My favorite childhood memories are from playing Legos with my friends and my sister: We built little countries, a currency system, commerce, empires, alliances, elementary school geopolitics, nukes, epic engineering, dozens of characters (and way too many villains), character arcs, adventures, and hours and hours of stories now lost to time. All that remains are the faint whispers of sweet memories and a freaking ton of Legos (around 40000). Here are my Lego creations, mainly made between 2014 and 2021, and their backstories.
My sister and I built this tower in December 2024 by combining a bunch of random stuff that we had built in previous years. It’s roughly 3000 pieces with a population of around 250 and 1.7 meters tall.
Floors, from bottom to top:
- B2: A subway station on the MBTA blue line with a mugging, a guy smoking weed, subway surfing, and rats!
- B1: A parking lot with a suspicious yellow van with a machine gun turret, a crazy probably-road-illegal motorcycle, and other random cars.
- G: A busy street intersection with a guy high on drugs busking slam poetry, a bicycle accident, and sketchy street vendors.
- 1: A gym with me drowning in a gym pool, my sister actually swimming decently, my mom on a treadmill, and my dad lugging around a giant duffel bag.
- 2: An art museum with a giant communism symbol, a banana taped to the wall, Princess Zelda (see below), a 2x2x2 Rubik’s cube, and police from different districts having a violent turf war because this block happens to be at the border of three different districts.
- 3: Luigi Mangione at McDonalds, free Costco samples, and an evil villain rave party.
- 4: A government office with a disgruntled employee about to assassinate the president next to the Mos Eisley Cantina from Star Wars.
- 5: Some tiny apartments for the despressed city workers, a hospital featuring chainsaw surgery, a dog riding a park carousel, and a dude skateboarding over a 6-story ledge (luckily the hospital is right next door).
- 6: A more spacious apartment with a dining room full of animals having a conference, a decadently large bedroom, and a mini version of the room with all the Legos containing a mini version of the tower containing a mini mini version of this room with a mini mini version of this tower.
- 7: A scammy observation deck (it’s only the 7th floor you know), Sydney the cat’s cafe, a science lab, and a bank vault.
- 8: The roof, with firefighters battling a sentient lightning strike, a helicopter, and a janitor flamethrowering a giant squid on top of the water towers.
The tower is not particularly stable so normally it’s disassembled and I only stack it up for special occassions. There’s also an incomplete floor.
A Jedi fox and sheep named G (short for Piggy) and Ritchie respectively. They’re important characters in the final story arc which is too complicated to explain without a few thousand words, but the general gist is: The president of my sister’s country has two twin children (she actually has more children but they’re minor characters) named Sam and Samantha (very creative I know). Samantha is the model student who wants to follow the footsteps of her politician mom. Sam however gets recruited by the Jedi Order and trained by Ritchie the sheep (because why can’t animals be Jedi). The problem is that Sam is the third most psychopathic in the history of the universe (don’t ask about the other two) and gets repeatedly recruited by increasingly absurd villains who try to use him to further their evil goals, which he’s apathetic towards and rather just tries to spread chaos and irony.
A fox head.
A Lego model of a computer that I used to own. In universe, it belongs to Sam, who of course needs a PC the size of a two-story house because who doesn’t?
Princess Zelda from Breath of the Wild, who used to stand as a statue inside a shopping mall in my sister’s country and had the job of greeting mall visitors which was probably a pretty boring job, and now stands inside the art museum on floor 2 of the tower and tries not to freak out the museum visitors by being a talking statue.