tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post114986731702084352..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: Lego mash-upsJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1149895363791455022006-06-09T19:22:00.000-04:002006-06-09T19:22:00.000-04:00Yes, I was never a lego-player to speak of, and in...Yes, I was never a lego-player to speak of, and instead preferred (for non-book-related entertainment) those Playmobile sets which are much more character-and setting- driven (I had the pirate set & had an elaborate novelistic set of stories that went along with it, I still remember the tales about Able Seaman Fletcher...). My brothers on the other hand spent endless hours building things out of the huge undifferentiated box of legos--they all started of course as particular sets, but quickly got incorporated into the mass--obviously there are exceptions, but I think it's often a pretty gendered form of play, with boys building and girls storytelling (I noticed that Chabon's examples of the kids building their own things are both his boys rather than his girls).Jenny Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1149886222034370422006-06-09T16:50:00.000-04:002006-06-09T16:50:00.000-04:00I sympathize with Chabon's complaint -- but on the...I sympathize with Chabon's complaint -- but on the other hand, my favorite Lego memories as a kid are of a Robin Hood-themed set that involved building an elaborate tree in whose branches little green Lego foresters could hide.kermitthefroghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15742856153167362749noreply@blogger.com