Lego vs. Megablocks

Slainman v2.0 · Post by **Slainman v2.0** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:59 pm

Which is better? Lego or Megablocks?

Jaster! · Post by **Jaster!** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:02 pm

Are you kidding? Are you dumb? Megablocks are for babies. Legos all the way, hands down, indisputably. Anyone who disagrees must pay the ultimate price. I'm not sure what that is exactly, but rest assured, it is ultimate.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:05 pm

exactly.

Fi13r · Post by **Fi13r** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:11 pm

Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:14 pm

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:21 pm

*destroys all blasphemers with newfound digital war powers*

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:24 pm

Legos...but only if they're the oldschool ones. Not these newfangled easy peasy ones.

TheGoobla · Post by **TheGoobla** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 11:04 pm

Back in my day, we didnt have these hyper-advanced, electronics-and-cool-shit-with-millions-of-different-types-of-block lego. Why, we were lucky if we had more than two colours and one type of block. And by god, we still put those bricks to use! And we were poor as well, so me an' my old man build our entire house outta lego. The plumbing was lego, the wiring was lego, my clothes were lego, my mum's dildo was lego, and my little sister was lego as well.

But did we complain? NO. You kids have it so easy these days, what with your new fangled videogames and rap music. The only thing me an' my friends had to play with growing up were ROCKS, and by god we played the hell outta those rocks. We played 15 miles in the snow, in the biggest blizzard our county had ever seen! A blizzard, oddly enough, THAT WAS MADE OF LEGO!

I lost two whole friends to the infamous lego storm of '49. But did I complain or whine? No. We had no time for sympathies, as we were poor as dirt and needed to eat their carcasses to stay alive.

You damn kids today.

Superlance · Post by **Superlance** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 11:09 pm

TheGoobla wrote:Back in my day, we didnt have these hyper-advanced, electronics-and-cool-shit-with-millions-of-different-types-of-block lego. Why, we were lucky if we had more than two colours and one type of block. And by god, we still put those bricks to use! And we were poor as well, so me an' my old man build our entire house outta lego. The plumbing was lego, the wiring was lego, my clothes were lego, my mum's dildo was lego, and my little sister was lego as well.

But did we complain? NO. You kids have it so easy these days, what with your new fangled videogames and rap music. The only thing me an' my friends had to play with growing up were ROCKS, and by god we played the hell outta those rocks. We played 15 miles in the snow, in the biggest blizzard our county had ever seen! A blizzard, oddly enough, THAT WAS MADE OF LEGO!

I lost two whole friends to the infamous lego storm of '49. But did I complain or whine? No. We had no time for sympathies, as we were poor as dirt and needed to eat their carcasses to stay alive.

You damn kids today.

Those jokes were so old they could be in a museum, right next to this one.

But I still laughed myself out of the chair.

Guyara · Post by **Guyara** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 11:16 pm

MixedMyth wrote:Legos...but only if they're the oldschool ones. Not these newfangled easy peasy ones.

Exactly! Nowadays, Legos are almost completely built before you even open the box, and they come in so specialized versions for that exact set that it just isn't exciting anymore. (Not that I buy Legos anymore... Except for that time, 2 or 3 years ago, when me and a friend was bored and bought Legos for over 2000 NOK, which is more than 250 USD.

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Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:54 am

K-Dawg wrote:Zaks

What are Zaks? Sounds like that "Gak" stuff... that was fun... *wanders off on a tangent*

War · Post by **War** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:03 am

Lego all the way!
I took my Lego into school for my last year (wanna know what those kids who are about to graduate do in their free periods? they play lego) and we spent all our free time building Lego land yachts and racing cars so we could race each other. Great fun.

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:13 am

Guyara wrote:
MixedMyth wrote:Legos...but only if they're the oldschool ones. Not these newfangled easy peasy ones.
Exactly! Nowadays, Legos are almost completely built before you even open the box, and they come in so specialized versions for that exact set that it just isn't exciting anymore.

Yeah. I really don't understand the recent generations of "fighting" legos. What's the point in all that?

On the other hand mindstorms qounds pretty cool, and I'd wish I had the cash to buy one, and build some GIANT ROBOTS!

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:18 am

As a child, I never owned legos. *sigh* I really have never been happy with that. And they're so expensive now that even selling gemstones, I can't afford the piles and piles and piles of them that I want.

My friend had four big boxes (moving boxes) full of legos. I was so jealous...

I had an erector set (the original one, with the sharp metal bits and stuff, not this plastic crap they sell now). THAT was lots of fun. I still like putting together metal shelving units.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:00 am

whats with the lego palm trees? those are the saddest things ever. remember when they came in dozens of pieces and you could shape them anyway you wished? now they are like 3 pieces....

rkolter wrote: I had an erector set (the original one, with the sharp metal bits and stuff, not this plastic crap they sell now). THAT was lots of fun. I still like putting together metal shelving units.

heeheehee he said erector

Brockway · Post by **Brockway** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:25 am

Hmm, erector set... that like a box of porn? Cause I used to have one too! Used to make a fort out of them too! Used to spend days in it...

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 9:15 am

It's a plastic tool chest filled with short, medium, and long bits of sharp metal with screw holes in them, and a ton of metal screws and nuts. There are also some toxic plastic pieces with screw holes in them in case you want to bolt those on too.

It was fun to make things with it. Usually the stuff I made would break other stuff, and I got too old to play with it.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 9:46 am

rkolter wrote:It's a plastic tool chest filled with short, medium, and long bits of sharp metal with screw holes in them, and a ton of metal screws and nuts. There are also some toxic plastic pieces with screw holes in them in case you want to bolt those on too.

It was fun to make things with it. Usually the stuff I made would break other stuff, and I got too old to play with it.

heeheehee he said screw hole

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 10:40 am

Mega Blocks < Lego < K'nex

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:07 am

http://www.handyboard.com/
Technic will always be forever cool, even if it is just hyper-expensive plastic. Hook up a Mindstorm kit to a handyboard an you can actually build intelligent robots with real sensors. One of these days I'm going to hook a handyboard onto a powered lawnmower.