Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against! | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ulrik Pilegaard, Mike Dooley
Publisher: No Starch Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 10916
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1593271379
Dewey Decimal Number: 688.725
EAN: 9781593271374
ASIN: 1593271379
Publication Date: August 15, 2007
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Condition: Never been opened
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Product Description
It just may be impossible to exhaust the creative potential of LEGO bricks. With an active imagination as your guide, there are endless possibilities-provided you follow the LEGO Company's official (and sensible) rules. This means no cutting or tampering with bricks, creating models that shoot unapproved projectiles, or using non-standard parts with any LEGO product. After all, those little precision-molded ABS bricks can be dangerous in the wrong hands! Well, toss those rules out the window. Forbidden Lego introduces you to the type of free-style building that LEGO's master builders do for fun in the back room. Using LEGO bricks in combination with common household materials (from rubber bands and glue to plastic spoons and ping-pong balls) along with some very unorthodox building techniques, you'll learn to create working models that LEGO would never endorse. Try your hand at a toy gun that shoots LEGO plates, a candy catapult, a high voltage LEGO vehicle, a continuous-fire ping-pong ball launcher, and other useless but incredibly fun inventions. Once you get into the spirit, you'll want to try inventing your own rule-breaking models. Forbidden Lego's authors, share tips and tricks that will inspire you and help you turn your visions into reality. Nothing's against the rules in this book!
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 Great Book- Great Instructions April 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book has step-by-step instructions that are fun to build and use. My Jr High students really enjoyed making the projects.
 Forbidden but FUN lego April 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book, as soon as my four sons saw the word FORBIDDEN the wanted to read it right away.
Hopefully the first of a long series April 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book for LEGO aficionados wanting to push the boundaries of this wonderful Danish product.
Personal favourites include the full-functioning ground-to-air missile - built from the Fire Rescue set - and the life-size girlfriend with realistic hair that can be cobbled together from combining the Star Wars: Clone Trooper with various Bionicle sets.
My life would be complete if they were to publish a second book showing how to make a working distillery.
Forbidden Lego March 27, 2008
I use Lego to experiment with mechanisms for engineering students and so I was interested to see some of the authors designs. The book is well presented with building steps illustrated with excellent colour diagrams. The introduction and the explanation of the "Lego Rules" was a surprising but interesting addition. The only limitation of the book is that some of the parts were special parts, which come from a Lego Technics kit, which might be difficult to source for people without the Technic Kits.
I would still recommend the book as it still has great ideas.
Interesting Book for LEGO builders February 19, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've been a LEGO builder for my whole life, starting with the original castle series. This book has instructions for all those sets you wish you could've bought, and then used to torment your siblings and parents.
Some highlights include:
Ping pong ball catapult
LEGO plate gun
and so forth...
I havent built them yet, but each set has a description of why its not allowed as an "official" set (for instance, one requires you to wire two lego power packs together, making one more powerful power pack). There are also some stories about desigining official lego sets, and other interesting lego trivia.
Its a fun book to read, and I cant wait to build some "Forbidden Lego"
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