Brickset Bonusball Bonanza - UK draw 13/10/2107

snowhitie

Gather round one and all, it's time for the weekly Bonus Ball. I'm a bit of a history buff and would like to know from you the following. Imagine you had to live in a different period, pre-Lego, pre-indoor plumming, pre-computers, when would you like to live?  I will give you the benefit of living to a ripe old age and you won't die from appendicitis or anything.

Prize-wise, I've not got much tagged 'historic' in my doubles list, except for a Battle Dwarf or a Highwayman from series 17. Even thought the battle dwarf is probably only historically correct in a stretch, you can choose between those two.

Simply answer the question, you then get a number based on your post  and 1st 59 answers get a number.  If your number then is drawn on this weekends UK national lottery bonus ball then you win. 

If you would like to volunteer for any of the coming weeks, feel free to drop me a PM, I think a lot of people enjoy these so would be fun to keep them going.

TheOriginalSimonB

Oooh, nice one.

I'd love to see the pyramids being built...

vizzitor

Great question! Thanks for this.

Renaissance Italy to see some of the buildings and artwork in progress.

It's not pre-indoor plumbing though so does that count?

Wookie2

Victorian-era England.

LuLego

The 1920s - only cos I’d like a walking cane and hat.

Goldchains

1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA

civus Romanus sum...

FowlerBricks

Medieval times!

GallardoLU

Oh I'd very much like to have lived in Japan during the Edo Period. (1600s - mid 1800s)

starwars4ever

Revolutionary era America! Would have loved to see how it all started.

Bricklover18

The 1920s

Rainstorm26

Rome at the height of it's world dominance.

CCC

1750s Venice

Wicksy80

Jurassic age- so I can answer all my sons never ending dinosaur questions!!!

Switchfoot55

Not sure if US entries are allowed... so disregard if necessary. 

I'd have to go with the Renaissance Period!

Legogram

The Roaring Twenties have always sounded great to me.

sid3windr

I actually have no idea, I can't imagine life without computers! (or maybe without LEGO even...)

Life as a king with a huge (yellow) castle and not as a servant maybe?

alldarker

Wild west - around 1850 or so... 

ricecake

Feudal Japan would be interesting.

msanders

Roman times

SeijiAmasawa

I recently watched an older documentary called Filthy Cities-Paris. It shows how wretched life was in revolutionary Paris. I don't know that I'd want to live then and there but it may be nice to visit and see for myself.

Coolguy5000

Somewhere in a revolutionary era and really see change. 

Shib

what era were dragons around? That one!

donutboy

I think i'd choose India, before us Brits turned up.

historyman

1960s

SirBen

1517

norm103

Medieval Timeframe 

TheFew

Last Thursday, as I had chili for diner and it weren't arf bad. 

paul_merton

After reading this book in the 80s, I always thought it would be pretty cool to live when there were dinosaurs.



Of course, I have since realised that there weren't actually any humans around at the same time as most dinosaurs. But I guess that's why it was in the Time Machine series of books. Oh well, that's my answer, as greedy as it seems - I'd like to live in several different times and check out all the dinosaurs :)

After all, being a caveman foraging for food is not that much different to how I am now.

Russell844

Billund in the 1930s. :)

cmrt1014

I'm having a hard time selecting an era.  It was much harder being a woman in those times, and while I'm not implying it's easy now, we are in a much better place in regards to opportunities and choices for and by women, and acceptance of women as different but equals. Actually, acceptance and equality for all humans.

Speedman29

The beginning of time itself would be fun, nothing and then a big bang! Or the the late 1800s and the invention of the internal combustion engine and the dawn of motoring would be cool.

Ayliffe

Whenever sliced bread was invented I guess

Mynatt

I think to live in Roman times would be pretty cool. 

LittleLori

Roaring 20's

Tkatt

I'd go with North America anytime before Columbus. I'd like to have seen this country while all the natural beauty was mostly untouched.
And if I happen to win, I'd like the prize to go to lucky number 13.

monkeyhanger

Victorian London, but only if I was relatively well off and didn't have steal to get by. Would love to have been a "real" Sherlock Holmes.

messy

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.....

devilhead

Anytime when there was a lot less people.

Covi

I would say that I wanted to be part of the Marco Polo expedition. Travelling around the world and making all those discoveries written in books as legacy.

MasterBeefy

Constantinople post 542 AD, I'd love to see the one of the great cities at it's height anytime after bubonic plague.

kez

Babylonian Times

MugenPower

The beginning of time.

tof

Edo period in Japan

nexander

So many to choose from but I would have to say the industrial revolution/Victorian times, the time of tesla, world fairs etc. So much changing in the world, so many inventions etc taking place

catwrangler

A lot of my choices, based on the excitement of politics and the arts at particular times, are coloured by the thought of how it'd be to be female in those times... I'm going to go with prehistoric Europe - maybe Doggerland. I'd like to see what it was like before it was covered by the sea... for that matter, I'd love to see what Britain and Ireland were like before deforestation, which began much earlier than people realise. I don't think I've ever actually been in any of the surviving primeval forest, so that would be an experience...

Lego_Star

I'd like to live in the future, specifically 90 years and a few days in the future. I can imagine LEGO sets, plumbing and computers have all disappeared by then.

If I did I might just be the only one to win a rare plastic highwayman ;o)

BoomDiggity

Renaissance-era Venice.

RogerKirk

Roman Britian, at the height of their rule in Britain.

stlux

Ancient Rome; Sulla or First Triumvirate?

No Lego nor computers, but at least plumbing!

Addicted2Oxygen

End of the last ice age to see the giant ice sheets retreating