The fields will find their own uses for things also

[hirez]

Way back when everything was brown, apart from the telly which was black and white, we were small children in command of a pile of Lego. Most of the time we built agricultural things and load-carrying hovercraft because those were normal and sensible things.

I daresay there's some vaguely interesting research (to be) done on the subject of what small children from various different areas/environments will construct when given a pile of non-specific Lego and told to get on with it. Complaining about lack of Star Wars bits, like as not.

Being small children and thus a bit useless in re. impulse control, we also discovered that you could prise the tyres from the four-stud axle blocks and promptly lose them. I imagine there was some measure of parent-emulation and Lego-scale ATS-bloke tractor tyre bay here.

The replacements were obvious, given context. They come in green now, too. Such is the wonder of progress in the area of castration.

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[nmg.livejournal.com]

there's some vaguely interesting research (to be) done on the subject of what small children from various different areas/environments will construct when given a pile of non-specific Lego and told to get on with it

Judging from the endeavours of the four year old garklet, his top ten subjects of Lego building are:

1. Rockets
2. Crawler transporters for 1.
3. Dungeons
4. Gaols
5. Dungeons/gaols on wheels
6. Caravans (functionally equivalent to 5.)
7. Trackside furniture for his Brio-knockoff railway (platforms, cranes, signals)
8. Aeroplanes (mostly equipped for bombing sorties)
9. Kennels
10. Non-specific bridges, towers, etc.

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

Castration rings???? Oh, JHR, ick.

We used to take skeins and skeins of yarn and make mazes in our rooms. By mazes, I mean we'd string the entire place up so that it was like trying to get through a laser alarm system, only you wouldn't be incinerated if you touched a line--only tangled. Hopelessly. It was great fun until mom caught us.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

"Caution: Avoid use on animals too large for this method of castration."

Presumably because they'll get really pissed-off and might fight back.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

And win.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

6. Caravans (functionally equivalent to 5.)

HHOS.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

True.

Anything with opposable thumbs is right out.

Although I should imagine there's a subset of BMEZine types for whom that would add something of a frisson to the day.

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

Houses on wheels. There's nothing more cool than multi-storey houses on wheels, according to my children. Except possibly a car-aeroplane.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

They seem to be missing out on the possibilities of submarines.

I always favoured rockets, submarines, and hollowed out volcano lairs for either of the first two.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Lego?

They're still making Play Plax!
http://www.playplax.co.uk/3/about-playplax