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Ulrik Pilegaard

Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against! Paperback – Illustrated, 23 Aug. 2007

by Ulrik Pilegaard (Author), Mike Dooley (Author)

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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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1593271379
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978-1593271374
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1st
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No Starch Press
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23 Aug. 2007
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English
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"LEGOs- they're not just for good kids anymore."
--FOX News

"Forbidden LEGO is full of dangerous projects which break the LEGO house rules...In fact, breaking rules and folding non-lego objects into the mix are so important that each project has a "LEGO Rules Broken" list. Rebel-tastic!"
--Wired

About the Author

Ulrik Pilegaard was a Senior Designer and Studio Manager for LEGO MINDSTORMS in Denmark and San Francisco, where he worked on projects for LEGO Technic in collaboration with the Media Lab at MIT and designed multiple models for LEGO MINDSTORMS (including R2D2). After LEGO, Pilegaard held the position of Manager of Design at Evolution Robotics, where he helped develop state-of-the-art robotics solutions. Since 2004, he has worked for Energy Innovations as a senior product designer

Mike Dooley worked as the Senior Product Manager for the original LEGO MINDSTORMS and was later promoted to Director of Development. Dooley is currently Vice President for Product and Business Development at Evolution Robotics, which focuses on next-generation technologies for consumer robotics.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ No Starch Press; 1st edition (23 Aug. 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1593271379
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593271374
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.59 x 1.47 x 25.55 cm

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Mad Rat

Take Aim and Fire your Bricks!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 September 2014

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Simple real firing models made from the humble lego brick. some ingenious designs, but nothing you couldn't make without the book. Most of the models use an elastic band for power, so if you've got the bricks to make them, you won't have to spend loads on batteries. On the other hand WITH battery power & electric motors you can make some awesome weapons! Mind the windows with these.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 April 2009

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I bought this for my boys for Christmas, they absolutely love it and have tried to make several models, however they were most upset that some models needed bricks to be cut up... sacrilige!! A great book, kept them very happy for hours!!

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Robin Houghton

Arrived in like new condition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 January 2017

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5 creative and potentially dangerous models described and full clear building instructions included. A lot of great background on how new lego designs are created and the rules that have to be adhered to. In the back is how to power up lego using 18v via two standard battery boxes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 September 2013

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I BOUGHT THIS FOR MY GROWN UP SONS , WHO LOVED LEGO , AND STILL HAD A FEW BITS , IT ARRIVED IN GOOD TIME , THANK YOU ,

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marisa wiseman

lego book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 3 February 2013

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i bought this book for my granddaughter as a mistake as i thought it was lego and not a book i misread what it had said but it was for her birthday and she did not mind this item

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 November 2014

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not as forbidden as I expected...

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M. Ogden

The bet ever title for a gun!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 27 August 2015

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Fun, with lots of good clues for projects, but adult only! And the gun? A multi word description that beats description!

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Mag

Fun book very creative Ideas

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 April 2014

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My son is a real lego fan and he loved this book it has given him great ideas for new creations and hours of enjoyment.

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