[shakes head] Gluei...
 

  You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more

[Closed] [shakes head] Glueing Lego [/shakes head]

40 Posts
33 Users
0 Reactions
141 Views
 DrP
Posts: 12041
Full Member
Topic starter
 

Mega OT here...

Just picked up an old stash of my childhood Lego that's been doing the rounds of the family and has now come full circle back to MiniP to supplement his collection..(Kilos of the stuff! Some retro bricks too!)

However, many of the new models that have been added to the collection have been Kragled by the extended family's kids......!!

The wife thinks I'm odd for having a bit of a huff and rant over this, but I think glueing Lego is a big no no..
Tell me I'm not wrong...

DrP


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:28 am
Posts: 7169
Full Member
 

😯


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:30 am
Posts: 17273
Free Member
 

I think glueing Lego is a big no no..

I'm with ya Doc!

It's just plain wrong. Like clip-together Airfix models.


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:30 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Ex-communication for all of them and their spawn!!!!


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:32 am
Posts: 3961
Full Member
 

HAVEN'T THEY SEEN THE LEGO MOVIE!!!???? Disown them all. Took my Lego camper van to bits yesterday because my 5 year old boy wants to rebuild it, and why not?


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:35 am
Posts: 293
Free Member
 

Capital offence


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:35 am
Posts: 0
Full Member
 

You're not wrong and frankly I'd be considering divorce, I don't think that's disproportionate, clearly your wife has no idea of what is really important in life.

Gluing Lego! Monsters! 🙁


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:36 am
 D0NK
Posts: 592
Full Member
 

wrong wrong wrong wrong, wtf would you glue it?

Had bin bags full of the stuff, sadly binned some years ago (possibly back when I had decided I [i]definitely[/i] wasn't going to be a parent) Would have been handy now our kids have got into it.


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:36 am
Posts: 13617
Full Member
 

Lego models are just wrong, never mind gluing them together.

If you can't build it from bog-standard Lego bricks then you may as well buy an Airfix model.

😀


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:37 am
 DrP
Posts: 12041
Full Member
Topic starter
 

I had to bin quite a lot of the glued stuff as it was useless (as in, parts of teh model was glued - wheels glued etc).
Also, some of the bits were snapped and now had a lethal edge to it!

I think I need therapy..

DrP


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:40 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Had a similar huff/rant yesterday when the missus suggested keeping Lego and Megabloks in the same container!


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:42 am
 DrP
Posts: 12041
Full Member
Topic starter
 

keeping Lego and Megabloks in the same container!

LOL - this also was too much for me... Huge lego box, smaller Megablocks container...!

DrP


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:51 am
 tang
Posts: 1
Free Member
 

Glueing Lego? They might as well have come round and shat in the toy box! Never heard of such a thing.


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 11:11 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

That goes against the whole mantra of Lego, yes they sell a lot of kits these days, but they're not self-assembly toys or Airfix - they're supposed to be creative.

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 11:16 am
Posts: 1343
Free Member
 

I was clearing up lego for 2 hours yesterday and began by sorting by colour and now have the itch to sort by type as well.... this will mean a bigger storage solution and possible part number labels.... NO GLUE WILL EVER BE INVOLVED, NOT ON MY WATCH! 👿


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 11:22 am
Posts: 12865
Free Member
 

Had bin bags full of the stuff, sadly binned some years ago
😯 Whatever you do don't look how much you could've sold it for on eBay; you will cry.


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 11:34 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I must be missing something here, as I can't imagine why anyone would use glue on Lego...

..that's really going to bother me now. It makes me suspect that there's a whole subworld of people doing un-needed things to Lego (bit like people who wash meat before cooking it)


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 11:37 am
 DrP
Posts: 12041
Full Member
Topic starter
 

..that's really going to bother me now.

You know what, I was thinking that "glueing lego" would feature on a 'scale of deviancy' somewhere alongside 'kicking cats' and 'the weirdo who air rifles birds in their garden for fun'..

