New Independent Lego Journal Launches 122
hfcs writes "Joe Meno, a Lego-junkie buddy of mine has just launched
BrickJournal, a new, independent journal for Lego fanatics, 'featuring HOWTOs, reviews, history and interviews with Lego engineers'. As mentioned over at
BoingBoing this morning, it's like 'a very, very, very specific version of Make!'." Conveniently split into two PDFs for your reading pleasure.
Re:Convinenetly? (Score:2, Redundant)
There is a link on their website for the entire pdf.
absolutely NO credibility (Score:1)
Re:Convinenetly? (Score:2, Funny)
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No reason? Sure there is. My personal favorite - for printing and reading offline in a format that prints acceptably (unlike HTML/CSS which no browser can seem to get right 100% of the time).
And there are plenty of non-Adobe PDF readers/plugins out there as alternatives if you don't feel like making an effort to block the ads in Adobe's reader..
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Acrowho? (Score:2)
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Re:Convinenetly? (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Convinenetly? (Score:1)
The article never mentioned a howto. It talked about a (very cool) lego journal, with interviews, instructions for some models, events...
Have you read the article?
Re:LEGOS!!!! (Score:2)
Use the Force, Luke? (Score:1)
After all, there are legos in physical form, and legos as game sprites.
Re:Use the Force, Luke? (Score:1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego [wikipedia.org]
Re:Use the Force, Luke? (Score:2)
BULLSHIT!
Re:Use the Force, Luke? (Score:2)
Figuring that there had to be a story behind it, I asked the bartender about it.
He told me that a guy once walked in to another bar with the same owner as them and ordered a "Rum and Coke." Upon being served a Rum with Pepsi cola in it, he informed the management that he was a representative
Re:Use the Force, Luke? (Score:2)
As a result, the guy in their radio ads who talks about going down to the dealership to check out "their new Jeep vehicles" doesn't sound like a rugged, practical outdoorsman, like they want him to. He sounds like an idiotic corporate tool.
Re:Use the Force, Luke? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Use the Force, Luke? (Score:2)
case in point
Re:Use the Force, Luke? (Score:2, Informative)
It's always been quite natural to me that Lego is the company, and they make bricks. Lego bricks sounds fine; Legos doesn't, unless there's more than one company.
The plural form Legos appears to be an American thing, though. I'm sure I'm incorrectly capitalising the company name, anyway.
Re:Use the Force, Luke? (Score:1)
Go fuck yourself. I'm not going to correct my little niece when she says "LEGOS" and I don't consider your trademark issues to be my problem.
Affectionately,
Golias
Re:Use the Force, Luke? (Score:2)
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Re:Use the Force, Luke? (Score:1)
I'm sure Hormel must thank you for your efforts in not letting people use Spam in vain.
hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
so many things wrong with this sentence....
PS (Score:2)
http://www.bzpower.com.nyud.net:8090/Imaging/stor
Two convenient *or* one convenient, either way (Score:5, Informative)
kinda makes sense to me, especially for modem users...you can read one while getting the other...or waiting for the slashdotting to pass, either way.
A mania for everything... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A mania for everything... (Score:3, Informative)
Already way ahead of you.
I also think it fair to mention one of the better places to buy older Lego sets and parts, Bricklink.com [bricklink.com], though I may be biased because I am one of many people who sell parts through the site.
Re:A mania for everything... (Score:1)
I will say, I enjoyed legos as a youngster, and still think they are neat- but there are way to many preformed pieces. The fire house/trucks/castles and all made of the traditional legos were my favorite...
Lego my eggo? Is that the same kind of thing?
Re:A mania for everything... (Score:1)
That looks great. I read through "What is Lego Serious Play", and it completely failed to answer the question. Presumably you have to go on an (expensive) course to find out.
As you say, definitely for businesses with too much time and money.
It had to happen (Score:2)
Mirror Links of whole Magazine PDF (Score:4, Informative)
@ University of Toronto [utoronto.ca]
(5mb approx)
Improper Pluralization (Score:5, Funny)
No no no. The plural of "Lego engineer" is "Lego engineer".
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"Lego Engineer, I choose you!"
"LEGO, LEGO!"
"Flying brick attack, now!"
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Danish plastic brick monopoly! (Score:2, Informative)
Are legos recyclible? If not are there any 'green' toy building bricks made from reclaimed plastic?
Re:Danish plastic brick monopoly! (Score:5, Funny)
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Lego is Recyclable (Score:3, Informative)
In 1984, I toured the Samsonite luggage factory in Ontario, which made Lego bricks under contract for the Canadian market. I got to see the grinders, the presses, and the other equipment that makes Lego.
One of the interesting things on the tour were the reject bins. Lego (unlike their cheap, plastic brick competitors) had a stringent quality control system in place. If a brick was not perfect in fit or finish, it was placed in reject bins.
