#682 – Snap
Posted on January 21, 2009 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
When we were kids, my brother and I would sometimes try to build life-sized objects out of Legos. We could never make much more than guns or weird robot hand type things. The bricks were just too small and we would never have enough to make anything more substantial. I wonder what we would have made if we had access to a hundred thousand large size bricks. I guess it’s probably not a good idea to let kids be in charge of something where structural integrity becomes a safety issue.
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People do make giant lego sculptures, such as a 1/12th scale model of the statue of liberty. (I can imagine Biff trying to make a life-size one.)
lol that totally looks like something i’d do if i had access to that many legos. 🙂 building stuff is fun.
Sorry for the nitpicking, but… LEGO is an adjective. For example, they’re LEGO blocks, LEGO sets, LEGO fans, etc. Just a little pet peeve of mine to see “legos” tossed around.
Anyways, I have a lot of LEGO bricks lying around, but I doubt even I’d be able to make something as big as what Biff’s got going on there. Heck, I don’t think I even know of any stores with that big a LEGO selection. Darned stores not ordering a lot due to the recession.. You know it’s bad when LEGO fans start to complain.
The Duck Has Spoken.
I’m a Lego artisan. I still have my favorite Lego sculpture. It’s a jet fighter.
I want a six foot tall LEGO Metal Gear REX to sit in the corner of my room. Failing that, a six foot tall model of REX, of the non-lego variety.
Afterthought: A three foot tall REX might make a nice coffee table or bedside table 😛
@Psycho Duck: Shouldn’t that be “The Duck has Complained?”
I love legos. I’m going to have to steal my little brother’s out from under his bed and build something now.
I don’t think he left for the lunch-break in the first place… he looks pretty walled-in!
when i was kid i used to play for hours for legos i even build some dinosaurs with them, those were pretty cool.
oooh the good old days
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|Le•go|
noun – trademark
a construction toy consisting of interlocking plastic building blocks.
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“Legos” has been adopted as a common term for LEGO blocks.
Oh Great. I go to Biff to get away from my own troubles, but not this week.
I work for Circuit City. Circuit City is going out of business.
So soon I will be Jobless.
At least Biff is finding new creative ways to get fired.
@ Duck: Common usage dictates otherwise:
lego
noun
(trademark) a child’s plastic construction set for making mechanical models
Reference:
lego. (n.d.). WordNet® 3.0. Retrieved January 21, 2009, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lego
Psycho Duck, being a Lego fan myself, I don’t think anyone gives a flying crap. I’m fairly certain if you were to go to the clerk and ask for “Legos” they would bring you to the Lego sets, blocks, section, whatever the hell it is that they choose to call it.
Personally, when the name becomes that deeply rooted in a product, I don’t give a crap whether it’s an adjective or a verb, that’s what I call it. But I guess that stems mostly from NOT BEING A FRIGGIN GRAMMAR NAZI.
Frig dang, -I’m- a grammar Nazi and I was irritated by that. That kind of complaint isn’t about grammar; it’s more like “whineee I hate the efficiency of language whiiiiiiiine.”
might snap….
@PsychoDuck – I remember back in the early 80’s I got a set of legos for my birthday and inside the box was a small pamphlet that said something like “Dear parents” on the outside. I opened it up and it was a bunch of corporate speak about how “These toys that you bought are LEGO bricks, stop calling them legos and please instruct your child on the proper usage of the term.” I remember laughing at how ridiculous that sounded.
“Hey Chris, wanna come over and play LEGO bricks?”
“Sure, first let me finish playing my Atari Video Computer System game and then put on my Reebok shoes and I’ll be right over.”
When I was wee, my sister and I used to race LEGO cars that we designed ourselves so when we went to The Mall of America in Minnesota I had to check out the LEGO store. It’s located in one of the open atrium areas and has a TON of huge LEGO sculptures that hang in and around the store. I took a pic from the third floor of all the craziness because it was extremely cool. I may have also been very envious of the giant moon mining/moon monster diorama they had. I still think it would have totally fit in my living room…
I’ll bet all those little blocks and colors were hard to draw, huh?
I love when the comments section get almost as funny as the comic itself
🙂
I used to play with K-NEX (and legos, but not as much), and at one point I found a “design idea guide” with an article about people who built life-sized objects…like a tiger, football mascots, and a few others I can’t remember.
legos legos legos legos legos
LEGOS! Yay!
LEGOS are a big part of my 5-year-old son’s life. We got his first big car set of the little LEGOS for Christmas, age by darned!
We’ve been to the LEGO store at Disneyland in So. California, and I have a picture of me kneeling next to a life-sized lego R2-D2, and my wife next to a life-sized Darth Vader on my cell phone. Don’t know how to transfer to the computer or I’d show you, I’d show you all!
Oh, and they had a life-sized lego giraffe – I couldn’t even reach up to the underbelly on it!
Good thing Amanda knows when to “leggo” the legos.
That could have gotten tedious after awhile…
(after awhile.)
@ Chris: Don’t forget to stop at an ATM Machine on your way.
