Friday's Unscientific Poll: Lego

[nanila]

Poll #17906 Lego

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40

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How likely are you to sort your Lego?

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Mean: 4.45 Median: 4 Std. Dev 2.75

All jumbled up in a big box 1		10 (26.3%)
2		2 (5.3%)
3		4 (10.5%)
4		4 (10.5%)
5		2 (5.3%)
6		4 (10.5%)
7		5 (13.2%)
8		5 (13.2%)
9		2 (5.3%)
Sealed in a cabinet by The Kragle 10		0 (0.0%)

If you do sort your Lego, which criteria do you employ for compartmentalising it?

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Colour
8 (24.2%)

Brick type
22 (66.7%)

Set origin
11 (33.3%)

Instructions?

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Chuck 'em immediately
4 (10.3%)

Follow them, then chuck 'em
6 (15.4%)

Save them, just in case
22 (56.4%)

Filed in labelled folder
6 (15.4%)

Preserved in the glass cabinet with The Kragle
1 (2.6%)

Comments

[chickenfeet]

What's a Kragle Also is "legos" a word or a vile Americanism?

[cmcmck]

This!

[nanila]

The Kragle is the tube of Krazy-Glue from The Lego Movie. (The dad in the film loves Lego, but insists on gluing the sets he assembles together so his kid can never play with it.)

Am pretty sure Legos is an Americanism? I've never heard it here, where "Lego" is the plural of Lego.

[pbristow]

And there was me assuming the Kragle was a particularly fine bottle of Scotch, kept for the ultimate of special occasions. =:o}

[pbristow]

Also, on the linguistic point: I think we Brits mentally class Lego as a continuum, like water, or custard. (Having said that, there are some weird Brits who will actually wield the phrase "a custard" with no shame whatsoever. =8oo )

We used to talk about "lego bricks", because when I was kid almost all the pieces *were* bricks. Then "lego pieces", as they started to get more specialised. By the time I was old enough to buy any of my own lego with my own Christmas money, they'd invented the first lego motors (they were huge, but they worked!) and I had a lego trainset! Large biscuit tins were the storage format of choice: One for all the bricks and sloping roof-pieces, one for all the rails and sleepers and other specialised pieces.

My lego lunar module was huge, and blue, and cost *THREE WHOLE POUNDS*! Mum thought this was more than any sensible child should ever spend on one toy, but I begged and wheedled and convinced her I wanted nothing else in the world that January. And ah, the sense of wonder on realising that not only could I build an entire lunar module, but I now had more bricks of the same colour, *with* matching 2*2 roof-pieces (for the lander legs), than ever before! I could big build things with coherent colour schemes! =:o>

Happy days...

[antisoppist]

My responses are mine alone and are not unfortunately shared by the owners of the Lego.

[perennialanna]

Somehow this house acquired separate Lego for each child, plus a joint box. One child is fiercely protective of her Lego, the other assumes all Lego is his Lego. I despair. But I do know where all the instructions are.

[nanila]

Sympathies. I have a few Lego sets (space shuttle & pirate ship) which I keep at work because they're mine and I do not wish them to be pulled apart by toddlers.

[pbristow]

This (or something like it) is something about my old office environment that I actually miss, with our skimpy little allocation one small locker in the break room at $CURRENT_EMPLOYER. Really, someone should update employment legislation to include the right to "a big enough space on the premises to store stuff that you don't want the people at home/elsewhere to mess with, but with an optional lock so that the people at work can't mess with it either". =:o}

[rmc28]

Sort by size and "which stuff got left on the floor in this room this week".

[nanila]

Heh. The kids' Lego is in two big boxes and is totally unsorted. I forsee this changing when Humuhumu gets a bit older...

[capri]

I'm quite perturbed that I'm the only one who's ticked sort by colour so far. What is this world of disorder the rest of you live in??

[cxcvi]

I'm not sure if I really want to being myself to give a serious answer today, so...

A world where we design new camouflage patterns with Lego.

[emelbe]

I sort everything I don't sort by size or in alphabetical order by color: Clothes, toy cars, nail varnishes, sewing pins, sometimes books.

Legos seem to be the only thing exempt from sorting rules in my head.

[nanila]

You're no longer alone! There are others. :)

[purplecat]

Though it has to be said that most of the Lego I own these days is for professional purposes and I therefore bought a whole load of small boxes on expenses to keep sorted bricks in. I suspect if I were not purchasing stuff on expenses then it would all be jumbled in a big box.

[nanila]

I understand! Professional Lego treatment is very different from personal Lego. Just ask all the Lego adorning our labs. :D

[pbristow]

My answers are a pretty approximate interpolation between how we used to do things when I was a kid (an experienced I would probably be compelled to at least partially emulate), and how I generally do things as an adult. (The only "lego" I currently own is a set of identical yellow basic 2-by-4 bricks from anothe company's, er, "homage" to actual Lego, and they have a permanent function as the main structure of my ancient Nokia phone's recharging station. =:o} )

[nanila]

I like that your "Lego" is fulfilling a practical function!

[pbristow]

[PROUD GRIN] That habit started when I built a microphone stand as a 10 year old. Because holding the little box microphone against the TV's loudspeaker for an entire Doctor Who episode proved to be quite tiring, and gave me a very odd perspective on all the action! =:o}

Funnily enough, that was all yellow pieces, too... I wonder if that's why I chose that colour this time?

OK, now someone should write a paper on the value of Lego as a tool for uncovering buried childhood memories. =:o}