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!
Table of Contents
IntroductionHow to Build Great ThingsProject 1: Paper Plane Launcher
(PPL)Project 2: Candy Coated Catapult (CCC)Project 3: Ping-Pong Cannon
(PPC)Project 4: All-Terrain Lego (ATL)Project 5: High Velocity Automatic Lego
Plate Dispenser (HVALPD)Appendix A: Tips and Tricks
