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| I was a good girl, and Santa brought me Legos! |
I am so obsessed with Legos.....and it's almost to the point where I should expect the door to kick in as friends and family come in with an overly friendly counselor to "intervene".
Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Egyptian, Harry Potter themed.....it's like it's my own personal crack. There's nothing cuter than a little tiny Lego Ewok or Dobby (<--Harry Potter), and though it only takes a few minutes to assemble something that, from the box, looked like it would be totally fun and complicated..., I end up a bit let down but, through my sighs of disappointment, I disassemble it because I resolve to relive the precious minutes of fun I had in its assembly, and start over....and I'm still a fan.
Except of the prices....Geeeeeezzzz!!
And you know what I like to do? I will build up a few Star Wars sets and then some Harry Potter sets...and then I let the Sith take on the Death Eaters in a total epic battle (umm...with my daughter <---she says suspiciously while her eyes bat innocently enough in hopes that you buy it). But that's what I like about Legos. You can build whatever you want, and do whatever you want. You still get that feeling of "I can do anything" like you did as a child. Maybe I like to build tall skyscrapers and then let my rubber Godzilla stomp through there and destroy everything, while little Lego people try and run to safety (which is really hard to accomplish when you only have two hands!). And maybe I like to let my little Lego people ride by in their little Lego cars I build and ruffle some feathers in my daughter's pinkish Lego neighborhood, just for kicks (and then her town's police cars chase them away all high-speed-like). That's just how they roll.
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| Keep your imagination tank on full. Never let it get empty. |
But so what.........
I get a lot of flack about it (flack = crap, abuse, h8ers drinking h8terade and spewing it onto me) because I'm....well....okay, I'm in my 30's so I'm....old. But, I figure...when you get a certain age, all you have left from your youth is your imagination. And, sorry, but I plan to keep mine as long as I am able to. (Sorry...just got a mental image of someone trying to rip my imagination...as if it were something like a sock or a trinket of some sort that I could hold in my hands....from my hands as I try and fight to keep my grip on it. It made me chuckle and I lost my train of thought. Oh look! A squirrel!)
Anyway...
Legos....
Yeah, I definitely *heart* them. Them, and peanuts ("What's that about?" you ask? Nothing, it's just that lately, I love them too.)
And now for more randomness...
This is what I was...mellowing out....to while posting. Tanoshimu/Enjoy!
(In this Empty Room)
You're never too old for legos. I so enjoyed helping my children build. We had nearly all the castles for the castle system and dozens of knights and horses. Very expensive though.
ReplyDeleteSomewhere in my family is a suitcase filled with these. Like a vampire it travels from house to house, eternally sucking up smaller sets of building blocks. Generally it gets passed out to whoever has just had a baby although I'm almost certain that nobody has had a child just so they could get their hands on it.
ReplyDeleteAlmost.
I love Legos and it awlways bothered me when they started making Lego kits. It seemed to limit imagination as kids just build what's on the box. But, the reality is there's no way to build cool Star Wars scenes without custom legos. Thank goodness for kit-bashing. My son loves them too.
ReplyDeleteDavid, over at There's Dungeons Down Under, turned me onto your site. Pretty nice. I'm liking it.
ReplyDeleteStill, at 51, I'd hardly call YOU "old." ROFL
Don't EVER stop playing with your Legos. Your detractors have the problem, not you.
LoL..you guys/gals are cool.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have them as a kid (I did at my grandmother's but not at my home) because "the golden child" (aka my brother) managed to choke on a Lego man as a toddler. So, I guess I'm overcompensating now. That's what I tell people anyway LoL.
And yeah, the kits are limiting, but....would be impossible to do some things without them.
And thanks, Mystic Scholar! I won't! XD