Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for November 24, 2023

I built cars and slid them around.

As someone who has loved Lego for nearly six decades I reckon the most fun comes from the original basic bricks, and making your own models…the wholly shaped pieces of today do make great accurate models, but the challenge of trying to work out how to make something specific has gone. i feel It’s much more fun trying to make, say, Darth Vader’s helmet with regular pieces then with loads of special bits – which then can’t be used for much else except that model.

I’m so old my Legos weren’t Legos. They were some other brand, and they were made out of wood. They were stained red, with a few yellow ones.

I found some old (>25 years) Lego sets when cleaning out my shed. Truthfully, they look more interesting than most of the ones I see today. They’ll be donated them to the local Boys and Girls Club.

It was erector sets for me. I remember making a windmill with cardboard vanes.

I never had Legos, but back then it was wooden Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs, metal Erector sets, or plastic American Brick sets, which were sort of like Legos.

“Oh, there was plenty of fun to be had. You’ll find out when you’re older.”

Not if you like tall skinny buildings.

I never had Legos, but I had girder and panel building sets which I loved, and Erector Sets as well!

Yep, no kits. Just a lot of imagination.

Skinny fan.

Every generation thinks it invented entertainment.

Well, Hammie, fun back then was for more creative people.

No.

Parents would have parties. We kids would be sent to the back of the house to play with LEGOS. Adults would end up with the LEGOS in the kitchen. Building huge castles and other things. The creativity was pretty awesome. One such project the had rigged lights to various rooms. No small feat since LEDS were not around yet!

I had plastic locking blocks before l=Legos came around. They were red plastic and had a brick pattern embossed in the sides and all you could build with them were houses. Had working window inserts. People think stepping on a Lego is waker-upper, ought to try one of those as they were like 3/8" high.

We had white building blocks. Came with windows and doors and some green flat caps. Great for building houses but you had to either leave the top open or make a roof out of cardboard. Also Lincoln Logs.

I’ve had lego as a kid in 1960s and although like the comic states the bricks were a lot more limited, I still made some impressive items. I built a good aircraft carrier on one instance. I was so proud of that at my age then. Used up all the bricks I had and had to pull it apart a few day later as it was taking up too much room at 1.5 metres long.

When my kids were little they built all kinds of things with Legos. Amazing things trouble was the legos were all over the place.

My original Legos were a monthly box of maybe 20-30 bricks shipped from Denmark.

Lincoln Logs

I had Lego’s, Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys. Been building barns since before I had horses : D Fun was def a different thing in my day. It was easy, consistent and readily available. Not always cheap but … available if one’s imagination was active.

No son, that was when kids actually had a brain and created something from their own mind. Today the corporations tell you what to build with the Legos. It actually is kind of sad.

The “build this” Lego® kits are to creative play what video games are to attention spans. It was much better when it was just a “build what you can imagine” set of blocks.

Once I built a tower to the sun

Brick and rivet and lime

Once I built a tower, now it’s done

Brother can you spare a dime?

I liked building three story houses with Legos!

Fun is an evolving concept as you will discover later my son…..

We made our own fun.

No, I built a lot of stuff before sets shrunk the user’s imaginations. But I do like the Millennium Falcon set I got for Xmas 2021. And the older bricks used to construct the diorama for it.

Let’s be honest – Legos are priced out of reason.

Some boys back then I have heard were so poor, that their parent cut a hole in their pocket, so they would have something to play with.

Seriously, how old are these parents supposed to be???

Nope, no Legos. Just Tinkertoys, Lincoln Logs, Building Blocks, and something I don’t remember the name of that consisted of plastic blocks, hollow on the bottom and with round pegs on the top that fit into hollow sockets on the underside. They were used to make buildings. There were even windows and doors, and roofing pieces. Okay, now that’s going to bug me until I remember what they were called. I remember making things that looked vaguely like airplanes, but they weren’t very convincing.

I wonder if Darryl had the original Mr. Potato Head.

“Back in my day we didn’t have “Legos”. We had twigs found in the yard, we used that to build." =3

The closest thing to Legos that I had were Lincoln Logs. They smelled good.

I built a lot of spaceships. ;-)

Haha! (＾▽＾)