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Figurines and souvenirs and kickshaws and mementos and gewgaws and bric-a-brac, everything either useless to begin with or ornamented so as to disguise its use; acres of luxuries, acres of excrement.
I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.
Old post cards, tin wind-up toys with rusted gears, buttons long out of fashion, ticket stubs found in a shoebox in the attic - these are the things Alice likes, not new stuff that comes sealed in plastic.
You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.
There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
Footballs, basketballs, mic<>rong>rorong>phones, gas and grass ...
Just some of the few things that J-Ro likes to pass.
Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you've ever held dear with the greatest of ease.
So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.
Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.
I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.
On Lego's
Listen, I don't want to stifle your creativity, but that thing you built there, it looks a pile of shit.
Stone and blocks, like butter and bread.
A lot of times when I buy a lot of toys, I get a little jealous and keep one or two for myself. So I've got a couple of drones. I've got a couple of remote-control cars. I like to have fun
The Ono-Sendai; next year's most expensive Hosaka computer; a Sony monitor; a dozen disks of corporate-grade ice; a Braun coffeemaker.
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They'll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition.
Toys have taken over my family room. I watch Mary Poppins, and no matter how many spoonfuls of sugar I eat, action figures won't march into a bin with the snap of my fingers.
play with whatever the day brought in.
You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.
A book, the greatest gift ever
Books, books and more books. Her main indulgence.
What God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love.
What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.
The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
shopping trolleys
If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.
furniture, but all the lights
Footballs, basketballs, microphones, gas and grass ...
Just some of the few things that J-Ro likes to pass.
My son asked for very little - a kickstand, with a motorcycle attached.
I have a beautiful wooden Superman statue with a removable cape - I really love that piece.
Here's Lego Zombie Chef! Here's Lego Zombie builder! See their grasping hands and posable limbs!
a fistful of crayons or a few pots of
I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.
Painted desert, ocean of color
sun's worshiper, moon's lover
picture of a coyote's voice
sandbox of angels, another toy.
What are you creating?
What would you grab, if you had to pack up your life in only minutes?
Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.
Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything that you'd want as a kid if you were into imagination and play.
My brushes, my cameras, and my willingness to use them.
I like - not so much jewelry and that - but jackets, clothes, games as well.
A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.
As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew through the air and exploded.
These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.
Daggers. Never leave home without them.
I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.
I mostly built stuff that I liked.
A pair of Blahniks and a girl can vanquish anything
extra pack of dog cards.
A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy.
Chopsticks box! I didn't know before and put them on the table and my Japan friends scolded me.
books. They are friends to the lonely, companions to the deserted, joy to the joyless, hope to the hopeless, good cheer to the disheartened, a helper to the helpless. They bring light into darkness, and sunshine into shadow.
If you are sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?
We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and ... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.
Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger.
I play with toys. I have one plane that travels with me. It travels with the equipment.
Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
Three thousand pounds of steel and glass and plastic that no thing made out of flesh could resist. A car.
Crafting, as the title suggests,
Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.
A house. A lot of vegetables. And a giant spaceship.
It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.
A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.
Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.
My brick. My house. My whole wide world.
What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.
If there was no Lego in Billund, there will almost be no Billund ... Lego is Billund, and Billund is Lego.
What are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow?
In my office, I have the creative things that kids have made for me over the years. The nice thing about the physical side of life is that I can have them on my shelf.
I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.
Dylan Quinn's knickers,
Making stuff: The folks at Instructables have put up some killer HOWTOs for building the technology in this book. It's easy and incredibly fun. There's nothing so rewarding in this world as making stuff, especially stuff that makes you more free.
Everything built with an art, May your eyes couldn't see it, but digital eye can.
To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.
A book, a poem, a play - they start as fantasms but they end up as things, like a box of crackers or an automobile tire.
What's the one thing - not two things, not three, not four, but the one big thing - in the box?
He started at a sporting goods store, where he bought several models of steel tent stakes, icepicks ("sailors buy them," an employee told him), hammers, and rubber mallets. No one even raised a brow at his purchase of Homicidal Maniac Variety Pack - As Seen On TV.
In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries.
Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
My boots use recycled electronics and recycled plastics from the ocean.
Many weighty books on magic that looked as if they had been bound in human skin at the beginning of time but had probably been mass-produced last week by a factory in Catford.
Cherishables," I agreed. "Lovely little finds that have tiny value but lots of heart. Tea tins, picture frames, old perfume bottles. Half the fun is finding them, and the other half imagining where they came from.
Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.
Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard.
I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
Today's toys contain computer chips, so they can move and talk; this stimulates the mind of your child. Notice I say "your child." MY child just wants to eat the toys.
everything. I don't know if
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.
That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
The Lego children and fans are highly engaged people, so they expect a high degree of interaction with us. If you go to YouTube ... we were told by Google last year that we are the second most-watched brand of all brands.
Eyeglasses and teeth: both breakable, valuable things that you have to carry with you all the time. Hanging there precariously like earrings without backings, threatening to fall out, chip off, crack to the quick because of some innocent nut or seed or beer bottle.
They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.