Tenuous LEGOLAND® Based Blog Of The Week
October 1st, 2008 by Jonathan DudleyI think it’s that time again, time to treat readers of this wonderful blog to yet another instalment of TENUOUS LEGOLAND® BASED BLOG OF THE WEEEEEKKKK!
This week I have found a ten-foot LEGO® dragon that was built in just a few days at a museum somewhere in America. Children visiting the museum helped to build the dragon and two ‘Master Builders’ sent by LEGO themselves oversaw the project (and did the vast majority of the actual work).
Here’s a video of the project,
That video left me with a few questions that perhaps someone can answer for me,
- 1) Why do Americans feel the need to call LEGO ‘LEGOS’? Yes, I am aware that there are several LEGO bricks in a model but the plural of LEGO is LEGO. It’s like sheep or fish…you don’t need to put an S on the end Americans. While we’re at it, stop swapping S for Z and please stop your evil campaign against the letter U.
- 2) How does one go about becoming a LEGO master builder?
- 3) What significance does a LEGO dragon have to a museum? (UPDATE: It’s for a dinosaur exhibit, which raises the whole new question of why build a LEGO dragon and not a dinosaur?! They missed an opportunity to build LEGO raptors).
- 4) Where did they get those terracotta coloured blocks from? I have an awful lot of LEGO and not a single piece in that colour. I don’t think I’d really use it, terracotta is best left in gardens and perhaps living rooms decorated in the ill-advided style of the 1990s but still…It’s nice to have the option.
If anyone out there can answer any of these questions please let me know via the comment box, particularly if you can give me any answers regarding the unnecessary and incorrect pluralisation of the word ‘LEGO’
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