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Adam Dravian:
--- Quote from: Rijst on November 29, 2014, 05:15:53 AM ---I got one every now and then. Whenever I got money for my birthday I'd usually spend it on Lego too.
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Did you have a preferred Lego "theme"? I was mostly partial to the medieval sets. I always wanted one of the pirate sets, but I never got one. The "Town" sets seemed really boring to me.
The thing that kills me is that I used to act out Star Wars, Ninja Turtles, and Spider-Man stories with my Lego minifigs. Of course, the characters I had to use looked nothing like what I was pretending they were. But kids these days get officially licensed Legos for all those things! I would have sacrificed my own mother on a pentagram altar to have those Lego sets when I was a kid. These kids today don't know how fucking rad they have it.
--- Quote ---I have to admit I spent my lunch break watching those commercials and I was impressed by the child acting. Kids are usually more shy when you visibly point a camera at their faces..
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It was the '80s, so those kids were most likely coked out of their minds.
Rijst:
--- Quote from: Adam Dravian on November 29, 2014, 09:36:56 AM ---
--- Quote from: Rijst on November 29, 2014, 05:15:53 AM ---I got one every now and then. Whenever I got money for my birthday I'd usually spend it on Lego too.
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Did you have a preferred Lego "theme"? I was mostly partial to the medieval sets. I always wanted one of the pirate sets, but I never got one. The "Town" sets seemed really boring to me.
The thing that kills me is that I used to act out Star Wars, Ninja Turtles, and Spider-Man stories with my Lego minifigs. Of course, the characters I had to use looked nothing like what I was pretending they were. But kids these days get officially licensed Legos for all those things! I would have sacrificed my own mother on a pentagram altar to have those Lego sets when I was a kid. These kids today don't know how fucking rad they have it.
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I mostly had medieval stuff too. I remember the first lego castle I got, my parents had spent night after night putting it together so they wouldn't let me take it apart at first. Then I put it together in half an afternoon and I guess they figured they'd found the right kind of toy for me. It was a really cool castle that could open up at the back etc. I had a few more later and had no problem combining them into a huge mega castle with a small town next to it. I still get tears in my eyes when I think of one.
The problem with these licensed sets is that they're just that, a copy of whatever film or series they depict. I'd rather have one generic set with lots of little pieces that let me make up my own story. I guess that's what drew me towards Lego in the first place.
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--- Quote ---I have to admit I spent my lunch break watching those commercials and I was impressed by the child acting. Kids are usually more shy when you visibly point a camera at their faces..
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It was the '80s, so those kids were most likely coked out of their minds.
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How very true. I'd like to think they just let them play out whatever they fancied for an hour first and then started filming. I guess the coke is a cheaper option haha.
Adam Dravian:
--- Quote from: Rijst on November 30, 2014, 06:37:41 AM ---The problem with these licensed sets is that they're just that, a copy of whatever film or series they depict. I'd rather have one generic set with lots of little pieces that let me make up my own story. I guess that's what drew me towards Lego in the first place.
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That's because you're good, and you played with Lego the right way. But since I wasn't much of an architect and therefore hardly ever used the blocks to build things, Legos were kind of wasted on me. I still found them super appealing, though.
One of my favorite Lego minifigs was one that I put together to resemble Boba Fett from Star Wars. I think he had a green torso, gray legs, a gray motorcycle helmet with a black visor, and a scuba tank on his back to serve as his jet pack. One day I was happily playing with him when this asshole pet ferret my family had at the time bounded up to me, snatched Boba Fett out of my hand, and bounded away before I could catch him. I don't think I ever saw that Boba Fett again.
Oh, and when I was in middle-school, my friends and I started using my Lego minifigs to make short stop-motion movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngypLZ3jVmg
Rijst:
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--- Quote from: Adam Dravian on November 30, 2014, 05:49:30 PM ---That's because you're good, and you played with Lego the right way.
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My mother said it was because I had a lot of imagination. Considering the website I'm posting this on, that's clearly rubbish..
--- Quote ---Hey, look at my shirt! It's got no back!
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I wish my stories were like this. I guess I was much too serious for this. How old were you guys here?
Was that your face or your friend's? Somehow I expected you to be bald in the video as well..
Adam Dravian:
--- Quote from: Rijst on December 01, 2014, 02:10:42 AM ---I wish my stories were like this. I guess I was much too serious for this.
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No, don't wish that. That movie is painfully idiotic. Of course, we thought it was the funniest thing in the world when we made it.
--- Quote ---How old were you guys here?
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It was the summer of '95, so I must've been 14. My friend Bob would have been 13.
--- Quote ---Was that your face or your friend's? Somehow I expected you to be bald in the video as well..
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That was Bob. He mostly made that movie himself. I just kind of had a cameo as the voice of Satan (of course) the Grim Reaper, and, uh, Dale.
You know what I looked like as a youngling, Rijst. You saw me kick all kinds of ass in Mega City Dragons. My head was chock full of luscious brown curls.
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