Kids these days can’t do S**T without money.
Someone managed to build a Bart Simpson statue out of Lego, and I’ve seen a lego computer case. The latter was superglued together and was probably awesome when ti came to keeping the case cool. The problem with metal cases is that they hold heat too well – plastic, on the other hand, would probably cool down faster…although I’ve never heated a lego brick to find out. I used to have those litte Lego Star Wars sets though.
There is a place called LegoLand in Southeren CA….
@ Andore Mordre
I am diagnosed OCD and it defiantly showed up with my K’nex (I also enjoyed Lego but my OCD never got hold on it) one time i built this ball tower thing (with no instructions) that was over 8 feet tall. I also built giant houses out of K’nex that took up half of my basement… I could see me having done this comic if my OCD was with Lego not K’nex
dartigen- nah, metal conducts heat, plastic doesn’t, so a metal case will dump heat more efficiently than plastic. If you look at plastic cases, you’ll notice they always feature massive vents. Without plenty of airflow, a plastic-cased computer would fry itself in pretty short order. That’s why heatsinks are made of aluminum or copper. Even the plastic waterblocks used with some liquid-cooled systems use copper bases where they actually contact the processor.
Jeez, people, just noting a pet peeve 😐 I’m a stickler for accuracy, so sue me.
PS: I distinctly remember reading on an official LEGO website somewhere that it was an adjective, but I can’t track it down. But whatever.
The Duck Has Whined (Happy now, Micah?)
Wow, listening to you guys complain about Psychoduck complaining about language is just tedious. I might say more, but than you guys would just have to listen to me complaining about you guys complaining about psychoduck complaining about linguistics. So yeah, I guess that comment just made me the biggest jerk here.
Oh well.
Psychoduck, I actually agree with you here. I have no idea why, but it does annoy me when people call them Legos. The “s” just seems a little pointless. Can’t you just call them Lego? Also yes, I am a grammar Nazi.
Hmmm, I seem to have misplaced my LEGO Bushwacker ‘Mech… I miss my LEGO blocks, having sent everything to my baby brother. … Except for the ‘Mech of course, which was just plain left behind.
@Psycho duck: I was happy/content with “Complain.”
The Lego games are fun. I’ve already played through all the story modes in all of them. I think Lego Indiana Jones is one of the better ones.
I never get i of ny of my LEGOs. Whenever I have some free time, I’m
attempting to build something ridiculous. My current project is a life-sized
(possibly working) sniper rifle.
Poor Biff!
He is being fired constantly…
OMG!!! LEGOS!!!! I have been a LEGO famatic all my life. Oh, the things i create… A few months ago, i made a heavily-detailed Starcraft Battlecruiser entirely out of LEGOS… I have not ever disassembeled it…
I also have some tickets to LEGOland, but money issues prevent my travel there…
P.S.: I am also working on a LEGO Biff, but i can’t get it to look right… I’ll post a picture if at all possible. Which it most likely will not be.
<.< Was he building a house? Oh snap!
Oh yeah, also, kudos to all the paint fills Chris, I can never make mine look realistic yet somehow not random when I do it. Bravo.
When I first saw today’s comic, Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” popped into my head…
“…All in all you’re just a/nother Brick in the Wall!”
i remember being taken to a lego convention, and they had all this stuff in life size built outta lego… it was cool.
http://www.portfolio.com/careers/job-of-the-week/2008/08/17/Lego-Builder-Nathan-Sawaya?tid=advert/wired/lego
I do hope that this link works…
He obviously has a longer attention span than me. x___X
I miss legos…A LOT
I’d hate to color in all those bricks.
In Corner Gas it was said best: “They’re not blocks, they’re bricks.
“Block Party”
Note: Generally correct terms for LEGO brand construction toys, in order of preferability:
1.) LEGO; brick; stud (play the games); rod
2.) block; chip; other
@ i.half4 ATM Machine is redundant. You’re really saying automated teller machine machine when you say that, and why didn’t you grammar Nazis catch that? Also I still play with my LEGO.
I had plastic lego blocks the size of regular bricks when I was a kid. The brand was “BRIK Toy Company” I think. We made forts, houses, towers, mazes for the cat, trees, benches, walls (I walled my brother into his bedroom while he was sleeping)… there was all sorts of neat things we could build. Stuff fell down pretty frequently, but it didn’t hurt much; it was made of plastic.
I can’t seem to find the Briks sold anywhere lately. Maybe the company went out of business?
My little brother had a friend growing up whose father worked at the Lego Company HQ in CT. Because of this connection, he had pretty much every complete Lego set they ever made – Indiana Jones, Lego Soccer were a few of the ones I remember. My bro’s in college now but still has his Millenium Falcon displayed proudly on his shelf.
Mythbuster’s LEGO boulder :D:D:D:D:D
that would have taken AGES to colour those bricks!
The BBC built a real live lego house last year, full size, with rooms and a bed and plumbing and everything.
the theme this week is “biff got fired”also i want a six foot super biff lego statue
People have made houses before 😀