An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
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New Book Shows How to Build Lego Guns, Catapults
Legos — they’re not just for good kids anymore.
A book written by two former employees of the Danish plastic-brick giant is burning up the Amazon.com sales charts — and raising eyebrows on the other side of the Atlantic.
“Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against” was published in August by No Starch Press, a small independent publishing house based in San Francisco.
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“You’ll learn to create working models that LEGO would never endorse,” the book’s page on the publisher’s Web site promises. “Try your hand at a toy gun that shoots LEGO plates, a candy catapult, a high voltage LEGO vehicle, a continuous-fire ping-pong ball launcher, and other useless but incredibly fun inventions.”
I’ve been stumped what to get Mr Ol’ Broad for Christmas. I wonder……. Naw….I’m fairly sure he’d rather have a REAL catapult. (Mental image of a seriously flying peacock! Heh!)
When I was very young we had a little middle ages castle set. Along with the little knights, horses, damsels,etc. were rubber band powered catapults that fired little plastic “rocks”. We also had Mattel
Maybe someone in you vast audience remembers this stuff.
guns which fired spring powered projectiles (accented by (greenie stickum caps). No one I know ever lost an eye
LOVE YOU, C
Hey Bro! Glad you made it down there safely. You were supposed to call when you got there, remember? Do you have e-mail down there yet? Your H & D package arrived. Thanks. Thank God no baklava this time. One for you should be arriving shortly. – Hey – I played with that knights set, too – Lots of fun! Your sis.