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Legos have to be simply the coolest toys on the planet.

I've recently got my kids into them. My son has a couple of the new, smaller, Star Wars sets.

So the other day the wife came across an old box of Legos I had up in the attic (Legos I bought as a younger adult) and we go them out for the kids.

My only Star Wars set:

I've found that they have since updated this and made it even cooler . . . but all I really wanted was a Lego Boba Fett, because the guys are just the coolest.

My train set:

My first train set!

I've always been in love with the Lego trains. I wish I made more money just so I could buy more Lego train stuff.

Of course, I remember just ten years ago you could go to the Lego site and find all kinds of different train engines to buy, multiple steam engines, but now there's not really much of a choice. Which is too bad.

This has to be one of the coolest things I've ever seen!



Click the link to see a bigger image and who created it:

OK, this is pretty cool too:



Built by this guy:

*cough* LEGO Bricks, not "legos".

(the company actually does care about this, it isn't just my stupid quirk)

I grew up calling them Legos . . . so Legos they are

*sigh*

Kleenex weeps for LEGO.

It's ok to cry

Lol.

It's actually a somewhat interesting problem. Your product becomes so ubiquitous with the brand name that you lose the same copyright protection that a smaller company marketing the same product might have.

Lego my eggo.

So . . . LEGO is copyrighted or trademarked or whatever, by Lego is not?

Does that mean that I can create a toy called Lego and I would be cool?

"legos" is not. LEGO/Lego is.

I've been really into the Space Police line. I like the designs, but mostly I just find it hilarious that all of the criminals are aliens, and all of the cops are standard humans.

I've started calling it the Space Fascists line.

I hate to say it... but I would consider wearing that.

I think I would too!

I remember seeing the Batman sets when they came out a few years ago, and due to a lack of funds I had to pass on them. I would love to get my hands on some of them, but the prices are outrageous.

The have much cooler Lego sets out nowadays then what they had when I was a kid. I soooooo want to buy some of these new Lego sets, but Hush is right, they are expensive.

Lego Bricks (there you go Jordan) are awesome! I have messed with them since I was knee high to a grasshopper. One cool thing about lego, is they are good for kids with autism. My son has to stay in a home for boys in Houston that have severe behavior issues from autism and he is only allowed certain toys and items and one of those is Legos.
He has tons of them! every birthday and Christmas he gets sets from everybody. He has more Star Wars sets then I can list! For Christmas this last year he received several sets and the one I got him was the Star Wars AT AT set. It was so cool! I wanted to keep it myself
For his birthday last week he received the Mandelorian set and a Slave One.

Lego's rule!