Pretty cool

[Canotrouge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7rZIBUIViM&feature=share

 

[yellowcanoe]

Oh Yes! I want my grandson to make me one! He is a Lego Nut.

 

[lowangle al]

My grandson is a lego nut and a canoe enthusiast and I'm sure he would love that. Did Lego sell that as a kit or did that guy build that himself with lego parts?

 

[sweeper]

Way Cool, they need to put that one in a Box set for sale.

 

[Odyssey]

There were predecessors to Legos. Check out thebrickblogger for some geeky kidstuff history. My brothers and I had Meccano for building mechanical contraptions complete with wheels and pulleys, plates and girders, nuts and bolts. For kiddie stuff we played with rubber Minibrix. If you licked 'em before fitting them together they'd make a cool puck popping sound when pulled apart. It was our junior genius theory that spit held everything together better. I still rely on that at my age. ha. It was only natural I laid on the floor years later with our kids to "help them" with their Lego projects. Okay, sometimes Dad would be up late after they'd all gone to bed finishing a way cool idea. Licking does nothing for Legos incidentally. A grandson has taken this stuff to a whole other level. We're all under orders "no more Legos for Christmas". If I can find this voyageur canoe kit I'm gonna bust the no Legos for Christmas rule. Again.

 

[yellowcanoe]

If you can find this in kit form you probably will be making toy canoe payments. Have you seen the price of some Lego kits recently?

 

[Grandpa Paddler]

#2 son is a Lego nut. Rec'd his 1st set when he was 4 and figured out how to put it together just from looking at the pictures. He still has all the pieces in the original box. He is now 46 and is still infatuated when them. He took his family to Lego Land on vacation.

 

[Guest]

Yellowcanoe,
How are their stroke mechanics? Might this be a good teaching tool?