[olePigeon]

At 1:58 PM today LEGO will turn 50 years old.

I think LEGO should be on the stockmarket. I can't believe how expensive they are these days. I used to have 2 giant tubs full of nothing but LEGO (those big plastic camping/storage tubs.) If I still had them, they'd easily be worth several thousand dollars on today's LEGO market. Geeze.

My friends and I (being the D&D players we were) developed a rules system for LEGO. We had a scale system, damage system, everything. Your ship had as many Hull Points as it did (approximate) pips from the lego blocks. The only real limitation was that no ship could be made out of Super Alloy Z.

[angelmb]

I don't have any LEGO anymore, does a LaCie brick count as such?

Anyway, just for fun…

[osiris]

I love Legos.. but they did become too expensive.

yeah for the 50 years though.

[Oisín]

At 1:58 PM today LEGO will turn 50 years old.

No, at 1.58 PM today, it’s exactly 50 years ago that the LEGO brick was first patented.

The company itself is much earlier and has been calling itself Lego or LEGO (first Lego, then LEGO) since some time in the ’30s. Earlier versions of Lego bricks were already quite common toys here during World War II, just not the version we all know today.

[rickey939]

I will build something out of LEGO's tonight now.

[Laminar]

Wasn't there a thread a while ago arguing over the correct pluralization of LEGO? That was a fun thread.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

Wasn't there a thread a while ago arguing over the correct pluralization of LEGO? That was a fun thread.

There’s nothing to argue about: LEGO should always be all-uppercase when referring to the company or its products after 1959 (I believe it was 1959, though I could be wrong there), and capitalised (but not written in all-uppercase) as Lego when referring to the company or its products before that time.

[MacinTommy]

I miss playing with them.... I cant (I'm lying right now) wait to have kids so I can play with them again... I have literally thousands in the attic...

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

There’s nothing to argue about: LEGO should always be all-uppercase when referring to the company or its products after 1959 (I believe it was 1959, though I could be wrong there), and capitalised (but not written in all-uppercase) as Lego when referring to the company or its products before that time.

I argue that there is a difference between pluralization and capitalization.

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

Wasn't there a thread a while ago arguing over the correct pluralization of LEGO? That was a fun thread.

There are also several threads about misuse of the apostrophe in plural words.

Rule of thumb: It's never wrong to not use an apostrophe for plural words. There are only rare occasions when ambiguity threatens the meaning of a word; almost always when someone uses an acronym or abbreviation in lower-case without periods.

[MacinTommy]

I've noticed most threads turn into these grammar/spelling debates. How about the old medieval LEGOs? I was also obsessed with the trains, too.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by TETENAL 

I argue that there is a difference between pluralization and capitalization.

And I argue that I’m blind as a bat at 2 AM... Whoops.

But there’s still no argument: LEGO is an adjective, not a noun, so it can’t be pluralised. The ‘plural’ is ‘LEGO toys’ or ‘LEGO bricks’.

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by MacinTommy 

I was also obsessed with the trains, too.

I always wanted the monorail one. I did get the train one, though, for a Christmas present. I turned the rail pieces on end made them into a giant rail gun for my spacefaring gunboat.

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

And I argue that I’m blind as a bat at 2 AM... Whoops.

But there’s still no argument: LEGO is an adjective, not a noun, so it can’t be pluralised. The ‘plural’ is ‘LEGO toys’ or ‘LEGO bricks’.

So I never actually played with my LEGOs?
It's started!!1!

[Oisín]

Nope, you didn’t.
And ended!!1!111!oneoneone