Date night for geeks - we end up at the LEGO store
September 13, 2008 by Andy Martin
She made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs, I hear
So, every couple of weeks the wife and I get a date night, leaving the kids at home. Most of the time it’s a movie (saw “Burn After Reading” tonight), and we had half and hour to kill before the movie. So, we went in the mall to browse around a little bit and spent the whole allotted time at the LEGO store.
He's heading for that moon over there
The kids absolutely love LEGO, my young padawan being especially fond of the Star Wars variety. While my wife went to the back to fill up a container with bulk LEGO bricks (awesome deal, by the way), I stood in awe of the item that I blogged about just this very morning. In it’s full glory, there it was:
That's no moon...
It’s hard to imagine working at the LEGO store, and getting paid to put these things together. Overhearing one of the store workers discussing whether or not the Stormtroopers in the original trilogy were clones or not made me realize that it take a special kind of geek to work there. I could probably hang in with that level of geekitude, but not for long. We checked out with a bucket of bricks, a few LEGO pens for the kids, and one item I simply had to have. It has a purpose, not just a frivolous item, we can use it to make sure the kids aren’t spending too much time on the computer or the Wii:
Sure, it’s a little disturbing, twisting the head so different eyes match to different mouths as it counts down, but it offsets the disturbing nature by being . . . well . . . completely made of awesome.
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- She made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs, I hear
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- He's heading for that moon over there
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- That's no moon...
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- Now, young Skywalker, you will die
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I think that would be an awesome place to go with a girlfriend because it’s always neat to see the incredible and awesome things workers have built. Just looking at the huge sculptures that everyone knows took forever is just cool.
@Zac Martin Safron -
It’s hard not to go in that store and want to spend all my money, too. And I can only imagine how long it too to make that Millenium Falcon, would probably take me months to do.