Welcome to this bilingual (Swedish-English) group blog by family members living on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, "the pond". Our interests range from the scientific to the eclectic, including gourmet food, horses, art and literature, computers, species in nature, history and iron, and photography. Three generations are posting here.
Sometimes as a parent you´ll get annoyed with all the little pieces lying around, but fact is that a Lego session can chase away both thoughts of work on a Sunday morning and breakfast hunger.
I did these cars with my boys this morning, and we have raced them too. They work fine after some adjustments. And the sound when rummaging for Lego in a plastic box is still the same as when I was a kid. Some things don´t change. :-)
So, an advice for annoyed parents; Get down and play instead!
Kaptain Kobold on Flickr is putting together great little scenes of historic scientists using LEGO. Here is The Evolution of Humans, with Darwin to the right representing humans (I think). Click on the photo to see more.
When LA saw this he said: "Wow, that is the combination of my two favorite things in the world, sushi and LEGO!" This is great stuff. (thanks PP for the link to more)
In the time before time, the great beings created the bionicle universe from a location known only as the world that feeds the world. They created Artahka, Karzahni, Mata nui and Makuta. And from the world that feeds the world, the matoran of light and the av-matoran were created. They are the matoran destined to become Toa, guardians of the universe. Mata nui created the matoran, the sky, the earth and the water. Makuta created weaker duplicates of himself, creating the brotherhood of Makuta (although there are female members of the brotherhood). Artahka and Karzahni were always bickering about who was a better craftsman. They had a contest, and Artahka won with his creation known as the staff of Artahka, which can re-create any object even from the smallest fragment of the object. But Karzahni vanished into his realm, never to emerge until nearly 100,000 years later. The great beings created the hand of Artahka, also known as the order of Mata nui, whose job was to protect Mata nui. In Artahka (the name of Artahka's realm) the order created the Toa Mata , whose job was to retrieve the staff of Artahka if it was ever stolen. The great beings then created the mask of life, commonly known as Kanohi Ignika. The mask was created to save Mata nui's life if it was ever in danger (because if Mata nui died so did the universe). A prophecy came with it as well, inscribed on the inside of the mask:
Where evil's afloat, A secret brings hope.
Where a world has gone under, Comes lightning and thunder.
What darkness divides, A cut will unite.
Ignite the flame of the heart, For the future to start.
Nearly every single villain in the bionicle history craves that mask. Not only does it have the ability to give life, but also to take it away.
This is a creation that I created called 'Ebon army battlepack' using LDD (lego digital designer) and has 3 foot soldiers, a metal colossus and a ballista that fires. I designed this set so that if bought in multitudes of 10 or more, an army could be created (hence the name 'Ebon army battlepack'). It takes a few weeks for it to upload itself into the gallery, so you won't be seeing it in your toy shelves any time soon. It costs USD 12.61 or if you're from sweden it costs SEK 124.93 ( which is cheap compared to some items in the gallery that can cost over a $1,000.00!
Edit: The is now up for sale and can be found here.
LA showed me this cool website on Lego.com where you download free software to build your own digital LEGO creation, upload it to a gallery, and you can then order the pieces if you like. I know, they just want to sell more LEGO, but it is quite creative. The great thing is that everybody else can see your designs. I poked around a bit, and there are lots of homemade Lego train designs, including a water tank , UP Northern # 833 (only 442 pieces, $77 to order) and "8-wide 0-6-0 switcher assemble", a streamlined Hudson, etc. But it also looks like you can download the building instructions for free, hear that, EH?
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