He was awesome. The rest of them were vapid.

Powdered sugar - maybe. Oil, I don’t think so…I think it’ll pool in the lego studs. Remember the trays are silicone so they bend under the weight of their contents - there will be some distortion too.

There has to be a way to make chocolate lego. Maybe if you first froze the tray in some water, so it would support the silicone? That might bend it inwards.

That is precisely what we do - walk out with armfulls of stuff. If you go to a lego store, you can buy lego in bulk, on a “fit all the lego you can into this container” basis, where the containers are fixed costs. This works great for pieces that pack well, and no so great for, well, doors, windows, and the like. Legoland’s store has a bulk section - on a price by weight basis.

So one can not simply go to the lego store to buy their lego, one must also make the pilgrimage to legoland.

We played _both_ of the star wars legos games, start to finish, as a pair. Fantastic titles, even if they were easy the storytelling was snarky and fun. You know they recently announced they’re giving some other Lucas subjects the same treatment? Lego Indiana Jones I think, but it’s long enough I can’t properly remember.

Hm. I wonder if the ice trays need to be prepped before being used with chocolate — powdered sugar or cooking spray of some sort might do the trick. Tho that doesn’t really address the issue of drippage…

I saw a couple of your pics from your trip(s) to legoland — looks like a dangerous place, even for those of us who aren’t completely hooked on them. I’d find it hard not to walk out of there with arms full of goodies.

btw, i hope you flaunted your keychain today.

OH! Speaking (briefly) of Star Wars and legos, have you played the star wars lego PS2 game? We were highly amused.

Actually, that’s kind of how we met. We both worked at Above.Net, and she brought some legos into work to assemble while on conference calls - just make random things while being bored. We got this idea to build a bridge inbetween the shelves on our cubicles…a span of about five feet…and it worked! We even ran an electric train over it. The sales people in the office didn’t really like it very much, especially when it ran. Too “unprofessional” they said. The finance ladies loved it tho. The sales guys eventually moved to another office to avoid us geeks. Suited us fine…in retrospect, had we known, we would have involved the finance ladies and made a loop over all our cubes! Then we could have done four styles of bridge rather than just the one.

Anyway, we’ve got those ice cube trays! Makes fantastic geeky ice cubes (except the trays are soft, so they bend a little, and bricks aren’t “perfect”…kinda wonky sided), especially if you make the ice out of various fruit juices to match lego brick colors (or add food coloring). I thought about using chocolate too! Why is that? My wife didn’t like the idea - she said she’d rather eat the chocolate directly rather than introduce a layer of indirection which may potentially spoil the supplies and will definitely diminish them (drops and leftovers that don’t wind up in the tray).

The other lego “swag” you need to pick up are minifig keychain ornaments (mine is a pirate (w/hook), but they have star wars figures too, how cool is that?) and magnetic legos (for your fridge - they come in 4×2 or you can get magnet-butt minifigs too). Legos are light, and the magnets are fairly strong, so with a few of them you can build normal legos on top to make something and attach it sideways on the fridge…or any other iron surface of course.

As we’re in California, we go to Legoland from 3-5 times a year, and always come home with huge bags of stuff.