Each production r
BrickJournal - The magazine for Adult fans of Lego (Score:5, Funny)
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My huband and the infamous LEGO bath (Score:5, Funny)
My husband and I were working over the summer at Penn State and we were living in the crappy sublet right on the main street. It had no AC so we used fans the is sucked in some of the worst street grime you can imagine. So, one evening I came home from work to see him sitting on the floor with a whole little set-up - bowls of water, lots of paper towls, a toothbrush - and he had taken apart all of his LEGO things, washed each one piece by piece and put them back together.
He won't do the dishes, but he will wash his LEGO's. This mag is made for him, the Adult Fan of LEGO (AFOL)!
Re:My huband and the infamous LEGO bath (Score:2, Funny)
I refuse to believe that a woman posts here.
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2. Past puberty could describe a lot of males here.
3. A lot of males here likely sing soprano.
4. The gender-specific bandage most often used here on the internets is the male's right hand. What is this bandage of which you speak?
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You know you've been spending too much time on
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Using legos is great and all... (Score:2, Funny)
Lego Logic Gates (Score:3, Funny)
time for the obligitory Lego post... (Score:5, Funny)
there, did i cover all the bases?
Re:time for the obligitory Lego post... (Score:1)
Lego's are for LITTLE KIDS (Score:1)
Spelling is for the EDUCATED (Was: Re: Lego's are (Score:2)
What is the deal with people who can't spell 'lego' - it is like they missed a stage of their education or something.
Re:Spelling is for the EDUCATED (Was: Re: Lego's a (Score:2)
WOuld that be (Score:2)
Re:Spelling is for the EDUCATED (Was: Re: Lego's a (Score:1)
I should have said "LEGO Blocks". But I thought that short hand colloquialisms for a popular childrens' toy would have been sufficient.
Re:Spelling is for the EDUCATED (Was: Re: Lego's a (Score:2)
I had a guy in my class do an oral presentation about "sheeps" once. It sounded no less glaringly wrong than "legos" (because it was no less glaringly wrong). He had an excuse though - English was his second language.
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Re:Lego's are for LITTLE KIDS (Score:4, Insightful)
Why does age matter in enjoyment of a toy that lets a person be creative??
Re:Lego's are for LITTLE KIDS (Score:1)
but if we are to speak of legos.. (Score:1)
sure, it's the bible so it's a bit raunchy at times but each story is conveniently labeled so you'll know if it contains nudity, sexual content, violence or cursing.. whew!
http://www.thebricktestament.com/ [thebricktestament.com]
More mirrors? (Score:2)
Coralized link: (Score:1)
Yes, I waited through the painful hour of downloading through coral so others could have it faster :)
Creativity? (Score:2)
Re:Creativity? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm not sure if I'm being naiive, but I'll treat this as if it were not a troll.
Rather than looking at the pieces as limiting, I see the piece specifications as exactly the opposite. All of the pieces interconnect. The 'specialized' pieces are limited for basic construction, but they're great for accent. The remainder of the pieces follow a few _very_ simple rules. There are simple height, width, and depth constraints. There are a bunch of colours (not a ton, but enough, methinks). These constraints are applied with a great deal of consistency over a large number of different Lego pieces
Because of 'simple rules' and 'interconnectivity', I think that creativity is one of the few limiting factors.
Re:Creativity? (Score:2)
In addition to the height, width, and depth constraints you listed, there are other constraints such as angles. I can place two blocks together in very few, very limited ways. Can you not see how this restricts creativity? I honestly tried playing with legos when I was young, but I often got frustrated because I simply could not put the legos together the way I wanted to. Perha
Re:Creativity? (Score:2)
How do you put things together without constraints?
This is similar to the idea of joints. they have varying degrees of mobility and stability. The more mobile, the less stable, and vice versa.
Lego has constraints, but also allows flexibility through varying parts, and multiple pieces. Though not as flexible in some ways as meccano or kinexx, they are more flexible in others.
Creativity I would presume comes from what you can create with the resources you have at your
Re:Creativity? (Score:2)
That said, I would agree that lego is overly limited and limiting for most people beyond a certain age.
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I build lego robots, set them on the floor, and off they go to do stuff. They're robots, not models of robots. It's interesting and rewarding.
I have also built robots the good old soldering iron way, but the speed of working with lego can be hard to beat when you start thinking "Y'know - that bump sensor doesn't work as well as I'd like, if I were to move it to there, and change the leverage at that point there, I bet it wouldn't get
Re:I'm not sure I get it (Score:2)
- Erector
- Tinkertoys
- Lincoln Logs
- K*Nex
Hey, that would make a good poll: "Favorite building toy?"
Re:I'm not sure I get it (Score:2)
pretenders to the throne that is LEGO
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Missing options (Score:1)
- I have no hands, you insensitive clod!
- Play-doh
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