Were you actually any good at Legos?

Yes.

Yep, nope and yep.

I wasn’t excellent at it, but it was decent enough. I usually just made houses, and pretended they were haunted. It was hard making pointy roofs, so usually my houses just looked like apartment buildings (was really fond of putting window Legos everywhere) that looked like they had a bunch of crap on the roof. I lost em all easily though, because I could never resist smashing my works to hell like Godzilla. Except in my head I was a frost giant.

I remember thinking that those haunted castle themed Lego sets were so awesome, but unfortunately I never owned any.

Yes, I was okay. I don’t think I tried to build things that were pictured on the box. I was more a freestyle legoer.

Yes. It’s just a matter of following instructions.

@Bellatrix Legoer. Never heard that before, sounds totally cute lol. Now I want kids.

There were no kits when I was a kid and had access to Legos so you were on your own to build stuffl. I wasn’t that good because I wasn’t allowed Legos of my own but I would have a great time with my cousins’ tub, we’d mostly make garages for his Matchbox cars collection or pit stops for his Hot Wheel’s road strips.

I built a lot of awesome Lego stuff in my heyday, but probably my most impressive was this bad boy. Sure, there were instructions, but it took like, three months of incremental work to put it together. So I’d like to think that qualifies as being good at Legos..

Plus, that box says 14+. I was twelve at the time. Get on my level.~

Good? Probably not so much, but I had fun! I made a lot of boxy cruise ships (my personal specialty) and houses with every little detail I could think of.

@Joker94 Dude, you built that thing? Awesome. Although I gotta say, none of my Legos looked anything like that lol.

@Symbeline It took so long lol, it probably wasn’t even worth all the aggravation in hindsight..

@Joker94 Eh, as long as you had some fun while making it.

Also since you built that robot, you’re the biggest nerd ever. And in my book, that’s pretty much fuckin godhood. :)

I had a lego box that was bigger than I was. It was filled with sets passed down to me from other generations which was cool, because it meant I had plenty of each color.
I loved the instruction booklets and I was meticulous about recreating those buildings.
I always lost the people though so my beautiful villages were apocalypticly empty.

@Symbeline Aww, why thank you! :D

I am in the Guinness Book if World Records as the all-time child champion of Lego construction. I built an English racing bile with Legos, and Lance Armstrong rode it to victory in the Tour de France.6 times. I also built the Space Shuttle Endeavor with Legos.

Well, to be real honest, I am pretty good at building things with Lego blocks, but I’m far better at writing fiction.

@ETpro Dude, epic lol.

Actually, I am a Lego

Yes yes yes, but I hate building like the box said to do. So I always built my own stuff and delved into my imagination. One result was a three legged behemoth Bionicle that I thought put a lot of the Bionicle villains to shame. Also I miss Lego Mindstorm… :’( that was so fun but I never see it in stores anymore! My brother is missing out on a world of awesomeness…

@Symbeline :-)

@judochop Even better answer.

@ETpro, you are a serious legoer. Wow… do you have any photos?

Yep, yep, nope, and nope.

Then I got into building things without blocks… or rather, by making my own blocks of arbitrary shape/size.

Now I am a CNC Machinist; making things is what I do!

I very rarely copied the picture on the box. I had a big set of mixed blocks and I built mostly aeroplanes and spaceships.

Those who were may well be engineers today and too snobby to swim in the tide pool.

@Bellatrix Sadly, there are no photos. I made a Lego camera to take some, but never found anyone who could develop Lego film.