Amphigouri: varnished nonsense

When my brothers and I were little, my mother made us a huuuge drawstring bag into which we dumped our collection of LEGO building blocks. I don’t remember using them much myself, other than to build the occasional small toy or, more often, spending an afternoon designing a LEGO floor plan for a house, complete with bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen layouts. Nothing too exciting, really.

It’s probably a good thing the book Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against! (amazon) wasn’t around back then, or things might have been a little different.

The publisher’s page has the following:

Forbidden LEGO introduces you to the type of free-style building that LEGO’s master builders do for fun in the back room. Using LEGO bricks in combination with common household materials (from rubber bands and glue to plastic spoons and ping-pong balls) along with some very unorthodox building techniques, you’ll learn to create working models that LEGO would never endorse. 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.

For an example, check out the YouTube vid:

Actually, I’m sure my folks would have nipped in the bud any interest my brothers or I showed in projects like these, right quick. I wonder how much trouble I’ll be in if I tuck this book aside for our nephew in a few years…

[via BoingBoing]

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