Children are rarely familiar with the names the LEGO company gives its various bricks and accessories. Giles Turnbull was delighted to find his son had his own terms for each piece. So he gathered more children, four in all, to find out what names they used, and assembled those names in a handy chart. Link -via Buzzfeeed
MadMolecule
My brother and I had names for all of these too; I’d completely forgotten, but they came rushing back to me as I looked at the article. Neat!
eni
It’s so interesting to me how they classify these bits. The one kid is pretty much all color. Another highlights the general appearance, a third names the pieces after what he uses them for, and the last is a mix of those two.
clinton robert labombard
And despite this article and Stumbleupon’s cowardly act of advertising Lego sites, I’m /still/ not buying any.
Tim Giachetti
My Dad had nick names for them too.
Asphyxiation piece C
Swallowed 5 of these D
and my ever favourite:
Friggin 9 of these in your pooh X
Skipweasel
http://www.bricklink.com – you know you want to!
Sometimes if the kids have been good we let them spend a fiver each there. You can get a lot of fascinating bits for a fiver.
pwscott
I’ve done a lot of LEGO work and I never really gave the pieces a name. I always had a picture in my head of what I needed. Good thing I always worked solo.
Torley
I used to call each snappable circular thing a “tad”. So a 4×4 block would be a “16-tad”.
kranzorZ
Excellent! Names were only an issue when communicating with others… My sister and I would ask eachother to “keep your eyes open for a flat 4-way grey”, or a “1 by 6 thick blue.”
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