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Does anyone actually do this?

posted 7 years ago by PeteRose (2893)
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Spoiler for The Lego Movie 2014

A big plot point in The Lego Movie is the Kragle, which you come to realize by the end is [spoiler]a bottle of Krazy Glue that is crusty and readable only as Kragle. My question is this, does anyone actually glue their Legos together to preserve their sets? That seems ludicrous. A major benefit of Legos are their ability to be mixed and matched and reformed and played with to infinite possibilities. Are there actually tight asses like Will Ferrell's character who glue their Legos? I'm almost offended by it. By the end he relaxes his Kragle policy but I've never known a single person to do this, and I know a lot of Legoers.[/spoiler]

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

Me and my sister had a set but no,we never done that

[–] MIchiganJFrogg (-35) 7 years ago

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[–] actionkamen (23176) 7 years ago

Me and my brother did superglued lego when we were kids. We were making a windmill, and my brother wanted to put a motor salvaged from a motorized toy car (they don't have official motor piece back then.)

It worked pretty well, except that the blades of the windmill kept falling apart due to the rotation (it was very fast, the motor we used was way too powerful and we didn't have enough science-prowess to make it slower. Hey, we were kids!) So, we decided to superglue the windmill's blades. It was a necessary evil.

Nothing like what was in the movie though.

[–] PeteRose (2893) 7 years ago

At least it was for a good cause. When the need arises I suppose it's okay. The bricks fit and hold even tighter now than they used to, so it might not even be necessary with modern bricks. I am a big Lego guy. I started getting them when I was like 3 or 4, which was about 1990, and was also when the best sets of all time were created: castle and especially Legoland Pirates. I have a Black Seas Baracuda. Now I am 30 and still play with them, they never get old, and I love getting Star Wars Legos and building them up.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 7 years ago

Good to see a fellow AFOL! My parents donated all my childhood lego sets when I didn't bother playing with them anymore. So a few years ago I started clean. I am now also in my late 30s.

Today I have about 50 sets brand new and a bucket of assorted used bricks. I don't collect a particular theme. Just about anything I feel like to have, but mostly Ninjago (maybe almost half of my collection,) City, Creator, DC and Marvel Super Hero sets.

Unfortunately I don't have any Star Wars set. Not a big fan of the franchise anyway.

[–] PeteRose (2893) 7 years ago

Thanks for teaching me the acronym. I had to look up AFOL. I definitely am one. I really have my eye on late 80s through 90s sets, but they have great new stuff all the time. I really like the architecture sets, but I don't have any yet. I really want a Simpsons Kwik-E-Mart. The 800 dollar Millenium Falcon is a dream, but I'd have to save for a while. Even someone who doesn't like Star Wars must appreciate the beauty of that set. So many pieces! It's probably for the best that I don't have kids or I would hog them all, but they really are an excellent way to develop a technical and design oriented mind. I am definitely the person I am partially because of Lego.

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