I was getting worried.

DrP


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 11:39 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

[quote=timb34 ]I must be missing something here, as I can't imagine why anyone would use glue on Lego...

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 11:46 am
Posts: 0
Full Member
 

Pigface - Member
Capital offence

Strict Liability too.

Dungeons under the stairs the only punishment..


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 11:49 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

and no pudding


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 11:51 am
Posts: 5139
Full Member
 

wha.... why would you glue lego ???? that's just wierd, the whole point is to dissassemble and build anew !!!

DrP you are correct, it's wrong


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 12:10 pm
Posts: 4675
Full Member
 

Just totally wrong.
The joint the joins together Lego is very clever, and people do Ph.D's on it.
It's very, very, repeatable, down to a few microns, which from moulded bits of plastic is pretty good.


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 12:33 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Are you sure it's glue?

[img] [/img]

Perhaps if it was a model of a lighthouse like this, it might have come into contact with sal****er or suchlike...


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 12:47 pm
Posts: 690
Free Member
 

Very very wrong.....

It's like the Lego has been killed....

"Walks off shaking head"


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 1:07 pm
Posts: 13164
Full Member
 

So wrong that major breaches of both Human Rights and Geneva conventions would have happened in my family.

Commence waterboarding the deviant glue users. No court would convict.


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 2:02 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I made a pretty big model of the USS Enterprise when I was little and there was no way the engine supports would stay in place so I glued 'em


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 2:07 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

No pudding for rocketman


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 2:43 pm
Posts: 2755
Full Member
 

admin plz ban rocketman


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 2:52 pm
Posts: 23107
Full Member
 

Death is too good for some people.


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 2:53 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

If anyone has made a Lego model of the Enterprise that doesn't involve glue I'd like to see it


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 3:08 pm
Posts: 12865
Free Member
 

^^^ you suck at Google. And Lego. 🙂


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 3:12 pm
Posts: 6275
Full Member
 

THAT'S JUST NOT ON! gluing lego 😮


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 3:16 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

rocketman - Member
I made a pretty big model of the USS Enterprise when I was little and there was no way the engine supports would stay in place so I glued 'em

Bin! Ban!


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 3:18 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

😈


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 3:23 pm
Posts: 2009
Free Member
 

Well I'm all for it.... There I said it.
My lad had some lovely Lego sets all built and nicely sitting on the shelf... He actually looks after them and plays with then but without breaking apart... Sometimes adding to but not breaking. His mate came over the other day and systematically and without any consideration for my lad just bust loads of then up. Little s...t. It wouldn't of been so bad but he then just tipped all the bits from the different sets into the mahoosive lego tub of bricks so we have no chance of rebuilding the models now.


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 7:47 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

We went to see a lego exhibition last year - the art of the brick and it was marred for me by the video at the beginning that showed them glueing everything together. Also suggesting that some of the sculptures weren't possibly without resorting to glue - which seems like cheating to me!

It wouldn't of been so bad but he then just tipped all the bits from the different sets into the mahoosive lego tub of bricks so we have no chance of rebuilding the models now.

Does not compute...


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 7:56 pm
Posts: 13134
Full Member
 

Lego 'sets' - the beginning of the end of the western world's creativity.

Lego is twoers,fourers, eighters, flats and strips - end of. Ok, you can have the little men to ride on what you make as well if you must.


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 8:38 pm
Posts: 1
Free Member
 

Display models in Perspex like you find in bigger you shops are often glued 🙁 as are all the outside models in legoland. Get on brickset or eurobricks forum for some proper hatred of the kragle!


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:13 pm
Posts: 65918
Full Member
 

The display models often aren't even glued, they're solvent welded with mek. Somehow that seems worse


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:15 pm
Posts: 34376
Full Member
 

[i]Lego 'sets' - the beginning of the end of the western world's creativity.[/i]

I think the first sets and figures were in the 50's


 
Posted : 09/11/2015 10:21 pm

6 DAYS LEFT
We are currently at 95% of our target!