Millhouse

I watched a documentary about AFOLs recently. I must admit, I love lego - would love to do the pneumatic truck. Can't can't find the time.

DXBtoDOH

My lego thing was always houses. For a while I was doing contemporary house models out of legos till I realised they looked too continental like those drab modernist houses you see in Germany and the Netherlands, so I started doing replicas of various English styles. Georgian was pretty easy, did a five story Edinburgh New Town townhouse once and various Tudors, though my most sophisticated accomplishment was a Victorian arts & crafts villa, which surprisingly so, worked pretty well with the lego blocks available. That was the last one I built and I must have been 18, just before university. It was left in a closet for ages till it got dropped somehow.

The legos are still there. My nephew plays with it when he visits mummaw and pop pop. Unfortunately, so far he's really only interested in spaceships but in a year or two we might be able to get him onto the castles or pirate ship.

scrubbedexpat141

I had a lego digger which was pneumatically operated, little pumps, hissing...the works. Wonderful thing.

Miss Ann Thrope

Lego is rectangular and square bricks, red or white with corner pieces and green platforms on which to build. The rest is imagination-destroying nonsense. Oh, and the other thing is that you STOP playing with lego at age 8 when you get a chemistry set and focus on blowing up the house...

mission

DXB, in that case, you will for sure love LEGOLAND - the structures are amazing.

Brains1983

I took the kids to Stack last year and out back there was section for AFOL. one of the guys gets flown around to exhibit at these things (the guy that had all the cars/vehicles from movies/TV). I guess it's sort of interesting, but I also think it's a little weird to be buying yourself lego to build in your 40s/50s though. I just about get off with it as I'm still in my 30s and can claim its for my son