{"id":29115,"date":"2015-06-22T21:28:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T02:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=29115"},"modified":"2015-06-22T21:28:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T02:28:01","slug":"the-itch-to-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=29115","title":{"rendered":"The Itch to Build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my closet there&#8217;s an ammunition crate, painted red.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s where I keep my LEGO bricks.<\/p>\n<p>There are LEGO bricks in that crate that are older than some of my coworkers.  No, I&#8217;m not kidding.  There are some LEGO boat pieces (that float on water) that I know date from the late 1970s, and I have coworkers who were born in the 1980s.  I can&#8217;t be 100% certain, In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=28601\">my KRE-O\/LEGO <i>Enterprise<\/i><\/a>, which sits on my bookshelf at the office, but I&#8217;m sure there are a few pieces older than my coworkers.  (Note: The images at that link don&#8217;t work.  I need to fix them.)<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say, there&#8217;s a lot of LEGO in that crate.<\/p>\n<p>I really should do something with them.  I should build with them; I haven&#8217;t really dug into the box in a year.  I still have a couple of LEGO <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i> sets to build, to say nothing of a few KRE-O <i>Star Trek<\/i> sets and the K&#8217;Nex Beatles Yellow Submarine set.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, I&#8217;d have said, &#8220;It&#8217;s not LEGO, so it must be crap.&#8221;  Then I started working with non-LEGO bricks, and I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6777\">there&#8217;s some quality out there<\/a> like KRE-O and Character Building.  (There&#8217;s also crap, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=27026\">Best Lock&#8217;s <i>Stargate SG-1<\/i> sets<\/a>.)  I liked Hasbro&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5977\">KRE-O <i>Transformers<\/i> sets<\/a>; in some respects, they &#8220;feel&#8221; more authentic in my hands than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5947\">LEGO <i>Alien Conquest<\/i><\/a> sets did.  (On the other hand, Hasbro&#8217;s older <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=168\"><i>Transformers<\/i> Built-to-Rule sets<\/a> <i>were<\/i> crap.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.milb.com\/assets\/images\/5\/8\/2\/128102582\/cuts\/LegoJerseyPromo_qmmjn5pz_wjqg6qyw.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" \/>This Saturday is &#8220;Bricks and Baseball Night&#8221; with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milb.com\/index.jsp?sid=t547\">Harrisburg Senators<\/a>: &#8220;The Senators will be wearing special Lego themed jerseys presented by PSECU.&#8221;  Of <i>course<\/i> I&#8217;m going to be there.  I love that jersey.  All the primary colors.  The right typeface for the team name.<\/p>\n<p>I need to get back to building.  The reason I don&#8217;t is a lack of space.  I&#8217;d want to build something and put it on display, but I don&#8217;t have the space to do that in my apartment.<\/p>\n<p>LEGO building is an expensive and space-consuming hobby. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Topic taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.wordpress.com\/\">The Daily Post<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.wordpress.com\/dp_prompt\/toy-story\/\">Toy Story<\/a>&#8221; prompt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my closet there&#8217;s an ammunition crate, painted red. It&#8217;s where I keep my LEGO bricks. There are LEGO bricks in that crate that are older than some of my coworkers. No, I&#8217;m not kidding. There are some LEGO boat pieces (that float on water) that I know date from the late 1970s, and I<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=29115\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Itch to Build&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[22,3936,4103,4089,3787,4030,46,346],"class_list":["post-29115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legos","tag-harrisburg-senators","tag-kre-o","tag-lego","tag-star-trek","tag-stargate-sg-1","tag-the-daily-post","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings","tag-transformers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}