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Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against! | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ulrik Pilegaard, Mike Dooley
Publisher: No Starch Press
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $16.47
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Rating:  25 reviews
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1593271379
Dewey Decimal Number: 688.725
EAN: 9781593271374
ASIN: 1593271379
Publication Date: August 15, 2007
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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 Incomplete!!!!!! September 8, 2008
Fun Dad (Orlando, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is not useful!!!! Great ideas, but no parts numbers listed. Too hard to find the pieces necessary to make the models. Pictures are not detailed enough to redesign the machines yourself. You might as well read the project names from the table of contents and design your own machines to carry out the functions.
 More than just an instruction book September 2, 2008
Jose Garcia (Sevilla, Spain)
I've enjoyed with this book not only creating some of the creations it has, but also reading the LEGO design-related stories, guidelines and ideas the authors have written through all the chapters.
The pages format and design are very attractive and the building steps are perfectly structured, fun and easy to understand.
For me, a must-have being a LEGO fan.
 fun to read but frustrating to do July 21, 2008
Diana E. Carroll (Acton, MA USA)
We bought this book for our 8 year old lego-fantatic son. He really enjoyed reading the book and looking at the designs. But as for doing the projects...as others have said, there aren't that many actual projects in there, and most of those require specialized pieces my son doesn't have. In order to get the right pieces, he must either buy a kit that includes those pieces (such as a motor) or go to one of the sites that will sell individual pieces...but the prices are high for a kid.
So, although he was excited to get this as a gift, it hasn't worked out so well for him.
I'd rather a book that gave more projects with more standard pieces.
not impressed ... June 24, 2008
1 savvy mother
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
the boook is fine, but you only get five "projects". for $17 dollars new, you'd think there would be more ... guess i should have reviewed the table of contents before purchasing. also, the pieces aren't identified well enough for me. a name, or piece number would work MUCH better because i don't have some of the pieces and would need to purchase them, so now, i have to order them, blah, blah, blah. anyway, the book is nice, slick and well bound. there, i said something positive.
 No parts = waste of money June 20, 2008
Mark Matson (Houston, TX USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was very excited to get this book for my LEGO-crazed son, and the included projects are great...EXCEPT for the fact, as others have pointed out, that many required parts are, to say the least, non-typical. To require the book purchaser to spend hours searching for parts online, then spending multiples of the book price to get them, is deceptive to say the least. Bad form. It's like writing a cookbook with recipes requiring ingredients only available in ancient Mesopotamia or on modern-day Madagascar.
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