hello tested members and everybody else adam savage here in my cave and i'm answering some
questions posed by tested patrons uh and today's question comes from elliot thomas adam he says
in all caps i can't believe i've never thought to ask this do you partake in lego mocs
m-o-c i had to look that up uh it means my own creation and i did not know that
um and then if so what did i build the answer is i have not made my own lego creation
yeah when i was a kid i made death stars and playsets and i put secret doors and secret
compartments in every interior space i built with legos as a as a as a middle schooler and
and early teen and mid-teen and then late teen and then young adult
but sorting my legos early on in coven there's now this beautiful stack of bins over in my storage
space and i have been i've been leaning leaning towards them and at some point in the next few
weeks or few months i'm going to bring them all back over here and i am going to make my own lego
creation because it's time i mean ridiculous now i've sorted them by color and the lego technics
and by the way i found a whole new bag of lego technics that i had held back from my kids so
that they wouldn't destroy them and chewing on all the gears so there's even more sorting to do but
that's beside the point the main point is i plan to make my own lego creation um because there's
the the first home built lego creation i saw it was the very first time i went to maker faire
which i'm not even sure when that was at this point the mid aughts and i went i
got toured through the the facility and i went through the lego pavilion and there was
somebody who using all gray legos had built the most beautiful they built a cathedral at chart
um and with the flying buttresses and everything it was there's something almost intoxicating the
first time you see a lego creation like that up close because it's definitely like it's clearly
not something lego would necessarily have released i know they're doing that now more with the
architectural models although they could release some bigger architectural models although i
get the whole price point things probably not worth their time but looking at this
thing this this perfect architectural model of a church that's about this big it was so inspiring
um i also i collect i have a folder full of pictures of lego creations i think are amazing
and we have some plans to build some other people's designs always there
are more plans to build some because i love doing that um but i really love the idea of
going all the way down that rabbit hole of the problem solving because lego lego
modeling is not just about modeling it is also an engineering it's it's not just a visual skill it's
not just aesthetic it's engineering as well and that's what makes lego so great you have to think
you have to think like a lego you have to you have to imagine the structural forces on the
parts that you're that you're putting together and you like there are certainly like low
security ways you can assemble stuff but if i've learned anything from my lego friends um it is
that like the first solution isn't necessarily the the final one they'll they'll keep on
iterating to figure out better ways to achieve the constructions that they're doing that
that that process speaks very deeply to me and so uh in short this is a quickie answer uh no i have
not made my own lego correct collect i have not made my own lego creation in well over 35 years
yeah uh but i plan to you waited all that time what is that four minutes just for me to say
it's in the works thank you guys for joining me for this q a uh as always tested patrons submit
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