11 Times Playing With LEGO® Made Your Childhood The Absolute Best

All it takes is one of those colourful little bricks and I'm instantly 10 years old again.

1. First off, when you and your sibling actually stopped fighting for a couple hours — all because you wanted to play LEGO® together.

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Your mum was simultaneously shocked and proud.

2. Except for when you had to go on a super ~stealth~ mission to try and steal the rocket from your sibling's LEGO set, because your mermaid lagoon needed a way to its satellite orbiting the moon.

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Playing together was fine until they had the piece that YOU NEEDED.

3. When you realised that you could change the heads of the LEGO people.

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Look, it doesn't sound like much, but as a child it was the most exciting discovery since sliced bread. Especially when your construction man could now swim in the ocean with his very own mermaid tail.

4. When you ditched the instructions and LEGO gave you the chance to build a world you'd only ever dreamt of before then.

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I built a town where fairy floss was currency, animals could talk and my own personal pet was an invisible pegasus. I might not play with LEGO anymore, but I definitely use the imagination it helped build in my mind.

5. Or, when you played by the rules and you were super impressed with the end result.

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Making whatever you wanted was always a good time. But I can't lie — when I finished building my favourite castle, I was always really proud of what I had accomplished.

6. When your mum and dad got involved and you realised that they actually loved LEGO as much as you.

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Which meant that every rainy weekend immediately became a LEGO-playing extravaganza.

7. When you felt like an absolute KING because you had the most LEGO in the neighbourhood.

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Ha, HA! Come over and admire my LEGO head storage box, fellow children!

(I had problems sharing as a child, if you can't already tell.)

8. And ditto, for when your extended family came down for Christmas.

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Automatically your copious amounts of LEGO made you the child to ~obey~ at the family Christmas luncheon.

9. When you and your friends had super serious LEGO competitions and tried to come up with the most original creation.

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The winner would become the ultimate LEGO overlord and was allowed to choose the best blocks for the next battle.

10. And then, when your friends eventually left, you would sneak out out of bed to continue with the magical world you created.

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My torch was the moon, my sheet was the ocean and all I needed was a little imagination to play into all hours of the night.

11. And finally, when you got older and started playing with the more involved LEGO sets — it made you realise that you could actually build your own future.

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What's stopping me from taking these LEGO ideas and turning them into something real? Nothing — that's what. It's time to rebuild the real world and I'm going to be the one to do it.

Head to LEGO to find the perfect set for your little bumpkin this Christmas — and maybe even something for yourself.

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