Interesting Guardian Lego article

GeordiePaul

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/04/how-lego-clicked-the-super-brand-that-reinvented-itself

bookmum

Ooh I will have to read that as I read the guardian usually anyway!! 

GeordiePaul

@bookmum Me too (obviously)!

There's also a few links to older Lego articles further down on the page that are worth a read :-)

bookmum

Just read it. Interesting! I put a comment in the comments section - but couldn't think of anything more to say than I love Lego because I'm kinda tired. Still what more do you need than those three little words... 

Astrobricks

Very good. Now I feel compelled to MOD all my SW ships to have a bathroom :)

GeordiePaul

@Astrobricks You're telling me that you haven't already done that? I just assumed everyone did that. My Death Star even has an en-suite for The Emperor.

SumoLego

Rigging up the plumbing for the bidet in the Death Star is problematic.  It can only use a certain type of exhaust port.  Some stupid farmboy keeps shooting proton torpedoes at it.

(As an aside, does anyone think that Lucas anticipated a problem by using 'photon' torpedoes, so he named them 'proton' torpedoes?  These are the things that rack my brain while I move hundreds of polybags from my garage to my basement.)

Astrobricks

^ As a person with a degree in physics, proton torpedoes sound slightly more plausible to me.

SprinkleOtter

SumoLego said:

Rigging up the plumbing for the bidet in the Death Star is problematic.  It can only use a certain type of exhaust port.  Some stupid farmboy keeps shooting proton torpedoes at it.

(As an aside, does anyone think that Lucas anticipated a problem by using 'photon' torpedoes, so he named them 'proton' torpedoes?  These are the things that rack my brain while I move hundreds of polybags from my garage to my basement.)

Probably just that "proton torpedoes" sound better.

Off to go rack my brain as to what hundreds of polybags look like...

SumoLego

@Sprinkleotter
Here's about 125 in the white trays and another 75 in the gray trays.  I have another six sets of the bins to squeeze in this space.



I wasn't kidding about cubicles in my basement.  

madforLEGO

SumoLego said:

Rigging up the plumbing for the bidet in the Death Star is problematic.  It can only use a certain type of exhaust port.  Some stupid farmboy keeps shooting proton torpedoes at it.

(As an aside, does anyone think that Lucas anticipated a problem by using 'photon' torpedoes, so he named them 'proton' torpedoes?  These are the things that rack my brain while I move hundreds of polybags from my garage to my basement.)

'You think the average storm trooper knows how to install a toilet main? Alls they know is killing in white uniforms'

SumoLego

@madforLEGO - I'm not even supposed to be here today.