Lego Gun

[Dan Milligan]

It not fun unless you can put someones eye out.
http://www.legogun.com/how_to_build_a_lego_gun.html

Dan

[Tetsuo]

I must try this at the airport

[ChrisMayernik]

haha awesome. going to try that.

[MoP]

I remember designing and building those when I was 8. If you use 2 or more rubber bands and use those flat smooth bits on the inside of the barrel, you can get them to really be very accurate and powerful

[Mort]

I remember designing and building those when I was 8. If you use 2 or more rubber bands and use those flat smooth bits on the inside of the barrel, you can get them to really be very accurate and powerful

pfft 8. we know that you are building them all the time. dont have to be embarrased.

[MoP]

I would be, but I sold a lot of my lego a while back. The rest is in the attic

[Uziel]

Haha flashback of me and my brother building crossbows out of lego. It hurted like hell when you got shot or when the elastic bands suddenly snapped.

Those good ol' days
Thnx for bringing up memories.

[Tobin]

We used to make guns from wood, nails and clothes peg springs... we lived in a rough area though. I gotta find some lego now... start a gang... i think we'll choose blue bandanas

[Prometheus|ANJ]

I used to build similar ones as a kid. I made them from rubberbands (pretty thick ones or multiple small ones), then I had a sliding runway made from flat-top bricks, 2 wide, with some regular brick on the sides. Then I fired a 2*8 or 2*10 thick brick with a flat brick on the top as a catch for the rubberband. The runway had some sort of bridge over it where the rubberband was attached.

This was in the 'yellow castle' lego age where buildings were made from a lot of 2*1's, so you could blow things up with impressive results. First you took out the guards on the castle walls, then you took out the gate and the walls. It was incredibly satisfying. Later when technics came out you could make crossbows with a holed bar and a rubberband, firing a long + cross section stick... with a remote pneumatic aim and trigger of course. It was also fun to build walkers and RC cars (armed, of course). I feel sorry for kids who grew up with readymade toys, they missed out on the construction-destruction process of playing.

[waronmars]

http://www.legogun.com/lego_gun_cartoon_comedy.html

does that creep anyone else out?

[Tobin]

those wooden rub band guns were a lot of fun as a kid

we made ours fire nails through bic pens you know the plastic case, but they hurt less than rubbers most times cause they never flew straight. the wars we had between neighbourhoods are some of the best memories i have, those and running away from mad farmers with shotguns.

[Chia]

I used to make guns like this from legos all the time! So I'd be more impressed if someone made a rapid fire lego gun. :o

[Uziel]

bic pens

They are so easy to convert into shooting objects...Mcguiver²

[bwkeough]

we used to make blow guns with plastic pipes, thumbtacks and notebook paper, but that lego gun is neat! my lego guns required sound effects

[Shamagim]

lego gun ?!, why the hell didn´t i though about that when i was a kid??!!

Guess i was to bussy making mechs and cliche stuff like that

But at least i remmember crafting weapons from other things.....like raw bows, pen guns, bean shooters ( with half a plastic coke bottle and a balloon), smoke bombs ( grinded pin-pon balls wraped in aluminium foil),etc......


Kids today.....maybe GTA.....and that´s it .

[Gloominati]

some dudes in our town used to built guns out of biros. This game ended as one of them killed himself with his biro-gun.

no kidding!!

Back to the lego gun:

WOAH AWESOME! Where is my Lego................pld:

[Keng]

..dang.. all I ever made were wooden guns that didn't shoot. Ok fine. I didn't make those, I picked them up off the group and made shooting noises..

a couple of what I call crossbow slingshots (the clothes pin and elastic band type of thing Tobin mentioned, accept we (me and my cousins) used nails for ammo and shot at the foam insulation patch in the boat house where were told not to damadge.

Many unseless bows and arrows. Many wooden swords (still have fun with those.)

Oh, and then there was the aqua bike we made but that had no destructive properties to it. Lost of pool noodles though. Good times.

But a lego gun? That's awsome!

[Danomight]

Wow, Lego guns look rad. We used to "play" with rock shooters.

Simply cut the top nozzle off a 2 liter coke bottle, leaving about a quarter inch of the curvy part of the bottle intact, cover the nozzle with a balloon, secure with a rubberband or two, insert rock and fire away. Good times until someone got hit in the face or broke a neighbor's window.

[ElvisMcVegas]

at Whataburger, we take the handles off the ice buckets and put rubberbands on them and shoot straws. They hurt pretty bad when one gets you in a soft spot.

[Slash]

i remember making slingshots with those red rubber bands you use to seal jars, and a strip of leather to put the projectile in. We would go to the shooting range and dig out old bullets from the hill behind the targets, then sawing off the tip of the bullet.

Then we'd go out breaking streetlights.. Dumb kids!


Oh, and to stay on topic, i could never make my lego gun contraptions work... it might be because of the fact that i used AA batteries as ammo, and they were too heavy. I never even thought about using another lego piece as a projectile!

[onionface]

at school we made blow darts.

dart=cut the end off a shoe lase and put a nice size needle through it.
blowgun= a Bic pen, the hoolow kind not the Bic click, take out nib, ink and the plug, wa laa.

those things could stick in you from across aclassroom easy. Some people got so good they were hitting small creatures from great distances, our school was quick to outlaw it fearing we would blind some one and in a country so full of Aids you don't want kids running around pricking people all day.

another with we had was paper clip guns. or scooby wire guns, scooby wire is what we called telepone wire, the cool type that you can use to make things.

gun = elastic band between thumb and forefinger, nice and sturdy.
ammo= small piece of wire bent into a U-shape.
shoot the wire at any place wear you see skin, this includes behind ears.
this thing can be so powerful that the wire often gets stuck in the skin, and it's easy to draw blood.

aaaaah memories.

[Dan Milligan]

Thought it was easier to draw my childhood weapon of choice.
Simple, but deadly


Dan

[Craig D]

Dan,
now that looks nasty!

[bwkeough]

dan - have your kids built these yet? that hockey photo you posted would put them at the right age for it!

[Justice Von Brandt]

Hah nice

[Phaethon]

Jeez... I just built spaceships and castles with my Legos

[Dan Milligan]

Almost forgot this little number.The popscicle stick switchblade!!!! easily kept in your pocket. Not very effective, but still had huge coolness.



bwkeough; their mom would kill me.

[emily g]

Hahaha! That's awesome!
The drawing adds so much.

emily

[bwkeough]

sheesh! did you find a book on prison-made weapons when you were a kid? that one looks wicked.

[Mort]

that shank is fun.
i used to build bombs of salpeter ,sugar ,coal and hairspray cans. and tried to make things explode becouse the world was so boring. well it still is but i dont build bombs anymore.and we built alot of cheesy martial arts weapons as ninja stars and nunchakus and whatnot hehe.

beeing a kid was fun i guess.