Happy Birthday LEGO!

[Beirut]

It's LEGO's 50th Anniversary!




I was playing with this stuff back in the '60s. I had buckets of it. Used to build airplanes and boats mostly. Some of my boats were four and five feet long. Ok, they were only six inches wide, but they were still five feet long, with cranes and helicopters and all sorts of junk happening.

I had the first LEGO train set, the first electric motor. It was great. Absolutely, hands down, the greatest toy ever conceived. (Followed closely by the original GI Joes, which went well with LEGO.)

[Vladimir]

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Lego.

[LittleGrizzly]

The hours I spent making castles houses bases dungeons prisons ect. the only toy I had as a kid that I could still waste a few hours playing with now...

Happy Birthday Lego!

[Subedei]

Yes! Happy Birthday....My little nephew and me both love LEGO....

I guess most of the guys and gals in this community built castles ?? I for sure did...or places where the little plastic soldiers were able to hide & surprise the plastic dinosour they had to hunt....wellm usually they ended up in the dinos stomache anyways.....hehehe.....cruel little Sub I was.....

[Husar]

Great! I also played with Duplo and later Lego and Playmobil.

[Andres]

A spent a significant part of my youth building/destroying/rebuilding Lego castles.

Thank you for all the good times and happy Birthday LEGO

[Galain_Ironhide]

The 2 things I loved about Lego when I was a kid:

The medieval playsets - Probably why I'm in love with games like M2TW now.

Building weird and bizarre race cars.

Even now when I take my baby son into KMart, I walk past all of the early development stuff that babies have, and take him straight to the Lego. Ah to be a child again!

Happy Birthday LEGO!!!

[Ramses II CP]

The space legos were always my favorite. I would spend hours building complex human bases on foreign worlds, and then the robots would invade and destroy them bit by bit. Awesome.

My daughter likes the princess theme duplo blocks, but we still build castles and have the horses attack them every so often.

[Whacker]

Oh my, the memories. I think my favorite was the aircraft carrier I built out of the big baseplates that was 6 long and 3 tall. Didn't talk to mom for a few days after she made me take it apart.

[The Stranger]

happy birthday lego... www.google.nl even google is celebrating it... its LEGO!!!!

[edyzmedieval]

Oh man. Oh boy. Oh girl. Oh moooom, why did you do thiss? Oh daaad, I want thiis pleeeaaassseee!!!

The best game of the century. Period. It was so addictive, fun and intelligent that it was impossible not to like it. My favourites were Lego System, even though I had more Technic.

The hardest one was a huge 4-motor airplane. I just couldn't do it. It was so complex, I dropped it after 1 month.

[Viking]

Danes.

[GeneralHankerchief]

When I was about 7 or 8, on three different occasions I would set up all of my LEGO sets in the family room and completely take it over as the different "themes" fought it out in a massive Battle Royale, or, as I called it back then, "Really Big Battle".

One time we were having company over while one of these Really Big Battles were in process (they always took around a week) so I had to transport everything, from all the dozens of characters to several massive sets (and they were fragile, too) up to my much more cramped bedroom. I said "hi" to company, promptly went back to my room, and continued the Really Big Battle as normal except this time everybody banded together as they fought together to exit this new Ghost Dimension and its strange inhabitants. Eventually, they all got home (naturally, after company had left) and I continued with the battle as normal as everyone immediately turned on each other. It was awesome.

Happy birthday LEGO, O Enhancer of my Childhood.

[Martok]

Happy Birthday, Lego! You still provide me with some great entertainment, even now.

The space legos were always my favorite. I would spend hours building complex human bases on foreign worlds, and then the robots would invade and destroy them bit by bit. Awesome.

Ditto on the space sets being my favorite. In fact, I still purchase them from time to time, even though I'm 31 now.

My favorite was to combine all my space sets and construct the biggest ship possible. My ultimate was a monster that was about 4 feet long, 2 feet wide (in the back), and over a foot high. It had a full complement of ground vehicles, along with 6-8 small space fighters that detached directly from the mother ship's wings. (Gods, am I a geek, or what? )

[Togakure]

Ah, LEGO. We (my brother and I) had two big dish tubs full of the ones that didn't come with themes like cars or ships, etc. (back in the 60s-70s). We spent so much leisure time building anything that came to mind, and I think it really helped develop our creativity over the years. Mom and dad were so often astounded at the things we built. Such wonderful tools for the imagination--so much more enriching than sitting around passively observing, analyzing, and judging the creativity of others (TV, movies, other people's music, etc.), in my book anyway. Not that I don't enjoy movies and music--I think you can understand what I mean.

Castles, super cars, ships, spaceships and bases, cities with roads and vehicles, masks and gauntlets and talismans, laser pistols and rifles, bizarre machines ... years of fun. It was a great attraction for neighborhood friends too--they loved to come over and play with us and our plentiful LEGOs.

Happiest of birthdays, LEGO, and many thanks.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

I remember playing with Duplo at a very small age and later, after I learned that the pieces were not designed for munching on, Lego.

I wasn't really a castles and zombies type of person - I was more into interesting designs for cars, and boats. I often remember getting frustrated at the more fiddly bits - my hand/eye coordination is/was very poor. I also remember getting a few of those models which came with detailed instructions - never actually built them though, simply dumping the parts in my generic lego box and then using them on a more custom project.

Anyhow, happy birthday Lego

[Peasant Phill]

Yep, I was also a lego-raised child. First Duplo, then Lego and finally Lego Technics. I still walk past Lego Technics boxes in the toy shop and hesitate for just a short while. I had/have the fully functioning water airplane, the black racecar/F1 and many smaller boxes to just be creative (while still making the cilinders work).

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Ah, Lego. I've still got a huge box of the stuff in my attic, which I dig out every now and again. It really is the best toy ever invented.

I had a lot of the Star Wars lego kits, they were fantastic. I remember re-enacting the Death Star trench run with a couple of friends. The trench took bloody ages to build...

[naut]

Got ridiculous amounts of LEGO at home, piles of it. Great fun, plenty of memories; and I just hope they can revive themselves from the rut they are currently stuck in.

[spmetla]

Ah! How I loved my legos. If only I didn't lose all the guns/spears/other important pieces. Last summer I went online and found the instructions for all the legos I'd ever had (80s-90s) and rebuilt them as best I could. Sadly there were a lot of missing pieces so some of my technic legos are nothing but the chassis and one castle could not be built for lack of walls and other pieces. My space monorail track is missing one bit of curved track so I can't even make the cars go round and round

If I ever have kids I'll be sure to get them plenty of legos!

[Rodion Romanovich]

Best toy in the world apart from... eh ... well screw that this is the frontroom

[Denzil]

What has my generation missed out on?

Denny

[KukriKhan]

Christmas 1957. Me=6, going on 7.. Brother=5. I got Lincoln Logs, Tom got Lego's (both came in cardboard, cylinder-shaped, metal-topped, canisters - about the size of a coffee-can).

In those ancient days, "plastic" toys were still considered inferior to "real" toys made of wood and/or metal. Tom thought he got cheated with the plastic Lego's and cried. A lot. So, we traded.

By New Year's Day, after we found that Lincoln Logs could build: a fence, a corral, a house, and a fort - but that Lego's could build all kinds of stuff - and buildings could have "windows" due to the 1-in-20 clear plastic blocks... he cried again, and we traded again.

By the time I married Mrs. Kukri in the early 90's Lego's had themes and colors other than 'white' and 'clear', and came in the thousand-pack (I discovered when seeing my step-sons' bedrooms). Amazing.

Happy belated Birthday.

[Caeser The III]

yay finally