Comments on: Badass LEGO Guns: Building Instructions for Five Working Guns http://boingboing.net/2010/12/17/badass-lego-guns-bui.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 09:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2010/12/17/badass-lego-guns-bui.html#comment-1007682 Ipo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1007682 K'nex guns are are not even made from LEGO. That's the point with LEGO guns. They're are made from LEGO! I'm sure one could make guns out of all sorts of materials, steel parts for example, doesn't make them "cooler" to a LEGO geek. A few parts require gluing and sanding. K’nex guns are are not even made from LEGO.
That’s the point with LEGO guns.
They’re are made from LEGO!
I’m sure one could make guns out of all sorts of materials, steel parts for example, doesn’t make them “cooler” to a LEGO geek.

A few parts require gluing and sanding.

]]> By: Teller http://boingboing.net/2010/12/17/badass-lego-guns-bui.html#comment-972358 Teller Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-972358 Do not help your kids make these. Especially if you don't trust law enforcement. Do not help your kids make these. Especially if you don’t trust law enforcement.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/17/badass-lego-guns-bui.html#comment-971865 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-971865 Legos, soon to be outlawed by the TSA Legos, soon to be outlawed by the TSA

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/17/badass-lego-guns-bui.html#comment-991860 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-991860 Well gluing isn't unheard of in large Lego projects by experts, I would only think sanding would be necessary if you weren't really good with the glue. (A.K.A. most people.) There flat-topped lego pieces you could use to line shafts so you don't have to sand down the top. The Lego Techniques series does provide "peg-holed" blocks that could technically be used to improve the strength, but I still don't think you could get around gluing it. I think it's probably more tension than the pegs could handle. Besides, there would be durability issues if you didn't glue the pieces together. How do you think LegoLand gets it's sculptures to stand up to the elements? Well gluing isn’t unheard of in large Lego projects by experts, I would only think sanding would be necessary if you weren’t really good with the glue. (A.K.A. most people.) There flat-topped lego pieces you could use to line shafts so you don’t have to sand down the top.

The Lego Techniques series does provide “peg-holed” blocks that could technically be used to improve the strength, but I still don’t think you could get around gluing it. I think it’s probably more tension than the pegs could handle. Besides, there would be durability issues if you didn’t glue the pieces together. How do you think LegoLand gets it’s sculptures to stand up to the elements?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/17/badass-lego-guns-bui.html#comment-972991 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-972991 Now, see you just bring the pieces along with you, in a box labeled as some other innocuous LEGO set, then assemble it in the "dangerous" configuration that you wanted, then you can get around the stupid TSA idiocy and have play-guns too. Now just imagine how freaked out people that have succumbed to the terrorist-fear-idiocy would be once you start firing off rubber bands at them... and, hopefully, the resulting laughter at the absurdity of the whole situation, or a heart attack... Now, see you just bring the pieces along with you, in a box labeled as some other innocuous LEGO set, then assemble it in the “dangerous” configuration that you wanted, then you can get around the stupid TSA idiocy and have play-guns too. Now just imagine how freaked out people that have succumbed to the terrorist-fear-idiocy would be once you start firing off rubber bands at them… and, hopefully, the resulting laughter at the absurdity of the whole situation, or a heart attack…

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/17/badass-lego-guns-bui.html#comment-971994 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-971994 Sadly, requires sanding and glue. Sadly, requires sanding and glue.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/17/badass-lego-guns-bui.html#comment-973023 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-973023 K'nex guns are cooler. http://knexinnovation.net/forumdisplay.php?25-Weapons K’nex guns are cooler.
http://knexinnovation.net/forumdisplay.php?25-Weapons

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/17/badass-lego-guns-bui.html#comment-972003 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-972003 This book sold remarkably better than the authors previous one: "Assbad LEGO Guns". This book sold remarkably better than the authors previous one: “Assbad LEGO Guns”.

]]> By: Mark Crummett http://boingboing.net/2010/12/17/badass-lego-guns-bui.html#comment-972021 Mark Crummett Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-972021 I bet they would have spotted one of _these_ in a carry-on. I bet they would have spotted one of _these_ in a carry-on.

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