Comments on: Keeping Bricks Together http://www.brickpile.com/2006/01/01/keeping-bricks-together/ Building a brighter tomorrow with LEGO® bricks Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:11:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Bill http://www.brickpile.com/2006/01/01/keeping-bricks-together/#comment-4 Bill Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:25:38 +0000 http://www.brickpile.com/?p=3#comment-4 By the way, the garage was Holly's idea. I asked her what I should build next and she said "you're always building cars and you never build a place to repair them." It's rather loosely based on a tire shop in Soquel CA near my chiropractor's office. By the way, in case you are wondering I am planning to migrate all the LEGO entries over here from my Blosxom blog. By the way, the garage was Holly’s idea. I asked her what I should build next and she said “you’re always building cars and you never build a place to repair them.” It’s rather loosely based on a tire shop in Soquel CA near my chiropractor’s office.

By the way, in case you are wondering I am planning to migrate all the LEGO entries over here from my Blosxom blog.

]]> By: Bill http://www.brickpile.com/2006/01/01/keeping-bricks-together/#comment-3 Bill Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:23:34 +0000 http://www.brickpile.com/?p=3#comment-3 Thanks! The old "ESSO Service" and "GARAGE" bricks that I have came from someone's collection that I bought from Ebay. Unfortunately I never had the original sets or instructions. So that model was really just a modern design using the old bricks for signs. The plethora of shapes and sizes started in the 1970's and LEGO hasn't looked back since. You can still get sets with just the basic bricks, though. My sculptures (Pokemon in particular) are built with just the basic bricks partly to show that you don't need the newer complicated ones. Thanks! The old “ESSO Service” and “GARAGE” bricks that I have came from someone’s collection that I bought from Ebay. Unfortunately I never had the original sets or instructions. So that model was really just a modern design using the old bricks for signs.

The plethora of shapes and sizes started in the 1970’s and LEGO hasn’t looked back since. You can still get sets with just the basic bricks, though. My sculptures (Pokemon in particular) are built with just the basic bricks partly to show that you don’t need the newer complicated ones.

]]> By: Jim http://www.brickpile.com/2006/01/01/keeping-bricks-together/#comment-2 Jim Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:52:16 +0000 http://www.brickpile.com/?p=3#comment-2 When I was a kid, there seemed to be about four different shapes - all basic shapes: 2-bump, 4-bump, 8-bump and 16-bump. That was it, at least in the kits we had. Later on, they started making the specialized kits and it seemed to change the rules of play so much. I must say that I was really impressed with how you customized this, though: <a HREF="http://bill.wards.net/blosxom/lego/models/town/buildings/esso-garage.html" rel="nofollow">esso-garage.html</a> When I was a kid, there seemed to be about four different shapes - all basic shapes: 2-bump, 4-bump, 8-bump and 16-bump. That was it, at least in the kits we had. Later on, they started making the specialized kits and it seemed to change the rules of play so much. I must say that I was really impressed with how you customized this, though:

esso-garage.html

]]>