, the Lego challenged...

[ellynn-ithilwen.livejournal.com]

I never made anything so complicated as those things on your picture, but I did make some nice things. :)
The thought of them still makes me smile. :)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I remember having great fun making very plain little square houses, but I never thought of using them to create art like people do now. My hat is off to those creative souls.

[dreamflower]

Years and years before Legos, my parents got us a set of plastic bricks that were very similar to Legos; they were of a softer type of plastic, and were slightly larger. All of them were a reddish "brick" color, but there were also some greenish colored "roof tiles" and little white windows and doors which were set into little casements and opened and closed. We started out with seemingly hundreds of them, and I can recall my dad, my sister and me spending many evenings making houses. Of course, houses were all you could make with them!

AHA!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HUGE-LOT-VINTAGE-1950S-AMERICAN-PLASTIC-BRICKS-210-PIECES-/161226898634

http://www.ebay.com/itm/American-Bricks-50s-Or-60s-Precursor-To-Legos-Over-100-Almost-Complete-Set-/301100161224

But Google says Legos came out in 1936. I don't ever remember seeing them around though until the 70s after I became a parent.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I had those as a child, too, I think, or I played with them at a cousin's house or something. It's a memory that's from so early in my life I just feel that burst of familiarity but can't recall much detail. :)

Gosh, I love thinking about old toys. Do you remember Tinker Toys? They were a favorite of mine, and I was so disappointed in the quality of them now, when I bought a set for my daughter. Too much plastic; nothing nearly as sturdy as the old wooden sets. :P

[layne67.livejournal.com]

LOLOL, yeah, I'm that, too :))

And wow, that blue car! That was really built from Lego? Amazing ...

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I guess that car was, yes... the resolution is too poor to really tell for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me.

I think it'd be awesome if someone built an actual house to live in out of Legos. I bet someone has. LOL

[layne67.livejournal.com]

A Legos house, maybe for Legolas? :DD