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2/8/2013 5:27:52 PM
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Your greatest creation as a child.
Remember when you were simply a child and you used to build things? That little engineer in you wanted to innovate and create. What was something that you have created back then and still hold it high to this day?
I remember my early teen years and Airsoft was a big deal to us. We got tired of roaming everybodys house and shooting the place up. So we went into the woods and dug these massive trenches! They were about 5ft deep and spanned on for several yards. We made branching paths, bunkers, pill boxes, tunnels, and even roofs.
Great times! Took several months to finish.
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I built some pretty cool stuff out of legos. I had a ship, a submarine, and made some neat lego forts (lego man sized). Those were the days.
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I've built a giant Lego Star Ship with over 4000+ parts. It was also symmetric. The day it crashed and I cried for hours... ;_;
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Edited by Spooter: 2/9/2013 1:52:23 PMA massive Lego Podracer (Star Wars), with the amount of pieces in it numbering over 1500+. Simply got bored one day, and so was like: Dude, this would be awesome to make. So I did, in about 5 hours, and over the course of the next two days added more and more detail to the thing with the help of imagination. I was actually going to submit it to the Lego magazine, but it was destroyed before I could make that possible. By my little brother, in one of his fits of rage.
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3 RepliesEdited by Sandtrap: 2/8/2013 5:42:33 PMOooh, I got a few. When I was 6 or 7 or, I started building a space shuttle out of lego, as I was watching a lot of space programs at the time. It started fairly simple, the cargo hold, the cockpit, and so on. But over time I kept adding things to it, like sliding doors to separate the various sections, more stuff inside, and resized it to fit some figures in it. When all was said and done, it had sliding doors, two opening doors for it's bay, a robot arm, loads of stuff crammed inside it, and three big booster rockets. Probably the thing I was proud of the most was the fact that I made the nose of the shuttle out of regular bricks, but it still looked nice and smooth and round with the way I put it together. Another one was one of the Tripods from War of The Worlds. Getting the damn thing's long smooth legs to work wasn't easy, but eventually, it came through, and it stood about 45 cm tall. And there were other too, but I remember that those two were the best constructed, probably the best things I'd ever made.
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My brother and I created a bunker underneath a ton of stuffed animals. There were metal supports, lights, and even air conditioning in it (it was just a small fan). It was also roomy. Also we created a fort out of blankets one time. Unfortunately my brother used a 3 pound weight to hold the corner of a blanket. I accidently pulled on the blanket and the 3 pound weight came crashing into my skull. Fortunately, since my dad is an ER doctor he had medical supplies on hand. He gave me 2 staples in my head. Good times.
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Forts. Lots and LOTS of forts for my little green army men. That's really the only thing I can remember actually creating when I was a child.
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I built this awesome lego robot once. Had it up on a shelf and everything, I wonder what happened to that thing. I think it just got destroyed and put away.
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Lego pirate ship.
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I wrote a 10 page epic in second grade. I was also a damn impressive artist at a fairly young age, though I admit my skills are pretty lacking as of late, with the infrequency of my time spent drawing.
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I took a bunch of bionicles I had and formed a huge one. I also had a bunch of cool lego creations.
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The first bionicles........ I built a giant scorpion with complicated gear mechanics that allowed it to sting pinch and walk... Back when they had gears......
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In seventh grade I had built a robotic hand out of those small coffee straws, fishing wire, and electrical tape. I had also designed and created a mini=bridge out of balsa wood (and it looked pretty damn real). ^^^ these 2 were science projects for school but it was the most fun I had ever had doing applied science. Real creations? I had a built a boat that also doubled as a helicopter all made out of legos.
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When I was about 5 or 6 and my brother was around 7 or 8 we used a recliner chair as a slide. We found that if we put enough weight on the back then it will slowly fold all the way to the ground which creates a ramp, then tthe back would go back up like nomal. Well, one day when our parents were out we 'slide' down it a lot, but it didn't go back up... It was an expensive leather recliner so it was about $1000 to repair it.
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I made custom boardgames as a kid. They weren't anything spectacular in builds, but my God if they weren't the most fun games I ever played. Of course, I'm biased here.
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I was never a builder. I was always a destroyer of toys, electronics, bikes you name it. I suppose my best creation was the never ending web of lies I told to get out of trouble. Oddly enough, I now build things for a living...
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heh, as an adult a fascination with airsoft led to some interesting things. We (myself and a co-worker) built courses, complete with bunkers and ditches, but we decided we wanted a war zone. So we set out to create a massive smoke bomb. We decide to go with a potassium nitrate/sugar formula. After several attempts, we could only get stuff that would burn far to explosively to light in the woods, or wouldn't sustain a burn. We ended up abandoning the smoke bomb mission, but had a large amount of KNO3 left over, so we discussed it with the other engineers at work. We made homemade fireworks with a bunch of it. Another engineer was interested in the rocket part of it, and brought a bunch home and taught his son how to build rockets with it. They really ran with it and have been improving their rocket design ever since. His son, 15, won a local science fair with it and is now headed down to state. Gives me the warm fuzzies to think our fiddling with an airsoft smoke bomb eventually influenced a kid to win a science fair. Only drawback is that when someone sees you [url=http://twitter.com/BobaGotsJets/status/289117527701848064/photo/1]weighing piles of white powder on digital scales[/url], and carefully cooking them together, they think you are making meth.
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yeah, we used to build heaps of cool stuff out in the bush uhm, when I was really young I left the tap on for hours outside the house and 'built' a big system of rivers for my dinosaur toys to live beside. I'd turn the tap off and there'd be droughts, some dinosaurs would die.... you get the picture: lots of little stories. good times.
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When I was in elementary school, I created a website that insinuated a classmate of mine was a raging homosexual. A few months later a few parents who found out about it asked me to build them a website. Good times.
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Didn't exactly build it, but when I was 10 I wrote an 81 page story. Was pretty proud of it :D
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I connected two lego once.
