Here's the combinatin of the two. http://www.muenster.de/~bus1503/ This website has almost every mech form Mech Commander and Mech Warrior that you can think of. The guy who created it adds new mechs every month! I'm currently buying the parts to build the Raptor and the Penetrator on brickbay.com I hope to gather up enough parts to build many more mechs. I can't wait untill I get enough parts to build the Chimera, Behemoth, and the Hu Lao. Or was it the Lao Hu...... Posted by Mr. Christopher (Member # 71) on :
I can never understand why it is that people feel compelled to speel the plural of lego 'legos'. It just sounds stupid! Lego is like deer, it's plural is the same as its singular! Jeez... Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
Geez. I'm sorry. I won't "speel" the plural of lego like that again.
You gotta admit the website kicks ass though.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I've got 33 Lego?
Nuh-uh. Sorry. Legos.
Posted by The_Evil_Lord (Member # 256) on :
33 what? Bricks? Sets? Aha! Thus we get:
I've got 33 lego-bricks. [Edit] 'bricks of lego'. I've got 33 lego-sets. [Edit] 'sets of lego'.
Certainly not 'legos'. Sounds weird and isn't correct.
[ June 09, 2001: Message edited by: The_Evil_Lord ]
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
Legi.
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
Oh that site looks so cool! I'm gonna have to spend a long time looking at it.
I loved playing with my LEGO when I was a kid and kept trying to make a model of the Enterprise but never quite made it. I never knew that you could make such cool models with just LEGO - WOW!
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Why can't it be LEGOS? I mean, that's like saying "I played with my G.I. Joe as a kid". No, it's G.I. Joes! Posted by BlueElectron (Member # 281) on :
Shit man, this guy is amazing!!!
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
This is the first time I've ever heard that staple of childhood referred to as "legos". I am appalled and disgusted.
"I had 33 Lego"? Wrong. But equally as wrong as saying "I had 33 legos." Because, partly, they're called bricks, but mainly, because no-one would ever say that. You'd say "I've got two boxes full of Lego", or "I have a shit-load of Lego".
And the GI-Joe thing doesn't work, because they were multiple toys. Lego is like one big harmonious unit of love.
"I played with my Scalextrics as a kid"? Doesn't work, does it?
Posted by Tec (Member # 136) on :
Well I and everyone else who is in my room at the time I'm typing this feel that Legos is correct. It doesn't sound right to say lego in certain sentences.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Until now, I've never heard the plural of "Lego" to be anything other than "Legos" (or perhaps it's "Legoes"?). And while I've of course heard them called "bricks", the most common term, to my knowledge, is just to refer to each brick as a "Lego".
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
While we're on the subject of toys... a guy I know gave me this...
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Aha! I'm useful!
As someone who changed my country of residence from one side of the Atlantic to the other in the prime of my Lego-building career, allow me to spread enlightenment.
It is absolutely always-always "Lego" singular or plural on the side that the Gulf Stream flows towards. Being that this is the side on which Lego was invented, I'd be inclined to make this the official grammatical use.
On the side from which the Gulf Stream flows away, the terrible crapulism "Legos" or "Legoes" is indeed in common, albeit non-universal use.
Posted by Dr. Jonas Bashir (Member # 481) on :
There's a whole FAQ section at the LEGO Homepage about how to call each thing.
It's a LEGO Brick, a LEGO Playing Set or a LEGO Model. LEGO is just the brand. And you play with LEGO, not with Legos...
Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :
MIB: in response to your earlier query...the name is probably Lao Hu, which makes sense since that's tiger in mandarin. However, don't take my word for it, since i'm not that "down" with mech commander.
[ June 11, 2001: Message edited by: USS Vanguard ]
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
But, dialectally, each brick has become known as a "Lego". Just like it may be more correct to say that, when one has a headache, one is going to take a "Tylenol capsule", but people still just say they're going to take a "Tylenol". Same concept.
Posted by Dr. Jonas Bashir (Member # 481) on :
Well, ask the guys at The Lego Group, mounting an information campaign to be sure that their brand is used correctly when mentioned.
And Lego comes from the Danish "Leg Godt", which means "play well". Curiously, it's also a conjugation of the Latin verb "legare", to join, to unite.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Look. We invented the language. We would never say "Lego". We are right. Guv'ner.
[ June 11, 2001: Message edited by: PsyLiam ]
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Shik: Those aren't classic Transformers being bought back. Basically, to save money, Hoasbro is just bringing over the Japanese "Car Robots" line, which was their TF line for 2000-2001. And they are dubbing the Japanese anime (since that sort of thing is popular these days).
The toys are pretty cool though. Here are the two biggest Autobot/Cybertron (as they are called in Japan) toys, and what they will be called in the US:
