Beware the Block-O-Dile!

[Ji'dai]

Did your parents ever complain about stepping barefoot on your LEGO bricks in the middle of the night? Now that many people here are parents themselves, maybe you've experienced this rather painful happenstance first-hand. Now you can get your little one to pick up his or her bricks (or yours) with the handy Block-O-Dile. I saw this brick muncher while shopping for LEGO deals on the web yesterday. It's $15 over at Wal-Mart.com.
Building fun and clean-up too! The BLOCK-O-DILE is ready for hours of fun with your child! And when playtime is done, BLOCK-O-DILE "eats" all the DUPLO and standard LEGO bricks around and stores them until it's time to build again. A great LEGO toy and storage box in one! Okay, all together now... 1, 2, 3...

Awwwww....

[Mandalorian Candidat]

I'll pass. I prefer to keep my life interesting by not picking up after my kids and attempting to wade through their mounds of toys, clothes, and miscellaneous debris through their rooms. ;)

[JimJamBonds]

But does it pick up construx's and tinker toys? lol

[Slicker]

I remember seeing a form of one of those when I was a youngster. It sure as hell would've saved my mom alot of painful steps when walking through my room.lol

[JediTricks]

I remember seeing a form of one of those when I was a youngster. It sure as hell would've saved my mom alot of painful steps when walking through my room.lol
The "Lego Vac" I believe it was called, it was the same thing with rollers but finer brushes and had a simple hand-vac type shape. I've been noticing the Block-o-dile at Target for a while now, I keep thinking I should get it for my 7-year-old niece who likes to build towers and then knock 'em down, but it comes with Duplo pieces which may seem too baby-ish for her (you know how kids are). I suspect the blockodile's big rubbery brushes (really they're blades) might be too big for small plates and such, but I could be quite wrong about that.

When I was a kid, my dad would just put out a white sheet for me to play with my Lego stuff on, then we could use that to put the pieces back easily into the giant box... till the cat barfed on the box. :eww:



EDIT: Slicker, was it this, the Brick Vacuum? http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?S=1666-1
You'll notice the brushes/blades are closer together with less of a gap and closer to the edge of the rollers.

[Kidhuman]

The only issue is my kids would play with it and break it.

[LusiferSam]

You beat me the punch on the Lego Vac JT. For several years as a teen I thought about getting the Lego Vac, but never did. I think the Lego Vac would work on smaller construx's or tinker toys pieces. The long arm pieces just wouldn't fit. The Block-O-Dile being more of Duplos item I'm guess wouldn't work as well on the smaller parts, which is a prime reason I've never thought about getting one.

[bobafrett]

I saw this on clearance at Wal-Mart this morning for $11.00. Passed on it, as I don't play with my Legos, just display them.

[Jargo]

They used to do a bag to store your bricks in that opened out into a floor mat. It wasn't too big though and would never have worked for my masses of bricks.
Sadly in my current home there just isn't a space big enough to build in properly as in empty all the bricks onto the floor and then spend days building and rebuilding stuff. And the only handy tool I have for lego is the brick separator, such a cool tool. saves snapping nails or damaging teeth trying to get 1x1 plates off the middle of base plates or whatever.

As a kid i shared the same bedroom with my two brothers and we all had lego. so it was a fight for space to build but somehow we managed without getting it all mixed up or losing too many bricks to the vaccuum cleaner.
I'd love a room devoted to lego building though. with proper storage racks for the individual brick types and a C shaped building table then a big illuminated display stand covering one wall.

hmmm speaking of brick separators, does anyone know if the LEGO shop is still open in Milton Keynes UK? And are they still doing the loose bricks by the cup thing?

[LusiferSam]

hmmm speaking of brick separators, does anyone know if the LEGO shop is still open in Milton Keynes UK? And are they still doing the loose bricks by the cup thing?
Ah, yes the brick separator. Probably the most usefully thing Lego makes. I've got four of them now, all dark gray. One got I directly from S@H, one came with a Basic set and the other two came with some eBay bricks.

If your curios about Lego stores in the UK JARGO, use Lego's Store Locator (http://service.lego.com/storelocator/).

[Jargo]

oh cool. They've opened a store much nearer me. I think i shall have to save my pennies and take a trip there, get some of the more obscure coloured bricks. I'm a bit blonde sometimes, I should have thought of that myself hehe. thanks LusiferSam, much obliged for the help. :)

brick seperator. yeah I have a green one I got from S@H. keep meaning to get more.

hey I have a question, no wait I'll start a thread...