This was posted last week, so maybe you have seen it already, but here is a video from Gizmodo showing the Lego vault, where they keep almost every set that Lego has ever created. The post accompanying it is great, too–I feel the same way about Legos and still get them as presents from time to time. We had to take apart my Hogwarts castle in order to move, and it made me kind of sad. I don’t know what to do with all of my Legos, really, because we don’t really have a place to display them, but I don’t want to take them apart. I suppose I should just disassemble them and put them in separate bags with the instructions so that we can discover them again with our kids one day. If we never have kids, maybe I could just set up one room as a Lego shrine. I am sure Mike would love that.
I actually almost teared up watching the video. I spent a lot of my childhood playing with Legos. They remind me of Grandma’s house, my cousin David, and Christmas. All at once. Together, my brother and I had an awesome Lego town, complete with a house I built from spare Legos at my grandma’s house. He had a Robin Hood set, and we had a few of the knight sets. It was fun to have the knights guarding the town and other strange things. Joseph also had some space Legos, now that I think about it. I got especially excited when the video showed the pirate ship. I didn’t have the pirate ship, but I did have the Eldorado Fortress (I had to do some googling to figure out what it was called). It was definitely my favorite of all my Lego sets.
Mike’s nephew loves pirates and Legos, and I am so sad they don’t make the pirate Legos anymore. They were the best. Bring back the pirate Legos! (Mike’s nephew may be getting Indiana Jones Legos for his birthday this year. It’s never too early to indoctrinate him on the greatness of Indiana Jones. And Legos.)
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How have we never had a discussion about Legos?!
When I was a kid, I had a small model train set, and I used Legos to build a village around the train. Good times. I routinely tore the village down and re-built it, too.
i still have a couple of knights that i keep in my kitchen. i have no idea where the rest of the legos are, they must be at my parents’ house somewhere.
We did talk about them when I posted about my Hogwarts castle, but I figured it was okay to talk about them again because Legos are the best toy ever.
Oh, right. Well, carry on then!
Legos are the best toy ever!
(You mean like that?)
Exaaaaaaaaaaaaaactly.
I have to agree… LEGO is the best toy ever. And still fun to play with, even as an adult.
Check out some of the new Technic and Robotics kits if you want something with more of an engineering bent.
And thanks to Roger for sending me this link…
Thanks for the tip, Eric!
My nephew just got the new I.J. set for his birthday, too, and he’s loving it. And, I loved seeing the castle set of legos. Those were my favs. Those knights could kick butt.
is it bad that now i want one of the IJ sets? those look awesome.
also, there’s a millennium falcon worth $500….yikes.
Our children used their Legos to death and I will have to buy new ones when grandchildren arrive, but we do have a weird number of mint condition original Transformers ( more than meets the eye) from our boys who are your age. Finally, Greg convinced me to display them and we bought an all glass cabinet at a big Swedish design store which cost less than $100 and Greg installed a light in the top. People ( mostly male people) walk right past my art covered walls and say – “Cool! Transformers!”.
The case would be really fun for a rotating display of your favorite Lego sets. I usually avoid big box stores, but there’s this catalogue http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10011055
LEGO pirates are still here they have just released a new load of it (2009) http://www.lego.com for more info