Thread: Building Bricks

This Super Mario World Lego Piranha plant was 540 pieces of hardcore, 18+ brick action.



Bag 1 piled into their colours.



Bag 2 was all green so had to be sorted by type. Very exciting.




It's all very complicated inside.





The leaves were fairly easy




And so was the head.




And done.



It came with two coins that you can insert and release from below using a hidden button. Seems a bit complicated for something that's just going to sit on the shelf next to my Sports Day participation trophies.

Next up is 5000thb worth of plastic. See you in about 3 years lads.

The Lego and Leo signs look remarkably similar.

I'm thinking of introducing giant hogweed as a back up for cha om

Originally Posted by david44

You will get longer and sustainable satisfaction from a real plant, which perhpas teh family can tend and learn how natural products are better than plastics which are grated into inhalable pieces found all over the planet, reducing fertlity and lung capacity.

Then perhaps a "teacher/mentor" might inpsire green fingers to grow cress then chilis in a basket or wondowbox if no garden/balcony?

I only learned of this when in the High Pyrenees around 2000 when scientists were amazed to find pollution everywhere.

How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat

But it's Super Mario!

Originally Posted by david44

You will get longer and sustainable satisfaction from a real plant, which perhpas teh family can tend and learn how natural products are better than plastics which are grated into inhalable pieces found all over the planet, reducing fertlity and lung capacity.

but if you chuck a container of lego into the sea you'll get decades of beech combing fun, you old old fukin eco warrior ex jet setting carboniferous fuel burning sanctimonious coont

The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up

A container filled with millions of Lego pieces fell into the sea off Cornwall in 1997. But instead of remaining at the bottom of the ocean, they are still washing up on Cornish beaches today - offering an insight into the mysterious world of oceans and tides.


"Let me see if I can find a cutlass," says Tracey Williams, poking around some large rocks on Perran Sands with a stick.


She doesn't manage that, but does spot a gleaming white, pristine daisy on the beach in Perranporth, Cornwall. The flower looks good for its age, seeing as it is 17 years old.


It is one of 353,264 plastic daisies dropped into the sea on 13 February 1997, when the container ship Tokio Express was hit by a wave described by its captain as a "once in a 100-year phenomenon", tilting the ship 60 degrees one way, then 40 degrees back.


As a result, 62 containers were lost overboard about 20 miles off Land's End - and one of them was filled with nearly 4.8m pieces of Lego, bound for New York.


No-one knows exactly what happened next, or even what was in the other 61 containers, but shortly after that some of those Lego pieces began washing up in both the north and south coasts of Cornwall. They're still coming in today.


A quirk of fate meant many of the Lego items were nautical-themed, so locals and tourists alike started finding miniature cutlasses, flippers, spear guns, seagrass and scuba gear as well as dragons and the daisies.


"There's stories of kids in the late 1990s having buckets of dragons on the beach, selling them," says Tracey, who lives in Newquay.


"These days the holy grail is an octopus or a dragon. I only know of three octopuses being found, and one was by me, in a cave in Challaborough, Devon. It's quite competitive. If you heard that your neighbour had found a green dragon, you'd want to go out and find one yourself."


She says the ship's manifest - a detailed list of everything in the containers - shows a whole range of Lego items, not all sea-themed. After all this time "it's the same old things that keep coming in with the tide", particularly after a bad storm.


Lego seagrass


Tracey runs a Facebook page , externalwhich documents the Lego discoveries, and recently received an email from someone in Melbourne who found a flipper which they think could be from the Tokio Express spillage.


US oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, external has tracked the story of the Lego since it was spilled. "The mystery is where they've ended up. After 17 years they've only been definitely reported off the coast of Cornwall," he says.


It takes three years for sea debris to cross the Atlantic ocean, from Land's End to Florida. Undoubtedly some Lego has crossed and it's most likely some has gone around the world. But there isn't any proof that it has arrived as yet.


"I go to beachcombing events in Florida and they show me Lego - but it's the wrong kind. It's all local stuff kids have left behind."


Since 1997, those pieces could have drifted 62,000 miles, he says. It's 24,000 miles around the equator, meaning they could be on any beach on earth. Theoretically, the pieces of Lego could keep going around the ocean for centuries.


"The most profound lesson I've learned from the Lego story is that things that go to the bottom of the sea don't always stay there," Ebbesmeyer adds. The incident is a perfect example of how even when inside a steel container, sunken items don't stay sunken. They can be carried around the world, seemingly randomly, but subject to the planet's currents and tides.


"Tracking currents is like tracking ghosts - you can't see them. You can only see where flotsam started and where it ended up."

The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up - BBC News

Champion thread Armo

Me and my mate came 2nd and 3rd in a lego competition circa 1978

The winner was the grandson of my extra-curricular piano teacher (who was also the regular music teacher at my school although piano lessons were at her house on her baby grand)

The judge of the competition was her husband... i.e. the winners grandad! FFS!

I am still not fully reconciled with this scandalous incident of nefarious nepotism most fowl and have salved my traumatised memory with my lego Saturn 5 in the kitchen.

I was asking my mum last-night if she could remember the moon landing and she said she remembered watching it on TV holding me at the age of 7 months. I said I wish they had taken a photo of the TV but that was not really something people did before smartphones came along.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

sanctimonious coont

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Perran lovely even earlier S Just in Penwith had baccy rustler of wrecked tobacco washed overboard about 80s folks still puffed in emergecies in 90s when I lived near Lamorna in Penwith.

Did a couple of bags to get me over the hangover and through Sunday. #LADS

Started off easy enough. Getting the base sorted and stable




Then in bag 2 it got quite technical with the turning handle and stuff. Lots of small pieces that presumably need to be able to move later on. So the dog came over to help with the tricky bits.



It looks like absolutely nothing right now but feels nice and sturdy. I was going to do a 3rd bag but I don't think I can cross my legs for that long.

Nice.

I nicked the kid's DIY table and beanbag when I helped her to build her half meter long 3,000 piece Lego Ferrari 488 (V8 pistons move up and down as I.... she plays vroom vroom with it). Used a wooden cutlery tray for the pieces and giant map of the world mouse mat to make meself feel all professional.












The efforts we go through to help our children.

Here ya go guys... just the job for a couple of Lego sados...

Lots of colour and size choices and they even do hoodies.

Armstrong, if ever I see you wearing one of these in the Robin Hood I'll buy you a pint!



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– CHICHIM

Armstrong. Don't get Mendip to order it you'll end up a fondue set