Opinion of building blocks

[Joe Republic]

Like these:




I was using some of them in my dentist's waiting room today, and I was like, "wow these are retarded."  You'd have to be a complete f[inks]ing moron to waste any time with them.  I tried to spell out 'hardcore' and 'dudefest', but you only get one of each letter, so all I could really do was 'emo'.  Plus, you can't even build anything substantial with them either.

Seriously, why do people bother with these massive f[inks]ing wastes of time and money, especially when there's perfectly good Lego available?

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Not as good as legos, but they were okay.    lol

[Bacon King]

LOL

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Agreed.  I always enjoyed playing with these back in my preschool days.

[batmacumba]

Seriously, why do people bother with these massive f[inks]ing wastes of time and money, especially when there's perfectly good Lego available?

I started to ask this when I started to talk. But for some kids It may be handfull at alphabetization.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Seriously, why do people bother with these massive f[inks]ing wastes of time and money, especially when there's perfectly good Lego available?

I started to ask this when I started to talk. But for some kids It may be handfull at alphabetization.

Hey, Lego used to have blocks with letters on them, too.

[Donerail]

Agreed.  I always enjoyed playing with these back in my preschool days.

These are the fun kind, with cylinders and cones and crap so you can actually build something. The blocks Joe Republic posted are the horrible kind.

[minionofmidas]

Can't say I've ever seen any like Joe's.

I prefer these, anyways.

[Redalgo]

Horrible blocks. :<

[Oakvale]

[Torie]

I preferred using toothpicks as a 5 year old kid, to lay out roads and cities, and legal parcels, on the living room carpet. Sometimes the array would cover an area of like 100 square feet. I was annoyed when my parents "tore them down." I did make them give me the toothpicks back for later use. A city destroyed is merely an opportunity to create another.

[Donerail]

Personally, I liked masking tape and a Sharpie (and boxes and such); I'd create airports on the carpet and add accurate labels, then use it as a base for my toy planes and Rescue Heroes vehicles.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

I'd use Scott-style blocks to make random towns and then destroy them with trucks.

[batmacumba]

Seriously, why do people bother with these massive f[inks]ing wastes of time and money, especially when there's perfectly good Lego available?

I started to ask this when I started to talk. But for some kids It may be handfull at alphabetization.

Hey, Lego used to have blocks with letters on them, too.

Was It a Duplo series? I don't remember that.

[batmacumba]

I preferred using toothpicks as a 5 year old kid, to lay out roads and cities, and legal parcels, on the living room carpet. Sometimes the array would cover an area of like 100 square feet. I was annoyed when my parents "tore them down." I did make them give me the toothpicks back for later use. A city destroyed is merely an opportunity to create another.

Personally, I liked masking tape and a Sharpie (and boxes and such); I'd create airports on the carpet and add accurate labels, then use it as a base for my toy planes and Rescue Heroes vehicles.

It was silly to make small spaceships that way. I reserved this kind of stuff to those I could sit in and pilot myself.

[Gustaf]

Please don't tell me that Oakvale, Bacon and I were the only ones to get it?

[Donerail]

Please don't tell me that Oakvale, Bacon and I were the only ones to get it?

Sarcastic jab at BRTD's Dora thread. Yep, most of us got it.

[Gustaf]

Please don't tell me that Oakvale, Bacon and I were the only ones to get it?

Sarcastic jab at BRTD's Dora thread. Yep, most of us got it.

Good. I get worried sometimes.

[opebo]

I preferred using toothpicks as a 5 year old kid

Did you know that using a toothpick as we do in Missouri - to keep in your mouth for hours as a kind of accessory, and to point at this that and the other thing (from the back-40 to an attractive cowgirl passing by)  - is considered one of the most impolite things you can do here in Thailand.  Not as impolite as things involving the feet, but pretty close.

One time I was riding in a song-taew, playing around with a toothpick as I am wont to do, and the damn thing escaped me, falling on the head of another passenger.  Major faux-pas, for sure!

A city destroyed is merely an opportunity to create another.

I'm happy to see your moving - however incrementally - toward a better understanding of economics.

[opebo]

Please don't tell me that Oakvale, Bacon and I were the only ones to get it?

Everybody got it, I just found Torie's post interesting. 

Come to think of it Torie, my mom used to buy us a huge supply of tongue-depressors, which is pretty weird when you think about it.  But they were awfully fun for building things.

[minionofmidas]

I preferred using toothpicks as a 5 year old kid, to lay out roads and cities, and legal parcels, on the living room carpet.

Real kids used chalk for that.

The carpet in my room was good that way.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I always feel bad for children who never had access to insulation tape.