The word LEGO is a recognizable word across the United States. All millennials have known what LEGOs are because they are how we showed our ideas. LEGOs allowed us to craft our imaginations into real life master pieces. Before Thanksgiving Break we were given the opportunity build with LEGOs in an English 1230 class. I would not say we were playing with LEGOs because we were relating back to a childhood memory. Our brains are more developed, but do we still have our imagination? The project consisted of groups ranging from two to three people and the goal was to build a masterpiece of at least 30 pieces. On our team we had Seth the architect, Riley the communicator, and me the runner. After we grouped together we had to decide what creation we wanted to
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Knowing we had to use a minimum of 30 LEGO pieces we raised the car three levels from the wheels. We then added the gray main body piece as seen in the picture above. Next we had to create the dinosaur part of the car. The neck of the dinosaur has a width of 2 LEGO pieces and a base length of 6, but a length of 4 on up from the base. The mouth extends from the neck with 3 pieces. One pieces gives the shape of a dinosaur snout, a flat brown piece attaches it to the neck, and they are connected by a gray 2x8 LEGO. Underneath the snout we place two orange pieces as the teeth and two flags that represent the fire. After the dinosaur part was done we decided to add characters inside the car. First, we added us three surrounding a turkey because Thanksgiving was the week after this project. The LEGO characters are each standing on a piece to secure the turkey. Secondly, we added the police man and criminal to the back of the car. Lastly, we added our chauffeur, Pioneer Pete to represent UW Platteville. We thought we were done, but we just kept adding parts. Lastly we added wings and turbojets to allow the car to
Knowing we had to use a minimum of 30 LEGO pieces we raised the car three levels from the wheels. We then added the gray main body piece as seen in the picture above. Next we had to create the dinosaur part of the car. The neck of the dinosaur has a width of 2 LEGO pieces and a base length of 6, but a length of 4 on up from the base. The mouth extends from the neck with 3 pieces. One pieces gives the shape of a dinosaur snout, a flat brown piece attaches it to the neck, and they are connected by a gray 2x8 LEGO. Underneath the snout we place two orange pieces as the teeth and two flags that represent the fire. After the dinosaur part was done we decided to add characters inside the car. First, we added us three surrounding a turkey because Thanksgiving was the week after this project. The LEGO characters are each standing on a piece to secure the turkey. Secondly, we added the police man and criminal to the back of the car. Lastly, we added our chauffeur, Pioneer Pete to represent UW Platteville. We thought we were done, but we just kept adding parts. Lastly we added wings and turbojets to allow the car to