My nephews got some Lego-like blocks for Christmas. And why not buy the cheap ones that come in a small bag? Unless you need them to stick together tightly, and/or you really like the Lego logo, and/or the blocks are for the kids who will most likely loose a lot of pieces, then by all means get the expensive, real thing.
Anyway, there were no really long and wide single layer pieces so I started to snap things together to start making the hull of a star ship or jet. It started to look fairly nice. I had to add little support pieces to keep the thing snapped together.
My one nephew liked it too and took it off production. When I noticed he set it aside, I asked if I could finish it. Looking back, I did not like the wing design, but I gave the finished product to my other nephew who had not taken it from me. Of course that just made the first jealous.
I than started to improve on a shotty design. It looked like a bus, but I turned it into a boat. The jealous nephew didn’t like it even though it could shoot missiles at the jet. He wanted wings so I put really gay looking wings on and did a test flight.
Well, that didn’t do and he started to cry. So, I prettied up the boat and put sleek manifolds on the partially redesigned wings. It still looked like a bus with wings. I so liked the first one better, but it looked nice enough to get out of the whole block business for the time.
The tears stopped and I even got a quite thank you.
Posted by Michael at January 5, 2007 01:57 PM