Click here to see a sample building diagram from the Forbidden LEGO!
It just may be impossible to exhaust the creative potential of LEGO® bricks. With an active imagination as your guide, there are endless possibilitiesprovided 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 on 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!
Introduction
Chapter 1: How to Build Great Things
Chapter 2: Paper Plane Launcher (PPL)
Chapter 3: Candy Coated Catapult (CCC)
Chapter 4: Ping-Pong Cannon (PPC)
Chapter 5: All-Terrain Lego (ATL)
Chapter 6: High Velocity Automatic Lego Plate Dispenser (HVALPD)
Appendix A: Tips and Tricks
Click here to view the detailed table of contents
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"If you've ever felt like using your LEGOs for more than just building static objects, this is the book for you. Forbidden LEGO is an unauthorized book full of awesome LEGO projects, such as a toy gun that shoots LEGO plates, a candy catapult, and a continuous ping-pong ball launcher. Written by a former LEGO senior designer and former LEGO senior product manager, it's the ultimate how-to for building rogue LEGO creations."
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"Disregarding the official rules of LEGO (rules? who knew?) and some of the basic tenants of safety, authors and confirmed LEGO master builders Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley present an unholy do-it-yourself guide of taboo techniques (i.e. glue, brick modification, non-standard parts) for creating blocky abominations, including less-than-lethal weapons that fire candy, ping-pong balls (above), and even other LEGOs."
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"Remember building cool things with those wonderful plastic blocks? Each one was a marvel of engineering, no doubt. The 'official' Lego manuals forbid projects that fire projectiles or use non-standard parts. But in 'forbidden' Lego, you can build a rocket launcher, or a catapult that shoots M&M's. Fun for all ages!"
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Forbidden Lego is "A well-illustrated and funny guide to building five projects that actively break a number of Lego rules...check it out for yourself and be sure to have a bunch of Lego bricks hanging around because you'll want to dive right in."
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