So lately I’ve been coming across more and more LEGO-related stuff on the internet, and it’s really made me realize how much I absolutely love and miss LEGO. You might even say that there is a LEGO piece missing from my life…….. lame, I know.

It seems that in the time that LEGO has been absent from my life (around 12-14 years) the pieces and kits have gotten substantially cooler. Back in my day I played with LEGO pieces that looked like this:

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If I was lucky, for Christmas I’d get a set which would make something like the pirate ship in the foreground of this shot:

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But it seems that now everything is about a million times cooler. I mean even the basic sets look like this:

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An X-Wing! You can get a kit to make an X-Wing! That is awesome. And that’s just the beginning.

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A LEGO Star Destroyer, and you can get a kit for that. It took all my will power not to immediately whip out my credit card when I learned that such a thing existed.

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Or you can step it up another notch and get the Millennium Falcon, which is over 33″ long. Sure it will cost you $679, but that’s small price to pay for the geek cred of having one of these on your bedside table. I hear the ladies love it too.

And just like with every other hobby, the internet has provided a fertile ground for LEGO-lovers to come to together and show off their stuff. Blogs like this one are dedicated to LEGO-related news, and the projects of various hobbyists. The truly hardcore do not merely purchase and build kits, they design and build their own stuff.

From something small like this:

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To something huge like this:

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And of course, in keeping with Rule 34 there is the shot below. Though I don’t know why spider-man is doing the filming.

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And so, not only is LEGO not just for children anymore, but it would seem that a huge portion of their customers are now adults who may have gotten older, but never out grew their love of plastic blocks. I for one will now be checking the Lego Blog frequently and there is a good chance that there is a Tie-Fighter in my future.