Posted by on Oct 9, 2012 in Personal, Toys | 0 comments

Finished my 2nd major Lego project for this VW Wagon a couple nights ago. Now I’m suffering from Lack-of-lego syndrome. It’s what you get when you find a little bit of time each night to sit down by yourself and enjoy a little Lego building and then all of a sudden that’s all gone. I’m itching to buy another set. There’s a new set for a HUGE B-wing fighter that’s out right now…but I think with all the plans for our home renovations lately, the last thing my wife would like to see in our house is a giant plastic spaceship. Imagine a scene where there will be a lot of throwing and plastic pieces flying everywhere in slow motion like the parts in Matrix where they’re shooting down the walls and columns.

This project was as fun as my last one with R2D2. I do these things really nice and slow and admire the thought put into these models. The guys who design these things are amazing. How they fit blocks a certain way to make sure it’s structurally sturdy and yet they make something that not only resembles the objects they are, but they have functional pieces as the same time?

What made this extra fun for me was that I was able to get little Kingston involved in some parts of the project. So it’s one of our first dad-son projects together. I hope there will be many more.

One day I’d like to get into a Lego factory and ask some of these questions which I personally feel are one of the great mysteries of the Universe:

  • How does their machines ensure that every little Lego piece is accounted for in each set?
  • How do the little plastic parts run away and hide themselves till I’m at the point where I’m convinced they screwed up and missed some pieces, and then somehow magically appear at the last minute proving me an idiot?
  • After a builder designs one of these sets…how do they document the process so it can be made into a set?  Do they break it all down piece-by-piece or do little Lego Oompas sit next to each designer and label each piece as they build?

One day, I WILL find out!  I will!